DONE... DONE!

 I stayed up until well after midnight last night to finish the 'Heart Quilt'..... I got so far with it that I was determined to finish it before I went to bed!

 ABOVE:  the back of the quilt, it is 4 wide strips of the navy and light blue striped fabric... you can see my quilting .... it's not fancy, or elaborate.... but it will suffice.

ABOVE:  all folded up and ready for wrapping.  And now.... I am going to make another one!  I will show you later... OK?
lol

Today:  well looking forward to a nice day... might just read some blogs... do a bit of housework... and look forward to Stew coming home ... he will then have a whole 3 weeks off!   I can't remember the last time he had off such a long stretch of time... probably not since him and I had our 'honeymoon' back in 1997!  It was only 10 years after we got married ...and our first and only time away on 'holiday' on our own!

I do believe we will one day have lots of time together, just the two of us.... I HAVE TO!

HOW TO MAKE THE HEARTS:  

Right:  gather a whole shit load of co-ordinating fabrics... cut as many as you want into 61/2" squares.   Then using similar co-ordinating fabrics ... cut out heart shapes....

ABOVE:   about that size....  then place your hearts on to the middle of each square and applique on.  Once you have done quite a few you need to flip the squares over and trace a smaller heart inside the larger heart..... then you cut out the smaller heart ...

ABOVE: (ignore the fact that it's only half a heart in the photo).... So you end up  with the back looking like that...  Once you have lots of the smaller hearts you place them on TOP of the first heart (on the right side) and applique them on top of the first heart ... so you end up with two hearts on a square... THEN..

 ABOVE:  you cut ALL  of the squares in half..

ABOVE:  then you mix up the squares so they all look different.... try not to match up the same ones!  lol
Sew them together and you have the finished block!   Gawd it's so easy eh?



ABOVE:  now with these ones I actually cut around the finished (2) hearts to make it a heart shaped 'block'.... and then sat the whole lot on yet another square to make a bigger block... all on the same background fabric. 

HAVE FUN!

Been a quiet day, took the kids out to lunch then we have watched TV movies all afternoon.  It's hot and muggy outside so we chose to stay inside. 

One more sleep until  another year ends.   I have only one 'new year resolution' .... lose weight.
AGAIN.

End of Day: looks like Stew and I (old farts that we are!) are actually going to see in the New Year together!  Wow, we are still up... off to bed soon... so nite nite...and HAPPY NEW YEAR to everyone.