Brooches

Day #270
Hearts #475-477

I made these three brooches from a damaged old quilt.

Each one is about 2 1/2" inches tall and wide.

Number 365

Day #249
Heart #365!!!

Wow, I did it, several months earlier than planned!  I've reached my goal of 365 sewn hearts!

This is a flat heart cut from a damaged antique quilt, which I embellished and made into a card. You can read more details about it on my other blog, Leslie's Art and Sew.

Brand New Cutter Quilt Heart

Day #5
Heart #8

Yesterday on my other blog (Leslie's Art and Sew), I posted about making my own "cutter quilt" fabric to craft with.  This is the heart I made from new materials:

This is the other side; I used the cutter fabric to make a two-sided heart, which will probably turn up in a garland in a doorway eventually, so both sides need to look pretty!

Cutter Quilt Hearts

Day #3
Hearts #3-7

A month or so ago, my friend Diane gifted me with several pieces of old "cutter" quilts for my crafting. Over the past week I've been carefully cutting and sewing hearts from them.  I am careful, because I don't want to waste an inch of these quilts; they are precious to me and I want to preserve as much of them as I can.

This pink square has beautiful hand quilting, and was hand-pieced.

I made two hearts from the section on the lower left.  I didn't want to waste the scraps that came from cutting out the larger heart, so I made the small one too.

Diane sent this small piece that was left after she made two hearts for Amanda. 

From that scrap I was able to make these two hearts:

This big block has a lot of color; I was drawn to the lower left corner, which is so worn-out that the batting is showing through the fabric

I just made one heart out of this piece, because there weren't any little scraps that needed saving.

This last one is the scrappiest and raggediest of all, but that's what I like about it!