I think it’s official. This is going to be my summer of the quilt panel! I usually don’t like panels, but this year I seem to have purchased quite a few of them.

This is the panel from “Surf’s Up” designed by Julie Dobson Miner for Northcott. I bought it as a package with 4 fat quarters from the same line.

I thought for a long time about how to make a quilt using the 4 fat quarters but I just couldn’t figure out how to use them. So one of the light fat quarters turned into a shirt for a young friend’s boy doll. It was really cute, with a sand castle on the front of the shirt. I wish I had a photo of it but the doll shirt has already gone off as a part of a birthday present.

The other fat quarters in the set will probably become face masks.

The plan is to cut up the panel. The little blocks will make a sweet little summer quilt.