Eleanor Burns is one of the pioneers of our quilting revival. Some of our now common techniques were originated by her. I remember watching her years and years and years ago on TV (her set looked like an attic) and she was really trying to show a quilt that could be finished in a day.
She has a unique way of creating flying geese blocks and now has some special rulers to help making the blocks her way. In 1979 she self published a book about log cabin quilts using 2 1/2" strips (I don't know if she was the first to use the 2 1/2" strips, but she sure went to them in a big way) and a way of building blocks by laying them on the strips instead of cutting the strips to length and then sewing them. I still use this book -- even though I have fancier log cabin books.