charming ideas

with fabric squares on their way, here's what i'm looking at:

here by Sewing Greek

here by truvy57

here by raverlygirl

here by msporkchop

here by cauchy09

here by filminthefridge

here also by filminthefridge

here by RhubarbPatch

i'm guessing that with roughly 150 four inch squares, i'm not going to be satisfied size-wise with a simple patchwork quilt with a border, which is why many of the quilt ideas i'm looking at have extra fabric added into them.  while i'm pretty sure the creator was still in the process of making strips in the first picture, i like the idea of several coin strips offset on a plain background.  and maybe some squares down in the opposite corner, drawing a bit from the hexagon quilt design by filminthefridge?  or maybe going more random with square clusters like the hexagon quilt.  i'm sort of stuck on that one and it'll probably inspire something, somewhere, in my final quilt.

going to flickr.com and searching "charm quilt" will provide endless design ideas.  i've also seen a lot of really funky quilt backs in my google reader but can't find them now (go figure) and may just have to draw something up from memory/my own imagination.