ladyquilter5589

There is a Jacob's Ladder from a charm pack on a Minnesota Fabric Utube tutorial. It is hanging on the wall in the back. I think it is charming.

BettyGee

Charm squares are my favorite! There are tons of patterns that use them. All of the books mentioned by other members are great. Shabby Fabrics has one called "Charmed and Dangerous" which is terrific. You can use them as they are or make triangle, etc. Take them out of the drawer and have fun.

rainagade

Flying geese: cut them in half add corners.
Dresden Plate: They make the plate beautiful.

Bebbysews

They make beautiful pinwheel squares. Just put 2 of them together with right sides facing easch other, then sew 1/4" seam all the way around all 4 sides. Lay it on your cutting board and cut diagonally. Now you have 2 triangles. Then take each triangle and cut them in half. You now have 4 half-square triangles. Open them up and iron each piece. Lay them out and carefully place the four squares together to form a perfect pinwheel square. This is so easy. Then just use sashing between your beautiful pinwheel squares, add some borders. Your finished pinwheel square will be 6" x 6". I used charm squares that are 5" x 5" to start with. Have fun with this!

Dawnwrey

I made the quilt in my profile picture using 2 charm packs. What a time saver!

butterflies5518

I purchased mine as a newbie and just now starting to use them - doing a tumbler block quilt this weekend.

Hemlock Tea

I sew up HSTs with a coordinating solid and go from there. So many different arrangements, I just play around until I find something I like.

jcrow

I've seen these blocks also. Jenny Doan has a Youtube video on making them. I can't remember the name of the block either, but they are wonderful. I, also have many charm packs with a little yardage to go with them and now I'm thinking about making that block. I just need to check out Jenny Doan's video. But the way you described how to make them, I don't even need the video. Your instructions are perfect! Thanks from me!!

Hemlock Tea

This is called a disappearing nine patch. You can get really cool effects with different placements of fabric in the nine patch, and with the different ways you can turn the blocks after you cut them.

IdahoSandy

You can just make a scrappy quilt or throw just buy sewing these squares together. I had read in a magazine that you can stagger these squares to make it easier because of the seams. Sew one row the length you want, then the next row cut 1st square in half and then the 5 inches squares are sewen to this and etc. So every other row would have the first 5 inch square cut in half. Your might want to try making a twister quilt, but this would involve a twister template. Then again cut the squares in 2 1/2 inchs and sew these together along with longer 2 1/2 inch strips to make a strip quilt of the size you want.