![]() ![]() The question is: how do you use those blocks in a quilt, especially if they end up being different sizes? Here are some suggestions. Many panels come with smaller blocks – off to the side, or on the top and bottom. All borders relate to the center in color, style, or theme. It starts in the middle and builds out from there. Cut it up Deux Ex Machine cuts up panels and uses it as the border. ![]() This quilt uses an offset large scale borderħ. Off-center the panel using elaborate borders with fabric, blocks, or applique along the side The top border and the bottom border don’t have to be the same. The Awry pattern uses this idea. Off-Center the Panel Using Plain BordersĤ. For example, here are several by Timeless Treasures and Hoffman.Ĭall of the Wild has two plain borders but the bottom border is Bear Paw Blocks.ģ. If not, start looking at border print or striped fabric to see if it can be used with a panel that you really like. If your LQS carries a particular panel, there might be a border print that goes with it. Center the panel using elaborate borders with fabric, wide borders, or blocks fitting the theme. The Grand Central Pattern includes a bonus pattern, Baby GrandĢ. The Autumn Harvest quilt below was made with a simple large border. It helps when the manufacturer has a large border print that goes with the panel. Just add borders to the tops and sides and you are done! You could add more than one border if you like, or piece a border with some simple like a four-patch. You may need to trim the panel to the proper size if it is too large or add a coping strip to all four sides if the panel is too small. Be aware that fabric panels may come off the bolt skewed or not quite the size required by the pattern. Here’s a tip: Even though that panel is long out of print, you can still use the pattern to create your own panel quilt. Here are 21 ideas for creating a work of art using a preprinted quilt panel, large-scale fabric, or border print. It all depends on the panel, the borders, and your own creativity. They can be quite elaborate too, featuring not only the panel but related blocks and borders. This sweet 34½ x 34½ wall quilt features wool appliqued bunnies that have ears that can be re-arranged, then fused and appliqued in place with black thread and a blanket stitch. Preprinted quilt panels can make quick and easy quilts, perfect for that last-minute baby quilt. Use with bags, clothing, placemat pillow, etc. Use small blocks as an alternate block or in a nine-patch or four-patch small quilt. Quilts with related smaller blocks or blocks of different sizes Cut the panel so it fits a related opening or other design Horizontal panels with thin borders on both sides Fracture the quilt – both horizontal and vertical Off-center the panel using elaborate borders with fabric, blocks, or applique along the side ![]() Quilt Panels can make clever quilts – here is a tutorial with lots of suggestions and ideas.How to know you are living in the future.Organize Your Quilting and Sewing Space.Definition of Quilting Terms and Acronyms Expand.Choosing Quilt Fabric – Quality Makes a Difference.Choosing the Right Sewing Machine Needle.Choosing the Right Thread for your project Expand.Quilt Tips, Tutorials and How To’s Expand.Using Bubble Jet Set to treat fabric for photos.Photos on Fabric – Ideas, Projects, and Supplies Expand.Choosing a Border for Your Quilt Expand.Small Quilt Patterns and Table Runners Expand.Quilt Samples from Classes and Lectures.Kris Driessen, Quilt Designer, and Teacher Expand.Great interaction! It is easier for me to reply directly to everyone using this format. I like the fact that sometimes you are responding to each other. I enjoy responding to all of the comments directly in the comment section. The fabric used in this table runner is called Best of Day by One Sister Designs. As soon as I can come up for air, and finish my projects for Henry Glass Fabrics this month, I'll get this pattern together. I have been receiving a lot of requests for this pattern. Maybe I can stand it for half-hour stretches before I have to come down and warm up in the cabin. Yesterday I checked on the temperature in the garage where my long-arm lives, and it was 42 degrees. It is getting out of the 30's today, so maybe I can get this little cutie on my long-arm and start quilting. You can bet your bottom dollar I will NOT be putting the turkey platter on it next Thanksgiving! Or the mashed potatoes, or any kind of food that may leak, or drip. The size of the table runner is 20" x 42". The tutorial for the ribbon border is located HERE in my Patchwork Math segment on The Quilt ![]()
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