"The Ole' Blue Tractor" finished

I finished this very simple quilt that I made with the blue tractor panel you can purchase here if you so desire.

On the top and bottom of the panel, I put a little strip and then made a gingham look by alternating dark/medium and medium/light squares as shown. For those I used 2.5” strips and then cut across. They went together quickly.


For the outer design, I just found various farm related fabrics in my stash and cut off strips that were about 5.5”x11” or 11.5” and sewed them together and put them on the sides. The top and bottom pieces were thicker - about 7.5” x about 11” to give more height to the quilt. I was aiming for a twin bed in the USA as this is for a special girl who once came to our house and saw this panel. She loved it.

I used the inner green fabric - which is grass which naturally, I was saving for something special.

I really need to get over this idea of saving the nice fabric. I have SO. Much. NICE. fabric and that mentality has got to stop!

So, I decided to begin to break that hoarding mentality of saving all the nice stuff by even making this quilt. I love this blue tractor panel as well, but wasn’t getting to it.

 
 

So, why not just make it up? Why not indeed!

No, it’s not really for a Christmas present - but rather, I’m just going to send it to her out of the blue. She shouldn’t be expecting it since I’ve not mentioned it to anyone except you all here and my husband. I don’t think for a second she ever reads my blog. I doubt she knows it exists.

She’s a teenager.

And since panels are ever so different - I’m not writing this up as a pattern, but I will share with you my diagram.

I did trim the original panel to 42.5” and that is what was critical for the gingham look above and below the panel.

The fabrics I used around the outside were just things that were at least a little bit farm related or farmer’s market type related.

I also threw in running horses since they used to live in Kyrgyszstan where horses are common - in herds.

I did just quilt it with loops as I don’t think she cares even a bit about the quilting itself - but rather, it was the panel she loved.




 
 
 
 

Here is the layout: This one ends up about 70”x91”.

The panel is still available at our site here. It’s really fun if you are into tractors.

You certainly could do this idea with other quilts that are laid out horizontally.

I hope Naomi loves it!

Thanks so much for coming along with me on this journey!

Have a great day wherever you are reading this!

Becky PetersenComment