lwbuchholz

I have this panel and am looking for ideas for laying it out for a lap quilt. I have others similar so any ideas or where I can go to find ideas that you have I will be so grateful!
Lynda

Onebyone

Three Yard Quilts has a book with patterns for panels. It's very good.
Panel Perfect 3-Yard Quilts – Fabric Café

LGJARN52

Three Yard Quilts is good, but Villa Rosa Designs has many panel patterns that can be downloaded or mailed for only $2 each. Ones that I enjoy using are listed in alphabetical order on the site areGathering...Splash...October Sky....and Snap Shot. They have more than these....take a look!

tallchick

Equilter has tons of free patterns for panels

https://www.equilter.com/pattern

lwbuchholz

Thank you all. I will try villa rose. E quilter mostly has large single panel patterns. The other patterns won't work with this panel.

b.zang

Let me just say, I hate panels. They cause me angst as I struggle with what to surround them with and in the end pretty much anything looks good. Here is what I did with a similar panel - a large picture and 4 smaller coordinating pictures. I made it up myself and it turned out king sized. The lambs are very cute.

Onebyone

I take parts of one pattern and parts of another and make a surround background for panels that have more than one part. I cut the parts to be separate and then place on a big background piece the size I want the quilt. Then I start adding blocks or pieces to fill in the background around the parts. I think it's called patch quilting. I call it no math needed. I sew the pieces to fit the space whether it is block or a chunk of fabric.

dunster

The problem with a panel like that is that it will be very difficult to find a pattern designed specifically for the number and sizes of the subpanels. You could do something similar to what I did with this panel, putting the smaller pictures in the corners.

Julienm1

Do a google search with this phrase...quilt borders for panels

lots of fun ideas

Iceblossom

I recently took a guild seminar on dealing with panels. The lady who taught the seminar was a wiz with panels! One of the things she did was spend time with each of us to get some ideas on our problem panel projects. I don't usually work with panels and just don't understand why they can/are designed deliberately skewed. I quickly found out last year that although my panel blocks looked the same and square they weren't at all!

One thing she talked about was trying to pick up design cues from the fabric. For me, trying to enlarge what you have is I would probably have the large panel in the middle, with two panels above and two panels down -- and I'd piece a wood fence between the large and small panels and probably around the outside. I'd keep the rest pretty green and blendy. To make it quite a bit larger I'd look at large panel in the middle and small panels as corner.

I think you could also do some shadow type black thin borders/sashing if you used the borders on the blocks.

For my current Bonnie Hunter project I decided to go Monochrome -- black, gray, and white -- or as I call it "sheep colors"!

Regarding eQuilters, that was one of my first places to look. Unfortunately to save space they only keep up a couple of years of the free designs which are mostly to celebrate particular lines of fabric and after all this time the designs do not seem very varied any more