I dont like Charms...but......

[MomGram]

I'm working on a Lovely Falling Charms. Angelia your's is beautiful.

[Angelia]

Thanks, Anita!

[bec]

What about cutting large hexis out of the charms and making a hexi quilt. It you sew triangles to opposite sides of the hexi you can sew them in rows with a machine and not have to hand stitch them. I've done two quilts like that. You could use this concept and it would look like the first quilt (hexis within a star), except yours would be one solid fabric instead of the dresden look. OR like the second quilt with diamond shapes between the hexis. I used different fabric for the triangles that would eventually look like diamonds (which was a little tricky), but if you used the same background fabric throughout, it would be a piece of cake. FYI- the triangles are cut larger than needed and then cut even with the sides of the hexi.

[goofyizzy]

You could put them all together in a tumbler quilt. If you have yardage in coordinating solids you can sash each charm all the way around and do a square in a square as was suggested earlier.

[easyquilts]

The tumbler idea is an excellent idea... Just start cutting! I've used chatm packs this wsy, and the results are do much fun.

I like chatm packs for all the readons you don't, and buy them often.... I love the variety of prints... You can make an adorable baby quilt top for under trn bucks... Not bad....

Some say you can't do much with charms, but I find them to be very versitile.... They are the bad is of so many of Jenny 's tutorials....even when she starts out with a layer cake.

I don 'to think charm packs are disorganized at all....the fact that they have at least one sample of each fabric in a line makes them...to me, anyway....organized......and I know they will all work well together.

Oh, I'll admit that there can be a couple of charms in a pavk I might not use...usually too light....but on the whole, charm packs are great!


But, that's just me.....

[Hulamoon]

How about the tipsy tumbler? The prints won't be right next to each other. I'm going to try it with some tumblers I already have cut out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRHOebrCAZo

[coffeebreak]

Cheri, what about something like this: ?Doubly charming? charm pack quilt tutorial | Sewn Up by TeresaDownUnder
anyway.

bec... yes you are probably right about using the ones I don't like with the ones I do. I will give that some thought when I use the small flower print ones. They might just go well with those since the flowers are smaller. Thanks for the links...It always helps to just look. And I dont' know what my problem is... but I ALWAYS forget to check Pinterest! I don't know what that is but everytime.. I forget and someone reminds me. Can't figure that one out! Thanks for reminding!

[coffeebreak]

Sad realization with a silver lining, maybe? n a precut dissapoints as opposed to a few cuts of yardage. You feel that too?

Midge.. I think we are on the same page! I haven't bought any charms since these and yeah, $3.50 is cheap but normally they are higher, so yeah...at least my lesson is not costing me much!! I am making this a "out of the box" project for myself. I am in such a strict, organized box, many things dont' even appeal to me when they could be great...if I'd just look at them "out of the box"!

[coffeebreak]

I did a "Lovely" Falling Charms: http://forum.missouriquiltco.com/mem...e-batting.html

How is it coming out? I am not to crazy about the pattern...not sure why!

[coffeebreak]

What about cutting large hexis out of the charms and making a hexi quilt. It you sew triangles to opposite sides of the hexi you can sew them in rows with a machine and not have to hand stitch them. I've done two quilts like that. You could use this concept and it would look like the first quilt (hexis within a star), except yours would be one solid fabric instead of the dresden look. OR like the second quilt with diamond shapes between the hexis. I used different fabric for the triangles that would eventually look like diamonds (which was a little tricky), but if you used the same background fabric throughout, it would be a piece of cake. FYI- the triangles are cut larger than needed and then cut even with the sides of the hexi.

bec... this is a bit out of my range, plus... I am not to crazy about hexies. I think it is just cause so many prints so close together makes me think "clutter". That is a problem I have with scrappy quilts...just to much going on for my over organized structure!