Quilts that begin with the inspiration of a panel have become very popular it seems. It’s understandable with the amazing prints available.
This recent quilt is a great example of using a panel to pull colours from and making blocks and borders to grow the quilt. I used the pantograph Star-swirl to quilt it.
This fun quilt was picked up yesterday, I really enjoyed working on it during some of our greyer days!
This quilt was the second in a series of quilts made for my customer Karen’s grandchildren. The first was the Minecraft quilt that I have blogged about previously, this one is also double sided with the child’s name pieced in, how fun is that!
Using a panel for colour inspiration is a great way to start off in choosing fabrics for a quilt and as you can see blocks were chosen to grow the quilt keeping the panel as a focus.
Piecing the backing can create a challenge for a Longarm quilter, it just takes a little more time and planning in loading the quilt in order to centre the backing to the quilt top.
The pantograph Bubbles was chosen by Sam’s Grandma Karen the maker of these super fun quilts.