hi I'm Kimberly with a fat quarter shop and we're here with Lisa Bonjean and since mini quilts are so hot right now she's going to show us how we can make one today using one of her patterns hi right we're gonna get right into it but a tea bitty primitive pinwheel twister quilt is made using a mini charm that's what you would start with just when you start piecing the primitive pinwheel we'll start with a three and a half inch square then the little twister you would start with a five inch square and then the big one the twister you start with a layer cake or a ten inch square and I think they're great because you've got four options you know if you're advanced you can definitely start with the mini if you're new start with the you know the larger one and now we're gonna move in and show you how to use the ruler we are going to start with a two and a half inch square and we are going to piece nine by nine squares and in the matter of the pattern when you read the directions it'll give you the exact layout of the pattern and each pattern is kind of different in the twister series so you have to know what you're making and this one is kind of laid out in a log-cabin variation here now what you want to do before you start piecing is you want to lower your stitch length on your machine because we are piecing with smaller pieces you want to get a matching thread so it's not so or a neutral thread so it goes with all the fabrics and then when you sew your squares together in the rows you're going to want to press your seams open like showing here and Kimberly did an awesome job stitching those rows together and pressing those seams open now the ruler has crosshairs on them and you're going to take the crosshairs and you're gonna start on the border now I'm looking at the border and I have three parts of it on border and just one on the first square and that's where we're gonna start to cut I'm using this small itty-bitty little rotary cutter that we all think is just so cute now we're actually going to use it so now I'm just going to take and cut a little cut and don't try to cut too far past the ruler this is where you just got to kind of be careful wine it up make sure I got it on there alright and hopefully I got that so there's the first one and I'm gonna take that and I'm just gonna set it off to the side I move to the next intersections and this one has two borders and two squares and when you're here you actually can cut off to the side there make it a little bit easier but this cut here has got to be nice and precise in this angle there you go and we're just gonna start again crosshairs on and cut one of the things that I want to point out when you do this this is a lot of cutting this is over I know there's 81 squares but when you're cutting the borders there's more squares that you're actually cutting so I would cut a row or two rows and then sew them start sewing and then cut another or don't do all the cutting at one time you won't be able to lift your arm the next day so now I've completed the whole row and I believe there was 11 cuts because there's nine and two on the end now I'm gonna take the ruler go back to the beginning here just a little bit right there next intersection and we're getting that first triangle our first square sorry I'm used to doing lots of triangles and now I will place this one so do you see how it's starting to make that pinwheel line up so there's no way to screw it up because the fabrics will tell you which way they have to go so continue cutting and sewing all your rows together and when you cut you're gonna get something that kind of looks like this it's we call it quilters lace but you can see there's very little waist even though you started with a lot of fabric you don't have very much waist you get a really cute mini quilts and you can watch lisa's videos on how to straight line quilts and how to do single fold binding