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Checkers and hearts: scrappy quilt blocks for a pillow or bedspread could be made by valentines day. Hearts and applique.

Here is a continuation of a series of “just for fun” scrap quilt blocks, all from left over squares of fabric and pieces that are cut into heart shapes. Applique is with my 75 year old portable singer…. nothing but zig-zag, nothing fancy.

Checkers and hearts: more scrappy quilt blocks

Checkers and hearts – quilt blocks, all unique
New block for a checkers and hearts quilt for my granddaughter.

Seems that many of these using scraps of material dont work the same way when using my old singer to applique the edges. I could invest in a new machine, but not likely.

Another block here.

Just more fun, scrappy quilt blocks, no new fabrics or thread. This one is a little rough admittedly, but the idea is fun.

Heart quilt with checks and hearts, individual blocks are so different and so fun to create. All from scraps, truly becming a scrappy quilt. This one, hearts specifically for one of my three granddaughters.

This quilt block has a heart made of left over lightweight blue jeans material which came from Polly Flinders down on 8th St. Cincinnati Ohio, in the 1980s. I bought tons of cutting-pieces from them there, as their cutters worked either in the same building or nearby. I mourn the loss of that company’s cutters and i think they ended up somewhere in the east by the coast.  Anyway — the blue jeans cuttings were from little girls dresses, and it still has the cotton feel and still has that raveling look.

I am still using the 70 year old “green” portable singer…LOL, forward and backward stitches, and 4 settings of zig-zag, thats it.