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How do you use the boondoggle ruler to make quilt designs.?

I am curious if anyone has used one and how it's used to make those beautiful striped/diamond designs. I asked this same question yesterday, but I don't understand how to make the stripes. http://www.quiltersbuzz.com/uploads/bella%20nonn%20%20boongoogle%20bag.jpeg http://www.quiltersbuzz.com/uploads/bella%20nonn%20%20boongoogle%20bag.jpeg I don't understand how the above design was pieced together using the ruler.

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1. The stripes are made by first sewing rectangles (in this case, diamonds because that's the shape of their ruler) to each other in a long chain. Each chain is a stripe. You just sew your stripes together. Depending on how you line up your colors, the stripes can come out looking very complicated and form a giant star or other design when you're finished. But it's always done in chains and rows. Here is one method, where you sew 3 pieces of material together, then cut it into strips and rearrange it, then sew it back together again. http://quilting.about.com/od/blockofthemonth/ss/easy_quilts_2.htm The only difference with the boondoggle is that the pieces are not square, but they still all match each other in shape, so they can fit together for sewing.. If these are new concepts, maybe you would benefit from a quilting class? .
2. take a look at the site of Bonnie Hunter and expert quilter She tells how to sew the strips together in straight strips then make cuts that are triangles from the strips using the square angle of the boondoggle ruler - then sew the triangles together to make squares / diamonds rotate the stripes so they are parallel to the outside of the block or make a variation where the stripes are radiating out from the center of the block there's a tutorial in this page http://www.quiltville.com/diamondstrings.shtml