Mini Charm Pack Quilt Block

Ok, November is my month to be queen in our Instagram #quiltbeenewbees quilt be and I decided I wanted a Sweetwater quilt.  I had a lot of mini charm packs I'd been hoarding so I started playing around with layouts and came up with this! 

So, for this block I sent everyone a different mini charm pack of Sweetwater fabrics.  You'll also need

Solid white fabric-

2 strips 1.75"x16"

2 strips 1.75"x19"

a light colored fabric that coordinated with your mini charm pack (preferably reads solid but isn't)

2 strips 4"x1.5"

2 strips 2.5"x1.25"

2 strips 8"x2.5"

2 strips 12.5"x2.5"

You'll be using all but one of the squares from the mini charm pack so pull one out and set it aside (feel free to keep it if you think you'll use it or send it back with the block if you don't think you will and I'll use it!)

Next pick out a square to use for the center of your block.  You'll be sewing your 2.5" strips to the sides of this, then press and add the 4" strips to the top and bottom.  Press and then trim to 4.5x4 if needed.  You should now have something like this:

Now pull out some more of your squares and arrange them as desired.  You'll need to sew 4 of them together into a strip (x2) and then two together (x2).  Press your seams and you'll have strips as shown below.  

Now sew the strips of two blocks to the sides, press, and sew the strips of 4 to the top and bottom.  You'll now have block as shown below.   It should now measure 8.5"x8".

I forgot to take a picture of this next step but you're going to take your other light colored strips and sew them around the block, after you've done this it should be 12.5"x12" (sorry I forgot a picture of this step!)

Now you're going to sew together 2 strips of 6 blocks and 2 strips of 8 blocks

sew these around the block as you've done with the other strips and then trim to 16.5"x16".

Finally, sew your true white strips around the edge!  Trim as needed and then the final block should measure 19"x18.5".  That's it!  Thank you!!!