This month is all about Mini Quilts!! I have to say, that I love a good mini quilt and was super excited about this challenge.
My first thought, of course, was what kind of design should I go for. As I was looking through my fabrics, I noticed that I had a lot of fabric left over from my May project, which I was totally in love with. The Island Batik Prisms fabric collection for Designer Claudia Porter has to be one of my current favorites!!!
Not only that, but I had participated in a Prisms Blog Hop for Designer Claudia Porter, and had an extra block left over from that, so that got me to thinking, cause I hate to waste a quilt block!!!
I love pineapple blocks, and the one above was made using the Pineapple Block Tool by Gyleen Fitzgerald. You can read more about that in this post.
I also have this book that I have used multiple times to make some tiny paper pieced pineapple blocks.
The piecing went really well on my Janome sewing machine and using Aurifil Thread and Schmetz needles!!
I ended up with making four of them to help accentuate the larger pineapple block.
Next up, I decided to incorporate some more of the luscious Prisms line into this piece by creating piano key sections to join everything all together. I love how it came out!!
Next up was choosing the backing. I chose this fabric for the backing! It is Dandelion-Wisteria from the Island Batik Blenders.
I used my Sullivan’s Basting spray to sandwich the mini quilt together, along with my Hobbs batting.
I quilted this on my Handi Quilter Amara ST. And of course I made a video to go along with it, so that you can see how I went about doing the quilting!!!
If you would like to see how this was quilted, please click on the youtube link below!!
I decided to bind this with solid black, as I felt it would bring the entire piece together. I used my new binding eaze ironing mat, along with my Oliso Iron, to make the binding and it worked great. I was able to purchase this from Missouri Star Quilt Company. If you like to shop there, please feel to use my link to get 20% off your order of $50 or more.
And here is the finished piece.
I hope that you have enjoyed this mini as much as I have. I already have it displayed in my hallway and it is just so bright and cheery.
Thank you to the companies that provided the items to make this quilt: Island Batik, Aurifil Thread, Hobbs Batting, Oliso Irons and Schmetz needles.
Happy Quilting!!!
Love the COLORFUL and CHEERFUL nature of this mini! Thanks for sharing your process. As always, your free motion quilting is the best! 💙🤩💙
I love it! It’s so cute and colorful! Also, I was just looking at that binding eaze tool this morning and wondering how it worked. Thanks for the recommendation. Have a great day!
That’s really looks nice Jane. How big is this whole piece?
It’s about 20” square.
I love pineapple blocks but have never made one…yet!! I love your little quilt, Jane, and I loved watching you quilt it on your sit-down Amari. I would love to know what sort of camera set up you have. Great quilt, great fabric, great quilting!
I’ve got a basic tripod and my phone. Lol.
Love this…colors and size and quilting!