This quilt is a standard pinwheel design using half-triangle squares. To be honest, I had no clue what I was doing or how to do it. I created my own grid on a piece of copy paper using a ruler and a pencil. I saw a show on PBS "Quilting With Nancy" that talked about the half-triangle squares and how to make them. I was inspired since I volunteered to make a quilt for my daughter's kindie class to be auctioned off in a fundraiser. With this being my first attempt I made a LOT of mistakes. I couldn't get the math right and I know my squares were more like oblong shapes. I do love the whole primary colors theme now that I made the quilt but I used to hate things that were themed in primary colors for kids. It reminds me of the whole girls wear pink and boys wear blue stereotype. Kind of like kids have to like or use primary colors just because they're kids. Example: red metal bunk beds with matching red/blue/yellow drawers. Anyhow, I learned a lot by making so many mistakes and that is the point, after all, to getting better at what you do. I'm grateful that I have some creative bones in my body and can take a traditional quilting style and make it into something fun.
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