Some people have commented on the Heartstrings blocks. I am posting how I did mine along with the link to the site where I found it. It was found off of Bonnie Hunter's website www.quiltville.com.

Here is the link..

http://heartstringsquiltproject.com/


Here is how I did mine. I took an old telephone book and removed the pages. I cut them with a rotary cutter measuring 7.5 inches square. This will be the finished sized of the blocks. Then I use a ruller and draw lines on the center where my focus fabric will be. The lines are 1 inch. So I put the ruler from corner to corner wth 1/2 inch on each side and use a marker to draw the line. I do this to each side and this makes a one inch strip. I hope this is clear.

Here is a picture of the finished strip.

Next I pin a one inch strip of my focus fabric to the telephone paper. Pictured here.

Then I pin the second strip to the focus fabric strip pictured here. Now when I sew the strips I make sure my catch on my quarter inch foot is on the right side of the line. The lines are a little wider on the paper than the fabric. Oops.

Pictured here.

After the strips are sewn with a quater inch seem allowance then I press the seem towards the corner, not towards the focus fabric. I continue sewing to each side until I have a piece that looks like this, pictured here.

When I have the foundation telephone paper completely covered with strips, with at least a quarter inch on each side I trim the sides. You want to place the fabric piece upside down on your mat so the paper is showing. Then cut the excess off. Place your ruler on the on the foundation paper hanging over the side a quarter inch and cut. Do this to all four sides and you will have a square that looks like this pictured here.

Michele, I just looked and it's beautiful!!!
Thanks for the link :)
OOPS. Sorry !! You're not finished posting :)

Here are some pics of finished blocks.

If anyone has any questions please post or PM them and I will answer them the best that I can.

Hope this tute was clear. First time posting one.

Kyia

That"s ok susie. I hope it is all clear and you find it useful.

Kyia

Do you then just soak or tear the paper off??
Thanks :)
It's very clear and very useful. Good job, girlfriend!! :thumbup: :thumbup:

Tear the paper off. It comes off very easily! And your welcome!

Kyia

Great Tutorial. Have it bookmarked and already have a phone book handy.

This is great!! I have been having PP trouble, will try an old phone book. Your looks awesome!

thanks so much for the tut. would never have thought of using the phone book.

I bookmarked this to try out...thanks!

Thank you, I am definately going to try this. Did you go through a ton of needles?

very cool love the idea of using the phone book pages...

Thank you for the tute :D:D:D

Great tute. Book marked this one.

Thanks for the link and it looks pretty easy to do and saves some scraps :o). Keep on quilting and have great quilting day :o)

Thank you for the tute!
Very easy to understand & great way to recycle an old phone book. :) :P :)

I did not use anymore needles than usual. The telephone paper is very easy to go through. I use 10 stitches per inch and it tears so easily that some times it tears off when pinning another strip on.

Kyia

And, the older the phone book pages, the easier to sew strips, or to remove when it is finished. Newer books have stronger pages. piecefully, the old one

wonderful tutorial! I never thought to use telephone book pages...what a great idea! Certainly thin enough to tear off...and lots of pages to use.....!!!!

Terrific idea. thanks. I'm down the road from you in Millville!

Me too. The first one I did umpty years ago, I used left over typing copy paper. What a great way to recycle that old phone book.

Love the idea of using old phone book pages! Great tutorial. I've been meaning to do a project like this with all my saved scraps. You have motivated me!

I've made a quilt using this design but it was on muslin squares. Didn't have to take the foundation off of that and it added a layer of "batt". Can also use spent dryer sheets for this, too, and not have to remove. There was someone who posted a Grandmother's Fan yesterday and I meant to suggest using spent dryer sheets as a 'facing' for those to help turn the edge under. Makes it very easy to turn uniformly. (Spent dryer sheets are the ones that have been used until they aren't fulfilling their intended use.)

thanks!

Thanks! Will for sure try this one!

THANKS !!

Great tute, thanks for sharing.

Love the use of the phone book!

Thanks for an excellent tutorial. I can certainly follow. Will definately have a go at this one. Clever idea using the phone book as a foundation - great recycling. :thumbup:

If you take your block and put batting behind it as as though you are going to quilt it you can then do FMQ or try it. I had fun with mine and it turned out great. I used it for a baby quilt and it is just perfect. :thumbup:

I've made several quilts like this but marking the center is a good idea. Myself I prefer to use a foundation fabric like old ugly stuff or muslin.
A couple yrs. ago I made one like this for a great nephew and I made 130--6 1/2" blocks for a twin size quilt.
Will never make one with that small size blocks again especially making a quilt that big.
It was fun. Didn't really take that long to make all the blocks. I also used a light blue center strip.
I liked how all your center strips were 1" wide.....

WOW what neat tools we have just lying around the house; saw a tute the other day on QB with link to how to piece on coffee filters, and now this, a phone book page. This QB is such an all around great place to be; educational, entertaining, fun, the list goes on. Thank you so much Kyia!
Vernell in Austin

lol quilters are so good at reusing stuff. Phone book pages, whoda thunk it.

I really appreciate the tutorial. I was on a quilt retreat last weekend and some friends took the scrap class and used their scraps and selvages to make this quilt. Yes, they saved selvages for a year and then took over the ones that was not taking the class at retreat. I will try this using your tutorial. Thanks!

Thats a terriffic idea. Thanks so much. going to try this one. your bookmarked. smiles..

I am doing something like this for my Quilt of Valor. Except I am stitching to a 14 in backing square with a piece of batting and using the stitch and flip method. I guess you could call it Quilt as you go. It is nice to have a block all quilted when you are done.

That is beautiful! I made a quilt like that but I used the sheerest pelon I could find and cut into squares the size I wanted the blocks to be. Then I sewed the fabric to the pelon, turned block over, cut to size and bingo...No paper to peel, no seams to ravel, only the setting seams showed. Gives nice stability to the blocks.