I managed to find a few extra moments yesterday and I was able to quilt and bind my granny square mini!
She is all done and I am so happy with her!
Her final measurement is 14" X 14", as you can see here in relation to my mug:
These granny squares were truly fun to put together. The time-consuming part is cutting since all of the prints are cut one at a time. Mine are cut at 1-1/2", rather than the 2-1/2" called for in the tutorial.
Do you know what I love about mini-quilts?
How quickly they go together.
Everything is a breeze.
There is no hours long machine-quilting session. No mile-long binding. No stack of 100's or 1000's of pieces to sew together.
They are quick and I can try new things without commiting to a large project.
Besides, I have so many quilts all around the house, that I don't even know how I could explain the appearance of another full-sized one.
Mini's make perfect little wall-hangings. Or table toppers.
I did a little loop-de-loop for the machine-quilting.
The part that took the longest on this quilt?
Picking the binding.
Seriously, I had so many bolts and pieces of fabric on my cutting table that it was like a mountain of cloth.
Ridiculous, really!
Normally I pick something that will cause a color to pop out of the quilt, but this time I wanted the print to take a backseat and let all of the little grannies steal the show.
I think my little floral print did the trick.
If you want to make some grannies of your own, click here. You can also check out the Flickr group and Dana's quilt-along.
Believe me, you won't be disappointed with these little blocks!
