Quilters love holidays. They give them a reason to create a spectacular quilt to represent the season. Valentine’s Day is an especially great holiday for quilting. It gives you an opportunity to make an adorable quilt, and then gift it to your sweetheart. If you need ideas for a great pattern, consider these.
1. Patchwork Heart
To begin making this quilt, piece together a collection of hearts using four pieces of various fabric (two triangles and two half circles) to create the hearts. Then, fill in the spaces with various other patchwork.
2. Square Heart
With just four squares, you can assemble a heart that can be integrated into your quilt however you want, whether the hearts are tiny and in neat rows, or large and scattered in the center.
3. Puppy Love
You’ll need shades of brown, white, and red for this one. Piece together puppies and hearts framed in a four-paned window for this cute quilt perfect for the day of love.
4. Send a Valentine
Create a quilt piece with a heart sticking out of an envelope to signify sending a valentine. You might want to alternate envelope squares and mailboxes for this adorable idea.
5. Love Pattern
Create four large squares, each with a letter that spells “love.” Surround the word with hearts. Use bright, festive colors to make it pop.
6. Heart Collage
Hearts are relatively easy to piece together using several hues of one fabric. Bring a collection of these patchwork hearts together in a wild collage for your quilt front.
7. Pink, White, and Red
Any quilt boasting pink, white, and red colors is perfect for Valentine’s Day. You can use your traditional patch, pinwheel, log cabin, or friendship star patterns with these colors to make a cute Valentine’s Day gift.
8. Stained Glass Heart
Use jagged quilt squares that will come together to resemble broken glass for this quilt. Form hearts with various red fabrics, then surround the hearts with another color for the jagged window background.
9. Heart Appliques
An easier, and maybe even cuter, way to use hearts in your quilt is to cut them out of a single fabric and then sew them onto a traditional quilt pattern to create an applique.
10. Flowers
If you’re great with creating patterns, or you have a great quilting machine to do it for you, create flower quilt pieces to merge into your quilt. Nothing says romance like a single rose on a quilt top.
11. Hearts Abloom
Create a collage of hearts and flowers for a lovely, romantic quilt.
12. X’s and O’s
Use nine giant quilt squares to create a tic-tac-toe board filled with x’s and o’s. Or, put the tic-tac-toe board into a single quilt square and alternate boards and plain squares for a clever design.