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Ready-to-quilt panels are a popular way to give you the beautiful look of a pieced quilt top without actually doing any piecing. What?!?! We can hear the shouts of dismay from dedicated quilters. “That’s not quilting!” Hold on now. As a quilter, you know practice makes perfect - especially when it comes to free motion quilting. These gorgeous new panels are pre-printed with some of the most popular free motion stitching patterns to use as practice guide lines. Read on to find out more, as well as to enter to win one of three Panels we’re giving away, courtesy of Janome America and PatternJam.
The Ready-to-Quilt Training Panels are made up of 12 traditional quilt blocks in vibrant colors. This type of pre-printed quilt top is sometimes called a “cheater panel,” but cheater panels don’t come with the stitch guidelines that this beautiful panel does.
The first column is pre-printed with solid stitching lines to follow as you begin to practice your skills. Graduate to the second column, which features dashed lines. For the last column, the training wheels come off! There are no guide lines on these four blocks so you can put your new expertise to work with full and open creativity. The panel also has a beautiful scroll pattern border along all four sides.
The pre-packaged panels are exclusively available at participating Janome America dealers. Contact your local dealer or check out the Janome America website to locate a dealer near you.
We used the Janome Skyline S7 for our practice panels, which performed wonderfully. You could also work on a long arm.
Janome America worked with the ready-to-quilt experts at PatterJam to create these practice panels, incorporating not only a gorgeous design but also making sure all the included stitch patterns were spot-on for learning and improving your free motion quilting skill set.
The art of free motion work is definitely something that requires practice. But doing that practice on just a random piece of fabric seems like a lot of work for something that really has no use once you’re done.
On the other hand, it can seem daunting to spend hours and hours piecing a quilt top and then have to worry about using this hard-earned work as a practice surface.
These Training Panels are the best of both worlds. You get a 54” x 68” whole cloth quilt top that gives you an easy way to practice and learn, but it also has the potential to turn into a lovely, colorful quilt when done.
This type of panel can also be a great solution when you need to create a quilt very quickly, perhaps as a gift to mark a special occasion. Since there’s no time spent piecing, you simply layer, quilt, and bind. The finished panel is also completely machine washable since there are no fragile top seams that can be damaged.
If you’re a teacher, this is a great way to give your students confidence. Plus, they can be learning piecing and free motion quilting on parallel paths. By the time their traditionally-pieced quilt top is done, they will have had enough practice on the training panels to jump right in and work on their own quilt tops.
The listed retail price is $64.99, and your Janome dealer may have additional discounts or special packages. This is such an economical option when you consider how much you are saving in both time and money by skipping the piecing of the quilt top.
The pre-packaged panels are exclusively available at participating Janome America dealers. Contact your local dealer or check out the Janome America website to locate a dealer near you.
Basic steps for stitching practice
Layer the Panel with batting and a backing panel as you would do with any quilt project, then baste together the layers (we pin basted our test panel).
We used Aurifil 50wt thread in a variety of colors. Since it’s virtually lint-free, it was perfect to use while following along the lines.
The colors within each block are rich and beautiful. You can change thread colors as you move from block to block or even within a block. Having so many different stitch patterns from which to choose was a great benefit.
The stitch lines are printed directly on the fabric, so there’s no danger of them rubbing off as you work. This also means if you do stray off the solid or dashed lines, they will remain slightly visible, but unless you stray wildly from the path, it isn’t really an issue you’ll notice much once everything is completed.
As with many of our quilting projects, we found it helpful to use a pair of quilting gloves as “traction” to help keep our movements even as we traced along the guide lines.
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