Tumbling Hearts and NTT

Welcome to Needle and Thread Thursday, friends!  My heart quilt is all finished, along with all of my pinks and most of my red stash, and I'm so excited to share it with you today.

As I mentioned in my last post, I don't use a lot of red in my quilts unless they're holiday-specific, so some of these reds have been sitting in my stash for quite awhile.  It feels so good to use them up.

I decided that this one needed a little extra pink, so I quilted it with hot pink thread (Aurifil Blossom Pink to be exact).  It adds so much great texture.

The backing was entirely determined by two fabrics in my stash.  About ten years ago (!!!), I attended an estate sale of a quilter, and I purchased a practically full bolt of Kona Red.  Over the years, I have used it on Christmas quilts and projects, and as many things as I could, but I still had SO much of it.  And again, I don't use tons of red.  I decided that I had to finish it off with this quilt, so the majority of the back is made from these two bold Kona Red stripes.  

The center stripe is a fabric I never would have purchased myself, but it was gifted to me when a quilter friend decided to destash.  I used some if it in my Misfits quilt, and the rest of it here.  In fact, when I realized how much of this fabric I had, this red and gray argyle print was the starting point for this entire quilt.  I just had to add a couple of stripes of gray to widen out a little bit.

More of the Kona Red finished this one off beautifully, and finished off that bolt beautifully too!  I still have lots of grays left, and a very few large scraps of red, but don't worry!  I already have a plan for them.

I had several of you reach out via email (and comment), asking for a pattern for this quilt. I don't plan to write a full pattern, but I decided to put together a set of instructions for the block.  The block finishes at 6" x 8", so this finished quilt measures 60" x 72".  Have fun with it!

Okay, y'all.  Let's get to the highlights from last week!  This beauty is from Jan at The Colorful Fabriholic-

Check out this lovely quilt from Kat at Scrapbox Quilts-

Deb at A Scrappy Quilter linked up this fun quilt, and there's a second multicolor version in her post, too!

And this one from Something Rosemade is just fun!

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