Hearts on Fire Blog Hop, My Day

 

The Hearts on Fire Blog Hop started yesterday and so many great projects I have seen the past two days!  If you haven't had a chance to visit anyone yet, the schedule for the whole hop is below.

When Carol @Just Let Me Quilt announced this blog hop, making something with hearts, any color but red, I knew just what I wanted to do.  

I am also a crazy quilter, and haven't been doing much of that lately, and wanted to make a crazy quilt heart pillow.  As my favorite colors are blue and turquoise those colors would be used.

My husband got me a Cricut for my birthday last year, and I have been wanting to put that to more use than just what I did at Christmas.  

I first found a sort of wonky heart I liked and cut it out with card stock on the Cricut.

I transferred the heart to a piece of muslin I was going to be crazy piecing onto.  I used an image of my husband for 45 years,  my soulmate and love of my life for 48 years.  I also like to put a piece of batting on the back to make it firmer for the stitches to come.

I started piecing it, and then thought maybe it would be a good idea to put the heart on the back so I would know how far I needed to piece.

After I finished piecing the whole heart, I couldn't see it anymore on the front, so I turned it to the backside and stitched 1/4 inch out from that image of the heart.  

I wanted to cut on "Crazy For You" out of iron-on vinyl on the Cricut, and I spent 2 days browsing fonts, but finally made a choice.  Later after I ironed this on, I found an SVG file that said the same thing, but kept the same one.  I cut out the heart on this piece of fabric so I could attach my crazy pieced heart in the middle.

I had set the heart I cut out on the backing, and I got to thinking maybe I wanted to add some words to that too and add it to the back of the cushion.  

Went to get more iron-on vinyl, and browsed SVGs for another afternoon, and finally found one I loved.

I assembled the pillow.  I found some really funky lace trim in my stash I think my friend Cathy @Crazy by Design sent me last year when I was working on a project last year.  I thought it was perfect for this project.  

When I was quilting the front, I had quilted a heart around the Crazy For You part.  I decided it needed more quilting and decided to quilt some pebbles.  

That is my project, and many thanks to Carol @Just Let Me Quilt for this fun hop!  Be sure and visit the others below and see their lovely projects!

Creatin' in the Sticks

Life in the Scrapatch

Freckled Fox Quiltery

All Thingz Sewn

Den Syende Himmel

That Fabric Feeling

 January 19

MooseStashQuilting

Websterquilt

Words & Stitches

Vroomans Quilts

Quilt Schmilt

Cynthia's Creating Ark

Songbird Designs

 January 20

Selina Quilts

Stitchin At Home

Samelia's Mum

Just Sew Quilter

Scrapdash

Karrin’s Crazy World

The Darling Dogwood

 January 21

Quilt Fabrication

Ms P Designs USA

Beaquilter

Becky’s Adventures in Quilting and Travel

Ridge Top Quilt

For The Love Of Geese

Sew Many Yarns

Quilting Gail

January 22

Just Let Me Quilt

Karen's Korner

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

Quilt In A Not-Shell

Storied Quilts

Kathy's Kwilts and More

Homespun Hannah's Blog