Hearts are coming along!

The first ever PINK quilt!

The heart quilt is coming along well!  

The rough design started out like this. I keep

a small coil notebook labeled " Quilting Scrap" 

on my tool table.  It has a log of 

my sewing activities so I never misplace

a measurement  or musing !  It has 

really saved me remeasuring all the time!

I even jot down the location of small 

projects so they don't vanish into 

the museum of lost things!

 

!

Then I cut the 4 1/2" pieces for each heart half.

What a great display of pink!

Here are the proof of  concept blocks

 on the design wall. 

They turned out well but the corner

snow ball definitely gets tiny!

I hope it is forgiving!

And then I got sewing some more hearts. 

It is always an adventure when the design 

is "organic"!

Soon , there were more!

  Now, how to put this together.

A quilt of hearts all together might 

look too congested so 

I arranged them with a gap

 for a lattice between. 

Then I went to the

 " old cd rack of cool items", 

and TADA  star blocks!

I needed a nap one day so turned on 

MSQ and saw a wonky star tutorial. 

THEY ARE ADDICTING! So

after I made a bunch, I showed my 

walking buddy , 

and she made a bunch , 

but larger!  

Hers turned into this!

I kept sewing them up and 

really had a pleasant time.  Eventually,

they turned into this wedding quilt, 

that went off to GA, USA.

But I had sewn so  many that I 

had a stack in the 

"rack of cool items"

Unfortunately , not only are they

too large for the diminutive hearts 

in progress, the backgrounds are 

stark white. 

Sewwww, off to make some beige or tan 

based heart blocks!

They are petite but oh so adorable

 as spacers 

for the heart sets. 

A plan is forming for the stars 

cascading down diagonally

 across the rows. 

Nearly there! Just to figure

 out sizes and positions . 

It shouldn't be long. 

Sew on and stay safe!