Ripples Mini Quilt

This fun an cute mini quilt can be made with any of your favorite scraps or fabric lines. Check out the video tutorial walking you through each step of making the blocks.

There are two blocks that are used for this quilt – the outer blocks and the inner ones that show off a pinwheel when the quilt top is finished! Surprise!

Finished Size:

• Quilt finishes at 12” x 12” / Unfinished 12 1/2″ X 12 1/2″

FABRIC REQUIREMENTS:

• Background fabric: 1/4 yard
• Each block: 1/8 yard (very generous)
• Pinwheel fabric: 1/8 yard (very generous)

CUTTING INSTRUCTIONS:

12 Outer blocks / Each block Cut:

Background –

1- 3″ X 3″

3- 2″ X 2″

Color of block-

1- 3″ X 3″

3- 2″ X 2″

4 Inner Blocks / Each Block Cut:

Background

6- 2″ X 2″

Color of block-

4- 2″ X 2″

Color of pinwheel-

2- 2″ X 2″ (this will make ALL 4 pinwheel sections for the mini quilt)

Ripple Mini Quilt Block 1

Ripple Mini Quilt Block 2

Quilt Block Instructions:

1- Lay out your fabric. To help me keep track of what fabric I was using for what block, I laid the colors out. Then I cut each piece out. This helped me keep track, especially when I made each block with a different color.

2- Sew the half square triangles together and press. You’ll be laying right sides together the color with the background square. Mark on the wrong side of the background fabric a line from corner to corner. Sew on both sides of this drawn line a 1/4″ seam. Cut on the drawn line – this will give you TWO half square triangles.

3- Trim your half square triangles to the correct size:

Large HST= 2 1/2″ X 2 1/2″

Small HST= 1 1/2″ X 1 1/2″

4- Lay the block out – notice that the outer blocks have a large 2 1/2″ half square triangle – the inner blocks that make the pinwheel have NO large HST, but 3 small HST and one HST that will become your pinwheel

*notice that you’ll have 1 large HST and 1 small HST leftover and not included in the block / set those aside for another project

**this is showing Block 1 – Block 2 will NOT have that big HST because that’s where the pinwheel will be!

5- Trim your blocks to 3 1/2″ X 3 1/2″

Block #1:

Block #2: (which has the pinwheel section)

6- Lay your quilt blocks out to make the quilt top – sew together

7- Press your top and prep it for quilting

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Here is another version finished with Michael Miller Fabrics:

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