Old 04-22-2010, 01:46 PM
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Originally Posted by LucyInTheSky
This is a quilt my students did. They each made a block and I had to figure out how in the heck to lay them all out. I took pictures of all the blocks hanging on the wall. I made a few colored squares in Excel, and then cut the blocks out from the pictures I took, and put them in Excel. And this way, I was able to easily move them around to get an arrangement I like. The blank spaces were for AWOL quilt blocks, which did eventually show up
Very clever!
I use Excel, but have not tried to design a quilt with it. That would be the ultimate and this idea and the others will help me.
I look forward to seeing more posts on this topic.
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