Do you have Instagram on your smart phone?  If you do, you can quickly take a photo of your blocks in progress and see if any of your strings are not low volume. Just take the photo, and change it to black and white (Instagram calls it “willow”). In the blocks above, I discovered that there was one color (light purple) that shows up as really dark – so those strings have to come...

Here are my nine string heart blocks for February, 2013.  I can’t get enough of low volume fabrics now that I know what they are.  I even pulled low volume fabrics from my stash for the Linda Hahn Mystery quilt (from the AQS page).  ...

Making string blocks is always a good way to get some of my 1.5 and 2.5 inch strips put to a good cause. This is such a nice, calm looking block, which should translate into a comforting quilt for the future winners. Kathie L in...

I found the large triangles of string fabric that are trimmed away as part of making the block to be too large and interesting to toss. The original directions for the block (on my blog, here), included the directions for making a second, smaller heart block. Of course, you don’t have to make heart blocks from those triangles.  They could become butterfly wings or, you they could become fabric for making another block, like the...

In February, we’ll be the string heart block from two years ago, resized to fit our 6-inch by 9-inch rectangle block format for 2013, using low-volume fabrics. The print-friendly block directions can be found here: String Heart Block Tags This month, use the tag String Heart. As usual, please choose the category blocks for posts containing photos of your blocks, sent and received for messages about blocks mailed and received and show and...

While I did not win last year, I did at least have my 2 bonus hearts… they sat and sat, until this year, when I decided to make two more string hearts and their bonus hearts. Then, I laid them out, played with scrap pieces of black, and came up with this! Which then sat on my ironing board for another 2 weeks until I finally quilted it last night- nothing fancy, just in the ditch around the hearts (well, mostly- I had taken my contacts...

The hearts were won in February, the flowers are made from the violet flower block last summer. I love the way they work together. I have more hearts! I am making a sister quilt like this one, only a little different. I am really looking forward to a January block. Julie P....

This quilt for AAQI was inspired by the block lotto block for February. It is 7.5″ x 9.0″. I used one set of the cutoff part of the string-pieced heart to make the heart in this quilt....

Here are my 6 for the lotto. They are tucked away safe and sound. I am making more, but I want to keep them. I’ve got plans. I finally figured out how to use the hearts I won last winter. I mixed them with this month’s flowers and I fell in love. There are 11 flowers here, but I am up to 18 in my pile. I am calling it…. i heart flowers Julie...

Here are my 6 for the lotto. They are tucked away safe and sound. I am making more, but I want to keep them. I’ve got plans. I finally figured out how to use the hearts I won last winter. I mixed them with this month’s flowers and I fell in love. There are 11 flowers here, but I am up to 18 in my pile. I am calling it…. i heart flowers Julie...

Here are my 6 for the lotto. They are tucked away safe and sound. I am making more, but I want to keep them. I’ve got plans. I finally figured out how to use the hearts I won last winter. I mixed them with this month’s flowers and I fell in love. There are 11 flowers here, but I am up to 18 in my pile. I am calling it…. i heart flowers Julie...

I have just returned home after being “on the road” for 3 weeks.  All my “Heart Blocks” have arrived.  My post office box was overflowing!  I now have my 48 blocks and am so excited trying to figure out how I’m going to sew my quilt top together.  Thanks to all of who contributed blocks.  All blocks were well packaged and arrived to their destination safely.  I’m happy...