Ok, ladies. It's been a while & I have since acquired a few more of those lovely ready made templates. The Easy Windmill Template was my latest find on clearance at JoAnn's for like $2.00.
I took some of you all's advice and just kept making stuff out of them so I now have shades of blue octagons that look like a Grandmother's Flower block, only much bigger. This whole Easy Windmill- what a snap, just seems like they're off kilter though or maybe that's the intent.
Went to a FabShopHop Quilt shop in Boardman, OH- the Bernina Store? and was amazed at what I found. I bought a few paper patterns- one of them being "Modern Diamonds" and I pulled it out yesterday to see if I could make my own template with the paper pieces- holy cow! Those diamonds are HUGE! May need to rethink that one......