Do you want to use your fabric scraps to create something beautiful and colorful? This simple and fun project is perfect to play with scraps and improv quarter circles! Pick your scraps and organize them by hue, that will allows you to create many different mini quilts to embellish any special space at your home.
Fabric and Notions Required
- Sewing machine
- 1/4” inch foot for sewing
- Quilting ruler
- Rotary cutter
- Cutting mat
- Iron & ironing board
- paper sheets, cut them in five 8 1/2” squares
- Fabric scraps organized by one color
- To create a mini quilt that measure 24” side, you would need five 8 1/2” squares in a solid fabric in the same hue as your scraps.
- Fabric for backing and binding, batting
- Threads for piecing and quilting
Instructions
1.- Cut your scraps into strips, you will need different lengths for those strips. you can cut them without ruler and varying the width of the strip between 3/4” to 1 3/4”.
2.- Using a 2.2 stitch lenght, start sewing your strips on the paper. Start putting the first strip in the diagonal of the paper and another strip on top (RS together) and sew them to the paper with your 1/4” foot. Press your strips toward the corner
Repeat this steps until you finish one half of the square. Then turn your block up side down and sew strips to the other half to complete the square. While you are sewing be sure that the strips that you are sewing cover the complete peace of paper. Do this with your five squares of paper.
3.- Trim your blocks and remove the paper 
4.- Paired your strip squares with your fabric squares. With both right side up, cut a 1/4 circle with your rotary cutter
5.- Mix and match, to create 2 new blocks. Sew them with your 1/4” foot.
6.- Press your blocks and trim them to 7 1/2”
7.- Use 9 of your 10 blocks to create a 9×9 mini quilt. Play on your design wall with different layouts, until you find the one that you like the most! Sew your blocks together. Baste, quilt and bind as your desired method
Enjoy your wonderful new creation!!!