It’s sad that we’re in September now and I had to think back to when the Pulse night club shooting in Orlando took place. It’s a short news-cycle world we live in. At any rate, I asked the members of the Munich Modern Quilt Guild (oh, yeah, did I mention I started an MQG in Munich?) if they’d like to make a few heart blocks to send and also held a sewing day at my house. The sewing day ended up being me and one other member, but we had a few blocks from another member for a start and a fourth member sent me some blocks in the mail, so between the four of us we managed to get enough blocks for an entire quilt, and since I missed the individual block deadline, I went ahead and finished the quilt.

It took very little time to sew the blocks together. I then made a backing from Ikea Britten Nummer fabric and a colourful rainbowy stripe. Next, I popped the whole thing on the longarm and quilted it with a simple edge-to-edge design, which took about two hours including loading and unloading the quilt and a whole lot of playing around to get the tension just right. The quilt is machine bound, and though the binding is far from perfect, it’s sturdy and should hold up to some abuse.

Schnitzel and I both loved this block (made by guild member Martine) the most.

Do you have a favourite charity for quilts? If you’re looking for a good home for an orphan block, consider quilting it and sending it to Alison for her Soy Amado project.