The Square-in-a-square method is fairly easy to use, accurate, and can be done in any size you wish. However, there is a ruler required (but that ruler can be used for many different blocks). Might be worth checking into.

How would paper piecing "keep" its beauty? I made my pattern by simply charting it.

You do NOT need a specialty ruler. Simply chart the pieces. It's based on a 3 x 3 block. Not inches, 3 units by 3 units. The big center is 2 units wide adn long, the waves section are 1 unit wide and 2 units long. The little corner square is 1 unit wide and one unit long.

If you chart the design, you can make your blocks the size you want, not the size someone wants to have.

I looked at the pattern in this link, and if I am not mistaken, the numbers are all reversed as to what they should be. Am I reading it wrong?
http://equiltblocks.com/sixteen/Storm_At_Sea.gif

Look at a completed quilt with the DOUBLE row of waves. IMO, it loses a lot of the charm of the quilt with only one set of waves per block.

I may be wrong, bu I suspect those are block numbers. If you'll look identical pieces have different numbers

If you're paper-piecing this, then I agree, they are backwards. Weird. Maybe the numbers mean something else?

Look at Eleanor Burns pattern..it's really easy..

The numbers in the link are nothing more that numbers to indicate the number of pieces. Identical blocks have different numbers. The same identical piece within a small block has different numbers.

Nothing reversed at all-----------------just counting from 1 to whatever