Poinsettia Millefiori Quilt - Michael Miller Fabrics' Making it Fun #91 

I just purchased Eight Yards of this same fabric. I am going to make this quilt. Thank you Rob. ACJ HERE.

I was taught to sew the first half of the hexie together, pull the sewn unit until you have 5 or so inches of thread from the machine, and then sew the other three pieces. You will then have the halves joined by the long thread to keep them matched together.

"bc I'm sure you're all designing your quilts and just listening to me in the background"... BUSTED!

THIS FABRIC IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL I HAVE EVER SEEN

I'm speachless!👀 This is MAGNIFICENT!💚🌺🖤

I’ve made six of these, and they are all very different. I’ve taught it as a class. I’ve digitized quilting patterns for it. Always thrilled to see it presented by another popular maker (and especially with your energy, Rob)-thanks.

I don't quilt but your energy made me watch your video.

It’s been a rough first day of 2023. Thanks, Rob, for always encouraging and inspiring. Happy New Year to you and your family.

The Kaleidoscope quilt technique was created in 1987 by the New Yorker artist called Paula Nadelstern when she released two books.

Love you tutorials. You’re so entertaining and very creative. You put the fun in quilting…..thank you from Innisfil Ontario Canada 🇨🇦

…could baste the two units instead of pin. Love, love, love this video!! Rob, feel the love! Thank you for this video! There are so many nuggets of knowledge and opportunities for skill advancement with this particular design. This video, I will watch several times! Thank you for your efforts and thank you for making our quilting journeys smoother!!!! ❤️ 🙏 💕

Your demonstration is so much easier than the pin into six fabrucs i was taught. I might have made more had i seen your demo so very long ago. Thank you for simplifying this lovely design for us. Yay Rob and.of course Michael fabrcs

I started about 15 years ago with One Wonder and i learned what you are teaching now- i love with you do so I can remember again! Thank you, Robb

Finding the repeat using the selvedge is a game changer! Not only in this application, but for when I am trying to piece longer borders. Beautiful fabric.....another one for my bucket list.

I stick a pin through pattern , All layers. Have done many whack quilts. With hexies, they are finally sewed in "strip sets" after deciding the placement. Octagones are easier . Love them

Love love love that poinsettia fabric.

This is the best tutorial ever! Beautiful work ,Rob! LindaD

I watched the Donna Jordan video (you mentioned) this morning while looking for this quilt patern. I may be a few years late, but twice in one day? Loved this video. ❤ That repeat tip is so clever.

Wytłumaczone w sposób naprawdę przystępny. Piękny wzór wyszedł 👍

that is a STUNNING quilt!!!!!!!!!!

Rob, I made a similar quilt several years ago.. After I had my six layers stacked and before I started cutting strips and triangles, I ran a line of machine basting about every 3 inches. This line would be parallel to the strips you are cutting. This keeps your sets of six triangles together until you are ready to sew the block. I think this may have been in the instructions I was following at the time, so I can't take credit as originator of this idea.

Being facetious here.... SURE..just one more project I just HAVE to do!......thanks! Actually, my daughter wants a wall hanging...how perfect! Thank you!

Fantastic video demonstration of aligning the fabrics and cutting. Thanks Rob!

Gorgeous poinsettia fabric = gorgeous kaleidoscope quilt! 💖

As far as I know you are correct with the original publisher being Bethany Reynolds. Her 1st book came out in 1998. Maxine Rosenthal's 1st One Block Wonder book came out in 2006. Same technique just different ways to construct the final quilt top. Stack-N-Whack always has sashing or something between the blocks. One Block Wonder always has the blocks touching. This is by far my favorite way to make quilts! It is addictive! Each block and fabric is sooooo different. Even if 2 people start with the same fabric their quilts look sooooo different!

Beautiful choice of fabric for demonstrating this technique!!! Love it!!!!❤️🇺🇸

This is, by far, the nicest quilt I've ever seen. Well done Rob!

YOUNG MAN YOU ARE ONE AMAZING BRILLIANT COOL TALENTED DUDE…I was lucky enough to see You in person and what You were demonstrating blew my mind… Mrs.Carmen Balko

Rob, I LOVE your desire to give thanks where thanks is due. It would be interesting to find out how far in history a one-patch was found turned around to make different pictures, i.e., a "kaleidoscope" as we know it :)

What a gorgeous red beauty Rob, thanks I ❤️ it!

Love this design! I have done stack n whacks for a long time!

One additional thing. Each set of triangle pieces, can be turned 3 different way. Giving you 3 choices for what the heck will look like.

❤ thank you

Rob, am just finding your amazing tutorial! I took classes while on an Asian cruise taught by Paula Naidlestern. She has designed fabrics and has museum pieces using this technique with her fabrics.

I used to teach a Stack n Whack class and you make it so much easier!!

Mind blowing on how to construct it so easy!!

Thanks Rob, red is my favorite color and I have been to nervous to try a kaleidoscope pattern. I like how you explained at the end of the program on using the colors to blend here and there, which gave it more of a kaleidoscope feel. 🙂

Love your kaleidoscope quilt! It is beautiful!! Thank you for your rockin’ fun!!

You fascinate me with all this fun!

Thank you!!! I have made two of these and did not understand what I was doing. Now I get it!!! Awesome! Thank you!!!!!!

Rob, great demo, great tips! Thank you!

I always thought it was more difficult but you make it look so easy. Thank you so much for for this wonderful presentation. I simply love it.❤️❤️❤️

Well done, I’ve done 5 stack-n-whacks, now I’m going to do the one block wonder. Thanks for demystifying it!

Great info! I try to learn something new every day…. Thank you! Never thought of using the salvage edge technique!

Buying fabric can be difficult, but once you find a fabric... you can use a mirror with 2 hinges to see how it will look as a hexagon. You can run the mirror over your fabric. Once you find the distance of the repeat from 18 to 24 inches, then you can just purchase those repeat lengths, at least 6. If your fabric repeat is 24 and you need 6 repeats, that is only 4 yards of material. Maxine Rosenthal was the author for One Block Wonder.

Have never seen you before Rob- what great energy and fun! What a beautiful quilt- and helpful techniques.

Love this design, thank you for your easy, simple explanation.

First time I’ve ever seen…48 seconds into the video and I’m ready for you to say “Sham-WOW”!!!

I was always wondering what to do with all my flower fabric so now I will try this. Thanks. BC 🇨🇦

Fantastic tips! I'm new to patchworking and quilting, so this tutorial is so inspiring!

I’ve learned a tip when using triangle rulers: place your fabric strips vertically and you can easily cut as easily on both sides. Love your chsnnel!

Great video. Ten years ago I tried making a kaleidoscope block. I bought two table runner kits five blocks each. I had know idea how to put them together. Needless to say they didn't turn out . I still have the second kit. I never could just throw it out. This gives me hope that I'll be able to complete it now.

That’s just gorgeous!! Thanks, Rob!

VERY caffeinated host! Great quilt though🤗

This is above my pay grade...lol! But maybe one day...... *whistfully imagining*

This looks like so much fun! Can't wait to make one!!!

Your explanation helped me tremendously. Thank you!

New to quilting this is beautiful! Thank you!

Great tip on using the numbers in the selvage! I may revisit the pattern.

ROB! Great video! GREAT tutorial, I am definitely going to try this. Loved the tips on finding the repeat pattern and of course the quilt is gorgeous! THANKS!

Beautiful project love the tecnique.

BEAUTIFUL QUILT !!!!

I am a garden designer and when I design I feel ut should be like a symphony with crescendos and rest periods in the landscape. I never thought to do that in a quilt but that is exactly what you did!! So cool and thank you for showing me that what I love to do with living plants can be transfered to fabrics 😃

Such a beautiful quilt! Thanks for sharing!

I love the tip about finding the repeat in the selvage.

Heavy starch is your friend! It can help keep the bias edges from wanting to stretch with handling.

nice content Making It Fun with Rob Appell. I crushed that thumbs up on your video. Keep up the awesome work.

If you are right handed, place the length of the strip set to your right so you aren't cutting over your wrist.

Rob! You need a rotating mat so you don't have to cut left handed! Thank you for doing this one! All the others I have seen on the stack n whack have been done with mirrors and I like this way much better!!

Love the tip on finding the repeat with the selvedge!

I have this fabric it is my favorite holiday print. It's great for any holiday project, but this is particularly good use of the fabric.

Oh man, soo, soo nice! WOW! BRAVO!😏😍

To make sure you pin and sew through center triangles. Open and see if both center points are correct. Then sew from one already sewn end ( center triangle ) to end of fabric then do other side. You will get perfect kaleidoscopes.

I don't know how but this pattern makes the poinsettias look more...well... poinsettialy. 🤣

That is absolutely gorgeous

Never tried a kaleidoscope patterned quilt top! You do so well at ×pl aining! Aaaya great job! Thanks!

Love this quilt! The “Stack and Whack “ was the first quilt I learned to make in a class from my local quilt shop. We did it in large octagons and mounted each on a square of fabric with sashing that coordinated with the octagons. Can’t wait to try your version! .

Thanks Rob for the lighting tip! Great idea! The best kaleidoscope fabric has a variety of sizes of each of the florals. Paisley in different sizes are also awesome. I like a cream or white background. Jason Yenter In the Beginning fabric designer has gorgeous border fabrics done in this technique although that’s maybe 8 octagon instead of 6 hexagon…6is a 60 degree triangle, 8 is 45 degree triangle done in the same way…just different triangle….because the border fabric is printed in sets of four, his quilts add the border too so it’s still a one fabric quilt! I made some very nice trivet style one block table centerpieces in this technique instead of batting used the metallic hot pad inner layer. In the sets, one can also use alternating repeats in the same block which is nice to know if you end up with some last sets not making a complete repeated set of 6 for hexagon, or 8 for octagon. I think you forgot to finish the video such that in final assembly it’s joined in rows which is why you don’t sew the halves together. Nice job anyway, great tips!

Wow amazing , love the fabric ! Thanks

This is such a pretty quilt🌺

Beautiful quilt. I don't like poinsettias but your quilt is so beautiful. I think it looks more like big red flowers than pointsetas. I will have to put this quilt pattern in my to do list.

Sorry to be sound so picky, but I've made a bunch of these. Don't forget that because you have an equilateral triangle, you've got 3 different design choices from each stack. Just turn them all. And turn them all again. Find your favorite.

I love this project, thank you Rob. I have looked for this Michael Miller fabric but it is very expensive in the UK, and postage etc from USA makes it an expensive project. However I will watch and wait. Thank you again from the UK.

Fabulous Rob, you are very inspiring. Thanks from downunder, Victoria Australia

Always enjoy your channel!

Hey Rob, happy 4th of July & Merry Christmas. This is such an amazing project.

🎇. Thanks…..always entertaining

You are soooo delightful!!!

I learned from Bethany Reynold's book. I've done squares, hexagons and octogons. All types of fabric, just to see what would happen.

Thanks, Rob! This is almost perfect timing for me. I’ve been wanting to make placemats with kaleidoscopes as the base.

I love these!!! Paula Nadelstern is my kaleidoscope idol… don’t know if she’s the original instigator, but she’s my favorite

GREAT REPEAT TIP

kaleidoscope patch has been around since the 1890's according to Ladies art company of 1898.

Wish Michael Miller put together fabric kits for this. I got to buy online and well I can't see a repeat. Sure love that quilt it is an eye catcher! Happy holidays!

Kaleidoskope nähen - meine absolute Lieblingstechnik im Moment - aus Altkleidern oder Bettwäsche

I've not watched the whole video, but you need to mention that the reason that you're cutting 6 is that with your '60°' triangle you have to divide 60 into the 360°s of a circle. You could use (4) 90°s, or (12) 30°s. This is one of my favorite quilts. I have the 'one block wonder' book from decades ago. I used the 'Starry Night' fabric for my son.

Happy 4th Rob and merry July Christmas 😁

The good thing about a OBW One Block Wonder is you can change the orientation of all of a Hexie block if you don't like one way. For example the seeds were pointed in but if you wanted all your seeds pointed in another direction you can. Just be sure they are the exact same orientation.

Love & hugs , Rob .... go have another coffee ! 🤣

Amazing video Rob really enjoyed it happy 4th Tammy one of your new subscribers