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!
