What would you do with this panel?
 

I bought this panel a year ago and decided it's time to do something with it. The problem is I not sure what to do. It measures 35.5" long and 42" long. I'd like to put some blocks around it but can't figure out what size would work. Any suggestions are appreciated.
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Check out Elisabrat's Medallion round robin quilt along in the blocks of the month and week section. Lots of good ideas and help there.

This is very pretty. maybe some snow flake fabric to make some blocks around and with some brown to match the deer.

oo that sure is pretty cant helpya but sure do want to see it finish. Please post a picture when done.:thumbup:

Beautiful panel! Sorry I don't know enough to give you any help!

I would probably just add borders, to make it the size I wanted. A snowflake fabric, the darker blue in the center and maybe the lighter blue separated by the darker blue.

I've done a panel where the panel itself is set at the upper left corner. Put a 1" border on top, right and bottom and then used flying geese around that border. Maybe you can work up some idea with that.

Thanks for the help.

Cizzors: Just to be clear there is no border on the left size. What size of geese should I use?

I love that panel. Add enough border around to make the piece divisible by the blocks you want to add. I can't wait to see what you do with it.

i love the idea of the snowflakes

What are you wanting to make .... a full size quilt? a wall hanging?

There is a really nice birch tree fabric with snow and a little silver bling that I would want to audition with it. It has a pattern that would play off the snow covered branches on the right as well as the reflection in the moon. Hard to tell whether the blues are the same or not. If it were, I would consider using as the border frames. I see you are from Ontario. I got mine at Len's. However it was a name brand, so you could probably get it elsewhere.



I would probably just use the centre of the panel and cut the borders off ... and save them for another project. Perhaps a runner to go with your quilt? or mug rugs? placemats? etc.

I'm thinking lap quilt, somewhere around the 60 inch size.

Well I have this panel too and want to make a queen size quilt, thinking of bordering it with black and then using a pattern called Broken Bricks around the panel and I have 4 smaller deer pieces to use in the 4 corners. Sure would like some of the creative ladies on this board to offer more ideas.

I saw a panel similar at the last retreat I attended.The gal cut the panel in equal size blocks then added sashings to make it look like you were viewing it through a window that had the 12 panes. It was stunning. She then added strip borders to make it the size she wanted.

I just saw this.It is the same principal as I was telling about cutting the panel then adding the window sashing.
http://www.quiltingboard.com/picture...o-t239961.html

Beautiful panel. What company made this. I would be very interested in purchasing one.

use some dark blue and brownish/gray fat quarters and do halfway simple HST in some fashion

That is one gorgeous panel. A lot of good suggestions made already and anything you do will just increase its beauty. Please share when finished.

The Panel i'm doing now has almost the same colors. I am putting a 10 inch ice blue border and quilting the ice blue in a light blue thread in designs that look like snowflakes. I keyed in snowflakes under clip art and found lots of them, Now I have to digitize one or two of them tomorrow. Mine is a going to be a 50-52 inch lap quilt for a little 10 year old boy. Good luck,

There was a line of fabrics called Fairy Frost(FF) a few years ago- a silvery pearly frost over soft blues. I think it was by Michael Miller. I've seen a woodland Christmas panel done with with pinwheel and 9 patch FF blocks extending it. The panel was quilted with a bit of a silver glimmer including snowflakes.

I LOVE that panel. I'm with kkdolls......what brand is it? I will be looking all over for that one. Please show us a picture when you finish.

I think some star blocks in different sizes and in various shades of blue would look gorgeous. Maybe start the darker stars in the bottom left corner and work across with the lighter colors to the top right side.

To me it calls out for log cabin blocks in blue and grey and then some kind of stars. Maybe something neutral or plain between rounds to call the eye back to the center. The back definitely needs to be flannel. This just looks like the beginning of a "cabin quilt" if that makes sense.

It would make a spectacular Attic Windows quilt attic window quilt pattern! You could remove the border, add the "window frames," and re-attach the borders, augmented with whatever you wanted to accommodate the new size.

It's a beautiful panel. I can't wait to see what you do with it!

I just finished a quilt using a panel. The pattern is call Winter Magic

http://www.northcott.net/?sid=3&layo...8&colid=559but

its perfect for a panel you might have to trim the borders off and use them some where else in quilt. Here the same pattern but in Asian prints and with an Asian panel. Hope it give you some ideas :-)

That is gorgeous! My husband would love it. Keep it simple.n borders, maybe cornerstones, done.

now "me", I am the attic window junkie . But my husband would want to see the panel as a whole.

sandy

I would also cut it up into thirds and then treat it as an attic window. I have seen many of these done and they are wonderful and yours would create such a beautiful outdoor scene.

check out a pattern called Side Lights. I used it for a panel much like your and it came out beautifully!

I think I would pull some blues and browns from the panel and make some simple blocks around the outside and the borders.

Plain borders , snowflakes or blue pinwheels. not too much to take away from beautiful panel!!! Beautiful!!!! Just what I been looking for!!

I just finished a wolf panel with borders. I used some darker pinwheel blocks in it for interest and lots of borders and made a full size quilt using small woodland flowers, leaves, and tone on tone fabrics for variety. It looks like you are looking through a forest and seeing the wolf baying at the moon. Absolutely beautiful and not a lot of work. Since your panel runs horizontally you may need extra borders or blocks at the top and bottom to get a real "quilt" size and shape. Draw some outlines on paper to make a plan.

Thanks for all the suggestions. I think I'm going to follow wesings idea and use star blocks and some log cabin blocks. I will post when I'm done.

I have seen that pattern with the deer panel, too- a nice look.
Stonehenge has beautiful blues and silver fabric out right now that would be awesome with the panel! Can't wait to see the finished product!

Here are two that I did. The deer is a lap quilt. The dogs is a wall hanging. Enjoyed doing both very much.
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If you have any fabric that will go with the colors in the panel, what about doing piano keys all around the panel, then add whatever blocks you want, on tothat, or do you think that might be just too busy?

I agree, then I would do some "thread painting" on the deer during the quilting process to make them come alive. Also maybe some thread painting on the foliage. Then quilt around the deer to make them pop a little more. I remember seeing someone doing a process like this on some birds a week or so ago in the picture section of the board and it was phenomenal!

Try googling wildlife quilts and see what others have done.

No suggestions; just wanted to say how beautiful and peaceful it is.

I would do a log cabin around it with the blues, etc in the quilt.

Have you gone to the manufacturer's website to see if they have any samples of this panel made into a quilt??? I would try to get the panel to be evenly divided length and width. I would do something with the browns and the blues in strip squares (like a trip around the world) Good Luck !!