Panel Quilt Top with Scrappy Pieced Border

I finished another panel quilt top. I added the pink inner border and the purple/turquoise print outer border and sewed scrappy blocks in black between the borders. 

Donating this to Wrap the World with Quilts.

Top measures 45 1/2" wide x 59 1/2" high.

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Birds, Bears, Bunnies in Hot Air Balloons Quilt (for the Fast & More Fun Blog Hop 2024)

Hello everyone and welcome to the Blog Hop! We were each given 5 quilt patterns from Villa Rosa Designs and we could make one or all 5 of the quilts, if we wanted to. I chose to make the 31 Quilt, which uses a panel. I love this sweet panel and was glad to finally get it made into a quilt! This blog hop was just the thing to get me going and I think it turned out great, don't you?

We could make one of these quilts or more~

You can purchase a set of these 5 patterns. Or visit Villa Rosa website for even more great Rose Card patterns (over 600 of them). Or you might just win a set, (scroll down below for prizes).

The panel I used is from Benartex fabrics called, Breezy Baby Sunshine Quilt Panel. 

The finished quilt measures 42" x 58"

This is a perfect quilt for a baby born in New Mexico (where I live), since Albuquerque is home to the annual International Balloon Fiesta, the largest hot air balloon festival in the world, happening every October for 9 days.

I made a label and named this quilt: Birds, Bears, Bunnies in Hot Air Balloons.

 I also backed the quilt with a hot air balloon print that is flannel, so it is soft.

Quilted in a gridded diamond using a variegated thread.

Closer look at the cute birds, bears and bunnies.

After trimming my panel, before I could add the borders, I found the panel was a wee bit too short, so I added that narrow orange border next to the gray border to bring it up to the correct size and I really like it much better as that orange pops! 

Okay, I know I get carried away with the photos, but I just love how this quilt turned out and wanted to show it in different poses, LOL!!!

Here is the schedule for the Blog Hop. Be sure to comment at each stop to be registered to win some fabulous prizes! 

Thursday, March 14
https://villarosaquilts.com/

Friday, March 15
1. Kathleen McCormick -- https://kathleenmcmusing.com/
2. Cheree H -- http://livelylatte.blogspot.com/
3. Roseanne Nelson -- https://www.homesewnbyus.com
4. Wendy Tuma -- https://www.piecefulthoughts.com/
5. C&T (Valerie) -- https://www.ctpub.com/blog/

Saturday March 16
1. Bernie Kringel -- https://needleandfoot.com/
2. Sandra Walker -- https://www.mmmquilts.com/
3. Linda -- https://www.texasquiltgal.com/
4. Debbie Huber – http://time4stitchn.blogspot.com/
5. SIY (Branyn/Jennifer) – https://siysewityourself.com/

Sunday, March 17
1. Carolyn -- https://quarterinchcapers.blogspot.com/
2. Emily (Norton House) -- https://www.nortonhousequilting.com/blogs/news
3. Gail Sheppard -- https://quiltinggail.com/
4. Susan Slaton -- http://wazoonewsbits.blogspot.com/

Monday, March 18
1. Nann Hilyard -- https://withstringsattached.blogspot.com/
2. Jaftex (Jennifer) -- https://scottfortunoff.com/
3. Jan Altomare -- https://www.cocoaquilts.com/  

4. Tricia – http://quiltwithaview.blogspot.com/

Tuesday, March 19
1. Joy --  https://shout4joy-shouting.blogspot.com/
2. Emily Leachman -- http://thedarlingdogwood.blogspot.com/
3. Vicki S -- www.knitbug2.blogspot.com
4. Rose Mikulski -- https://somethingrosemade14.blogspot.com/
5. QOVF (Lexie) -- https://www.qovf.org/

Wednesday, March 20
1. Nancy -- https://www.graceandpeacequilting.com/
2. Jocelyn -- https://happycottagequilter.blogspot.com/
3. Tracie -- https://joyfullytracie.com/
4. Daryl Perry -- https://patchouli-moon-studio.blogspot.com/ (you are here)
5. Electric Quilt (Diane) -- https://doyoueq.com/blog/

Thursday March 21st:

https://villarosaquilts.com/

Grand Prizes~ 

4 awesome grand prizes this year –

1.       Kaffe Fassett Precuts Collection

2.      $100 digital gift certificate for Hancock’s of Paducah

3.      A Big Mystery Box of Quilting Goodies

4.    Download of Electric Quilt 8 (this prize will be chosen by Electric Quilt)

Sponsor Prizes~

3 – Sponsor prizes

1 – Set of Blog Hop patterns from Villa Rosa

Info for the Blog Hop Prizes

Here’s the Important Stuff you need to know:

Everyone is eligible to win prizes. Please note that winners outside the USA will receive a digital set of the 2024 Blog Hop Rose Card pattern collection.

There are several opportunities for you to win prizes during the blog hop:

1. Individual bloggers may be hosting giveaways on their blogs for you to win. Please visit these bloggers to find out about their giveaways and how to register.
2. Villa Rosa Designs is giving away a 2024 Blog Hop Card pattern collection on each participating blog.
3. Sponsor prizes have been donated by our lovely Sponsors, above, and even from some of the bloggers, too! These prizes are divided into 2 different categories —
   • Grand Prize Boxes (of which there are 2) are filled with tons of quilting goodies including books, fabric, precuts, notions, patterns, and more.
   • Individual Prizes (each blogger will select 3 winners on their blog) which may be books, patterns, fat quarter bundles, 5″ squares, 2 1/2″ strips, 10″ squares, notions, and more.

WOW! That’s a lot of prizes!

Please note that to leave a comment on this blog to be registered for prizes, you will need to click on the comments link below. After you click the comments link, you need to leave your own comment. I do MODERATE comments, so please only leave one comment. Duplicate comments will be deleted.  Also: if you are an anonymous or no-reply (meaning you do not have your email registered), make sure that you write your first name and last initial as well as write out your email address in the comment, otherwise you will not be entered to win if I cannot get ahold of you. Thank you & good luck!

NOTE: Comments will close on March 24, so get your comments in before then please. Winners will be chosen the 25th.

I want to take a moment to thank all of our incredible sponsors, who donated all kinds of quilting goodies for you to win. Thank you Sponsors! 

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http://benartex.com

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https://foxchapelpublishing.com

https://www.ctpub.com

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Okay, now all you bunnies get to hopping! Blog Hopping that is, lol!

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Rainbows & Unicorns Panel Quilt with Frame & Twist Border

I saw this panel a while back and bought it because I knew right away I wanted to make the Frame & Twist Border for this panel, from Twister Sisters. I used scraps I had for the Twister blocks, using the colors in this panel. I even used white scraps of fabric too. I backed it with a flannel material, which is soft, but even trying to free motion quilt this on my Supreme Slider, it was not wanting to freely move! So I think a walking foot and straight line quilting is the only way to quilt with a flannel for the backing from now on. But even with the struggle I had, I LOVE how this quilt turned out!!!

This measures 38.25" wide x 55.5" high.

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Garden Girl One Block Wonder Quilt

I made the top to this One Block Wonder (OBW) quilt several years ago. I wanted to try out using a panel as I love how the OBW quilts look done in a panel and using the panel too in the quilt. I struggled with placement of the hexagon blocks as to where to put them so they looked the best. Actually they aren't really blocks yet when you are playing around with the design of the quilt, they are half hexagons and then you sew them into vertical rows of half hexagons (easier to sew the top this way), so sometimes you have to cut off the block points to sew to the panel and the exterior top and bottom points get cut off too. I don't like cutting the points off! I am afraid I might cut too much or that they will look odd, but that is how they are done. Some could get appliquéd over the panel, but you have to plan and make sure things will fit correctly. I am glad this was a small panel to try my first attempt at this on. 

I did buy another panel (again years ago) that is a larger size panel, and I struggled even more with that one! I didn't plan or figure out how the sides and top and bottom would fit perfectly around the panel and well it didn't! I need to quilt that quilt, but when I appliquéd some of the blocks over the panel areas, it didn't fit at all and you could see the fabric underneath and I just gave up trying to get it right as it was too short! Not sure how I will hide those awful mistakes later after I quilt it, but it is sitting waiting to get quilted (for months now). I really wanted to fall in love with making panels like this, but I need way more practice and learning how to make sure things will fit together first and I am not sure I want to keep buying 7 panels in order to finally get one to work how I like it to work. 7 panels to buy for one quilt is expensive! And if I wanted a larger quilt, I would need to buy even more in multiples of 6 (you need 6 panels to make the hexagons, the 7th panel is to add to the quilt center if you want to add the panel). I think making OBW from just yardage of fabric is easier as you cut and sew and don't need to add a panel, but I love the panels and how they look! 

I have asked for help in the OBW Facebook groups years ago and while I sort of understood what they were saying, I still couldn't get it to work out. No one gave me a formula or said you must cut your triangles a certain size in order to fit your panel size and that is what stumped me! I didn't want a border to be added around the panel in order for the hexagons to fit it. I liked the blended look and a border would pop the panel out and be more obvious. So I think my OBW quilts are over and done with! I think making the 4-Patch Posey style would be easier and cheaper as you are cutting 4 squares for each block instead of 6 triangles that become hexagons and squares would be easier to layout to fit the panel and easier to figure how large to make the 4-patch blocks too. So I may try one to see. 4PP's don't have the same kaleidoscope look since they are square, but much easier to cut and sew.

Okay, let's get back to this quilt. I put it together the best I could with what I had and added a border to make it large enough to donate to Project Linus, which I did. It was a practice quilt for me and so I hope some little girl will receive and love it.

Can you see the panel?

This is the panel I started with.

I love sewing the hexagons to form a kaleidoscope look. You never know how they will look and you can turn the triangles 3 times to see which block looks best before you start to sew them.

Here on the left you can see the block sewn and the right is the panel where those flowers were cut from. Placing the blocks near the panel looks as though the flowers danced out of the panel alongside it.

I will try this technique using 4-patch blocks next time and see how I like it that way. Still need to quilt my larger OBW that has been around for years and years now. 

This is how I felt working on the OBW quilts!!!!

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Tropical Flowers Lap Quilt

My daughter loves tropical flowers (so do I!), so when I saw this panel, I asked her if she would like me to make her a lap quilt using the panel. She said yes she would like a lap quilt (I have to ask first, because sometimes she doesn't like what I make for her and I end up getting it back)! I thought of how I would cut apart the flower blocks and what I would do to create the top using the blocks. I wasn't sure what I wanted to do. The panel had 16 flowers with black separating each flower. That black didn't look good and was too harsh looking. But since I thought I would cut apart the flower blocks, I wasn't concerned with the black because in the end it wouldn't show. Well since nothing really came to me as to how to create this quilt and the size of it was about right as it was once a border was added, I decided to fuse the orange/yellow batik fabric over the black that was in between the flowers and blanket stitch the new sashing in place. It looked so much better with the orange/yellow batik fabric as it really picked up those colors in the flowers. Then I added turquoise batik border and had a long arm quilter quilt the quilt in a Plumeria pantograph. I really like how this turned out and so does my daughter. (Thank goodness)!!!

Ah, Plumeria flowers (known as Frangipani in some places of the world); I can almost smell their sweet scent. I loved seeing the trees covered in these beautiful flowers when I was in Hawaii years ago. I love the pink flowers as well as the yellow flowers.

Hibiscus flowers are so pretty too.

I think this is and orchid of some kind. 

Bird of Paradise. I remember we had these growing in our yard when I lived in California.

The quilting pattern is called Plumeria and was a perfect choice for this quilt.

Plumeria quilting design.

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