It’s that time of year again where everywhere you look there will be hearts filling every post on Instagram! So in my pursuit to try and be different I thought I would make my husband a valentines card - which got me thinking about the simple Heart Quilt Block……… but smaller!

My eldest daughter requested a specific memory quilt a few years ago - a heart memory quilt! She didn't want squares, she wanted hearts! This gave me a good base to start from - I had already mastered my ideal heart block, I just needed to shrink it down!

So that is just what I did, I resized, tweaked and changed the heart block from Lucy’s heart memory quilt all those years ago and made it small enough to fit on front of a card, to make a valentines card.

I even decided to add some quilted stitches to the heart too. I basted it with left over batting and bit of off cut fabric for the back (this piece of fabric is not necessary but I do like how it makes the quilting pop out more!)

There is something really therapeutic about slowing down and enjoying a craft on a smaller scale. Making these Mini Heart Blocks has done just that. I experimented and hand quilted around one heart and machine quilted with my favourite Aurifil thread around another.

Depending on what you intend to do with your finished mini-quilt block, you can always add a border. I had a ‘window brown gift card’ that I needed the block to be larger to fit in it neatly, so added extra backing fabric to the edges.

The other style of Valentines card that I made were plain brown paper greeting cards. I simple used a bit of fabric glue on the back of the quilted heart block and stuck it straight on to the front of the card. I finished it off with stamping ‘Love You’ underneath the heart using a fabric stamper I had for labelling the kids school clothes!

If you have subscribed to the newsletter and downloaded the mini-heart block pattern, you may of already noticed that there are ow options for the size of the block. A mini size (used on the greeting cards shown above) but also a larger block, 6″ x 5″.

This block size is more like a traditional block size and can be easily used to make a full sized quilt - so I couldn’t resist making a few mock ups of a potential quilt using these blocks in Pre-quilt.

This is mock up of a quilt top using the 6″ x 5″ heart blocks from the free downlaod and 6″ x 5″ squares in-between the heart blocks.

The fabric (colours) used are Kona Cotton in:

• Windsor

• Breakers

• Ochre

• Foxglove

• Natural (background)

• Oyster (edge)

But a quilt is not the only thing you could make with this heart block. you can use just the four colours and make a pillow! I love this simple design and these colours, I think it would look really lovely in a kids bedroom!

There are so many things you can make with a quilted heart block - especially with the two sizes and I would love to see what you make so please tag me on Instagram @madejustsew and use the hashtag #mjsminiheart.

Thank you for reading and happy Valentines!

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