This tute will result in a top aprox 44.5" x 75.5" before borders.

You are going to need to use Bubble Jet or a similar product to pre-treat your colored squares before printing them.

Materials:
Cut 5" squares of the following:

6 Orange
6 Light Blue
40 Dark Blue
28 Medium Blue
7 Green (A)
7 Green (B)
6 Yellow
7 Red
62 Background Color
Current Periodic table http://ptable.com/

On a plain piece of printer paper:
Mark a 2" margin on the left and a 2" margin on the top. Using a tape of your choice (or even water-soluble glue) attach your square to the paper, be sure to line it up with the markings and becareful not to tape where it will be printed.

Using Word or a similar program set the following margins: Top: 2", Left: 2", Right: 1.5", Bottom: 4".

At this point play around with fonts and sizes until you make your block look the way you want.
Tip: Print on plain paper first, hold it to the light and see if it lines up with your square the way you want it to.

Print all of your element squares.
Alkali Metals – Orange
Alkaline Earth Metals – Light Blue
Transition Metals – Medium Blue
Post-transition Metals – Purple
Metalloids – Green (A)
Other Nonmetals – Green (B)
Halogens – Yellow
Noble Gases - Red
Lanthanoids/Actinoids – Medium Blue

Using the periodic table diagram, arrange your colored squares and background squares.

Background squares should be the following in vertical strips:
3 below Alkali Metals (Fr)
1 above Alkaline Earth Metals (Be)
3 below Alkaline Earth Metals (Ra)
3 above Transition Metals
1 below Transition metals
1 above Post-transition metals/Metalloids/Other Nonmetals, Halogens and Noble Gases
1 below Post-transition metals/Metalloids/Other Nonmetals
3 below Halogens (Uus)
3 below Noble gases (Uuo)

Sew together in strips vertically then sew the strips together. Add a border (I'm going to use the same color as my background), back and quilt.

Optional: Change the bottom right background square with a square printed with your label.

How cool is that? Great job!

That is so cool. Thanks for the tute.

Oh BTW... If any of you guys use this tute.... Please please post pics. I'd love to see them :)

That is something else :thumbup: Thanks for sharing

Gaaaaaaaaah! DH is a science teacher! This would be AWESOME!!!

Thanks I need to make this one for my son

This is great! I saw a periodic table quilt before I became a quilter, so more than 10 years ago, and have had some thoughts about doing one. Thank you for the tutorial.

I have a niece that is a senior in college and is going to be a chemist. I wish I had sent her off to college with a quilt like that. How very VERY cool.

So cute. What a cute quilt that would be for a Science major or Chemistry teacher.

Wow1 Very nice.

Very cool this is really neat

Fantastic! I taught Chemistry for years and wish I had made this for my classroom. You get a A+.

This quilt is so cool. I can't wait to tell my niece. She will flip for it. She is completing here last year for her doctorate at Cornell, in genetics. She loved chemistry and will love this. Thanks for the tut.

Wow! That is so cool!

Thank you for this tute :D:D:D

I wish I had this quilt when I was in school!

Awesome quilt.

Thank you and God bless. Penny

This is to cool! Great job!

Although chemistry was my least favorite subject (and I think hell is probably a hugh chemistry lab that you spend eternity doing endless carbon chains), I think this is wonderful! lol

meant to say HUGE not hugh lol

Love your table top quilt, I also made one but used my embroidery machine. My son in law is 6'5" so its really big. Unfortunaly he keeps it in a bag under the bed. He doesnt want to use it. Or he hate it. Jean

I really like that! Good job!

Mattee

Wonderful, I made one for myson in law a few years ago. did it with my embroidery machine. wish I had had our tut to help me with the planning. He keeps in in a plastic bag under the bed. I keep telling him he should use it. I entered it in a quilt show, didnt win but all the guys that were dragged there loves it. Good job.

that would be perfect for him!

Wow, awesome job!