Hi Quilting Friends,
We’re excited to join the “Color It Red” blog hop, hosted by our friend Carol at “Just Let Me Quilt”! We hope that you’ll enjoy your visit today.
This month our focus is on “RED”! Red is a strong and energetic color, and it can represent strength, determination, passion, or desire. Physiologically, red increases metabolism rates in humans, and raises our blood pressure too. Red is emotionally intense.
We like to use red in our quilting projects because a quilt with some red is never boring! Here’s a slide show that features several of our quilts that include red fabrics:
My project for this blog hop is a pretty quilted pillow cover, made with our new “Star in a Heart” quilt block! Here’s a picture of the block that Susan made, featured in our “For You, With Love” quilt:
I had some black and white fabrics left over from my “Black and White Delight” quilt, along with a couple pieces of pretty red fabrics in my stash. I decided to make a fun throw pillow cover for Valentine’s day.
The central block is only 15″ square, so I added some borders to enlarge the piece to cover my 20″ pillow form. A little quilting, and it was finished. Such a sweet addition to the winter decorations in our home!
The block pattern is available to purchase, right here. You can find the rest of the designs that are featured in our slide show at Ms P’s Pattern Shop.
UPDATE: The winner of our “Star in Heart” pattern giveaway is Dixie M. Congratulations!
Surprise! We’re offering a giveaway during the blog hop. Enter here for a chance to win a digital copy of the “Star in Heart” 15″ block pattern. Entries will be accepted until February 20. The winner will be notified via email by February 22.
We’re glad that you stopped by today, and we look forward to reading your sweet comments! Please visit the rest of the blogs on today’s list; links are provided below.
Happy quilting,
Sharon
Links for February 18th
Ms P Designs USA You are here!
Ms P Designs USA 
That heart pillow is so pretty! I also really like your football quilt.
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The heart pillow is lovely!
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The heart pattern and the completed pillow are really pretty!
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Love your pillows. So completely different when you change the colors.
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Neat pillow! I like the star in the heart.
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To answer the question in the rafflecopter, I like to use scraps in other projects.
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Great projects! Thanks for sharing.
I’m always looking for ways to use my scraps in my projects – from my postcards to quilts of all sizes.
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Lots of pretty in red projects. Cute heart pillow.
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Love the multiple levels on your to you with love block. Seems to provide depth as well as interest. Most quilts benefit from a little red or a little gold. Thanks for sharing!
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The star in a heart design is fabulous! So glad I found hour site via the color it red blog hop. So what do I do with leftover fabric? I had leftover pink fabric from a Feb quilt and made sameliasmum.com table runner.
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I love the star in heart design. I sort my left over fabric by sizes. If I don’t have small pieces, I refold what is left and put it in my file cabinets on a file folder. That way, when I open the door, I can see what fabric I have for the next project.
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You always rock these blog hops with your creativity and this pillow is definitely a winner…love it! It would be perfect anytime to show someone our love. And that slideshow is why I get so much inspiration from you…thank you!
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Great pillow and your other red quilts are also beautiful!
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What a cool heart block. The fabric choices really do make a dramatic difference. It really is fun to see all your fabulous projects!
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Your Star in a Heart block is lovely! I enjoyed seeing it in different colorways, too. Thanks for the giveaway!
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Gorgeous pillow…thanks for a chance to win….( there was no slide show that I could see…only the pillow—which really was quite lovely!).
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I love star quilts, and these are so sweet. Scraps from other projects I use for stars, as you can see on my blog.
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Gosh, truly a wonderful selection of quilts, but I am also liking that pillow, so clever how the middle is done I really like it. You two are amazing at all you get done, i wish I had half of that energy and spirit. 🙂
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It is a very cute heart-star block. I love both versions. And your red projects are all awesome.
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Beautiful heart star pattern!! Lovely pillow!
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Great design! My leftovers are added into my stash to be used in another project sometime down the road.
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Each scrap of fabric becomes a memorable part of another quilt-usually a Bonnie Hunter design. Thanks for sharing your heart design. I really like it.
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I like scrappy quilts so “leftover” fabric already has a purpose for me…..don’t always know exactly what that purpose will be, but it certainly won’t go to waste. I’m a bit too cheap to let that expensive fabric inch end up in the trash, lol. Thanks for sharing your cute heart!
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A beautiful project.
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I love the design! As to what I do with leftover fabrics – My quilting friends and I get together with all of our scraps and exchange 🙂
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Great combination of stars & hearts! Also enjoyed seeing your slideshow with projects & some real spark – how I LOVE red. Any leftover fabrics from a large project get put into use in future projects as scrap quilts are a personal favorite. Thanks for joining in the hop & sharing your inspiration as well as creativity!
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It is always great to use up those ever increasing scraps with such a pretty result. Well done.
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I use my scraps in string blocks or crumb blocks. Just about anything really.
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All of your quilts are lovely! Great pillow pattern! This would make a wonderful patriotic quilt pattern. Thanks for sharing!
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What a sweet pillow. Such a fun project thank you for sharing
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Lots of fun projects! The heart block is lovely.
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Look at all those ‘red’ projects. Red sure adds piazza to any project. Love your black, white, and red pillow – that’s the best combination there is, I think.
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Your pillow is so pretty. I do love some red in my projects.
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I try to use quilt leftover fabric in a baby quilt.
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Love the Star in Heart block. I like to cut up smaller leftover pieces of fabric into usable sizes like 2 1/2″, 3 1/2″, 4 1/2″ and 6 1/2″ units for scrap projects.
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That’s a really great block. Love how you used two shades of the same color for the star and heart. Really make the heart stand out.
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That’s a great pattern. I may have to buy that to use in a soldier quilt! Red is good for every quilt, it seems! =)
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Beautiful heart pillow, and thanks for showing it in different colorways.
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