RSC23 Week #12 - small hearts

 Small heart blocks (4.5") have been one of my on-going RSC projects for a couple of years now. It will take a LOT of 4.5" blocks to make a whole quilt.  But I have plenty of patience with these, and they are so easy to just make a few at a time.

I make a few at a time each month, and they go into this little plastic box.  I also cut the 2.5" by 4.5" strips of scraps as I'm sewing and drop those in too.  The box contains lots of different colors of strips, and a whole rainbow of completed hearts.   

Earlier in the month I made a couple of green hearts, but this week I remembered there were lots more green parts in the box.  So, 2 more green ones were finished along with 5 additional blocks in other colors.  These were all clipped together with the white pieces so it was a quick task.  I also realized I had more than enough hearts now to make a 5th vertical column to add to the quilt top in progress.

And when I laid the existing quilt top section out to decide what colors to add next - I saw the error in that Column #4.  The hearts are supposed to zig-zag down the column, but that purple block should have lined up with the blue-ish one below the yellow heart. Oops!!  I've had this quilt top section hanging next to my design wall - which I face when at my sewing machine - for about 2 months and never noticed that mistake. In that first photo - there was another oops - again without the zig-zag. 

It was a quick fix with my seam ripper in both cases.  I took out the purple heart along with the horizontal strip below it.  Then I just inserted a different block that was correctly aligned.  The purple heart went right into Column #5 as I assembled that one.  The block in that first picture was also moved.

At this point this quilt top is only 30" wide, so there will be more columns added.  Obviously there is no rush so these will continue as RSC blocks. 

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