Simple Cheater Quilt
 

At first I hesitated to post this picture but then I realized how many people are new to quilting and may not have the time for a fancy project. I had planned to piece this but when the fabric arrived in the mail, I found the print to be much larger than I anticipated and if I pieced it, it would be too big for this little baby so I had it machine quilted and I added the binding.

Looks great.

Cheater quilts are wonderful if you need a quilt in a hurry, especially for children. It is the LOVE that goes into a quilt that matters.

nicely done

I love the panel and the beautiful quilt you made from it. Great job!

It's beautiful!

It's really cute. They have that panel hanging at my LQS and I've always liked it

Very nice - I am sure the baby will grow up and love it!

I love this artist, I forget her name this moment. I bought six of these panels when they first came out and still have two just waiting for babies.

This is a great way to do some practicing if you are a beginning quilter.

peace

That's a wonderful panel! you did a great job with it.

I love your Panel quilt! There are so many great panels available these days that spark creativity. I wish people would get passed that negative term so many tend to use concerning panel quilts. I've spent 100 hours and hundreds of dollars making a fabulous quilt that started with a panel-- there wasn't a single moment of ( cheating) involved.

That is a cute panel and you did a nice job of finishing it.

Nothing cheating about using a panel! (let' face it---sometimes using a panel can be a lot of work!) I really like this panel and have it-debating whether to use for youngest g-son as a "grandma's house quilt" or hold in hopes DD has pregnancy news for us in next 6 months.

I've called them efficiency quilts for ages for that very reason. :) Really dislike calling any work I might do as "cheating". :rolleyes: :(

Yes Jan, I think that way too. After all even with a panel as this which is so pretty, it still has to be put together as any quilt. :)

It is a very nice quilt. Cheater cloth is OK.

Really nice quilt from an especially nice panel. Why not use them whole? They offer a means of adding lots of color and interest to a quilt that would take a very long time to duplicate if you appliqued them. Love that panel.

I agree with Lady Elisabeth. It's the love that makes it special.

love those blocks, great cheater quilt

Very nice quilt. You are right, it is always nice for new quilters to have a beginning project like yours.

I also made that panel up into a baby quilt for a friend as I just loved it and thought it was darling. Our son came to visit with the 3 youngest grandsons (ages 5, 7&8) and they had a ball with the quilt. They spent several hours finding all the items starting with the letters in each block. It's not a cheater quilt....it's an adventure quilt. It's wonderful.

What a lovely panel. Very nicely done.

very cute!!!

Love it! You're not the only one who does that...I've done it several times.

I think this is a great way to make a baby quilt. AND you got it done ! I have 2 in the works that I have not gotten finished.

Cute panel! Nice work!

Adorable panel and what you did looks good. BrendaK

Oh I was just looking at this panel or at least one very similar to it. Love it. Hey, everything doesn't have to be fully pieced to be a quilt. Great job.

Very quick and attractive project

The panel is "Hungry Animal Alphabet" by J. Wecker Frisch for Quilting Treasures. I am using this panel and wanted to embroider the names of all the items in each panel on the quilt to make it an 'I Spy' but I don't have time. Hopefully parents will point out everything to the baby.

Cheater quilts are so handy and make quick quilts and yours is adorable.

I have made cheater quilts in the past. Nothing wrong with that. Thanks for posting.

super cute... and like Jan said, it's a nice efficiency quilt. : )

I would have a hard time cutting this panel up. All quilts don't have to be hundreds of small pieces. Looks great!

You did a great job!

I bought five or six of these panels and still have a couple. Here is what I did on one of them. I, too, love the artist's illustrations!
I cut up the panel squares and used them like the covers of a book. This view is of the inside. Each "book" closed with either a piece of Velcro, a large snap, a button or a shoestring tie, shortened so as to not create a hazard.
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Very clever of you to make a book of the blocks.

Nice panel quilt.

Love that panel.

I bought it a few years ago, chopped it up and made it into a cloth book for my granddaughter. She has many hours of fun looking at the pictures.....so do I.