Originally Posted by SWChick
Loving these panel quilts more and more. I don't think from a lot of the ones I have seen that they are cheaters cause you have to do a lot of planning, measuring, and designing to make that panel into a large quilt.
That's for sure! The last one I made with 8 or 9 smallish rectangular "panels" took me longer and made me use more math than any other quilt I've made. First came choosing a lot of coordinating fabrics (and for someone who agonizes over color choices that was an ordeal), next making a bunch of random pinwheels (no two the same), then interspersing the pinwheels and small blocks in between the panels, while making sure all the columns and rows were going to come out the same size. It was a challenge, but a lot of fun. I used an idea in Clever Quilts, but had to adapt it to the size of my panels, thus the need for math skills. I don't know what the "cheating" would have been :); I love using colorful pictorial panels.