![]() For those of us who travel, it can sometimes be hard to quickly identify your suitcase in the crowd. There is no doubt I got the better end of that swap!!!Ģ) Luggage Tags. Plus she sent me a box of ginger cookies. Not only is this hand quilted, the yellowish squares with the blue quilting are hand dyed with botanicals from her own yard. The most wonderful from NC said she would swap and sent me the gorgeous mini mini quilt on the left. I posted a quilt, just like the one on the right, on Instagram and asked if anyone wanted to swap with me. This is really fun and can feel like Christmas any time of year. I will talk about techniques in the next issue.ġ) A Mini Mini Quilt Swap. I asked Reddit, Facebook, and Instagram what people do with the micro mini quilts that they make. So if you think one person can’t make a difference, just think about and see the giant impact she made with mini mini quilt trend. While this book isn’t about tiny blocks as finished quilts it has a lot of great tips and any of the individual blocks can be used to make a micro mini quilt. Last year also saw the publishing of a great book entitled “Teeny Tiny Quilts” by Donna Lynn Thomas ( ). Last year Night Quilter started a 100 days of sew smaller project and recently released her patterns ( ). Then in July of 2016 Make Modern magazine interviewed and made a mini mini quilt competition (issue 11). By mid September, Night Quilter and other bloggers started spreading the word. It’s like baseball cards for cool people.” Her first response was on August 9 th and the official start was Sept 9, 2015. On August 5th 2015 she posted “I’m going to start a new trend. Teeny tiny quilts have been around ever since people started making doll houses but they didn’t become a really big thing until a few years ago. ![]() Then people will accuse you of false modesty and talk about you behind your back. That is, unless you tell people your super intricate king size quilt is just a small quilt. These definitions are just rough estimates and there are no quilt police who will come around and fuss that you have mis-labeled the size of your quilt. Just so we are all on the same page I have some definitions.Ī micro mini quilt is generally less than 6” X 6” with a lot of people aiming for less than 3” X 3”. These things go by a lot of names, mini mini quilts, micro quilts, teeny tiny quilts, and my favorite micro mini quilts (I am going to use all these terms interchangeably in this article). ![]() I found out about these darling treasures a few months ago when looking for ways to use my extra small scraps (called crumbs). If you did, then you are more up to date on things than I am. Mini Mi ni Quilts, did you know that these are a thing?
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