Painless Paper Piecing
https://www.amazon.com/Painless-Pape.../dp/0971450110 uses less fabric, because you cut strips, and then cut the strips with templates that you trace from the book. I did the Fruit Salad pattern from that book, and the method did use less fabric. However, after completing this quilt, a swore I'd never paper piece 40 something blocks that were all the same, ever again! The tedium about killed me off.