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You could cut them in half diagonally. Then make a pinwheel block quilt in any size you want.

to klgreene
what a lovely quilt, I love the black/white/red combination! Looks like she did a great job! My brother lives in Clovis, the world just seems to be getting smaller all the time.

Ijust made the quitest disappering nine patch for my Grandadughters 4th birthday. It was fun and easy. I used 5" charm packs from me and my sister. I loved doing this quilt. Will show picks soon.

That was GREAT! I've learned how to do hst so many different ways, but this is the greatest!!! Thank you!

great for baby quilts as well as purses - Peggy Sturges has several bag patterns that use 5" squares

You can use them for almost anything. I love the precuts!

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Originally Posted by dyer804

I have been sewing forever but am new to quilting. The fabric I recently purchased included a lot of 5 inch squares sorted by colors: blues, reds, greens, and yellows, oranges, & browns. What would be a beginner's quilt that could use some or all of these different squares? I would appreciate any suggestions. Thanks

There are lots of books and patterns out just for the 5" squares. There are 3 (I think) books in the Nickel Quilts series, "Loose Change: Quilts from Nickels, Dimes and Fat Quarters" has lots of wonderful projects that work up from 5" or 10" squares, and/or fat quarters plus some yardage for some of them.
Carrie Nelson (Miss Rosie's Quilt Company) has a series of patterns under the Schnibbles line that are based on 5" squares. and so on.
You can also just sew them together in rows and join the rows. Or make 9-Patches, perhaps then "Disappear" the 9-Patches.
Depends on how many you have and what you want to do with them,

Pati, in Phx

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS SITE..... IT IS FILLED WITH GREAT IDEAS... :)

I would find some fat quarters of some picture/scene or baby animal (I made an adorable baby quilt with fat quarters of penquins and sky scenes along side solid fat quarters) and cut them accordingly and place them in alltinating blocks. The quilt was one of the best looking I had remembered making and had to pass it off to the Mom very quickly so I id not take a picture of it and I regret that all the time. It truely was an attractive quilt.

What about pinwheel quilt blocks! They would be fast and easy! Perfect for a baby quilt!