Thank you guys for the suggestions on the diagonal drawing aspect. For our purposes and skill level it was a bit much. But her and I tonight were able to complete the project! And as I said before, this is almost all her design!! Her ideas... I did the coding but walked her through what it was all doing and I did it based on logic she suggested! It was a ton of fun to do this with her. I am attaching the project. It actually works very well! Maybe it can even be useful to another beginner!
Feel free to comment on the code and design. We are tough, we can take some criticism!
Edit: just realized you may not find form1 right away as it will be off screen likely. Use the Window menu then Center a Lost Window if you need to get it on the screen.