Scrappy Heart Quilt Block Tutorial

I am so tickled so many of you liked my Heart quilt - and the amount of requests for my pattern blew my mind..... are you ready???

Here is my pattern :

Technical Right???

So I am going to walk you through it

I used 2 1/2 inch strips - I chose random lengths - all over 10 inches

( you could use 5, but I had longer ones and I wanted to stitch quick)

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After you have 4 strips sewn together.

I sub cut them into 5 inch pieces

So now I have the half pieces - they are 

5 inches by 8 1/2 inches

Then for the outer corner of the hearts I used 2 1/2 inch squares.

I stitched a 1/4 inch seam, sliced off the extra dog ear, and used that for the inner piece of the heart

( see I saved ALL the scraps)

you can kinda see this process in the right top of the photo below

I apologize I don't have a ton of photos

I had no idea anyone would want to know how I did it ;-)

For the bottoms of the heart

I used 5 inche squares

Folded them in half and stitched along the line

Then I made another stitch about 1/4 inch away

( see the bottom left of the photo below)

I saved those pieces and made scrappy half squares

So each heart measured 9 1/2 inches by 8 1/2 inches

I ran out of strips

( okay not really, I just got tired of making hearts)

so I started throwing them up on the design wall

I filled in the parts with solid white squares of 9 1/2 x 8 1/2 inch pieces

Then I used all of those scrappy Half Squares from the bottom of the hearts

and made a border.

Ta da!

That is how I did it

I hope that helps some of you

If you make something like it - I would love to see it - I think they are SO fun!!

Enjoy!!

Linking to:
Design Wall MOnday
Main Crush Monday
Mondya Making