A Heartprint Giveaway Update

 

                               

                               

                               

                              

 

                              Here are the current HEARTPRINTS along with the winners names.

 The winners names are on the backs, so they won't know which one they are receiving until it           shows up at their home.  Just a bit of surprise at this point in the year.

                                                            Here are the winners:

 

                                                             Sandra Stephens

                                                                   Tina Tx

                                                             Marilyn McLeod

                                                                Beverly Long

                                                                    Sandi S

 I will need your mailing address so I can get these to you asap.  Even though I may have some of them...please send anyway in case I can't find them...entirely possible the way things are going around here.  I have actually frantically searched for my phone while talking on it....honestly.  The human brain!!!

 

Remember, these little things I am calling "Heartprints" are pieces from one of my rescued quilts.  They are ALL from one quilt.  I have taken sections from the quilt to form these blocks, and stitched them to an old blanket from the quilt which was used as batting, then I have hand embroidered all the designs on the blocks.  You may display them as you see, or frame them...whatever you like.  I hope you enjoy them.

                                                             The hearts are appliqued.

 

.                                  

The teeny tiny ones, embroideredThey are actually fun to do.

                                         I'm told this by one of you lovely people out there:

          "Our lives are so impacted by Covid. We all need something pretty to be posted by you."

                                                                           Wow!     

                                                  Thank you, Cindy.  I'll do my best.

                                                  See you over the coming weekend.

                                                    Wherever you may be this day

                                                                   BE WELL

                                                                        from

                                                             Bird Nest Cottage

 

                                                                   ❤️❤️❤️

                                                     

 
                                                      

                                      
 

                      

A Crazy Quilt and Notice of the Heartprint Winners

 

So, here we are.  

Once again...it's all about the hearts!

I made this little quilt (15" sq.) in 1997 and would have shown it on Valentines Day...but, just like me to do, it was hanging on the wall in my hallway and I just failed to SEE it.   I swear I can't see the forest for the trees.

Anyway, I decided I would show it tonight, as it goes with all my posts in February.

 

 I made this quilt for one of our quilt events in my guild.

 So, just look it over.  It was lots of fun to make.

I love doing the embroidery along the seams...and then hearts everywhere else.

The little gold hearts are done in metallic thread.

I don't care for sewing with that type of thread, it's hard to get the stitches to lie smooth.

But, I did it anyway.

 

 I loved making the little stuffed hearts hanging from a chain of DMC floss.  Another really fun piece of work.  And, I know you will ask...that gold scallop is actually three dimensional paint squeezed from a bottle.  I hesitated to use it, but did anyway.  Funny...it hasn't changed a bit in all these years!

 

  

 I used a permanent pen to write the quotes on the borders. 

  

Here are the quotes:

"When friends meet....hearts warm."

proverb

"When you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends."

Merry Browne 

"The greatest gift we can give to one another is rapt attention to one anothers' existence."

Sue Atchley Ebaugh

"No life is so strong, so complete, but it yearns for the smile of a friend."

Wallace Bruce

 

  

 Some of my favorite heart embroidery on this little piece.

  

  

Most crazy quilters prefer not to use many print fabrics on their crazy quilts. Also most use 'fancy" fabrics.  I've nearly always used cotton as that is what I could get my hands on and it has always been fine with me.  At least, when I was 'into' making them in years past, that was the case.  But, being me...well, I always wanted to use mostly ALL printed fabric.  I still believe it's up the quiltmaker to decide those things.

 

 Hope you enjoyed seeing this quilt!

And, now.......here are the names of the two Heartprint Winners for February.

 I will need a mailing address from each of you:

Mandy Currie

and

Kathleen Santos

I hope to mail the Heartprints

 on Monday....all depending on when I receive the addresses and I'll show them on a blog post thereafter.

Next week, I will  also immediately begin working on the March versions... 

I appreciate each of you who commented and you never know, you might win one sometime this year yourself!

 

 until next time

BE WELL

from

 Bird Nest Cottage

❤️❤️❤️