I wanted to make up a baby quilt with some cotton fabric scraps donated to our Gramma Link Africa group and so I designed an heart and star pattern, printed it the right size for my 6.5" white squares and then traced them on with the gray marker from my Crayola Ultra Clean Washables marker set. I stitched the heart in green to coordinate (3 strands) and the star in yellow to coordinate (2 strands). The green is done up in a new stitch which I cannot recall what it was called. You start with a small stitch, bring your thread up a stich length away and then pass your needle behind the stich and bring to the back where you came up and it resembles a chain stitch. You continue with the same stitch pulling your thread behind the previous stitch. I like that it is more defined than the chain stitch and with three thread made a very well defined line. The yellow star I did in stem stitch and the star in single running stiches emanating from the center. I made up 7 of them - one for each row of the quilt. It is a win win when you can stitch squares and then include them into a quilt. Therese
