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For Valentine’s day I did a simple, and relatively (except for the quilting) scrappy wall hanging. The pattern is pretty basic combining 2.5” squares with 2.5” half square triangles. I did all shades of red except for the kitty sort of the middle. She is sort of magenta but the background is more a blue.
I laid out the squares as shown below.
You can easily tell the patter from above. After I finished it I realized I goofed and put two identical squares diagonally from each other. Doesn’t matter really I just normally wouldn’t do that. I did want the point pieces to be the same to give a clean point.
Basically add additional 2.5” squares to the second to the last row and 2.5” by 4” on the bottom row. You could obviously do another set of 2.5” squares if you wanted to. The background fabric is a cream with grey hearts.
I added a 2.5” inner border of the background fabric and then a 3” outer border of my heart fabric.
The extra room in the lower corner called for something. I first put in thread outline hearts but I didn’t think that worked, so I took them out and did two smaller bright red hearts on an angle.
For quilting I did an outline around the key figures — hearts, and then for the first time used the micro-stipple stitch on my sewing machine to quilt the background. Wasn’t perfect, but interesting. I bound it with a dark red with very minor texture. Put the hanging sleeve on and was done.
Last year I did the Valentine’s Day table runner below.
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