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Sew a wreath for V-day 01

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I saw this wreath on the Charm About You blog while I was scanning Quilter Blogs over the holidays and watched the video at the bottom of her instruction page  and saw a lovely new years wreath in it. In the new years wreath the similar fabrics were paired and I thought they looked like hearts. 

I asked my daughter if my MIL would like the wreath in Valentines day fabrics and she thought it was a great idea. We are blessed to have a crafting thrift store nearby. She went and picked up several different fabrics at $3 a yard. It's funny because I donated some Valentines day fabrics to them in the past year because I never thought I'd use Valentines day fabric.
She brought home some lovely fabrics, I already had a Dresden plate ruler and I cut an 8 inch strip from each fabric and made a total of 36 hearts over the past 2 days.


We only need 20 hearts for the whole wreath. My daughter is going to arrange them into a wreath and add some gems and decorate one side before we put it together and stuff it. The decorator fabric on the left is pretty with tucks it it but my machine hated sewing it.

BTW I think my picture problem is from my overhead lights. I turned them off and my photos came out much better with my natural daylight task lamp. I also updated my blog to a more simple modern purple theme.





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