"Star Gazers" is the name that I gave this new quilt. I had purchased the panel & coordinating fabrics & decided to make a quilt for a little one who is due in a couple of months. I cut down the panel to a workable size then added borders in a Churn Dash pattern to finish it out. I love the fabrics which is from a line by Stacey Yacula for QT Fabrics. The quilt finished at approximately 48 1/2" x 57" which is a nice size for a crib/youth bed. The little one will be able to grow into this quilt.
If you want to make a similar panel quilt just trim your panel to the size that works for you. I trimmed this one so that the white border would be the outer border allowing me to add fabric borders to create a nice size quilt. I make half square triangles that trimmed to 7 1/2" unfinished & the "bars" were cut at 4" which when sewn together gives you a 7 1/2" unfinished stip. I used the darker of the two border fabrics as the inner border and the darker half of the half square triangles faced into the quilt.
I machine quilted this quilt with an edge to edge pantograph called Lisa's Raindrops from Urban Elementz using Glide thread in the color Grotto Blue.
I will definitely use this technique on other panel baby quilts.
Happy Easter to you all.
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