Mile-a-Minute Quilts vs Crumb Quilts
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Mile-a-Minute Quilts vs Crumb Quilts
What is the difference between Mile-a-Minute quilts vs Crumb Quilts?
On this board, someone gave a website that had directions for Crumb Quilts (thank you), but I can't seem to find any directions for the Mile-a-Minute pattern.
On this board, someone gave a website that had directions for Crumb Quilts (thank you), but I can't seem to find any directions for the Mile-a-Minute pattern.
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It is just another name as far as I can see. They both use small pieces of fabrics to make a quilt block.
https://www.google.com/search?q=mile...w=1024&bih=622
https://www.google.com/search?q=mile...q=crumb+quilts
Maybe crumb blocks use smaller pieces??
https://www.google.com/search?q=mile...w=1024&bih=622
https://www.google.com/search?q=mile...q=crumb+quilts
Maybe crumb blocks use smaller pieces??
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It is just another name as far as I can see. They both use small pieces of fabrics to make a quilt block.
https://www.google.com/search?q=mile...w=1024&bih=622
https://www.google.com/search?q=mile...q=crumb+quilts
Maybe crumb blocks use smaller pieces??
https://www.google.com/search?q=mile...w=1024&bih=622
https://www.google.com/search?q=mile...q=crumb+quilts
Maybe crumb blocks use smaller pieces??
Thanks for the pictures, they were worth a thousand words. LOL
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I thought mile-a-minute was a jelly roll quilt! There are Youtube tutorials on how to make a jelly roll race quilt:
https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...lly+roll+quilt
https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...lly+roll+quilt
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Here is a link to the Mile a Minute I learned. http://quiltingisstillmypassion.blog...-tutorial.html
The difference is chain stitching each crumb on to a scrap strip closely together and then cutting them apart between the crumbs and then sewing those pieces to another strip.
The difference is chain stitching each crumb on to a scrap strip closely together and then cutting them apart between the crumbs and then sewing those pieces to another strip.
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The first Mile a Minute instruction I saw was in American Quilter Magazine winter 2000 issue, you still might be able to those instructions. There was a book called Mile a Minute but it was a totally different method. The American Quilter instructions & crumb very similar. I've done many Mile a Minute, even have demoed it. I've made a few changes along the way just for personal preferences. I like to use a novelty print for the first square or rectangle put on the first strip, that piece becomes more or less the center when block completed & kids love finding the dog or whatever. Also instead of trimming the finished square block with the sides straight I put my square ruler on an angle, the finished result looks like you pieced many small triangles-people are amazed by my talent-LOL. If you have never done one of the blocks that last sentence won't make sense until you are squaring up the block. I love the method, fast, easy, uses op scraps, color of thread doesn't matter so you can use up all the partially filled bobbins. I've made many charity/gift quilts. Instead of using a sashing piece between blocks I alternate a Mile a Min block with a tone on tone block, usually white & add tone on tone borders, makes the colors in the blocks pop.
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