This is another quilt that came to be as a result of our guild’s challenge. We were to use an identifiable piece of a certain beautiful red batik (no problem there!), as well as a heart on the front of the quilt. The theme was to be heart’s desire. I had an idea for my entry in July, 2011, though the challenge wasn’t to be until January, 2012, so I went ahead and made it while my idea was fresh. I used a pattern from Carol Doak’s 300 Paper-Pieced Quilt Blocks (block #126), resizing the blocks to 3″. Then I transferred tiny photos of the faces of our family members to the center of eight of the nine hearts that would make up my quilt. The ninth heart has a plain center, on which I wrote Family in white. The sashing and cornerstones are 1/2″ wide, and the borders are 1.5″ wide, as are the corner blocks.
The quilting motifs, which I did by machine, were tiny white hearts on each side of the heart points, with red loops in the heart “bumps”, and the feathers I like so much in the borders.
The quilt measures 14″ x 14″, and I finished it in July, 2011. Update: The challenge competition was in January, 2012, and my quilt placed second in the paper-pieced category! 🙂