Heart Walk Quilt

This quilt would be 41" x 54". It would take 1/2 yard each of 6 creams for the block backgrounds, and sashing strips and 3/8 yard each of 6 reds for the hearts. It would take and additional 1/4 for the posts. I did the layout quickly and bunched up the cream colors and the reds... obviously you would do your wonderful randomizing technique!

The block size is 11" x 11" finished (11.5" x 11.5" raw edge). The sashing strips are 2" x 11" finished. Posts are 2" x 2" finished.

It would take (4) strips of binding. If you make the binding strips 2.25" wide, you would need 1/4 yard of fabric. If you make the binding strips 2.5" wide, you would need 3/8 yard of fabric.

For the backing you will need about 1 and 5/8 yard fabric.

Yo, Love the Wine Tote!

What a great design. You are very clever! I'm sure your friend will love it. How did you get the idea to zigzag together on the machine?

A Special Gift for A Special Friend! A Yo-Yo Wine Carrier!!!!

A visit to my friend Pam in Wrightsville Beach prompted me to make a fun gift to take along.
Who'd have thunk! What a great way to use your scraps and those fabrics that just don't "fit" into a quilt!







Here are some of the tacky fabrics and the cool yo-yo's they make......never throw out an ugly fabric ...it's probably perfect for a yo-yo!!!

The colors these weird fabrics include make the yo-yo's very colorful accents to add to any project but perfect for this one.


During the past year when I had idle hand syndrome...especially at night when watching TV I would make yo-yo's hoping to find a fun project to use them in someday!

By zig-zagging the yo-yos together on the machine it creates a cool grid.

Here you can see the grid created by zig-zagging in both directions.....

I made a black canvas bag just the right size for carrying one bottle of wine. The yo-yo grid ended up 8 rows of 9 each to connect around the black canvas bag....

After slipping the grid over the bag I stitched the top and bottom to the edges of the bag....

To make the holder/carrier more sturdier...I cut two circles of cardboard and sandwiched them between clear contact paper so the disks would be firm and liquid proof...in case of a sweating wine bottle!!!!!

Here's the cardboard sandwich....

Trim off the extra contact paper......

Insert the covered disk in the bottom of the holder.....













Here is a close up of the yo-yo grid cover over the black canvas bag.....

VOI- LA-LA!!!!!! A fun gift to give a special friend!!!! Colorful and useful!!!!!

You'd never know it was tacky looking fabric!!!!!!!!

A great gift!!!!!

As I find interesting designs for the next joint quilt (dca), I will post them. This one is called Road Of Life... kind of apropos, but very simple design. I'm going to look for another. What I would like to do is have some combination of pieced and appliqued blocks.