I have all Margaret Millers books and eventually will get around to using them all. I took the easy pieces class from her a couple years ago and really liked all the different things you could with the blocks. (see my albums) . And combined with Angle play blocks you can make some super cool quilts. (saw a couple of them at the Angle Play booth at the Portland quilt show a few months ago).
But, I tend to use EQ5 to design my own angle play quilts. I think somewhere a few years back I got some book or or just a CD that loaded the blocks into EQ5. Not sure if there is a disc for the newer EQ-s.
I have Smashing Sets book, and it has given me a few ideas. I may try out some of those ideas on my Boom blocks. But it is a much more detailed book with some (what I think of as) advanced designing.
But I do love using the templates to make some cool looking blocks for the swaps. I think my favorite thing about quilting is picking the fabrics and piecing a nice block. So swaps work well for me!
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