Jane Quilter

This quilt had 20 charms around each of the 30 blocks, and 10 charms in each of the 20 flowers, using a minimum of 800 charms or a birthday swap of 16 participants. I could have used more to bind the edge, in cornerstones, as leaves, or on the backing. But this gives you an idea. There was some waste because I had to pick over to get all green squares to make a flower. But the charms around the blocks are all from the same person, there was no crossovers, I wanted each block to be a memory of a particular swapper. Just as each block was a memory of a family event. If you want to read more details about this quilt with closeup pictures of the blocks and the names of the swappers per block, go to my thread "I won "Best in Show" " on this quilting board at I won "Best in Show"