Today's block is called Crazy Anne or Crazy Anna. It's an old traditional pattern. There must be an interesting story behind the name, but it's a mystery to me. Don't you just love a good mystery? The block itself isn't really hard to make. It's just five squares of fabric, twelve half-square triangles, and four rectangles with diagonal seams through their middles. It's these rectangular sections that make the block appear to "spin" like a pinwheel. If you cut the diagonal triangles wrong, the block will seem to turn in the opposite direction. But that's not necessarily a bad thing. I adore pinwheels, no matter which way they roll.
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