Hi,

I totally agree and have been so disappointed with some of the panels i bought over the years, and they look so great that you just can’t help yourself and buy some. But i am glad i am not the only one who is sick of this, they are the professional manufactures with heaps of staff with the expertise to get it right i would have thought.

Jill
Australia

I'm working with 2 panels now that I got from JoAnns. They are flannel and chenille put together in squares with fuzzy butterflies appliqued on it. It is so pretty but put together poorly. You cannot straighten it out so everything is wavey. I'm stitching in the ditch and hope the puckers and waves aren't too noticable. My coworker is having twin girls so these will be a gift. I spent too much to chuck them.

Timing of this post is interesting.

I just emailed a fabric manufacturer this week. They make a large panel, obviously intended for very small children, but the 3 separate pictures on the panel are so large that it is almost impossible to make a BABY quilt out of it. The manufacturer's free pattern is a TWIN size. Who wants to make a twin size quilt for a baby?? Maybe later, but not when the baby is born!

I emailed the manufacturer asking if they had any suggestions for using their panel to make a smaller sized crib quilt. That was several days ago. No response yet...

BethMI

Anna, I hear you, and I agree!

Lorchen

I am just sounding off because I am tried of the way fabric panels and novelty prints are being designed. There is so much waste in them that I am to the point I am going to stop buying them unless there is a REALLY GOOD SALE associated with them.

I just bought a cute fabric called DIVA'S IN TRAINING. ( this is not the only fabric this occurs with, just my latest example) Cute little girls playing dress up..Something that calls for fussy cutting.

None of the motifs were of similar sizes. They were 5x5 to 6x6 making it hard to fussy cut them so you get the same size blocks.

The motifs were too close together. You can not get a balanced motif so you had a decent amount of background around the motif so you could have 1/4- to 1/2 inch around the motif to square it up and look centered in the block. Spacing the motifs about an inch further apart would just make the fabric usage easier on the quilter.

The motifs ran off the fabric ... YOU HAD ONE HALF GIRLS ON THE EDGES ON BOTH SIDES... over 6 to 8 inches of the fabric wasted. They could of had the background poke-a-dots at the edges of the fabric so it would be useable somewhere if not this quilt then in another. OR have the print more centered so you did not get chopped motifs.



To me this is just shoddy design ... and a ploy to get me to buy more fabric... sorrrrry but I will just buy different fabric in the future and not cutesy fabric until it is on SALE!



I KNOW I CAN BE CRABBY AND GET BUGGED BY THE LITTLEST THINGS!!