Hello friends,
I recently came across the cutest 4-patch and heart quilt while on Pinterest! I loved the soft colors and the simple design, so I decided I wanted to make something similar using my Accuquilt dies, and here is the result!
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This quilt was super fast and easy to make and I will share what dies I used. If you don't have those dies, I will link to them, but you can also just wing it and use different sizes, OR rotary cut your shapes ;).
I used lots of scraps for my quilt, so if you want to replicate my look, search for soft pinks and peaches, with maybe some soft greens thrown in for interest.
One note: The Ric Rac border adds a special touch, but it has unfortunately been discontinued. However, you could choose to use the scallop die ( click), which would also be super sweet.
Let's get started with this quilt, which came out to approx. 37 1/4" square.
Please read through all the directions first, before doing any cutting! I made an OOPS and you want to be aware of this before you cut your borders!
You will need:
6" Qube~ shape 1~ cut 54 squares from assorted pinks, peaches, and greens. (=3.5")
12" Qube~shape 1~ cut 12 light background squares. (=6.5")
Attach fusible web to the back of 12 rose/pink/peach scraps and use the Queen of Hearts die to cut 12 hearts.
Sew together your squares in sets of 2. Press all seams in same direction. Sew these sets into groups of 4, nesting seams as you go. You will make 13 4-patches. Set these aside for now.
Lay out your blocks, alternating 4-patches and heart blocks, as in my example.
Sew the blocks together and press the seam allowances towards the heart blocks.
Sew the rows together.
At this point you can layer, quilt, and bind, but if you would like to you can add a border:
For the border I cut 4" wide strips x length of my quilt top sides ( you will need 4 total, all the same length).***** Read through to my OOPS moment and you can decide right here and now to cut your border strips 4.5" wide so that the math works out in the next step ;) *****
For the Ric Rac, I cut 2.5" strips from pink fabric and applied fusible to the back. 
Run the Ric Rac die through your machine and fuse the resulting strips down, and then stitch down with your chosen stitch/method.
I actually made a video on this entire process and you can watch that here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPS57snxZEg
Attach 2 of your resulting border strips to the left and right side of your quilt top. Press towards the border strips.
And here comes my OOPS moment:
I wanted to make a small 4-patch block for each of my corners and was not "mathing" correctly in my head! So I used my 4" Qube ~shape 1 to cut 16 squares, which I then sewed together into 4 4-patches. BUT, this made a 4.5" block, NOT the required 4" block to match my border strips, so I had to trim all my blocks down by 1/4" on all sides. You can of course do this, but if you would rather cut the correct size blocks right away, cut 16 2 1/4" squares ( or alternately, cut your border strips 4.5" wide!)
Sew the resulting 4-patches to both ends of the remaining border strips and press towards border fabric. Now sew these strips to the remaining top and bottom quilt top. Press towards border.
Now you are ready to layer, quilt, and bind!
Such a fun and simple quilt to make, and you can of course change it up any way you like...the sizes, the appliques, the colors....you are the boss of your own quilt!
For convenience sake I am linking to the products I used to make my quilt below.
Do let me know if you have any questions or something is not clear!
The Ric Rac die has been discontinued, but I think the scallop die would look just as sweet ( click)
Happy creating!
Monique
