Thanks for all of your replies. I'm still working downstairs since I didn't get this room rearranged for my new machine. So...the book is downstairs...I will bring it up with me tomorrow and try to answer your questions.
Maybe I didn't explain it just right. Nowhere in the instructions for this table runner does it say how to use any of the templates that you made. The Fons & Porter Christmas Table Topper that I made explained every little detail in the pattern instructions for using the templates.
Someone said something that jogged my memory. The quilt top I started in 1999 was sewing 2 strips of different fabric together and then cutting squares and then triangles.
I like the idea of the Wondercut ruler...I will have to look for that.