The Sawtooth Pinwheel Hybrid Quilt Block

I spent a good portion of Saturday evening cutting out itty bitty squares for a new quilt I'm working on for my nephew.  I have no idea what the real name of this block is.  I'm calling it the Sawtooth Pinwheel because it has elements of both of those blocks . . . long-time quilters: feel free to correct me on the name!

I chose some cheery but down to earth colors for this quilt . . . my little nephew's name literally means, "Peaceful Forest".

I am not usually wooed by the fat quarter bundles at Jo-Ann . . . usually I find them really uninspiring and the colors don't grab me.  These ones, though . . . they just spoke to me.  I bought a bundle hoping that 5 fat quarters would be enough to make a little blanket.

I picked the gray as a background (rather than white) because I thought it would help me get away with using a floral print for a little boy.  ;)

I'm not gonna lie . . . I'm pretty proud of myself for getting all those squiggles going in the same direction.

I'm under the gun just a little bit . . . my in-laws are going down to Texas to meet the little man over Thanksgiving and I want to finish it so they can hand deliver it for me.  The last time I shipped a quilt I was terrified it would get lost in the mail.

(It wasn't.  No worries.)

I've been working on a lot of other projects lately . . . just haven't had much time to photograph and post.  Will try to get working on getting those documented soon.

In the meantime, I'm thinking about writing up a little tute on how to make this little block.  I found instructions for a similar-ish block that helped me figure out how to do it, but I changed it around to give that alternating pinwheel effect.  There may be instructions out there somewhere already, but I sure couldn't find any.

Did anyone else get their craft on this weekend?