Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Scrappy Hearts - In Progress

19 hearts down, 91 to go!
Last week I got busy with my rotary cutter and prepped all the heart pieces for Field of Hearts.  I cut my blues with an eye towards minimizing waste so it went a lot slower than my usual method; cutting strips by WOF and cross-cutting!

That done, I continued on and made four patches.

Then I was out of town for the weekend and didn't sew, but I've since gotten started on turning my four patches into hearts.  I will need 110 hearts to make the quilt size I have planned. 30 of them will be the light purple and 80 will be the dark.

My layout is going to feel quite a bit different than the original pattern.  The designer made all of her hearts with very similar background colors, whereas I have pulled two fairly different purples and will have more of a block and sashing look.


Linking up with Let's Bee Social and WiP Wednesday.

8 comments:

  1. Pretty! I can't wait to see more of it.

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  2. It looks great. I think your change in background color is going to add a great visual interest to the quilt.

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  3. How cute. I like the different backgrounds as well.

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  4. Those hearts are so cute, I love the layout you have in the last photo!

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  5. This looks good so far :-) I like that you are changing it around to make it your own.

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  6. Looking forward to seeing the finished quilt, and it is so sweet of you to be able to wrap her in a quilty hug.

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  7. Now I understand why there are 110 hearts! I prefer your two tone background and sashing to all one. also. I am going to store away that bit of inspiration.

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