My Heart Blooms – 2007

Another great niece – how exciting!  I had recently finished making the Sugar and Spice quilt and loved the look of the flowers in the hearts.  I decided to make a quilt placing the hearts in vertical rows with a flower in each one.  I found a lovely floral fabric for the borders and used the colors in it for the flowers.  Each row of hearts was bordered with a narrow strip of black and white striped fabric cut across the stripes, and that fabric was also used for the binding.  Here is my great niece holding her quilt.

This quilt is entirely hand appliqued and hand quilted.  I quilted around the flower and heart appliques, around the borders and did a grid in the outside border.

Here is the backing fabric which I fell in love with and seemed right for this quilt because of all the colors and hearts.