JoanneS

Ob but when it's done,Pam, you'll be so proud. And you'll remember to never commit to HSTs that small again!

sandpat

Oh Pam...you'll get through it and the small blocks look amazing...you'll be happy when its finished. I love the look of the smaller blocks :D

pittsburgpam

Another 12 blocks are done and ready to sew the two rows together. I am tired!! I also realized that I need 35 hearts, not 25. Now I have to cut 10 more and then re-do all of the placement that I already figured out and put into order by row.

Seeing this in a picture I want to change a couple of the blocks around too.

sandpat

Well gosh Pam, I bet you ARE tired! Thats alotta putting together. I do see a few blocks that I would move if it were mine...but I think it is turning out beautifully! I love it as you are putting the hearts on...how did you miscount the hearts..or did you change something?

bluebird

What a beautiful quilt, your work in wonderful. Hope you enter this in a show, 'tis a prize winner.

pittsburgpam

I guess I was looking at the picture in the magazine when I counted up the rows for hearts. It's 5x7 blocks in the pattern but I did 6x8 blocks. I wanted it larger than twin size and when I layed it on my queen bed last night I see that the body as it is now (6 blocks across) exactly fits the top of the bed so the border is going to sit just right on the sides.

I also turned the hearts on the border facing outwards instead of inwards like in the first design because I realized that they would be upside down when laying on a bed.

I am definately going to send a picture to American Quilter when it's done. They have a section on their website for quilts made from magazine patterns.

sewjoyce

OK, your quilt is so lovely that I had to go to the American Quilter site and download this pattern. Mine has flowers instead of hearts....

Honey

I absolutely love it!!!

pittsburgpam

Yep, I saw that. I didn't look at the one online, just the magazine one that doesn't have the flowers, until I had already added the hearts to my design. It is a logical thing to do, in my opinion, to add something to those blank spaces.

After I saw the few scattered flowers one I wonderd if putting a heart in every space was too much. I played around and it looks better to me with all of the spaces having hearts.

sewjoyce

I think I like the idea of the hearts better than the flowers....I think a heart in each "white" space will look nice. However, if you put flowers into each white space, I think it would be overwhelming. So is your border going to have hearts with vines or the flowers??