Heart quilt

Baby Scrappy Hearts Quilt

Today I’m sharing this adorable little Baby Scrappy Hearts quilt. I made this heart quilt last year but somehow it never made it up on the blog.

Scrappy Hearts is last years heart quilt pattern. The name of the quilt says it all, it’s scrappy! Scrappy friendly, stash friendly, fat quarter friendly.

This baby sized Scrappy Hearts quilt is made up using my friend Anna’s Driftless fabric line for Robert Kaufman.

Driftless fabric line by Robert Kaufman

I wanted to use something other than pinks and reds for this little heart baby quilt so I used the Driftless fabric line for Robert Kaufman. This line has such pretty blues with a sprinkling of corals.

Easy heart quilt pattern

Scrappy Hearts is a pretty quick and easy heart quilt pattern. It uses simple squares and half square triangles.

My quilt patterns usually have you making your half square triangles a little big so you can trim to size. I find that method so much more precise. I’ve always been terrible at making half square triangles perfectly to size. Plus I find trimming half square triangles satisfying and even a little therapeutic 🙂

Scrappy friendly heart quilt pattern

Because Scrappy Hearts is made up using squares, it is the perfect scrappy quilt pattern! While I didn’t use scraps for this version, you can swap out all of those squares for squares cut from your scrap stash.

The original Scrappy Hearts quilt is made from my pink scraps and pink fabric stash.

Essex Linen flax background

The background of this baby Scrappy Hearts quilt is Essex Linen in the color flax. The Driftless fabric line is all linen from the Robert Kaufman lines. So adding in a linen background kept the texture all the same.

I love quilting with linen and really love the extra texture it adds. I’ve pretty much only used Robert Kaufman Essex Linens in my quilts so I don’t have much experience sewing with other options.

Quilting with Essex Linen

Linen will shrink quite a bit more than a regular quilting cotton. I always use a smaller stitch length like 1.8 when quilting with linen. Pre-washing is never a bad idea but I will admit that I never pre-wash myself.

You can expect to loose a few inches on each side of your linen quilt when you wash it for the first time. I remember how surprised I was the first time I washed a linen quilt. It shrunk a lot!

What I really love about linen quilts is how warm they are! That surprised me too. We reach for the linen quilts way more than the cotton ones over here because they are warmer. Plus they get softer with each wash.

Wavy Stitch machine quilting

Is anyone surprised that I quilted wavy stitches on this baby Scrappy Hearts quilt…lol. If I quilt a quilt myself, 9.5 times out of 10 it will be this wavy stitch quilting.

It’s the same technique as the zig zag stitch in this tutorial but uses a wavy stitch instead of a multi stitch zig zag stitch.

The quilted lines are spaced 3/4 inch apart.

I keep using that wavy stitch because look at the beautiful texture it creates! The texture holds up through washes much better than straight line quilting so it’s become my go-to.

Scrappy Hearts Quilt Pattern

Scrappy Hearts is available in the Quilty Love shop. The quilt pattern includes instructions for a Baby size, a throw size and a twin size. It is scrappy friendly, stash friendly and fat quarter friendly.

I would call this one a beginner or ambitious beginner quilt pattern.

The original Scrappy Hearts quilt shown below is on the blog here.

Materials Used:

Quilt Pattern: Scrappy Hearts quilt pattern by Quilty Love
Heart fabrics: Driftless fabric by Noodlehead for Robert Kaufman
Background: Essex Linen in the color Flax
Binding: Driftless Emerald Gem
Backing: Carolyn Friedlander Doe
Batting: Quilters Dream Select
Pieced and Quilted on my Janome MC6700p
Spray basted using 505

The Ombre Infinite Hearts Baby Quilt

I have the cutest little ombre Infinite Hearts baby quilt to share with you today! Hearts + Ombre = one cute baby heart quilt.

I couldn’t resist sewing up a sample of my new Infinite Hearts quilt pattern using some VandCo Ombre fabrics. I had a feeling these heart blocks would look super cute in ombre.

The baby size Infinite Hearts quilt is the perfect quick and easy quilt pattern for a baby or toddler.

VandCo Ombre Fabrics

I used some extra pink VandCo Confetti Ombre I had on hand for this sweet little baby quilt. I believe I used both Popsicle Pink and Hot Pink mixed together. I had a couple of fat quarters of each color.

Ombre fabrics are so much fun to quilt with because the variances in the fabrics add so much depth to your quilts. For this baby quilt, I did place my fabrics dark to light for each block. So I did a little bit of preplanning to make sure each block could go dark to light in color. Although, I do think it would look just as good with totally random placement as well.

Ombre Infinite Hearts Baby Quilt

Infinite Hearts is the brand new 2021 Quilty Love heart quilt. I love doing a new heart quilt each January. There are two reasons for this. One, Valentine’s Day is coming up! And two, it’s always the perfect excuse to sew up your stash or scraps!

I always write these heart quilt patterns around scraps and your stash so most quilters will have fabrics in their stash to use for these heart quilts.

Stash friendly quilt pattern

The Infinite Hearts quilt pattern is a sweet heart quilt that is quick and easy to make. It’s scrap friendly, stash friendly, fat quarter friendly, fat eighth friendly, jelly roll friendly and quarter yard friendly. So basically you can use just about any fabric pre-cut for this heart quilt.

Infinite Hearts Quilt Pattern

Infinite Hearts starts with the cutest little baby (or toddler) size quilt. It also includes instructions for a small throw size (lap size), medium throw size, large throw size and twin size.

I’m always surprised by how quickly baby quilts go together when I make them..lol. I tend to make mostly large throws so these cute little baby quilts sew up so fast. I sewed up this Infinite Hearts baby quilt in about a day or two.

Binding and backing on this ombre baby heart quilt

I finished off this baby sized Infinite Hearts quilt with a Ruby Star Society grid in the color Strawberry. It complemented the VandCo ombre colors perfectly.

I used the same strawberry grid fabric for the binding. I tend to use the same fabric for backing and binding quite a bit. It’s the perfect way to use up that cut off fabric from the backing and I like the seamless modern look it gives.

Ruby Star Society Grid fabric as the background

I used a Ruby Star Society Grid fabric in the color cloud for this Infinite Hearts baby quilt. I actually used this same fabric for all of my Infinite Hearts samples. It’s the perfect neutral background.

Wavy Stitch Machine Quilting

I quilted this sweet little ombre baby heart quilt up myself on My Janome MC6700p using my favorite wavy stitch. I usually space my lines 3/4 inch apart but I decided to stop at 1 1/2 inch for this baby quilt.

The wavy stitch quilting is such a great versatile beginner friendly quilting option! You use your walking foot to quilt straight lines and the machine does the wave stitch as you go. Check your machine and see if it has a multi stitch wave design or I’ve heard it also called the Serpentine Stitch.

I always start my quilting on one edge of my quilt and quilt 1 1/2 inch spaced lines. Then I go back and fill in between each line at the 3/4 inch mark. So for this baby heart quilt, I decided to skip filling in my 3/4 inch lines because I like how it was a looser quilting and would make for a little drapier quilt.

I don’t have a wavy stitch tutorial yet but it’s the same process as the zig zag quilting that I blogged about here.

You can find the Infinite Hearts Cover quilt shown below on the blog here. That is a Medium throw size quilt using Kona Cotton Solids.

Quilt Pattern: Infinite Hearts Quilt Pattern by Quilty Love
Heart fabric: VandCo Confetti Ombres in Popsicle Pink and Hot Pink
Background fabric: Ruby Star Society Grid in the color Cloud
Backing and Binding: Ruby Star Society Grid in the color strawberry
Batting: Quilters Dream Select
Spray Baste: 505
Pieced and quilted on my Janome MC6700p

Infinite Hearts Quilt Pattern – A scrappy happy heart quilt

I am so excited to share this year’s heart quilt! The Infinite Hearts quilt pattern is available in the Quilty Love shop.

The Infinite Hearts quilt pattern was designed with your fabric scraps and fabric stash in mind! Infinite hearts is stash friendly.

This sweet scrappy heart quilt can be sewn up using fat quarters, fat eighths, quarter yards, jelly roll strips or your scrap stash!

The quilt pattern includes baby size through twin size.

Stash quilt

I made this version of Infinite Hearts using leftover fat quarters from my Kona Calendar Crossroads quilt. I thought I left out the red, coral and some of the peaches but now I’m not so sure..lol. Either way, it’s a large assortment of Kona solids in reds and pinks.

This quilt uses a few strips from each color. I love that this quilt used up these left over fabric pieces. It is so satisfying to sew your stash that way!

My stash never gets very large because I tend to do this a lot. If I have a bundle already curated and working well together, I’ll use it for more than one quilt.

Kona Cotton pink and red solids

Peony, Brt Pink, Melon, Camellia, Salmon, Coral, Peach, med Pink, Azalea, Pomegranate, Bubble Gum, Red, Creamsicle, Candy Pink, Punch, Baby Pink, Primrose, Valentine, Pink, Watermelon, Dusty Peach (I think I left our coral and red)

Ruby Star Society Grid background fabric

The background in this scrappy heart quilt is Ruby Star Society grid in the color cloud. Isn’t it the cutest!? It’s the perfect alternative to a solid white background. I will warn you that it’s a little hard to find right now. I used this grid for all of my Infinite Heart quilt samples.

Infinite Hearts quilt pattern

It has been such a fun challenge to come up with a new heart quilt each January.

This design took a few edits to get right. In fact, I sewed up an entire sample and then decided to change it up. I also spent quite a few hours sketching in Illustrator. There were some cute options but nothing was exciting me much. Until I finally landed on this simple design.

I love that it’s a simple heart but has movement with the four stripes. I love that the hearts are tightly spaced and continue off the edges. That is where the quilt pattern name comes from. There is no beginning or end to the hearts. They continue on in each row.

Multiple quilt sizes

Infinite Hearts includes five quilt size options. Since the block is a little smaller I kept the sizes between baby and twin. You certainly could size up by making more blocks!

The Infinite Hearts quilt pattern includes a nice baby or toddler size quilt, three throw sizes and a twin size. This would make the cutest twin quilt!

Three throw sizes

I love a large throw size quilt! But I also wanted to provided options for smaller throw sizes. Infinite Hearts includes a small throw, a medium size throw and a large throw.

Pre cut friendly quilt pattern

Infinite Hearts works for most fabric pre cuts! The pattern includes cutting instructions for fat quarters, fat eighths, quarter yards, half yards and jelly roll strips. You could even use layer cakes for Infinite Hearts!

Jelly roll quilt pattern

I’m always excited when a quilt pattern works with jelly rolls! Infinite Hearts is jelly roll friendly!

Scrappy heart quilt

And of course, it works with scraps! One of the reason I made the heart blocks with stripes is so that you could use your scraps. I’m really excited to make a scrappy version of this heart quilt. Use your pinks or reds or something unexpected like navy fabric scraps. Or how cute would this be in a rainbow of color?!

The pattern includes instructions for using a solid background like this quilt or using your neutral scraps for a scrappy background!

Ambitious beginner quilt pattern

I would call Infinite Hearts an ambitious beginner quilt pattern. I actually adjusted the design with beginners in mind. The trickiest part will be preserving the bottom points. But the pattern is full of diagrams to walk you through each step.

Riley Blake Wideback quilt backing

I almost forgot to include the info about the backing! The backing on this Infinite Hearts quilt is the brand new Riley Blake wide backs by The Tattooed Quilter! This one is the color grey.

I love a good wideback so I was pretty excited to find these new designs by Christopher. A wideback is a very wide cut of fabric intended for backing a quilt. I know it’s not hard, but I hate piecing quilt backs so I use wide backs whenever I can. I’m excited to see some new modern neutral designs hitting the market.

Long arm quilting design

This Infinite Hearts quilt was quilted by Jenae of Vintage Stitch. She chose the cutest little rainbow quilting design and I absolutely love it!

I also made a cute little ombre heart baby size quilt sample! I’ll post that one soon.

I couldn’t believe the toddler allowed me to get these photos! It was a quick session and I just let her do her thing with some gentle prompting. We got some gems for sure….lol.

Bonus blocks

Infinite Hearts includes these bonus blocks in the quilt pattern! I’m not usually one to save cut off corners but you end up with quite a few in this quilt.

You can use these leftover half square triangles for any half square triangle project or these pretty sawtooth star blocks! I plan to make up a full throw size quilt using these star blocks!

You can find Infinite Hearts in the Quilty Love pattern shop.

Infinite Hearts quilt pattern by Emily of Quilty Love

Quilty Hearts baby quilt pattern – The scrappy solids one

I have a cute little Quilty Hearts baby quilt to share with you today!

The Quilty Hearts quilt pattern is available in the Quilty Love shop.

Connecting Threads Color Wheel solids

This Quilty Hearts quilt uses the Color Wheel solids fabrics from Connecting Threads. Connecting Threads sent me a bundle to try out.

This was the first time using this fabric and I really liked it! It has a nice weight and silkiness to it. It’s silky but not slippery. I didn’t prewash my fabrics (I never do) and I haven’t washed this quilt yet so I don’t know if there will be any bleeding of the fabrics.

Pre-washing quilting fabric

Yes, I said I don’t prewash. I know that’s controversial…haha. I always, always, always wash my quilts with a color catcher the first time or two. I have had so few problems with bleeding that I’m still over here not prewashing. I prefer sewing with unwashed fabrics. Is it a good idea to prewash…. you bet!

Colors left to right: Provincial blue, dusty aqua, aloe, dusty rose and antique pink.

Quilty Hearts baby quilt

Back to this cute little baby sized heart quilt…. This entire baby sized quilt top was sewn up in a nap time! Yes, a nap time! I couldn’t believe it. I always make throw quilts, really big throw quilts. So I’m always surprised by how fast baby quilts go together..haha.

I put the toddler down for a nap and started cutting. I had a completed quilt top done by the time she woke up. It was a really good nap… but still! This cute little heart baby quilt is a fast and easy one to put together.

Scrappy friendly heart quilt

Quilty Hearts is all about the scraps! This heart quilt is scrappy friendly or fat quarter friendly. In this case, I used five fat quarters for this baby size quilt.

Rather than sticking with the traditional pinks or reds you might find in heart quilts, I used an assortment of these pretty Connecting Threads Color Wheel solid fabrics.

Wavy quilting on my sewing machine

I spent another nap time quilting this one up myself on my sewing machine. I stuck with my favorite walking foot quilting, the wavy stitch!

This is basically straight line quilting but the fancy stitch makes the waves. It doesn’t get any easier than this and it always looks good when it’s done!

These wavy stitched lines are 3/4″ apart.

This is the first time I used a colored thread for my quilting. Usually I just stick with a neutral like white or grey. Instead I used an aqua Connecting Threads thread.

Connecting Threads thread

I’ve talked about the Connecting Threads Essential cotton threads over on Instagram a lot. I’ve been using their threads for years and really love them. They are a little thicker since they are 3 ply but you can’t beat the price and the quality is great.

I always have a cone of white and silver on hand. Their cones are only around $12!

I really like their thread for quilting since it is a touch thicker but lately I’ve been using it for piecing as well. It’s the only thread I’ve had for the past several months.

Quilty hearts baby quilt backing and binding

This cute little Quilty Hearts baby quilt is backed with a favorite fabric from Rifle Paper Co for Cotton and Steel. This floral print is an older fabric that I had in my fabric stash. I love how you can use those smaller sizes of yardage in your stash for baby quilts.

The binding is another one from my stash. I believe it’s a kona cotton solid.