HeartStrings Quilt Project

We haven’t forgotten RWB while we play with other color combinations. Nancy and her group recently finished this top.

We’re continuing to work on blocks and tops for our current challenge.

Cathy finished a set of i Spy HeartStrings blocks using Turquoise centers.

And look at this color combination of Bobbi’s

This year’s challenge give us the opportunity to play with all different color combinations and by creating entire sets of blocks, allows us to break out of our typical blue and red centered blocks for a while.

To join in the fun (the project goes through August) click the link above for details.

Won’t you join us and make a set of blocks, a top, or even an entire quilt? Details for our current project are here.

This week Rebecca finished a set of blocks with brown centers.

Sarah finished a top with red centers

And I pulled a pretty border fabric and started a set of bright blocks to go with it

These quilts and more are on their way to completion and will provide warmth and comfort to someone in need when they’re finished.

We’ve been hard at work on our new challenge and you’ll get to see lots of fun variations like this one by Rebecca using stripes. Rebecca assembled her blocks into a top but you can participate by making a complete set and sending them in for volunteers to finish too. See the details at this link.

It’s our first official sew along of our newest project, we’re encouraging everyone to make a full set of blocks and even assemble the top if they’re so inclined. Don’t worry, you don’t need to make all the blocks tomorrow – our project will be continuing through August.

Cindy made an early start and already has this gorgeous top completed, her red strips were cut 1 inch but otherwise the blocks follow our standard guidelines.

What variation will you choose to work on??

Since we’ve done just about every color challenge in the past 5 years we’re
going to do something a bit different this year.

Our challenge will be for everyone participating to make (at least) ONE full set
of blocks — 24 blocks for a child’s quilt or 48 for an adult quilt — using any
color combinations you choose.

The challenge will run for 6 months from Feb 2012 through August 2012 so it’s
VERY doable to make just one set but I’m hoping that you will join me and make
more than one.

As always, you will be able to send in the block sets to Sue or Stephanie, send
in the completed top for a volunteer quilter to finish and donate, or complete
and donate your finished quilts locally.

We will have a weekly sew-along on Monday’s to share our progress.
If the weekend works best for your sewing — make sure you still pop in on
Monday and post/share a photo of the blocks you are working on.

I’m looking forward to seeing lots of FUN combinations and we will share photos
along the way of some of our all time favorite HeartStrings quilts to help
inspire you.

So get ready for our Feb 1st start day — cut your foundations, gather your
strings, and start looking for inspiration in our photo albums.

Additional links:
You’ll still need to follow the guidelines for the blocks — just substitute
your color schemes

Here’s a link to our photo albums for inspiration:
https://picasaweb.google.com/HeartStringsQuiltProject

For anyone who chooses NOT to participate — we will still continue to accept
any number of blocks made according to the guidelines with Red or Blue centers.

Finally, I’m very excited about this challenge and hope that 2012 will be our
most productive year yet!

Our last project paired up black centers with brights or homespuns – – look how the black makes these bright strings sing in Pat’s quilt.

Don’t forget that in addition to our scrappy Red and Blue centered blocks we always accept RWB HeartStrings blocks to make quilts for wounded soldiers and veterans. Click this link for instructions and guidelines.

One of the group quilts from our Lime Green Project – finished by Aline. I think I first saw our blocks set this way in a quilt pieced by Sue or her Mom.

Here’s one I just finished up from a HeartStrings project a couple years ago, the top was finished during the project but it waited a long time to be quilted. You can find a link to instructions to make one of your own in the previous post.