Hearts have always been a favorite motif for me. When I was able to do crazy quilting many years ago, I made lots of hearts, and gave them as gifts, and such. I even have a crazy quilted quilt with the heart motif. The top was given to me from the quilt guild when I was President. I actually finished off the embroidery, and added the crazy quilted border. Then 1 batted it and hand quilted in the open areas.
And then there is the strip pieced water color heart. This was the first strip pieced one I did.
It's an on-going thing for me to translate the heart motif to whatever technique I am doing. I do lots of heart motif quilting and the feather shape comes from the same curve as the heart top.
All of this leads up to making a few token scrappy, leftover hearts. I first heard about making small hearts, sewing them and sowing them from Barbara, Smitty and Sadie's mom, at Catpatches blog. She was making a few to hide and sow along her travels this fall. Then I began to see some reported "found hearts" on FB.
Here is the story about ifoundaquiltedheart with details and such. I just used a few chunks of fabric, some scraps, a bit of ribbon. Very simple, raw edged shape, and not too perfect :)
I had designed the hang tag but not printed it when the power went out. So this morning was a good time to get the tags printed and tag the hearts. I want to sow a couple when I go to therapy .
The hearts I have made may not be posted on the website or on FB, but I enjoyed playing around with them. In this crazy, hectic, fast-paced world with so much happening and going on, it is nice to do something simple and maybe brighten someone's day. It takes Heart.💗
Happy stitching.
Sweet! That is a great way to use up some scraps.
ReplyDeleteLove the heart idea! I will definitely be doing this! And I certainly love your watercolor quilts. They're just beautiful!
ReplyDeleteI love hearts too. Great idea for more populated areas. Having said I love hearts, there's a baggie of about 100 feedsack reproduction hearts in my closet that still await being made into a quilt. It's been there for at least 5 or 6 years - time to do something about that.
ReplyDeleteI love hearts. One of the first serious quilts I did was a heart bargello from a book. I asked the quilt store lady if it was hard and she said, no, just follow the book. As a new quilter, it took many attempts and years to get it together. It is the only quilt I have for my bed. Gave the book away immediately after finishing the quilt. I make pocket quilts to give away from scraps and had some words printed on yardage from Spoonflower that I use. I will send you some when I make another batch.
ReplyDeleteI have never made anything with a heart on it!! I fell for a quilt with lots of hearts using Tula Pink fabrics (I have some in my stash), you may have gotten me started on something new!!
ReplyDeleteI love your heart quilts and really like the idea of the "ifoundaquiltedheart" program. What a neat idea. Looks like you are off to a good start with your hearts.
ReplyDeleteP.S. Checking to see if I fixed my profile so you can see my comment.
What a neat idea and thanks for sharing the pics of your heart quilts.
ReplyDeleteYour heart quilts are so beautiful! And what a blessing those small hearts will be to the finders! ---"Love"
ReplyDeleteHow fun how fun is that!?! Hope to do a few myself!
ReplyDeleteLOVE LOVE the heart tags!!!
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