Thank you for your links.
I've never tried the method in the second one before and the tutorial has definitely got me wanting to give it a go. For my next quilt, this is the one I'll be looking at.
I'm making a flying geese quilt from all my fabric and scraps that have some blue in them (finished the geese, will take a photo and try to upload) and I did seem to waste so much fabric... Little bits here and there, but it was adding up to a bit of a pile.
Again, thank you.
Joanne