a few hearts

We've been away. We went to Hawaii for 9 days to escape our very long winter for a bit.  It was so lovely!   I had time for some stitching.  I appliqued half of the leaves for panel #11 of my vine quilt.  Unless you're new to this blog, you've seen half appliqued panels before so I'll post about it when its done :0)

 So to escape the doldrums of cold, dark days on our return I started something new.  Something small for Valentine's day, something with curved piecing!  I remembered this project from the Feb issue of American Patchwork and Quilting from last year and I wanted to give it a try. 

It's another Jen Kingwell pattern - like my Circle game quilt.  Like the circle game I am machine piecing these.  It's a bit fiddly but manageable.  I don't want to make such a large pillow as the pattern so I'm still playing around with ideas of how I will put these hearts together.  I have 7 days if I want it done on time.  Maybe...  :0)
A couple of years ago Jan over at Bemused made a little heart quilt with blocks like this.  It is such a little darling - here's the link http://bemused.typepad.com/bemused/2013/02/roses-are-red.html .  I don't think I'll get quite that many hearts made but I sure like hers!

Happy Quilting!