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I recently got a book "Cutting Corners" by Joan Hanson which I highly recommend. She has many nice quilt projects in it using Flying Geese which are easy and fast to do with her method. Basically you place a square on top of one edge of a rectangle, sew diagonally from corner to corner, then trim the excess to 1/4 inch seam, then do the same on the opposite side of the rectangle. The secret is sewing on the diagonal before cutting. This method works with HST (Half Square Triangle), too. The bias is more stable when sewn before cutting, which results in very accurate triangles.

Snowball is the same idea -- place a small square of fabric in each corner of a large square of fabric, sew diagonally, etc.

Her book also has several neat projects for using the trimmed-off "waste" triangle pieces from 2-1/2 and 3-1/2 inch squares used for flying geese, HST, and snowball.