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Friday, August 29, 2025

Baptist fan panto - step by step guide.

There is no need to buy a baptist fan panto - iQ lets you create your own, customising it to suit your needs. 

Here are the step by step instructions.

Start at the main menu.

Design/Sew Quilt.

Start new. Answer the pop up questions appropriately to suit you.

Block Pattern. This may seem to be the wrong choice, but you are designing your own pattern now before saving it to use as a panto.

Enter block manually. Since this is design work, the 10" by 10" block will be good. Continue. Finished.


Select the Computer Art Patterns catalog.

Select Baptist Fan, Continue.


Now look at the choices. You are creating a panto. Look at the number of Arcs - you can change that to any number you want. Consider - do you want lots of arcs closely spaced, or fewer arcs so you can make the rows smaller in height? Think about the quilt you'll be working on. I changed from 10 to 5 arcs by touching the minus sign - or you could enter the number using the key pad. Finished.






iQ has put your pattern in the block but at the 100% size you just created. Mine was way too big so I scaled it down. If you want to save this pattern at the scaled down size, touch Update to reset the scale to 100%. Finished.



You now want to save the pattern, so look for save. It's not on this screen so touch Finished.

 Save Quilt/Pattern.

Save A Pattern From The Quilt.

Touch the pattern, as instructed. Continue.

Give your pattern a name then save it to the catalog of your choice. I created a new one named Baptist Fan. I'll probably save more versions with different numbers of arcs and at a different size for future use.





Now you can use this saved pattern to create a baptist fan panto on your quilt. 

Select pantograph.


Enter the dimensions of the quilt.




Select your Baptist fan for both the odd and even rows.



Here's how iQ will initially set it up.


I closed the gap and altered the row height.





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