Hearts and Flowers for the front door.

Hearts and Flowers -  20" x 32 1/2"

Last week, I watched a tutorial with Jenny Doan from the Missouri Star Quilt Company on making a heart block quilt. Of course I did things differently, I didn't use any precuts and I did them a in a different size. I was going to make some smaller heart for the offset panels, but I like the idea of adding some flowers.

So here is my wall hanging ready for the front door in February. I call it "Hearts and Flowers." I made two of the blocks, a litter larger than the tutorial, put them together with a little offset, did some free motion quilting around and added the hanging sleeve last night. I went for high contrast around the hearts to show best from the road. I really hope the all the quilters out there share their artwork on the front door of the living space. It is a way to share what you do and tell who you are.

Hearts and Flowers, close up

Runners and Wall Hangings make scraps that become Table Tops

A few new runners, the top one is a disappearing nine patch. The bottom one come from a block I saw in the tutorials at Missouri Star Quilting. Runners are a versatile term I use for something that could be a smaller bed runner, a wall hanging or a larger table runner.

If you have read my earlier blogs, you know that very few things are considered scraps in my world. So, the corners from the runner on the bottom were used to create the smaller table tops seen in the middle photo.