I've used one panel for a quilt for my nephew. I cut off some of the panel frame, then just added borders with cornerstones until it was about 70". Still haven't quilted it, but my nephew loves the unquilted top.

Just have fun with them. They do make piecing a quilt faster.

Depends on the layout/size of the panel. I have one that the panel is the whole picture and would not look good cut apart so I added borders to make the size that I wanted. If maybe the panel can be fussy cut into blocks add sashin g and then borders. Or you can leave 1 large square in the center and put sashing between other squares to make quilt. Often panels can be used to make baby quilts by only adding borders. Good luck!!!!!

Very nice!!!!

Some of the first quilts I did when getting back into quilting were panel quilts. I didn't use much imagination, just took a number of panels the width of the material by the number of panels to make up the length I wanted, added a back (quilts were width of material wide), and tied them.

They are all still in use, and made great quick gifts.

I have a number of panels still in my stash and was looking for other ways to use them. Thanks for this thread! It's given me a bunch of ideas to use to clear up that part of my stash!

Lovely quilt, great suggestion!:)

I too love Susan Teegarden Dissmore's panel quilt ideas. Her books also have easy instructions on designing your own quilts using panel, borders, and theme prints.

http://www.amazon.com/Clever-Quilts-...5370560&sr=1-4

I had a panel of 8 butterflies for a quilt I wanted to make for a brand new DGD. With all 8 is was an odd size, so I cut them all apart, used sashing between 6 of them and added a border. Then made a pillow out of the left over two. All tied with pink yarn including the pillow. Came out great.

Thanks for posting all the great pics, and your ideas!

Thanks for sharing that great site, Dunster. I enjoyed browsing. http://www.allpeoplequilt.com/techni...jects_ss1.html

I can't get my son out of the good picture of this quilt, but I show can you a 'bad' one. My cropped pic won't open. As usual, my camera turns quilts pinker than they are. The five panels were all different sizes, but a steel tape measure and sashing fixed that. The blue and gold Friendship Star is from high school colors- I didn't just grab colors out od a hat.