Tanya's Hearts

Any one that has followed my blog knows that my wife does not sew much.  So when I came home from work today to find a pile of hearts I was excited.  The other day I cut up 2 strips of 2 1/2 inch off all my batik FQ that I bought.  When I cut them up into blocks I ended up with a bunch of odd ends which I commented to my wife we could make a scrappy block or something out of.

My wife first apologized for using my scraps (which makes me laugh when she does as whats mine is her's) and then let me know that she is making a quilt with appliqued hearts on it and these are the first few, the bigger ones are 5 or so inches and the smallest ones are like 2 inches.  Any way I think she did a great job.   I am excited that she started a project all on her own.  And no she has not even sewn her finger yet like last time.

The template at the bottom and 2 others she bought at HMQS.  She loves applique and this gives her a easy way to trace out hearts (she also bought a star and I cant remember the other).

Me on the other hand, made some progress on my Civil War Quilt, but not yet ready to show that off yet.

Tugging on my Heart Strings

Today is the day we start tugging on my wife's Heart Strings. You will remember that in my post Blue Heart Progress I talked about the applique hearts that we are doing for the quilt of my wife.  In reading a blog post yesterday some one showed their scraps all sewn together and had truly scrappy project (tried to find post to link to but could not find it)  and later I read this post http://cadouri-din-inima.blogspot.com/2012/01/free-motion-quilting-tips-ii.html about free motion quilting and thought hey I need to start trying to do some free motion quilting (because I want to do it to the 2 purple lap quilts I am making, so presto I had a new project.  I took the above Heart Strings and as you see on the right,  I chopped them up and sewed them back together (bottom right image shows one of the messes I sewed together.  When all was said and done (OK ran out of thread) I had 7 of them made.  The plan is to make I think Hot Pads.  What size is a hot pad?  Any one know a good simple pattern that would fit a 6 inch heart string?

Oh one last thing I took the time to upload a ton of my quilting / sewing picture to my picture site.  If you are interested in looking at them follow this link  http://pictures.richardhealey.com/display.asp?attributeID=350. I am a web developer by trade and one hobby I have other then Quilting is taking pictures, at the moment I have 11,000 pictures on my site. (don't worry don't expect you to look at more then 10 or so).  My mom says my picture site is confusing (though it makes total sense to me) so I will explain some.  The link above will take you to the quilting images on my site.  Once you are there you can pick from the top 12 pictures (based on ratings) when you rate (or even look at a image) its rating goes up or down by your personal rating.  In other words if you like a picture rate it higher then 5 and it will move up to front.  Rate it lower then 5 and it moves down the list.  As a side note, once you get to my site you can even view pictures of my wife.  She seems to think she can hide from the pictures here on my blog, but she can't on my picture site.

 

















Linking too

http://quiltstory.blogspot.com/2012/01/fabric-tuesday-and-moda-bake-shop.html

Blue Hearts Progress

The quilt that I am making for my wife is made out of blue hearts. We have constructed about 22 blocks so far each block has 4 patch on bottom and a heart shaped 4 patch on top. The 22 that we have made still need have the top heart stitched on, they are appliques You can see here on the left I have lined a hand full of them up on the table to show off for this post. The stack of 22 that are done is on the right side.

The image on the bottom left is ones that are still missing their hearts.  My wife is a total fan of hearts and when I first started quilting I bought a book that had a pile of heart quilts.   On the right is a image I found off the web that is in the book and the basic design that we are going to make.  Any way after the grand shopping trip this is what the wife and I worked on to relax on Sunday.

We have been working on this quilt since late December.  The original plans in the book has 13 blocks and is a wall hanging we are planing to do this for our bed.  My wife and I have not quite decided on how to lay out the blocks any suggestions would be helpful.




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