Valentine’s Mystery Quilt-a-Long #3

Welcome back for the third and final week of our Valentine’s Mystery Quilt-a-long.  Check out Week 1 and Week 2 if you have missed them.  At this point, the mystery is over and you will be able to finish your lovely Valentine’s Day table topper.  Let us show you how!

We added embellishments cut from our favorite felt in four colors: red, pink, white, and espresso brown.We designed cherubs, love letters, hearts and arrows, chocolate candies, and a rose for the center. We arranged the shapes with the hearts in the corners, the rose in the center, and the cherubs and love letters with chocolate on opposite sides.  You can do the same, or mix it up!  The great things about this felt are that it can be sewn on quickly by machine, it holds its shape well, and it’s machine washable!  We chose different combinations of blanket, zig zag, and regular stitch for each motif, as you can see in the photos below.The pink shapes really needed a contrasting thread to make them show up on the white background. Once the embellishments are sewn in place, you are ready to prep for quilting.  You will need at least 1 1/4 yards of backing, depending on how you are quilting it.  We used 1 1/2 yards since we knew we were putting it on our long-arm quilting machine.