I'm slowly working my way through the stack of quilt tops that I've made for Project Linus. Donations are really down this summer, so I'm trying to finish some blankets.
I finished this quilt with appliqued hearts today. A few years ago, a bunch of cutouts from preprinted panels were donated to the KC Project Linus chapter. Mostly stuff that was designed to be pillows or stuffed toys. I've had custody of a sweater box full of cutouts for quite some time. Early this year, I pulled these 4 hearts out and machine appliqued them to a tone-on-tone off-white fabric and added a border.
The floral fabric on the right is the back of the quilt. One of my dollar a yard bargains from Hobby Lobby.
I quilted around the edge of all the hearts. I quilted the interior of the larger hearts with 4 more hearts following the design of the fabric. I quilted a heart inside the outer edge of the smaller hearts and then did free-motion quilting around the figures. I echoed the outline of the hearts and the border to fill the background. You can see those quilting lines in the picture. Lastly, I quilted a gently curving line in the red border to make the amount of quilting similar to the rest of the quilt.
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