My Love of Hearts / Beauties Pageant 281

Picture by Melanie Zacek. Copyright 2025 C&T Publishing.

I don’t know what it is about hearts, but I love them. Perhaps they remind me of being a kid and collecting heart stickers or doodling hearts on my schoolwork? Whatever the reason, decades later hearts still make me smile.

It follows, of course, that I love heart quilts. And in a household where the only other females are Golden Retrievers, I know that any heart quilt I make is specifically for my own enjoyment. (Turns out, teenage boys aren’t big fans of heart quilts. Who knew?!)

I didn’t have the bandwidth to design or sew a new heart design for Valentine’s Day this year, but when I sat down and thought about it, I’ve designed a bunch of heart quilts already ...

There’s my Love Boldly quilt pattern, which I sewed for a QuiltCon 2020 stripes challenge ...

Then there’s the Folk Heart project I wrote about in December. This is a one-time sew for me (I won’t be writing the pattern), and I’m keeping this beauty for myself.

And remember the talk of my upcoming book release, Not-Your-Typical Jelly Roll Quilts? When I first mentioned it last September, the April 2025 release date seemed so far away. Now that we’re almost in February, April is just around the corner. I’ll be launching a series of blog posts to talk about the 14 quilts in the book, but I wanted to give you a sneak peek of two heart quilts in the collection.

Buoyant Hearts, a project with rows of hearts that bob up and down on a background of jelly roll strips, is pictured at the top of the post, and I Heart Rainbows, seen folded up below, adorns each easy-to-sew rainbow with a heart ...

Picture by Melanie Zacek. Copyright 2025 C&T Publishing.

See? Those pictures have you smiling, too, right? Are you sewing any hearts for this Valentine’s Day? I’d love to see your Valentine’s projects past and present in this week’s linky!

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