A Scrappy Log Cabin Heart Block

UPDATE 02/03/2020 - please note that this was designed as a scrap buster block.  Fabric requirements for a whole quilt have never been published.   Please note that this pattern is copyrighted and may not be shared. 

Isn't this just so sweet?

If you would like to make a block for a pillow or enough for a whole quilt, here is how to make the block:

Start out by picking a background fabric or two.  I am making my quilt with three different grey & white low volumes.

Next, gather up some 2 1/2 inch strips of reds and pinks (and any other scraps you would like to include).  Hint:  This is a great way to use a jellyroll!

For one block, you need to cut the following:

Background Fabric:

                A - (1)  - 4 1/2 inch square

                B - (4) - 2 1/2 inch squares - (draw a diagonal line on each)  

Scrappy Reds and Pinks:

                C - (4) - 2 1/2 inch squares

                D -(4) - 2 1/2 x 4 1/2 inch strips

                E -(2) - 2 1/2 x 6 1/2 inch strips

                F -(2) - 2 1/2 x 8 1/2 inch strips

                G - (1) - 2 1/2 x 12 1/2 inch strip

Ready to start sewing?  All seams are 1/4 inch. Press as desired.  I tend to press to the darker fabric.

• Sew 2 piece 2 - 2 1/2 inch squares together and press the seams.  This is the center of your heart or the beginning of your heart's ventricles for all of you with medical backgrounds.
• Sew 1 - 2 1/2 x 4 1/2 inch strip to the bottom of the your first two pieces and press.
• Sew 1 - 2 1/2 x 4 1/2 inch strip to the left side of your heart's ventricles and press.
• Sew 1 - 2 1/2 x 6 1/2 inch strip to the top of your heart's ventricles and press.
• Sew 1 - 2 1/2 x 6 1/2 inch strip to the right of your heart's ventricles and press
• Sew 1 - 2 1/2 x 8 1/2 inch strip to the bottom of your heart's ventricles and press
• Sew 1 - 2 1/2 x 8 1/2 inch strip to the left of your heart's ventricles and press

Your hearts ventricles should now measure 8 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches.

Now we are going to sew together your hearts atriums.

• Sew 2 piece 2 - 2 1/2 inch squares together and press the seams. 
• Sew 1 - 2 1/2 x 4 1/2 inch strip to the top of the your first two pieces and press.
• Sew 1 - 2 1/2 x 4 1/2 inch strip to the left side of your heart's atriums and press.
• Easy peasy thus far right?  Next, we are going to get a tad tricky... 
• Take 1 - 2 1/2 inch square of your background fabric and place it right sides together on the top left corner of the atrium as shown.  Sew on the diagonal line. Trim to 1/4 inch and press up.
• Take another 2 1/2 inch square of your background fabric and repeat on the top left corner of your heart's ventricles.
• Take another 2 1/2 inch square of your background fabric and repeat for the bottom left corner of your heart's ventricles.
• Take the 4 1/2 inch square of background fabric and sew it to the left side of your heart's atriums.
• Sew right sides together the atrium to the ventricles.
• Sew the 2 1/2 x 12 1/2 inch strip to the right side of your heart and press
• Take the last 2 1/2 inch square of background fabric on the top right of the heart and sew on the diagonal line, trim to 1/4 inch and press open.

Tad- da! You have one 12 1/2 inch Scrappy Log Cabin Block completed!

I have 8 hearts completed as of today...please pardon my tacky design wall.

If you make a block please tag me on Instagram @neverlandstiches so I can see...

Thanks for visiting and happy sewing...

Lisa Jo

Neverlandstitches

A Quilter's New Year on Instragram

     

T 'was the night before New Year's and she sat back and sighed

All the blocks that she pieced and the new things she tried

Twenty-two full size quilts were completed, While others set aside

She had such a journey from Rag Quilts to Patchwork all thanks to the push of her little girl, Jessie's Blankie

Three sewing machines she now owned, lived in the bedroom where her little girl had grown

To the photos she posted and those that she liked.  She was grateful for all the new friendships that had formed

For the laughter they shared and the tears, they had shed out of sorrow and joy. Some even over seam ripper frustration

So many had bonded under one CraftyCop, to unite as an army for the BlueRKBlock

Stitchesngiggles, Catching Thread, Olieandevie and so many more enable our addiction to fabrics galore

To the pattern designers who designs we had to try and download. But I put my own twist on each as that is my mode

For the swaps that she joined and a few that she lead. As we mailed off our blocks or our minis, we'd hope and we prayed that those who received them would love the things we had made

In our jammies, we'd craft each Saturday night and we would like and encourage to each other's delight

So now as we begin 2018, we post our intros and goals and wonder where we will end up as begin 2019
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Here's 20 of my big finishes from 2017

Happy 2018!

Lisa Jo

@Neverlandstitches

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