Hi ,

I have a new heart-themed design for you this week, but before we jump in, here's a quick reminder on our Valentine's Day (more like Valentines Two-Week) sale:

The Heart and Feather Wholecloth Workshop

Included in our Valentine's 50% off sale is our beginner-friendly, comprehensive wholecloth quilt workshop teaching you how to make a beautiful heart and feather quilt!

Ten videos guide you through every step of making this wholecloth quilt. This video workshop will teach you how to:

• Prepare your fabric and mark the wholecloth design
• Add extra puff to your quilt with trapunto
• Master the three dense filler designs that will make your motifs pop
• How to fill the quilt in the most logical and fastest way possible
• Finish your wholecloth with step-by-step blocking and binding

Creating a wholecloth quilt is definitely a skill-building experience and you may be wondering if this is beyond your skill level.

I created my first wholecloth when I was very much a beginner and I made loads of mistakes! I've shared my beginner mistakes and many helpful hints throughout this workshop to help you through every step of the process.

Click Here to find the Heart and Feather Wholecloth Workshop!

Heart Design Quilting Series - Bleeding Hearts

I'm loving this heart quilting design series! This week we're learning how to quilt Bleeding Hearts on a small scale for show quilts and quilted on a big scale for bed quilts. See how this works in this new quilting video:

Bleeding Hearts is very similar to Heart Paisley - it's a pivoting design that fills your quilts with small clusters of tear drop and heart shapes.

I really like this texture and usually stitch this design with only one heart echo. Of course, you're welcome to change up the design and echo as many times as you like. This will not only take up more space on your quilt, it will add more lovely texture too!

Short on time? Click Here to find a 60 second or less version of this quilting tutorial.

Where Should We Quilt Bleeding Hearts?

Bleeding Hearts can be an All-Over Quilting design stitched on a large scale for bed quilts. It can also be shrunk down and used as a filler quilting design in art quilts and wall hangings.

I found this design very fast to quilt on my Qnique 21X Elite longarm machine, especially when I could swing out and make the tear drops and hearts very large. It was challenging to quilt the shapes smaller and fit into all the tiny spaces of my quilt.

Make sure to make yourself a frame weight for added stability and control when frame quilting. I really like using mine and find my stitching just a bit neater because the machine is easier to control.

Where do you plan to quilt all of these heart-shaped designs? Share your ideas in the comments below!

Let's go quilt,

Leah Day