5 inch squares will make 4 inch finished half square triangles and/or 4 inch finished four patches, and from there you can go anywhere! What about a jewel box quilt?

If you have the dresden ruler - you can make dresden blades - you can get alot of blades out of a charm pack and it looks good scrappy too.

Me too. I might do an I spy

let the sashing tell the story... ignore the blocks and choose a color palette.... purple to mauve to lavendar to yellow, or forest to deep green, to olive to sage... whatever your favorite color range is. Then put the darkest sashing on the bottom row, move up one row and one shade in your palette.... if the blocks are only 5" you can use a sashing that's 4" and overwhelm at the same time you're creating the color spread that's lovely all by itself... the blocks could be in the center, in the corner, off center but in the same position in every square.... anything you do within a large frame will be set off and muted at the same time...

Very pretty and great use of HST. You inspired me!

hope someone can help. i want to use 5" squares for my disappearing 9 patch. i have 9 different fabrics. how many 5" squares do i cut of each fabric? thank you

Great ideas vety nice quilts!!!

Do you want to include all nine fabrics in each block? Or do you want to use certain fabrics for the corner blocks, certain fabrics for the middle blocks, and a certain fabric for the center block?

It may be a scrappy quilt but its a Jewel to me I just love it.Keep up the good work!!

love the nickle books. just about any scrap pattern can be made with 5" squares - 4 patch - put 2 quares tog, sew two sides (opposite each other), cut down themiddle between the sewn tog sides , press to dark, put tog, stitch sides again, cut down themiddle = 2 blocks ( I have done this, but am not sure I am saying it right)