Mile-a-Minute Quilt Patterns You’ll Want to Make with Your Scraps

If your scrap bin is overflowing and you’re not quite sure what to do with all those leftover strips and pieces, these mile-a-minute quilt patterns might be exactly what you need. This quilting style is quick, relaxed, and a great way to turn random fabric into quilts that look colorful, creative, and completely unique.

One of the best things about mile-a-minute quilts is that they don’t have to be perfect. You sew strips and scraps together in sections, build the quilt as you go, and watch the design slowly come together piece by piece. It’s the kind of project that feels easy to pick up, hard to mess up, and really satisfying to sew.

Whether you’re trying to use what you already have, clear out your scrap pile, or just want a quilt that comes together a little faster, these patterns are full of ideas and inspiration to get you started.

Mile a Minute Technique Video:

Mile a Minute Patterns & Layout Ideas

It’s time to gather up your scraps leftover from other quilts and make them into something new. The idea is to make fabric using the little bits of fabric that you already have waiting in the storage basket.

Patchwork Pie Quilt

Take all your bits and make a new quilt – with the dark sashing that sets off those fantastic fabric.

Pineapple Quilt

Starting with a center scrap, then adding in a pineapple quilt block way – these are a great for just picking up and sewing. These are very similar to a pineapple quilt block version

Giblets and Gravy

Sometimes you sew like colors together to make the block, other times you just grab and sew. This block is just that – with the black sashing to make those colors pop.

Rainbow Challenge

 Keep with a color theme… you pick the color. This is a great option for getting rid of a color that is overflowing in the storage area.

Block by Block

Ignore the sashing and just sew those blocks together. It’s a bit crazy, but boy does it help with using up your stash.

Wonky Blocks

After you have enough scraps sewn together- don’t cut them perfectly square. Trim them just a little bit off or wonky. This adds a whole new look to the quilt.

Stepping Stones Quilt

Another way to deal with all the crazy fabric is to use one or two fabrics for the sashing. This quilt features a stepping layout with alternating the sashing in green and purple.

Dozen Years Quilt

Can you believe that this quilt is actually a mile a minute quilt? That on point block, with white sashing and a wide border before the scrappy strip really is beautiful.

Skinny Sashing Quilt

Even a skinny sashing helps calm down the busyness of the blocks. Make the quilt even larger with a wide border – no additional quilt blocks needed for that.

String Piecing

If you are looking for something that allows you to sew to a foundation – then the string method is perfect for you!

It’s all about using those scraps, but sewing them to a foundation piece of fabric first, then trimming if needed and setting in a quilt top. It is a little bit heavier, but will help you keep to a specific size and not get overwhelmed with all the little bits and how they should fit together.

 

---