I am just about to finish up a new quilting project (even though my first quilt isn't quite finished yet) so I thought I'd post a picture of it here. My friend and I took the original quilting class together, and have been going into the quilt store quite often to work on our quilts. My friend told the teacher that she was interested in doing a Valentine's Day project so the teacher came up with a class to make a pretty heart wall hanging. The entire thing ended up being about 2 feet by 2 feet. Its a curved piecing project which I thought would be hard since I had only done straight lines up until now. It ended up not being hard, but it IS time consuming and it takes a little more concentration to make sure your curved lines line up straight. Its hard to see in this picture, but the entire project is actually made up of 10 rows of 10 small squares. Each heart is pieced together with 10 squares each (some of them overlap into other hearts) and in the end this is the result:
I still have to finish quilting it, which will involve outlining the hearts and putting a backing onto it, but I finished up the top piece tonight and I'm quite excited about it :-).
Mr. V actually picked out the fabric for me while I was having my surgery, and I'm pretty impressed with his choices. I like the way the colors accent each other, and I love the purple background. Its purple paisley (I love paisley), so I think he did a good job considering the fact that he wasn't all that thrilled to go pick out pink fabric for me :-).
I'll post the finished project when I make it back to the quilt shop to do the actual quilting part.
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