Originally Posted by
Onebyone
I took a workshop and we made a quilt using the Fibonacci number sequence. It was a weekend of pure brain hurt. I gave up the math part and cut the squares to fit as I thought looked right. My quilt looked the same as the others that did the math problems. I trusted what I thought looked pleasing and had a better time sewing.
This awesome Donald Duck video might be much more helpful than all the math. I am
not trying to be condescending; it was clear as mud to me until I remembered this video from my childhood and looked it up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_ZHsk0-eF0
What's amazing is this stuff comes naturally and automatically to (most) humans. Our brains seem to gravitate towards the "Golden Rule" and find it pleasing, which is probably why you didn't need to do the math.