Cluck Cluck Sew

  I ordered this Zookeeper Prism ABC panel the second I saw it! 

 I had no plans for it, but I was hoping I would be able to cut it up and use it like I did with this Pokey Puppy Panel quilt (still one of my very favorites!).  

Without much thought I started chopping up my panel, only to realize that the letters are not all the same width…so I would need to change the design.  The blocks are all 6 1/2″ tall, but ranged from 6″ to  6 3/4″ wide….so I decided to sew 2″ borders onto the sides of each block, then go back and trim them all up to the same size so I could sew them all together easily. 

  Note:  If you are attempting to cut up your panel, cut the letters into horizontal rows first since they are all the same height, then go back and cut in between the letters.  When adding the border strips, I cut the side strips first since they were all 6 1/2″ tall, then I cut the top and bottom strips longer than the blocks and trimmed them up after sewing them on to save time. 

I trimmed all of the blocks up to 9″ wide x 9 1/2″ high, and added the 4 white blocks the same size to each corner of the quilt top. 

This quilt ends up being a perfect crib size, 42 1/2″ x 54″.   

My only regret is that I didn’t plan out fabric placement at all…so I wouldn’t have put orange next to orange or stripes next to stripes, but it’s not too noticeable.  

Funny story…two nights ago I had a nightmare that I sewed the letters together wrong and blogged about this quilt, and then because I didn’t know the alphabet I had to go back to college and retake all my classes and I was failing all of them when I woke up in a cold sweat.  So needless to say I checked and DOUBLE checked to make sure I had my letters in order before I sewed this together!  ;) 

I purchased my panel from here, (you can find lots of them if you Google it).   It’s digitally printed, but from what I’ve read it washes up great, so we shall see!   

This was a super fast sew…it’s nice to have a quick, satisfying project now and then!  

Boxed Up Quilt Pattern in Bounce. 

Thank you for the kind words and comments about my Bounce fabric!   It was really fun to design and sew with…and share with you!   I have a few more projects to share with you today that I made with it.  

Chain Reaction Pattern in Crib Size

While I was designing this box letter print fabric, I was envisioning this Chain Reaction quilt.  It makes such a cute background fabric and really gives this quilt personality!  This is my favorite quilt I made with this collection (besides one that is still in progress!).  

Easy Bake Pattern (my favorite super fast way to use a Layer Cake!)

Scrappy Reader Pillow from my book Growing Up Modern

To see all of my previous Bounce projects and the fabric see this post. 

 Have a great week!