charm are great and fun to work with - lots of good suggestions here

I have made a lot of blocks from a couple charm packs using dyer84's avatar. This is a quick and easy method and makes a striking block. After Christmas, when I have a lot more time (?) I will sash them and make them intoa quilt.

You can make snowball squares out of them. Add a coordinating fabric and make half-square triangles.

Make HST's, make twisters, 9-patch, 4-patch, just use your imagination. Lots of things and lots of fun.

Chasinghawk, love the colors! Very striking quilt! Also use alot of charm packs and find the are quick and easy.

Love your quilts !! They make me smile :)

Here are two projects I did with coordinating charm packs. For the D9P I used 4 (to get the matching look) and then used the extra's plus one more for the table runner.

http://alimaui.blogspot.com/2010/09/...-projects.html


http://alimaui.blogspot.com/2010/09/...d-plum_04.html
This is another charm pack pattern, using only two charm packs (but equal amounts of solid white cut to charmsize.)

http://www.ohfransson.com/oh_fransso...ilt-redux.html
Here is a tut that uses just one charm pack that I have been meaning to try.

http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-79336-1.htm

Here is a recent post of mine, all the projects here except for the last one used charm packs. (Figgy/Christmas used three, the next two used two coordinating, and the taggy just uses sixteen charms.

Also there is a pattern desinger who makes patterns called Schnibbles, using charm packs.

Here is the Flickr Group
http://www.flickr.com/groups/schnibbles

How many Charm packs do you buy usually?

It kind of depends on how much I like it, and how much it is, and where I am buying it. The last couple times, I bought three... That way I have the option of choosing to do a Scnhibble (Usually takes two) or something a little bigger, or smaller.