Welcome to the Mini Charm Chocolates Quilt Along with Fat Quarter Shop.
You can also check out the hop on the Fat Quarter Shop blog, The Jolly Jabber.
The Mini Charm Chocolates pattern includes four size options: Tablerunner, Mini, Lap, and Queen. I chose the Lap size, which is 54 1/2" x 70 1/2". It came together very quickly, especially given the size, number of pieces, and variety of prints used. The not-so-secret secret to this was the use of Mini Charms. It saved a huge amount of time and waste not having to buy a fat quarter of 24 different prints in a collection and cut them into 432 squares.
The supplies I used were 11 Big Sky Mini Charm Packs, 2 3/8 yards of Cypress Kona Cotton for the background, 5/8 yard of Thicket Black on Natural Dashes for the binding, 3 5/8 yards of a vintage Carolyn Friedlander print for the backing, and batting from The Warm Company.
For the quilting, I used my walking foot to echo 1/2" away from the Mini Charm rectangles before filling these paths in with organic pebbles. By organic, I mean they don't qualify as circles because not a one of them is perfect; I went free-style and didn't mark them in. I don't mind the irregularities as they mimic the ovals in some of the prints.
The Mini Charm Chocolates Quilt is part of the Fat Quarter Shop Shortcut Quilt Series, for which you can find accompanying YouTube videos.
Here's the video for the Mini Charm Chocolates Quilt:
The Mini Charm Chocolates pattern includes four size options: Tablerunner, Mini, Lap, and Queen. I chose the Lap size, which is 54 1/2" x 70 1/2". It came together very quickly, especially given the size, number of pieces, and variety of prints used. The not-so-secret secret to this was the use of Mini Charms. It saved a huge amount of time and waste not having to buy a fat quarter of 24 different prints in a collection and cut them into 432 squares.
The supplies I used were 11 Big Sky Mini Charm Packs, 2 3/8 yards of Cypress Kona Cotton for the background, 5/8 yard of Thicket Black on Natural Dashes for the binding, 3 5/8 yards of a vintage Carolyn Friedlander print for the backing, and batting from The Warm Company.
For the quilting, I used my walking foot to echo 1/2" away from the Mini Charm rectangles before filling these paths in with organic pebbles. By organic, I mean they don't qualify as circles because not a one of them is perfect; I went free-style and didn't mark them in. I don't mind the irregularities as they mimic the ovals in some of the prints.
If you make a version of your own, share on social media with the hashtags #fqsquiltalong and #minicharmchocolatesquilt.
Thank you, Fat Quarter Shop, for inviting me to join in the fun!
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