BrendaK

OK I am scraping my chin off the floor. You have done an awesome job. Your husband must be so proud of you as you should be of yourself. Your creative is super. Love it. BrendaK

John Alexander

Hi,
wow,this project is looking very beautiful and amazing.
what a nice colours are here.
keep sharing.
JOHN

ladysuds

I also have the same question as Homemother, Can you direct us to a website where it tells you how to use Excel in making quilt patters? Thanks...beautiful quilt , can't wait to see it when it's finished.

joyful1

Wow!!! Please share when done. Can't wait to see it completed!
Okay, I see it now. What an awesome quilt this is. And yes, please share info where to find how to use excel for quilt designing!

thanks for sharing your beautiful quilt with us!!!

eliz41

I use Excel day-in-day-out at work, so it just comes naturally to me. I won't go into the basics of using Excel, this is just the process I used to lay out my design. If you want to know how to use Excel, I'm sure there are many many tutorials on the internet! I find if I want to do something and don't know how, I just google it!

I set up my row heights and column widths so that my grid was roughly equal sized squares.
I figured out many squares wide and tall my quilt should be (for example, each square represents 2", so I figured out the quilt sized based on that).
I inserted my inspiration image into Excel and scaled it to the right size, and made the background transparent so I could see the grid behind. This was tricky, I had to do some googling, and I don't really remember exactly how I did it now. If you're not basing your quilt on an image, you don't need to worry about this.
I used the fill tool to fill in the cells in different colours to represent different fabrics and blocks.
Once I had the layout ready, I started identifying the squares, figuring out which ones could be combined into blocks. I labeled each square or block with a letter. Then I used the count function to figure out how many of each type of square there was so I could plan my cutting and piecing.

No triangle option in Excel, unfortunately. But I have a terrible time with triangles, so I don't mind!

eliz41

I found this post! Maybe it will help those of you who aren't comfortable in Excel!!

http://www.quiltingboard.com/tutoria...t-t105549.html

I just Googled "use excel for quilts" and got lots of options!

Cam's gram

WOW - I'm so impressed.

heather1949

Wow that is awesome.

eliz41

Ladies and Gentlemen, the finished quilt!

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leaha

wonderful design, you did a really great job, the quilt will be beautiful, a real keeper!