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JoanneS 07-22-2010 03:10 PM

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 07-22-2010 03:47 PM

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 07-24-2010 08:12 PM

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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 07-25-2010 05:46 AM

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 07-25-2010 07:00 AM

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

pittsburgpam 07-25-2010 07:17 AM

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 07-25-2010 08:08 AM

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 07-25-2010 08:44 AM

I absolutely love it!!!

pittsburgpam 07-25-2010 08:52 AM


Originally Posted by 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....

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 07-25-2010 02:06 PM

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??


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