Millenium Quilt Ideas!

	Hello, I wanted you to see my Y2k quilt that I just finished. Thanks, Dianna
This is my millennium quilt. Joyce Parish
	I got my inspiration from Barb Smith who made the Ohio quilt on this page. I first enlarged a map of Japan as a guide. The four main islands of Japan are done in 1.5" squares; stitched in rows under the enlarged map. The ocean is in 3" squares in a semi-color wash using blues and greens. I machine appliqued the islands on a separate piece of light blue fabric before attaching it to the ocean. The quilt is entirely machine pieced and outline quilted. The islands are quilted outlining the country's prefectures or counties. The largest island with the cross square is where Kobe is located where we minister to the Japanese. This quilt will go on our new church auditorium wall probably next year. This was a very satisfying project. Celeste Ward in Japan
I have attatched 2 pictures of my 2000 charm millenium quilt top which my son took pictures of the end of May. I began swapping mid march with Donna Royal and became so excited and fascinated with the project I just kept on sewing every chance I had. I chose to continue swapping so that I can have a Millenium quilt for each of my 4 sons. Second and 3rd on the sewing table now and just as exciting. Johanne in northern New York State.
	I took a look at all the great patterns on this page and am very impressed. I wish I had seen these before designing my own, crazy, complicated pattern! Now I might have to do another swap to try out new patterns! Attached are two jpeg's of my layout, one finished block and 6 laid out on the wall. I will fill in the small squares between blocks with a dark fabric to unify the whole design and applique the signature blocks to the backing directly behind the block contributed by that person. I am keeping the sets of 25 squares together in each block and hope they will make on overall visual pattern to symbolize both that we are all different, and yet can come together to make something greater than the sum of the individual parts.I am stitching these by hand, as they are easier that way than by machine, even if it is slower. Thanks for letting me share. Eden in Atlanta
I've got the first Y2K top complete now, so I am sending you the picture of the completed project. I go to the site often and I love seeing the quilts coming to completion now :) Maria Batres-Garvey
	Just wanted to share how I will be doing the blocks on my millenium quilt. It's a block called "Sisters Choice" that I found on my quiltsoft software program...and I think it's perfect for the 25 squares I have been receiving as part of the Y2K swap. I plan on using the siggie square in the center of each block, with the surrounding squares and triangles to be the 25 fabric squares. Attached is the layout plan of the block that I will be doing. Jennifer in PA
This is a picture of Kay Taylor's Millennium quilt
	After spending months trying to think of something really spectacular for my millenium quilt I finally sat down to EQ4 figuring to play with it a bit. I began by simply drawing to see how much space 25 squares would take up and this design just jumped at me. The corner stones in the "sashing" are the signature blocks. I have been quilting long enough to know follow your hunches they usually pay off so i guess this is it! QLady
Here's a photo of Kathee's finished quilt! She writes: "I am so thrilled with it. It is the first full size quilt that I have made and kept for myself. There are 2,107 squares in the quilt. Special hugs to both of you for all your hard work. I don't think you know how much we appreciate what you have done and what an inspiration you both are. Bless you. When I showed the quilt at guild last week, 3 people asked for the email addy to join! Now that's something!!"
	NEW MILLENNIUM ALL STITCHED UP... That was the head line. <grin> JULIA PEAKE of East Gosford has quilting all stitched up thanks to the internet. Mrs Peake can also thank Internet for introducing her to dozens of new friends worldwide. She took up quilting in November last year and made her first project a Millennium quilt to mark the turn of the century next year. " I was looking for quilting patterns in the internet and hooked up to "Quilttalk" whre you can swap patterns and get in touch with other quilters" Mrs Peake said. All Mrs peake wanted was 25 small peices of fabric from each contributer around the world which would be made up in panels to mark their efforts. Included in each panel is a piece of fabric with their name and country. "I could't believe there was no doubling up on materials" Mrs Peake said. "From each peice of material you can tell something about the person who sent it; it reflects their personality. "The postman was looking at me very strangely for a while because every day squashy envelopes would arrive from around the world containg materials. "I think the postie thought I was a drug dealer! When I finished the quilt I took it to the post office to show him what I was up too." Mrs Peake thanked Coastal Quilting and Absolutely Quilts for helping her out. Her Millennium quilt is now on show at Absolutely Quilys, Pacific Highway, North Gosford. *************************************************************** WELL now I am a FAMOUS QUILTER..<wicked Grin> A few truths.. I started this project in November not Quilting. <sigh> It was Wendy Wenrich that started me off and also my first swapper<grin> The friends I have made via this swap are wonderful and although the last few months have been a strain on me due to illness and hospital stays your swpas and notes of encouragement and well wishes have managed to bouy my spirits more than anything else. Many thanks to you all and I share my % minutes of fame with all of you:)) Hugs from Julia
Here is a pic of my incomplete top, I still need to border, etc., but thought you would be interested, and would possibly want to add this pic. Thanks, Cindy K. Click here to see her original idea!
	I have finished my first milli quilt and i just love it!! It is just georgous! I used hi-loft batting and did a allover quilting pattern, so it is very squishy and soft and cuddly! i am making a quilt for each set of grandchildren that i do not have yet LOL LOL My label is a panel, pieced into the backing........it has all 49 name charms i collected pieced into a large block, 14X14", i edged it with a 2" piece of the same blue sparkly 2000 fabric i used at the end of each row and as binding and i inserted a 3" piece of muslin above the name charms and I wrote a note to my future grandchildren and greatgrandchildren. Just have one more milli quilt to make before december 31, 1999! Alice
I started swapping in January and I have got half of the first top put together this far. I think the name of the block I am using is Contrary Wife. I liked how it looks when sixteen of them are sewn together, since a star pattern develops. The blocks are 6", and I think I will end up making 144 (maybe more, since I've got close to 200 swaps now). I divided the charms into color families and my only aim has been to keep the same value in each block, and to try to keep the same color blocks away from each other. I've attached a picture of the first quarter of the top, pinned to the fabric wall. The second picture is a close up of just one block. I really enjoyed seeing what others are doing with their charms, thanks for a great site. Maria
	I have been reading all the great things every one is coming up with but so far have not seen what I am doing. Don't have picture yet. Starting with the very center of the quilt is 1 square of millenium fabric in a deep royal blue. I sat it on point and added light squares all the way around, then two rows of very dark then 2 rows light, three rows dark and 2 rows light ( I have more darks than lights.) Continue in this manner till points reach 80 inches or close too that. This gives you a large diamond. Fill in the triangles in each corner and a row across the top and bottom with your choice of light or dark squares to offset the diamond. An added row across the top and bottom will use your 2000 I will then use the signature squares in the border of the quilt. I have some red millenium fabric that I THINK I will use in border. It is starting to look good. Barbara in Nevada
	This is a picture of Enda's quilt top and a close up of the block Also, her is copy of what she sent to me about the quilt: I sorted my charms into 4 color groups--red/pink, green/black, blue/purple and yellow/orange/brown. I sewed 25 together shading the block dark to light, sort of like watercolor. I made 80 blocks--20 of each color group and put them together 9x9 in a fence rail or zig zag like pattern. The 81st block will be an applique block with Y2K on it. I will do borders with the name charms. I plan to have it end up 106 square--king sized--and use in on our bed.-----Edna
Trip Around the world 80" x 100" without borders I find this quilt long and narrow and would suggest making it alittle more square to fit a bed. The bottom picture is the Label for my Trip Around the World the center is a 10" x 16" block with a drawing of the globe. I have marked all the places that i have received charms from on the globe. It is surrounded by the signature charms alternated with special charms from all the different points of interest. This will be incorporated in the back of my quilt. Wendy
	I have decided to do a watercolour one fading into the middle and a small lap quilt in Attic Window using all the novelty fabrics. Another one is the one from the Patchwork magazine' sensational scrap quilts' but having seen the ideas of the Ohio state, I suppose I should try to do a map of England!! There are so many possibilities!!! Take care and happy stitching, Gillie from England
Well its not great but this is the best picture I could get of my quilt. Enjoy! Barb Smith Canton, OH	Copyright 1999
	I have started on my second Millennium quilt top....Thought the following would be helpful to post.... Wendy Using the graph that was posted on the Millennium Quilt Idea page of Katherine... I have figured out how many charms are need for each row. Starting from the center working out....... Center - 20 Row 2 - 28 Row 3 - 36 Row 4 - 44 Row 5 - 52 Row 6 - 60 Row 7 - 68 Row 8 - 76 Row 9 - 84 Row 10- 92 Row 11-100 Row 12-108 Row 13-116 Row 14-124 Row 15-132 Row 16-140 Row 17-148 Row 18-156 Row 19-164 Row 20-172 Row 21-180
I am almost finished with my quilt. I did something a little different! I have graphed out the state of Ohio and using color value I have the state outlined (darks) in the middle of my quilt with the lights on the outside. I have also put the states name OHIO (navy) on the top of the quilt and in the lower right hand corner have Y2K (reds). Its kinda neat -- not very quilty but a little more artsy. Barb Smith Canton, OH
	I'm just finishing up my swap and decided very shortly into this that I was going to split up the squares because part of the symbolism of this is to show how people from all over are trading, and we are all blending! My over all design idea is an 8", 4 sq x 4 sq block with the outside (12 blocks) contrasting with the inside (4 blocks). I have sorted into piles of 12 and 4, and have been able to really keep in color families so I think the contrast will be apparent. Then I will randomly sew these squares together. Around the whole quilt I am going to sew a border of light colored fabrics, intersperced with my signature squares, to form a circle of all of us, around our mixed up trades. I am anxious to get into this, but know that I will have to wait at least 6 more weeks because I just can't allow myself to start this now.!! : ) Lynn
My quilt has only 3 rows completed but looks exactly like Wendy's I am thrilled to bit with it. The signature squares in the middle of each block look great. I am going to back mine with plain black and will be quilting it in the ditch around sig.sq. Then diagonally through each block row. I will be looking for a year 2000 fabric for a border, then bind in black. Thank you for your continued support. Julia Peake
	This is my design for 3" squares - it is for a Queensize quilt to the floor. The diagonal squares are blue. On either side of these is a cream homespun, then the collected Millennium squares fading from light in the middle to dark at the edges AND colour washed! (Glutton for punishment) The sig squares will replace the cream homespun in the centre of the quilt, so they radiate out from the centre. I have included a corner which is partially coloured to try to show the effect... the different shades of grey are supposed to represent the collected Millennium squares. It is set in 9 patch blocks. It looks much better than this laid out on my work table! Robyn Perth Western Australia
I have finished my first Millennium quilt top and am excited to share it with all. I hope in the near future we'll see more of them posted! 25 - 2 1/2" charms and making 10" blocks. Then adding 2" sashing between the blocks and finishing with 3" borders. 96 1/2" x 119 1/2" finished quilt size. Wendy
	Didn't see a basic postage stamp layout on your idea page; thought I would offer this jpeg if you're interested. 40x50 2.5" charms would make a good queen size quilt. The middle 2x10 section could be for signature squares, or something that serves as a label. Katherine
This is the block I'm doing for the Y2K quilt. Orginally I was going to do a grandmothers flower garden but I recieved twice as many darks so it was back to the drawing board. I don't know the name of the block, I saw it on a website. I got out the kids colored pencils and graph paper (I'm a budding computer geek but still very analog about quilting).The block will use 24 charms, 24 muslin, 1 signature block. So you all know what I'll be doing till the millenium<G>. Jen Nelson
	Hey all! I was shopping at WalMart and came across this GREAT fabric for the back of my quilt! You can't tell from the pic, but the little specks are actually silver sparklies! :) I am going to use Natalie's idea from below for the colorwash effect, but instead of sorting by color (too much work for me...) I'm going to leave the sets of 25 from each quilter together, and just have them fade from dark to light on a diagonal, and not worrying about color. I'll place the name square just below the lightest square which will be upper right. I thought this would be easier for me, to be able to work w/ the sets in small groups of 25, and that way do a little bit of it at a time. Not sure how I will use the extra square I'll have from each set, though, maybe I'll find a home for them in the border somewhere. Cindy Gordon, Dallas Texas
I saw a 16 patch quilt over the holidays that I liked. It looked like four four patches. I think I will arrange my charms in color groups and then make four patches to start. The quilt I saw had a 4" print fabric boarder around each 16 patch, but I think I will make a 2" muslin boarder around each 16 patch with my signature patches as part of the boarder at the intersections. I have PC Quilt for Windows that I will play with before I start. SindyQlts from California
	Hi! Might as well add my idea. I'm doing the Ohio Star in rainbow colours- each with 32 different triangles.Takes some planning to separate into colours( besides rainbow, I have black, white, brown, neutral, and "allsorts"- use these as needed), and then to dark, medium, light.Will use signature squares in the border.I am in a central swap, so cannot match fabric with owner; however, have some individual swaps, so will place 3" sqs from that person on either side. The border will be of the sqs.The blocks are 8"- will do 56-60, depending on the final design I decide on.Doing 1 block a week, and hope to have the top done but for the last piece by Oct.99.As I'm using only half the fabric, have lots leftover for other projects! Penny Annand
I am planning to sort by dark-to-light and by color; since there is a long view toward the bed my quilt will go on I plan to see if I can eke out a silhouette dancer in mosaic with the pieces. I'm still looking for swappers for 3" charms, having just started last week; squishies ready to go... regards, and a year full of grace and charm to all! Ruth Temple TempleRu@aol.com
	I am going to surround each sig square with 4 half-square triangles (cut from two of the charms from that person). This unit is about 3 1/2" with raw edges - I am going to set these units in vertical rows, on point (so the sigs are straight on most.) I am going to surround these rows with vertical rows of 4-patch units (trimmed after piecing to the same block size) - also set on point - I am trying to do enough "light and dark" variation, so that I can set the 4-patches with the darks on the vertical and the lights on the Horizontal. Think I will also do a border of squares on point, set with a dark tone on tone fabric, to tie all together. Will play with actual arrangement on the desgn wall, but am trying to get at least a couple of 4-patches out of each squishie as I open it - am sorting and color grading, but will not be too crazy about this or I will never finish! Will hand quilt, in a design to be decided after the top is all completed. Hope this makes sense -I don't have any quilt software or a scanner (not that I have drawn this thing out!), so have to resort to verbal descriptions. Happy quilting and best wishes for the New Year. Susan in NW New Jersey
Hi, I thought I'd like to make a watercolor quilt with my 2 1/2 or 3 inch squares from the y2k swap. It will be dependant on the type and color of fabric I receive. If a watercolor doesn't seem good then my next choice would be a triple Irish Chain using a over/under pattern to look woven and making alternating chains of light,medium and dark fabrics. Of course depending on the fabric types I receive. Another idea I was playing with is a cathedral window or granny's garden. I really want to try a watercolor and this might be the best chance I will have. Just thinking for now. I will change my mind twenty times before I get all the squares I need. I guess the fabric will have to speak to me once it's all together. Thanks.. Judith
	I'm going to sort each pack of 25 squares into dark, med, light. Then take one of each, cut to approx. 3"x1.33" and sew them together (dark-med-light) into a square 3" by 3". This will take 24 of the 25 squares. Next I will arrange the stripe-squares that I made around the signature square forming a 9-patch. I'll arrange them so that the dark stips alternate on the left and then on the bottom so that the stripes alternate verticle and then horizontal. Does this make sense to you? It's sort-of a "Rail Fence" pattern but with varying material and a plain center square with the signature. This pattern keeps the fabrics and the signature square together so I can remember who sent me what. Finally, I will sew these nine-patches together, 10 across, 8 deep into a quilt top. I plan to use the scraps and "extra" squares in a border and as the binding. (The border and binding concepts aren't finalized yet). Michelle Larson in Iowa City, IA
Hi! My name is Shirlene and I live in Texas. I am making a single Irish Chain for my quilt. To do that, I am making a 25 piece block with the lightest charms from corner to corner both ways, the sig charm in the center. Everything but the light charms will be just the scrappy look. I think this will look very pretty.
	I have been sewing mine into four patches: lights with mediums and mediums with darks. I started back in August when there were 500 days to the new century. When I get enough four patches I will decide if I want to develope a pattern with the values, or just go totally scrappy. Beth Ferrier Applewood Farm Publications http://www.applewd.com
I'm planning a Trip-Around-the-World, too, like Barb Lahman. But it will be a colorwash style. My squares will be sorted by value from dark-dark to light-light. The lightest set will probably be my signature squares. I have many international swaps, so I really thought this would be appropriate. I am looking for fabric with postage stamps for the border (please e-mail if you have seen any). Another quilter let me know about fabric with a map of the world. I might use it on the back with a bead sewn on for each swapper. What do you think? Jan in Buffalo, NY
Here is one of my blocks	HI. well i have been working on my quilt for the new millennium and I am doing one i seen in Patchwork Quilting (sensational Scarp Quilts) on page 60 it shows a colour blended quilt .that is it name. And what you do it take your sqaures and seperate them like a color wash quilt. Darks, Mediums and lights. then you have to seperate them again by color red. blue .and so on.. Then you take 15 of them and arange them light to dark and sew them 3 x 5 it gives you a rectangle.you would do this to all your squares. Then you layer each block (3x5) with batting and backing making sure you have your batting a little bigger and you backing as well.you then quilt this little block making sure not to quilt a 1/4 inch from the side.. you would repeat this to all the blocks (trim) then you arange them in the way that looks good to you ...now to put the blocks to gether you take two strips 1 1/4 by what ever the blocks measures and you pin one to the front and one to the back of the block with all raw edges even you stich 1/4 seam. Then you take block two and sew to the strip in block one rights sides together. hen on the back turn under the raw edge and slip stich in place. You will join by rows and then join row 1 to row 2 ..and so on . I figured it will take 133 blocks with out the signatures...with I will but on the back of the bottom blocks ..as if we had all signed my QUILT!! and date it 1-1-00 A Warm Start.. (sorry for all the miss spelled stuff I quilt better then I spell..LOL) I will send a picture to go with this... Natalie Carlton(Bargello)
HI girls!!I thought I would up date you all on my quilt. AS you know I am doing the Catherdral Window pattern. I have completed 23 of the 25 blocks of Wendys set of 25, Idid take photos when i get them back i will give them to cindy to put it in here. Since I started this I now will HAVE to finish it from time to time I will let you all know how I'm doing I am almost done swapping I need about 15 more people to swap I think. Thanks for makeing this fun for me jackie
	I have decided to try to do my Mill.Quilt in the TRIP AROUND THE WORLD pattern. I plan to separate all charms according in the order of the color wheel. The signature blocks will be used in the border, chaining them each together. I plan to use dark blue on the border around the completed charms and then the signature block border and then a dark red on the final outside border, to give it a RED,WHITE,BLUE effect. I plan to use all 2000 pieces in the Millennium Quilt, and if any leftovers will make a lap quilt with those. Well, I hope to have this finished by the new Millennium! Wish me luck! HAPPY QUILTIN! BARB LAHMAN (LV4QLTG@AOL.COM)
I have found a wonderful web site for Cathedral Windows techinques and would like to share it with all. http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/thekarls/month2.htm Wendy
	i am just using the charms in a straight row as they come in the mail, staggering the signature charm. my quilt will measure 52 inches wide and 160 inches long, i have 8 rows completed, only 72 more to go. i haven't given much consideration to how i am going to do the actual quilting yet., my goal is to have it all pieced by july 4th, and then by then i should have a idea for the rest of my project. my plans are to have it completed by the end of 1999 and then on new years eve, sign and date the back of my quilt commerating the special event of the turn of the century. i have never graduated from the beginners part of quilting, i am comfortable there, so i just go on with my ideas, love what i am doing, my daughter, kelcat68 is also in the charm swap, we basically share the same concept on our patterns for the m. quilt., got to go for now, thanks for the new ideas, love and prayers, donda45
I am going to do a variation on the Grandmothers Flower Garden pattern. I begin by cutting all of my 3 inch charms (I have been swapping) into octagons. I put the signature block in the center and surround it with the the charms that that specific person sent to me. That will take up 24 of the charms and the last one will be put in the border. I hope that I am finished by the next millennuim. Maryann in southern Ontario
	Centered Signature Sq. Layout. Four Samples of 24+1 Layout. Each of these Layouts uses a different Light/Dark Value Arrangement. All use the Swappers signature sq. in the center with 24 squares sent by that swapper. Layout arrangements will vary depending on squares sent in one package. Sue McPeak
Y2K Center Signature Layout Block uses 24 of the 25 squares plus signature square. LAYOUT: Start with signature sq. in center. For this example: Rnd. 1 = 4 dks. to corners....4 dks to top/bottom/r-l sides. Rnd 2.= 4 dks to corners....fill top/bottom/r-l sides with lights. Quick Piecing Instructions: Chain piece squares in vertical Row 1 to squares in Row 2. Press & set back in layout. Repeat with Row 3 to Row 4. Press 3-4 then sew on row 5 squares. Press & set back in layout. Sew Row 1-2 to 3-4-5 to make horizontal row 1. Press all seams one direction. Repeat with remaing rows to make horizontal rows 2,3,4,5...press seams in alternating directions. Sew Horiz. Row 1 to 2. Row 3 to 4. Rows 3-4 to 5. Rows 1-2 to 3-4-5. Press horizontal seams one direction. Makes 10" block with 1/4 seam allowance. Sue McPeak *Suggestion for left over square: Use as cornerstone in sashing.
	I think I will be doing alternating 9 patch blocks in the same color scheme with shoo fly blocks. I did a sample up and it really looked sharp. Haven't decided whether to do a sashing between the squares or between 12" squares or what yet. Good luck to all! Kathee
Carrie Graft is doing something on that same order as Quilt idea and going to put a 1/4" sashing between each square and 3" between each block.
	Jackie Popp is doing Cathedral Windows.
Evelyn Christens is putting an alternating block with an appliqued heart on it,and also another appliqued block with a traced hand on it,and calling my quiltSSSSSS Heartsand Hands Around the World. "I will have my local quilt guild trace their hands, and also my children and grand children, and since these quilts will eventually belong to the grand children I think that they will appreciate the family connections, I know that this was not the original plan, but I woke one night at 2 Am and the name of the quilt was my first thought, so I am taking it to be a sign that that is what i am to do. May be crazy, but no one has ever accused me of being totally sane, is any quilter??"
	I have started sewing my squares together into 9 patches of light/dark of one color grouping. I then am sewing 4 nine patches together of one color group into a 12" (finished) square. I'm going to sew all of these 12" blocks together to see how many of which color I have before I determine placement. I am then going to add a 1" black border/sashing; then a stripped pieced multicolored border, then a larger black border. In the outer border I am going to put the signature blocks, in a tilted fashion, piecing the outer border to make the signature blocks look like confetti coming down the sides. Then...if I get real adventurous, I'll applique (is that how you spell it?) bias stripping of various colors throughout the signature blocks to make it look like streamers; giving the quilt a "Welcome to the Year 2000!!" look. Well...that's my 3-1/2 cents worth. Rachel
Rachel, I LOVE IT! Especially the streamers idea. Me, I am cheating and doing the easy thing. As I receive the charms I sew them (however they are stacked in the envelope,) in a row alternating the signature charm on the left one time and the right the next. On both ends of the row I add a square of Metallic Blue 2 1/2 inch charm. (That is for sizing later on.) I sew the rows together, making sure the joining of the squares is centered in the square above (no seams to match, teehee). I will make two of these tops--one for the front of the quilt, and one for the back using my 2000 squares. When I have them both finished, I will cut the blue charm squares that I put on so that they are equal length (see, I can cheat easily). After the tops are squared up and the stuffing is put in-between, I will add a large (Probably six inch) border of plain material -- but fancy...like metallic material, (probably the blue I used earlier to hide the off sizes). Then star material, then plain with embroidery re: who made it and commemorating what...etc. The quilting will be the hardest for me to figure out. I think I will diagonally quilt thru the charm area and then individually quilt the border areas differently. Haven't gotten to that phase of the idea yet. Cindy K. Note: To see the quilt top Cindy had in progress as of 4-9-99, click here!
	Hi all, I wanted a pattern with exactly 2000 pieces, so came up with this. It's 80" square before any borders. Kelly-Anne Accomplish the impossible by doing the possible each day.
Here is another idea...on the same concept...using the 25 charms to make a 10" block...only this thime setting it on point. finished size would be 60 5/8" x 74 3/4"! -Wendy
On Point: Baby Block:	Hi Y2K Quilters.....Wendy approached me with a request for some designs for putting together the Y2K Quilt. I worked up one of her requests which was an OnPoint Design. I have been exploring some other ideas in EQ, and have come up with a few more. I'd like to share a couple of my ideas with you, and if you can use them, great. In this email you will find two attachments: 1. On Point Setting which uses 2075 squares. MaryJo here is where you would use the extra squares when setting the 'Signature Sqs. in the center of each 10" block. I have not written the setting instructions as of yet, but if anyone is interested in using this pattern, email me and I will work on that part of this design. 2. Baby Block Setting 2001sqs. This one is a more complex pattern both in sewing and arrangement of the 10" blocks. It is, however, not as difficult as it looks. Each 10" block is arranged in a dark/light pattern.....this allows for the overall pattern....notice the secondary patterns that emerge when you squint. This would require that you be more selective with the charms when putting them together in the 10" blocks. I am still working up some other ideas which I will pass on as they develop outta this weak brain into this awesome puter. Ok....ya'll enjoy and let me know what you think......Sue McPeak For more detailed instructions on the "Baby Block" quilt, click here!
I am sorta still thinking how to make my millennium quilt...you know i like so many things..and have also made a vow to try not to do everything i see...so between all the quilts i have sworn to finish..and this new millennium quilt...i can relax and take my time about what to do!!!..so far i have considered dresden plate quilt....a cathedral window quilt....or a plan squares quilt....like "around the world"...and mix everyone's fabrics together so we are all one....but then i am still in the thinking process....LOL....ok ok ok..lets hear more ideas!!! nono nanette
	Hey Wendy, This is the way I'm going to do mine but in the middle of the block will be the sig charm. I'm not sure yet what I will do with the extra charms. Might make pillow tops out of them. I had thought about adding them to the border but don't think i like htat idea anymore. I lost my list when I reformatted my HD last week. I'm not sure who all owes me charms anymore. If I owe you charms please let me know! Hugs MJ
With some encouragement from Sue Mc Peak, I have been playing with my Quilt Pro program. The attached is a 96 1/2" x 119 1/2" finished quilt. Using 25 - 2 1/2" charms and making a 10" block. Then adding 1 1/2" sashing between the blocks and finishing with 3" borders. Let's see if we can get more of these ideas!-Wendy

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