It does look like Spring. I've been working with dark colors for the last several quilts and I wanted to do something light.
No, I didn't use a special triangle. Just a diagonal cut after cutting them into squares.
I WAS able to get a whole other row out of the off-cuts, just barely, so it's going to be a good sized quilt. I have the floral stripped border fabric that goes with the collection and the pattern is 7 1/2" repeat so it's big borders too.