Monthly Mini January 2026 Ann Lisa Bongean Primitive Gatherings

Hey everyone, it's Lisa from Primitive Gatherings and it is time for our January 2026 monthly mini and This month's quilt is called Anne. So I'm doing a series of quilts named after my mother's Sister and my grandma and maybe one cousin. You'll have to wait to find out who the lucky cousin is All right. So let's get going on this project if you Can see here we have nine blocks so we need five blues and we need actually need five reds too because we have five blues and each One swaps all the way around so a blue is used on the outside and then it's used in the inside For each of the blocks and then you have nine Creams which you will use every one of those But then you have four red background blocks which use four blue so you won't use one blue Star in the middle and you won't use one red background But you can make another block and maybe put it on the back in the center With those extra cuts that you will have and just check out the quilting on this quilt. It is a miniature Feather, I don't know the exact name I can probably get it for us and we'll put it in the description for you But this was quilted right here at primitive gatherings in our quilting studio So if you ever need a big quilt or a mini quilt quilted we can handle that for you All right, so let's get going. I have done some cutting Ahead and some pre stitching so you don't have to sit here and watch me stitch Much longer than needed. All right. So here are the three fabrics I pick So once your cutting is all done, you're gonna sort your blocks out You're gonna do a background of blue and then a cream and then a red center and you're gonna do that for all nine blocks And then you will see Which one you have to add another light to if you want and there's plenty of fabric in our fabric requirements for you to do so We are using 10 inch squares and you will like I said you have room to make a little boo-boo there. But It's a nice piece of fabric to work with so here is my Little bit of pre-cutting and I have stitched some of these units already together So it's very simple. All we're gonna need is eight flying geese so you need one with the light as the goose and red wings and then you need a navy goose with White wings All right This one is already finished So I'm gonna teach you how to do this flying geese and then this corner is a simple three patch So these two will go together and then we're gonna add that To the two patch when it's done So not a very hard quilt a little bit bigger than the last couple that we have done I think they were two inch finish blocks. So this is much bigger than two inches All right, so let's get going. So I'm gonna take One of my wings right sides together here on to my goose and you're gonna look to make sure they're Exactly on there as close as you can get them And I'm gonna go ahead and stitch these two squares together I Need to give this a press before stitching the other side All right Now the next side of the flying geese unit So when you see this like this You have this. This is exactly a quarter inch So if you're not hitting that little intersection there, that means something's a smidge off So you should always be hitting that little intersection And you do not want to trim off those other dog ears until you put that last triangle on So I'm going to quickly just open up this to patch with my fingers. Give it a quick little press And then add that rectangle Now I can easily finger press some of these units because we have starched all the fabric So read the directions when you get our patterns we like to starch our fabrics when we piece with minis and You will be much happier with the results All right, so I press that open. I'm gonna give it a quick little press then get the other side of this goose So I did this with all of the other Flying geese units find my you want to make sure you have an appropriate size ruler when you're doing this trimming now I could just take my scissors and cut the dog ears off, which is perfectly fine or It doesn't take any extra time to lay your ruler on it and give it a quick little trim And you can kind of just line up to make sure everything is looking good that dog ear and Then the other one Okay, so you can do that to every one of your shapes so now that's gonna go that way and these two are gonna go together and Then this one is also ready to go To that one. So I'm gonna stitch these two and I'm gonna stitch this one to that one Pre-stitching sure helps on these videos Now you can put a pin in here, but they really line up pretty perfect So if you need a pin put one in And I've been pressing everything kind of open with these units in here Okay, so that one's ready that one's ready now this one needs to go to the center And when you stitch minis, make sure that you shorten your stitch length So you don't have big stitches in these little pieces and that way Also with smaller stitches, you're not going to see the cream color thread when you're stitching two darks together So you're not going to see little stitches of white in there because I have shortened that that stitch length All right. She's looking pretty nice here Okay, two more seams so I'm gonna flip these two right sides together I am gonna grab at least two pins here for this two seams here I've got quite the Collection of different misfit pins here Okay I'm just using that leader and ender because it seems like every time I do a video I unthread my machine during the video So I pull something out too fast or I'm just a little bit impatient. Okay, my intersections are looking good. I can live with those All right, we're gonna Flip these two right sides together Yes iron, we know you need some love to two little pins All right now these two seams will be pressing open Okay, so here is our block And then I'm just gonna give it a little bit of a clean up here on this edge Get the strings off In the pattern, it'll tell you what size it should measure at this point. So I just kind of clean up all those edges really nice and there is One of our blocks that we need for Anne Pretty simple, right? Okay, so we do have kits and patterns available either download or printed patterns that are available for this whole series and we also have a Couple more to go So make sure that you stay tuned for all 12 in this series of my mom and her sisters And one cousin. All right. We'll see you next time