When tragedy struck the city of Dallas, the Dallas Modern Quilt Guild sent out a request for heart blocks and quilts similar to the ones being made for the Pulse victims in Orlando, Florida. At first, I was just going to make a few blocks, but then I began cutting out the blue heart blocks with the pattern created by Allison of Cluck Cluck Sew. It was sew easy, I kept going. With the help of my quilty friend, Anna Addington, we made 42 heart blocks for a 60 x 70 quilt. I pieced them together, quilted them, and added binding and a label. So this is our #quiltsforpeace quilt to be given to the police officers families. For the first time, I got out my machine embroidery manual and workbook and made a quilt label using the embroidery hoop. Why I haven’t been doing this all these years, I’ll never know. It turned out great!
