panel layouts?
 

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

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

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!

Equilter has tons of free patterns for panels

https://www.equilter.com/pattern

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

lots of fun ideas

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 :(

Great ideas!!! Thanks!

Love your quilt!

I am not fond of panels either but your quilt is beautiful and such a good idea...thanks!!

Here is the equilter pattern using the panel but I don't think it is available any more https://www.equilter.com/blog/free-p...aceful-meadow/
Evidently there is a company that takes quilt pictures and prints them out in different sizes. https://woonistore.com/products/mom-...00010412397692

Try Villa Rosa Designs. All patterns are $2.00 each for pattern card or digital and she doesn't charge shipping. Has lots for panels and can also search for patterns using precuts. I've made lots of them most are throw size.

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That's such a cute quilt, Dunster!

Wow, thank you so much OurWorkbench for where to find the old layouts on eQuilter! Is a huge resource of ideas, especially when you can put it together with the panels. I've been using them pretty much since they started but I miss things some times :)

I used to use them a lot for border ideas since I rarely work with panels.

Thank you so much. I had looked on equilter and didn't see this. I do see it isn't available anymore but the picture is a great help!

If it were me and I was trying to make a lap quilt from this panel, I would use the large panel piece on the front and add blocks and strips to make it as large as I want and use the smaller panels on the back side.

I stumbled across a pattern site yesterday that was new to me. They have over 600 patterns and at least 400 or so it seems were for panels. Google Pine Tree Country Quilts to find them. Will admit that the majority of patterns were at least $10, but the variety was outstanding, and many included a choice between mailed or a download. Give them a try.

Thanks I am on the way. They will still give me ideas even if they are for sale. And who knows I might find the perfect pattern!