I took an applique class which involved appliqueing small hearts to a background. We divided the background into 36 even squares and lightly marked them. Then we thread basted each heart to the background and hand appliqued them down.
I don’t think we quilted around each heart but hand quilted the straight lines between the hearts. I gave this wall hanging to my sister and enjoyed doing it so much that I made another one. I gave this one to a friend.
I hand quilted a design in each border. You can see it better in the second quilt – it’s a curved design with a heart on the inside of each curve.
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