Thanks for the link.
I remember piecing with my mom many years ago. First we drew and cut templates out of cereal boxes, then drew around them with a pencil and cut out with scissors. It wasn't a very fast method, but it got the job done all the same. I can still picture all those squares of material laid out on the kitchen floor where I got to arrange them into a pattern before she sewed them together. Then we, well mostly she I'm sure, tied the quilt with red yarn.