Here is the finished Crumb Hearts Wallhanging. Well, I think I'll use it as a little mat on my coffee table for Valentine's Day. It is not in the traditional colors for Valentine's Day, but who says we have to stick with traditional! The hearts definitely are not traditional, so why should the rest of the piece be traditional? This little Crumb Heart block pattern comes from Bonnie Hunter's blog in her free patterns section. You can visit her at
www.quiltville.com . This block was so much fun because it used up those little pieces of fabrics I couldn't bear to throw away. Even though this was a quick piece to make and used so much scrap that I had to hand-quilt it. Having something to work on by hand in the evenings when I am watching tv really helps keep me calm. Quilting in the scrappy hearts was fun because I quilted every which way. They I quilted down the middle of each sashing strip (scrappy too) and the inner border. Finally on the outer border, I tried to calm the piece down by using a purple. Does it really calm it down? Purple? Well, it seemed to work on this piece, especially next to the citron colored inner border. I didn't want anything like brown for the outside border. This had to have some fun to it, so the purple worked. The fun purple outer border is quilted with a rope design and then a little from the outside binding. You'll all have to be so proud of my when it comes to using scrap binding. I couldn't believe it when I checked the scraps in the bottom drawer of my sewing machine - there was binding already cut in the same fabric as the border. Was there enough there? If not, I'd just add to it so that I could bind it. Well, yes, there was about 4 inches to spare. Those 4 inches went back into the drawer of scrap bindings because it will probably be added to other small scrap bindings for a REALLY scrappy binding someday. Won't that be fun, especially when the fabrics don't really seem to go with a color scheme! That will definitely have to be a wild scrappy quilt!
My husband thinks I am a hoarder, and he is probably right when it comes to fabric. A funny thing happened the other day. I had been working on my Grand Illusion Mystery Quilt from Bonnie Hunter and was snipping off the little dog-ears to finally get my blocks pieced together. Then my husband came and asked me if I needed the little triangle he found on the back porch. "What triangle?" I thought since I hadn't used the back porch since about September or October. When he showed me the piece, he asked if I could use it in a block for a quilt. Of course not because it was one of those dog-ears. The dog-ear must have adhered to his socks when he went onto the porch, because I certainly had not been there. He understands that I don't usually throw away fabrics unless they are too small. Needless to say, the piece really was too small.
Today I'm going to try to finish piecing all of the blocks for Grand Illusion. Wish me luck!
