katsewnsew

Michele, your quilt is gorgeous! Who'd a thunk that those are all "crumbs"????

aneternalpoet

can you post, Polly, what a crumb block looks like? i am not sure what that means, or looks like? I do like making string quilts for my baby quilt donations - easy, fast, ect.. just hoping to try something different if Crumbs could fit the bill for easy,fast stuff..

mlaceruby

Well and when I talk crumbs I mean crumbs!
I cut triangles to use in scrappy quilts that are 2 1/2" on the short side.
So anything I use as a crumb is not large enough for that small shape.
I hate throwing anything away! I also am not into string quilts so all my strings get sewn together and cut into triangles!

grammy Dwynn

I think Bonnie Hunter at quiltville.com explains the crumb blocks very well - here is her link;

http://quiltville.com/crumbs.shtml

aorlflood

Thanks for posting the tutorial for the mile-a-min. I can see how they would be faster to make. I'll have to give them a try!

aneternalpoet

wow, sounds like me, lol.. i never throw anything away , since I have to get creative in my quilting with limited fabrics.. I love the looks of strings anyway, so crumbing it sounds just as fun, and just as resourceful.. thanks " Ruby" ( forgot your real name, lol )...

gollytwo

The only Mile-a-Minute I know is for fabric creation. Carol Coski from Quilt-A-Way in Vermont began it, as far as I know, in the mid-late 90s. She offered a class at a Westminster Quilt show that I attended - great fun. Carol wrote an article with instructions for AQS magazine, I think in the late 90s.
Somewhere on the Quilting Board there's a thread describing Mile a Minute.
I just saw that quiltinghere listed the link above. It's a good tutorial. I diverge, though, after adding the 3rd strip; I don't want all the blocks to have identical fabrics - so I start adding to them singly. Ending up with several large size new fabrics on which to position a 6 1/2" square and cut (always angled).

Chele

I'd say keep going! I love crumb blocks! Here are some fun examples that may inspire you to keep crumbing! http://www.15minutesplay.com/

Ms Grace

Thanks for this link.
It looks fun! :-D And, I do LOVE scrappy! :lol: