How to Piece a Mini Spool Block – Mini Block Monday #17

One of my favorite blocks from this Mini Block Monday series has got to be this Spool Block! It’s super cute, easy to piece, and you can show off your favorite fabrics in the center square. Learn how to piece this block and 4-at-a-Time Half Square Triangles too!

Do you know what helps me the most? Sharing the video! Please share this video with your quilting friends, or even consider including the photos in your guild newsletter. I would LOVE that!

Looking for a pattern for the Mini Spool quilt block? It’s all in the video! I’m trying something new with these Mini Block Monday videos and including all the information in the video itself. Just hit “pause” when you need to and write down the pieces to cut.

Is that just not your thing? Here’s a snapshot of the patchwork pieces to get you started:

Mini Spool Quilt Block Patchwork Pieces

Mini Spool Quilt Block Piecing Instructions

This block is pieced with four Half Square Triangles. I could have continued to make these with the normal two-at-a-time method I’ve used for years, but I decided to shake things up and try a new method to make 4 at a time from a second of rectangles. Watch the video to see how it works, then trim the HSTs to measure 1 1/4 inches square.

Click Here to find an extra video to help you understand trimming the Half Square Triangles to size.

And here’s what it looks like when you finish piecing this mini Spool quilt block!

Mini Spool Patchwork Quilt Block Tutorial

Learn more about the sewing machine I’m using – the Eversewn Sparrow 20.

Click Here to find a tutorial with my 5 key tips to piecing precisely.

Now if you really want to geek out on quilt piecing, check out my book How to Piece Perfect Quilts to learn the WHAT, WHY and HOW behind everything I do.

Let’s go quilt,

Leah Day

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LeahDay

Leah Day has been teaching online since 2009. She's the creator of the Free Motion Quilting Project, a blog filled with thousands of quilting tutorial videos. Leah has written several books including 365 Free Motion Quilting Designs, Explore Walking Foot Quilting with Leah Day, and Mally the Maker and the Queen in the Quilt.

4 Responses

  1. Maree McCormack says:

    Hi Leah,
    Would you be able to include a screen shot of the layout instructions for assembling the spool quilt block in your tutorial? You show the cutting layout but not the assembling layout. This would be a reat help.
    Thanks.

  2. Charlotte Jenkins says:

    I love all your videos. Thank you

  3. Vera says:

    Best spool pattern ever!

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