I have cut and pieced this type of quilt using 60 degree half hexagons. It went together easy enough, but I used precut charms. I got a full hexagon out of each square and went through 2 packs of charms without having the braids long enough for a lap quilt. When I went to buy another package of charms my LAQ was out and couldn't get any more!!! Needless to say it sits on my shelf until I figure out what to do with it! Maybe table runner...hmmm.

GrannyH, look on Mirkwood Designs website. They have one using jelly rolls and the template to cut it. I am doing one of these now and am loving the way it's turning out. With this one, you don't have the zig-zag edges, causing you have to trim off of the sides and waste quite a bit of fabric. It goes together quickly and is very easy. I looked forever to find a pattern where there wouldn't be so much waste and this one meets the bill!

Great tutorial!! Now I don't have to read the book or pattern because (you know...) to read the manual is an admission of failure. I wonder how many other quilters resist the reading part?

That's why I like pictures! I am more visual; sometimes the written part just isn't clear to me!

Thanks, BKrenning...I was just going to make the comment that I'm going to starch the heck out of my bias edges before I cut. I think I'll try the tablerunner first, too. My first quilt was made at a mystery quilt retreat...wish I would have started with the rail fence, too!

I read through the directions for the destashification table runner and liked the idea of sewing it to a foundation as she said that this would help reduce the bias problem. http://destashification.com/2011/10/...-the-tutorial/

This works great and I have used the half hexie tool also for this same pattern. Also from MSQC