Playful Panel Quilts: Surprising Settings, Stunning Results

Transform your treasured quilt panels into masterpieces with creative techniques!

Explore the possibilities of creating small freeform quilts using a montage technique that will help you unleash your artistic flair. Using coordinating blocks like barns and books, you’ll discover how to integrate panels into traditional quilt settings like Log Cabin and Irish Chain quilts and make them shine in row-by-row quilts. With step-by-step instructions and practical exercises, you’ll learn the concepts and techniques to bring your panel quilt designs to life. From graphing personalized quilt blocks to drawing paper-pieced patterns, you’ll have all the tools to create a truly unique masterpiece.

• Learn how to create a montage with panels and identify styles that work with repeated block settings like the Irish Chain or Storm at Sea
• Gain practical skills through exercises by piecing together and assembling art quilts from a pre-determined grid to create a unique panel quilt
• Row by row, make panels the key feature of your new quilt masterpiece by finding your theme and drafting coordinating blocks

Cyndi McChesney has been quilting for over 40 years. She has enjoyed a wide-ranging, fulfilling career in the quilting industry as an author, quilt shop owner, custom quilt maker, and instructor throughout the US and Canada at national shows, guilds, and quilt shops. She lives in New Kent, Virginia. cedarridgequilting.com.