How to Make Tiny Miniature Quilts

Make a miniature doll bed quilt for some tiny interior decorating.

Create colorful miniature quilts using the same processes used to make larger quilts, but with tiny pieces of fabric for the quilting squares. You join the miniature squares together to make the quilt and bind the edges with a plain or decorative binding tape. Make a colorful quilt for a child's dollhouse bed from pieces of lightweight cotton-blend fabric, or make a warm, fleece quilt for a cat's bed using slightly larger quilting squares.

Things You'll Need

• Fabric
• Scissors
• Sewing machine or sewing needle
• Thread
• Lining fabric
• Cotton batting
• Double-fold bias binding tape

Instructions

1. Cut 1-inch squares for the quit. For a dollhouse bed, you will need a quilt that measures about 6 inches wide by 10 inches long. For this size quilt, cut 60 squares. For a larger project, such as a cat bed, make an 18-by-24-inch quilt from 48 3-inch squares.

2. Lay the squares on your work surface with the good sides facing upward. For the dollhouse quilt, lay the 1-inch squares six across and 10 down to make a rectangle. For the cat bed quilt, lay the 3-inch squares six across and eight down.

3. Join all of the tiny quilting squares together with a whipstitch between each pair of adjoining squares.

4. Cut a piece of lining fabric and a piece of thin cotton batting. Make each the same size as the quilted rectangle. Lay the quilted rectangle face down and lay the batting and then the lining rectangles on top. Sew a running stitch around the outer edges of the three layers.

5. Cut two pieces of binding tape to the same length as the quilt and two pieces to the same width as the quilt. Slide the quilt edges in between the folds of the tape and sew another running stitch all the way around to finish the quilt.

References

• "Bits and Pieces: 18 Small Quilts from Fat Quarters and Scraps"; Karen Costello Soltys; 2007