Be My Valentine.....

As it is Valentine's Day, I thought I would share a picture of a quilt made with hearts.....

---

.....about 5 years ago I went on a class at Quilters Haven called "Stargazy Heartz" - this was based on a pattern by Jan Mullen. I went along with my daughter, Alice, who was just 13 years old at the time.....

---

.....we both made some blocks in different sizes, and decided to sew them together to make a wallhanging for her room. We used my favourite fabrics, batiks, and her favourite colours at the time which was pinks. These vibrant colours are really hot and spicey....

---

.....this was a great class and it was so nice to do a class with my daughter - she got hooked on stitching, and went on to become the Saturday girl at Quilters Haven for a few years, and chose textiles as an option for both GCSE and A-level at school.....

---

.....this was my very first attempt at free mothion quilting - I stitched around the outline of each heart "stitch-in-the-ditch" and then did lots of "wiggely-woo" curls and squirls - and finished the borders with some straight rows of quilting. Binding in batik was the ideal finish for this wall-hanging.. We both loved the finished project.

---