Using a Panel to make a quilt - how do you decide on a pattern?
12-29-2011, 03:54 PM
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Thanks so much for asking this question. I have been stumped for days about this. I have a couple of Beatrix Potter panels to make up a cot quilt - and I am stumped too. I thought using a panel would be so "fast", but it's what to add around it all that has me stumped. Then there is the sourcing of getting the fabric to do so. I went a bit made thinking this would be a quick way to sew quilts for the grandkids, so I bought a lot of panels..........thus I am following this thread very keenly.
Question for DogHouseMom If you have at least 4 of the same panel you can "fracture" it.
Do you mean if you have 4 panels?? I would only have one panel. However, I think I understand about fracturing it - cutting out sections to use as blocks????
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Anna Australia
Question for DogHouseMom If you have at least 4 of the same panel you can "fracture" it.
Do you mean if you have 4 panels?? I would only have one panel. However, I think I understand about fracturing it - cutting out sections to use as blocks????
Regards,
Anna Australia
12-29-2011, 04:00 PM
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I took Dunster's link to AllPeopleQuilt, and then typed in Panels in the search bar and this menu of quilt patterns made from panels came up
http://www.allpeoplequilt.com/search...&cof=FORID%3A9
Might be something here to help me too.
Regards,
Anna Australia
http://www.allpeoplequilt.com/search...&cof=FORID%3A9
Might be something here to help me too.
Regards,
Anna Australia
12-29-2011, 05:16 PM
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here's something i did when a small quilting group had a block swap and we were all to use all the blocks... i like the way they came together and blend disparate types of blocks...and it meant that you get 2 blocks from each 1 you have, so spreading them out is easier... it will tie together even better after quilting...
this would work for a panel as well... and if there are 5 of something? remember the outside corners and center of a 9 patch use 5 squares... put some alternate plain blocks in the other spaces and you're good....then just reverse the process if there are only 4....
this would work for a panel as well... and if there are 5 of something? remember the outside corners and center of a 9 patch use 5 squares... put some alternate plain blocks in the other spaces and you're good....then just reverse the process if there are only 4....
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12-29-2011, 07:35 PM
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I have a ton of panels that I have bought over the years and I am having a hard time figuring out how to turn them into quilts. I am so used to using a pattern that I find it hard to figure out what to do with the panel. Often times the panels have different size squares on them and sometimes they come in odd numbers. For example I may have a panel that has three or five images and I struggle with the layout of an odd number of squares etc. I would really rather "cut" the panel out instead of leaving it whole so do you have any suggestions or websites you use? Thank you in advance for your replies.
12-30-2011, 06:10 AM
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Funny you should ask. I just quilted a panel for the first time. I spent the entire time trying to quilt it to make it "look" like it was pieced together and not a whole panel. It looks cute on the back of my couch, but if I ever purchase another panel, I will cut it apart and add my own sashing and borders.
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