callen hows the fire situation? Hope much better. We lived 30 years in Thompson manitoba and fires were sure a threat every summer.
As to the block you sure don`t need a special ruler just a 45% I just finished! Boy were those trapezoids ever hard to sew to the diamonds took them apart too many times to count but well worth it.
I feel if you can do this block you can do anything!
Yes pp maybe is the way to go but I wanted to try just cutting but ended up using templates which din`t turn out to bad.