Sunday Quilt Inspiration: DIAMONDS

Diamonds, according the saying, is a girl's best friend. I'm not sure about that as I don't exactly have a safe full of jewels. But I do have quite a few diamond quilts in my Pinterest. Those are just as good, aren't they? Let's decide that after looking at a few jewels. 

And a few diamond quilts, all of which are on my "heart, quilts" Pinterest board. 

Cotton Robin round 2

First the first time, I participated in the Cotton Robin hosted by Julie. See this post about round 1. What fun! I recommend that you look into it and join next year.

For round 2 I received this center block, but it didn't look like this. Oh no! It looked oh so much better. Don't get me wrong--this block is fantastic and anyone can see the potential. But some people just out do themselves!

See my problem!?!  Luckily, I was able to come up with something. Not anything great, and certainly not very competitive, but I'm not really much of a competitive girl. :) I play for fun.

I decided on a circle, although I had tried to make four hearts to go in each corner of the block. The problem became the corners of the block. Even though the circle is not perfectly round, I wanted it to appear somewhat so. My answer was HST's that didn't quite fit the width of the rest of the circle.


Luckily, the block went to Liz, who knew exactly how to quilt it. She quilted small hearts in each of the circle squares and small circles in the open white areas. 

Isn't this one precious little quilt? I love the small hearts in the inner border and the quilting is perfect!

Pin It Weekly #205

Pin It WeEkly #205! Fleur de Lis Quilts celebrates its fourth AnnIversary of 

Pin It Weekly in only 2 weeks! 

we're shooting for 

25 pins a week...

Since I have almost 7,000 quilts in the board "heart, quilts," I suppose that most of what I've been pinning have been quilts. These are the lastest of those many, many recent pins.

And there you have them--this week's Pin It Weekly from my Pinterest board, "heart, quilts."

Sunday Quilt Inspiration: C A N D Y

Happy Valentine's Day! I thought we might find some inspiration from the candy that sweethearts tend to rely on as the perfect gift. I hope my sweetheart brings me one of these: 

maybe one of you could give him a call and tell him.  Be specific. Say, "Go to Walmart and buy a Whitman's sampler for Mary for Valentine's Day. No other kind. Whitman's. Just Whitman's." Then write it on a piece of paper and hand it to him. Yes, it's like that.

Forget that I told him what I'd like. Then I told him what I want. Your job is to remind him that it's Valentine's Day and what, exactly, I want for a gift.

And as always, quilts in the theme...

Have a wonderful Valentine's Day. May you get your favorite candy and lots of it!