P - I - N - K Mini Quit

The second Project Quilting challenge of the year was PINK! Since I used all pink for the first challenge (see that one HERE), I was feeling a bit uninspired to use the color again. But in the spirit of the challenge, I really wanted to make something, so here it is!

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I hemmed and hawed all week about what to make. Nothing was clicking, so on the last day of the challenge, I woke up determined. I grabbed a mix of pink scraps (leftover from this quilt), and got started.

I started by pressing a 6" x 6" square of Lite Steam-A-Seam 2 to the wrong size of four pink fabrics. (I tried free handing a heart, but decided that wasn't a great idea. Ha!)

After printing a much better clipart heart than I could draw, I traced it onto the fusible with an air erasable pen. This wasn't necessary to use for this purpose, but it's my favorite pen in my sewing room, so I used it!

After cutting out the hearts, I peeled the paper off the back and lined them up on a scrap of solid white fabric. I used the ruler to keep them aligned. 

A quick press secured them to the fabric! (I used my Oliso iron.)

After making the quilt sandwich and pin basting, I used a hera maker to draw a starting line for quilting. I just drew one and used it as a guide for the first few lines, then used each new stitched line as a guide for the next line.

The hera marker doesn't actually draw a line. It just leaves a crease in the fabric.

I used my walking foot to quilt straight lines right over the top of the hearts in both directions. They're a tad bit wider than the edge of my walking foot. I just eyeballed the distance, so the lines are not perfect. I did not stitch around the edges of the hearts. The quilting is what will hold them on.

Then I used the striped fabric for a cute binding! (Tutorial for machine binding HERE.)

I was playing bobbin chicken with this one! I actually ran out while sewing the binding on and switched from white to a super light pink. Both were 50wt Aurifil threads.

In just one hour and 15 minutes, I finished the whole mini quilt! It measures about 8" x 27".

In this photo, you can see a peek of the backing fabric and the quilt label. And the snow we got the morning that I was sewing!

I really love the look and texture of cross-hatch quilting, and I love that it also sewed the hearts down at the same time. That made it a bit like quilt-as-you-go! 

It's not too late to whip up your own Valentine day mini quilt or table runner! Or even Valentine hearts to mail to your quilty friends!

I actually think it took longer to write this blog post than it did to make the quilt! 

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