Love the shape of these hearts and was keen to try this out.
First quilted some hearts in the middle with the 3.5in heart
Very easy to stitch out with just marking the center lines of the square. Beautifully shaped.
I then quilted a bit of a scallop around the center of the quilt and put a little heart in each corner. As I still had two borders left, I decided to quilt the biggest, 4.5in heart across the two borders placing them not in a column but next to each other. This was a bit more involved, but easy to do with these rulers...quilted one side first, then up the other side and backtracking across the top of the hearts. Like other rulers from the Amanda Murphy range, she has got lines on there where you can align your previous, just stitched shape on. This made backtracking over the lines a breeze and also ensured that you hit the right point on the bottom of the heart. This was truly an effortless stitch out and once I had worked out how many hearts I wanted in the border and looked at my available space the actual stitching of the hearts was very fast.
Design-wise one could have done much more with this of course, but I always have to be mindful not to over-quilt these charity quilts, so that they remain nice and soft. The corner did work out nicely by linking the corner heart with the heart on each side (more or less, had a bit of a gap, but on that patterned fabric that was negligible)
Really enjoyed doing this little quilt which gave me a good workout on those heart rulers. The accuracy you can achieve with these is truly outstanding. I don't think think I once missed a backtrack or did not arrive at the point of the heart.
Karin
I'm delighted to see you have this ruler set and what you stitched with them. I bought them too, but have not yet used them. I'm doing her Diamond 2 QAL which will be using them and also thinking about using them on a baby quilt I need to finish by March (sounds doable, but we'll see when I finish it. LOL).
ReplyDeleteYou have introduced me to so many cool rulers that I would never have known about without you. Your sweet heart quilting adds so much to this simple charity quilt. Stitched with love, indeed. :-)
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