mac

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.

QuiltnNan

here's a link to a free tut on the mile a minute

ManiacQuilter2

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??

mac

Thanks, QuiltnNan, but I don't see a link...?

mac

I think you are right, there doesn't seem to be any difference. In each case they are making "new" fabric pieces.
Thanks for the pictures, they were worth a thousand words. LOL

Prism99

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

frenan

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.

Annaquilts

Thanks for posting the link frenan. Very helpful in explaining the difference.

Maire

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.

rryder

When I do crumb quilts I often take my longer strips and chain piece however many crumbs onto them as I can then cut them apart, but I don't think I'm gking a mile a minute