Piece a Simple Heart Block – Mini Block Monday #5

For the month of February, we’re piecing heart shaped quilt blocks! Learn how to piece this Simple Heart block in this Mini Block Monday tutorial:

Looking for a pattern for this Simple Heart Block? It’s all in the video! I’m trying something new with these Mini Block Monday videos and including all the information in the video itself. Just hit “pause” when you need to and write down the pieces to cut.

Is that just not your thing? Here’s a snapshot of the patchwork pieces to get you started:

Simple Heart Patchwork Quilt Block

You’re going to need both Half Square Triangles. Click Here to find a more detailed tutorial on piecing half square triangles.

Follow along in the video and trim the larger half square triangles to measure 2 inches square and the smaller units to measure 1 1/4 inches square before piecing your Simple Heart block

And here’s what it looks like when you finish your Simple Heart Quilt Block!

Simple Heart Shaped Patchwork Quilt Block

Click Here to learn more about the sewing machine I’m using – the Eversewn Sparrow 20.

Click Here to find a tutorial with my 5 key tips to piecing precisely.

Now if you really want to geek out on quilt piecing, check out my book How to Piece Perfect Quilts to learn the WHAT, WHY and HOW behind everything I do.

Let’s go quilt,

Leah Day

Watch More Mini Block Monday Videos!

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Pinwheel Quilt Block Tutorial

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Piecing a Four X Quilt Block

LeahDay

Leah Day has been teaching online since 2009. She's the creator of the Free Motion Quilting Project, a blog filled with thousands of quilting tutorial videos. Leah has written several books including 365 Free Motion Quilting Designs, Explore Walking Foot Quilting with Leah Day, and Mally the Maker and the Queen in the Quilt.

2 Responses

  1. Katy says:

    I’m so confused. Where do I find the downloadable printable for each of the mini blocks? I still cannot find them. 🙁

    • LeahDay says:

      The patterns are all in the videos! Please pause the video, or print out the picture with the cut pieces on the post, then follow along with the video to create the block.

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