Jar of Hearts |

Happy New Year!

We are kicking it off strong here at Stacey In Stitches, with a brand new quilt and pattern! Presenting Jar of Hearts, my contribution to the January issue of American Quilter Magazine. I am so thrilled to be featured on the cover. May this year bring you love, peace, and happiness!

Jar of Hearts is bright, colorful, and full of my favorite fabrics from the past few years. Each jar block holds a memory perfectly preserved in fabric. This quilt is perfect for using scraps of your favorite fabrics. It finishes lap size, but can be resized quickly and easily by making more blocks.

My version is definitely a child friendly version with its bright rainbow fabrics and layout. The best part of this quilt as a memory quilt is no two will look the same. Try subsituting the solid jar “lids” with a stripe or metallic print. Change up the background fabric to a bold or bright solid. The possibilities are endless.

For my quilting, I used a combination of stipple/swirls for the background, my feathered butterfly for the hearts (the same one I used on Sweethearts) and a different dense filler for each row of jars.