Five Shadows » Panels http://schutt.net/sharon Sew. Stitch. Smile. Thu, 16 Nov 2023 00:37:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Playing with Panels http://schutt.net/sharon/2010/12/playing-with-panels/ http://schutt.net/sharon/2010/12/playing-with-panels/#comments Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:15:28 +0000 Sharon http://schutt.net/sharon/?p=732 Panels. Some quilters love them. Some quilters avoid them with a passion! I suppose they do come in handy for whipping up a charity quilt, or to make a quick baby quilt. I was recently challenged to come up with a variety of designs for a pile of panels. So take a look for yourself and let me know what you think. Do you like panels? Do you ever use them for a quick gift? Do any of these inspire you to use them, if they have been something you have avoided? I’m just wondering and would love your feedback. These are all now hanging in a quilt shop, so the photos are not the best. I just didn’t think to take pictures of them while I still had them at home!

Strip piecing around the panel with four patches in the corners.

Noah’s Ark, using coordinating fabrics around the panel and then pieced diamonds top and bottom.

Noah’s Ark, pillow panel. Cut into fourths, and checker board piecing separating the panels, coordinating fabric for the borders, with 4-patch in a 4-patch in the corners.

Not easy to see this one, but star blocks in the corners from coordinating fabrics. Jungle panel.

Christmas puns! Pillow panels say: Here comes Santa Paws, Merry Beary Christmas, Baaaa Humbug!, Kitty Klaus, Up on a Woof Top, and I Herd the Bells on Christmas Day. I cut the pillow apart and pieced in sashing with corner stone 9-patches.

This sweet bear panel is a soft flannel and makes a nice baby quilt. I added the blue border and then the pieced stars in the corners and used a coordinating print for the outer border.

Alphabet panel. I cut the bottom row into four squares and placed them in the corners with a coordinating print for the border. Simple as it gets!

There are a few more, but tis all for now.  Hope you enjoyed the show and tell!

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