Postby Harriet » Sat Oct 04, 2008 1:50 pm
Each of the hearts is made from print squares - two become tops of the hearts and two become bottoms. To make one of the bottom parts of the heart, you layer it right sides together with the same size square of your background fabric, sew on the diagonal, open and press, and cut away the excess. To make one of the top parts, you cut 2 smaller squares of background fabric. You layer one of those right sides together aligning one corner of a heart piece and again, sew across the little square's diagonal, open, press and cut away. Then do the same at the other corner of the same heart piece to make half of the heart's top.
I believe the formula for measuring was that if you use four-inch print squares, you need one-and-one-quarter-inch background squares for the heart tops. If you use four-and-one-half-inch squares, you need one-and-one-half-inch squares of background fabric for the heart tops. (- I'm sorry this is not as fresh in my mind as it was in June! And we don't have that old thread to go back to, but I think that's right.)
But you could use different size squares, or you could experiment with the look of the top of the heart - see how it would look with larger or smaller background squares to make the top shape of the heart.
I made sashing and cornerstones that were a little smaller.
This is the way the quilt turned out with quilting in the Baptist Fan Pattern.
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