Originally Posted by BellaBoo
Take a digital picture of the quilt and then in a word program place the block picture side by side to make quilt layout. You can put two small square mirrors together to make an image of four blocks together.
I do that - using "tables" in Word 2010 - I think how big of a quilt I am planning - 9 square, 12 square, whatever - create a table for that many squares, then I can "paste" the size-reduced picture block in as many of the squares as I want, use color fill to color any plain blocks I want, and if I want to think about sashing or borders, I can add rows or columns and manipulate their size to see what it would look like. Its fun!! I have also typed a phrase in Word, reduced the size and pasted it into say the center block of the quilt to see what it would look like.
Marysewfun