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    Carolyn23's Avatar Carolyn23 is offline Senior Member
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    I can't, for the life of me, figure this out. I'm making a couple of quilts for my granddaughters which use panels that measure 44x24. Does anyone have a pattern that can make these panels into a pretty quilt? I'd like the size to be somewhere between a lap and a twin quilt. I'm horrible at calculating so I need a pattern that will tell me exactly what to do. The panels must stay intact and there are about five coordinating fabrics that i can use for the top. Thanks for any help you can give me.

    This is the panel I'm using.

    http://www.fabric.com/Webdata/Produc...ium_EQ-713.jpg

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    What a darling panel! I am making it my mission to figure out ways to adorn panels and make them into cute quilts!

    I have no pattern, but here's a couple of ideas, off the top of my head. You could do strips of the colors and apply multiple borders using all the colors, until it is the size you want it to be.

    You could take the 5 colors and make squares and do a D9P border around it. This would take some calculations, and I could maybe figure it out if I knew the exact size of the panel.

    You could put one border around the panel, then do a piano key border using all of the colors of your fabrics sewed together as a wide 4-5" border, then another regular border.

    You could do half square triangles or pinwheels as blocks to build a border around it.

    All of this requires some math to figure out how big of pieces to start with to make it end up exactly fit together. Without the size of the panel, it wouldn't be possible to calculate how big to make every block. The easiest to do, without a lot of difficult math calculation is the multiple borders.

    Did you see the post about rulers that someone put on the forum yesterday? They give the exact way to measure squares to end up with a certain size block. I want to order the rulers just so I don't have to do the math. They look like you could create many things without overtaxing the brain.

    Duh, I just saw that you DID post how big the panel is, let me work on it and try to help. How big do you want it to end up? How are you going to quilt them?
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    I figured something out for you. Can I PM you to tell you how you could get it to be 44" wide by 64" long? It would be adding borders and patches of borders to make it bigger. I'm trying to figure out how to make a D9P patch end up 4" square, haven't gotten that one done yet. Having to renew my 5th grade lessons in fractions, and that teacher was no good at teaching math, I've been bad at it ever since.

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    I've made many panel quilts. They're so fun and always turn out well. When I use a flannel panel I make a "rag quilt" border that goes around it and used batting in the panel part. I've always just sorta figured it out as I went, and it's always worked.

    Please post pics when you finish. I would love to see what you do with these adorable panels!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jean Sewing Machine View Post
    I figured something out for you. Can I PM you to tell you how you could get it to be 44" wide by 64" long? It would be adding borders and patches of borders to make it bigger. I'm trying to figure out how to make a D9P patch end up 4" square, haven't gotten that one done yet. Having to renew my 5th grade lessons in fractions, and that teacher was no good at teaching math, I've been bad at it ever since.
    Thank you so much, Jean. Please PM me. Since I've never PMed with anyone, please let me know if there's something I need to do first. Do I need to "friend" you?

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    No, we can just be forum mates! We can PM anyone, and it will show up on the "notifications" line right at the top of the forum page. My problem is that I designed this in Excell and I can't figure out how to attach it to these pages, I may have to email it to you.

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    Panel Quilt-img_5676.jpg[ATTACH=CONFIG]21298[[ATTACH=CONFIGOne way I've found to avoid lots of math and mistakes is to make the quilt fit the border instead of the border to fit the quilt. I do it my making the borders larger than the quilt. Then I take the difference in measurements between the quilt and the pieced border. I make a regular border plus 1/2" for seams the length of the difference I got when I subtracted the quilt size from the size of the pieced borders. This is a quilt I'm working on. The second border of flying geese were made before the first little green border. That little green border filled in the difference between the quilt and the flying geese border. I hope that's clear.

    Jeez Louise! My borders look wavy in the pic. It's just because I've got pins holding it in place. After just posting that tutorial on wavy borders I better not be showing you a quilt with waves. I haven't even washed out all the markings for the quilting. Yikes! Trust me! It's gonna be super duper when I'm finished! Hahaha!
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    Carolyn, that panel is so adorable! I haven't seen that one before. Whatever you do with it will be great, I'm sure.

    Rebecca, I love your sailboat quilt! That is too cute.

    Jean, I'm sending all my quilty math problems to you. You rock.
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    Personally I would make a single small border 2 1/2" cut, which leave a 2' inch border once it is attached, around the quilt, then using the colors in the quilt, make strips that would be going the same direction of the stripes in the panel. Aslo cutting these at 2 1/2" and make them the length you want to get the width you need, then there really is no math involved. Just an idea though.
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    Quote Originally Posted by auntiemern View Post
    Personally I would make a single small border 2 1/2" cut, which leave a 2' inch border once it is attached, around the quilt, then using the colors in the quilt, make strips that would be going the same direction of the stripes in the panel. Aslo cutting these at 2 1/2" and make them the length you want to get the width you need, then there really is no math involved. Just an idea though.
    Marilyn, we share a brain! That's what I would do also!

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