Valentines, Ribbons, and Bows

I wanted to publish before the holiday and may not get this complete so will go ahead and publish for now and update later.

I wanted to make a simple heart patchwork quilt but it seemed a little plain and so I sewed this log border in graduating lengths which I love!  The logs are 1 1/2" x 6 1/2, 5 1/2, 4 1/2, 3 1/2, 2 1/2 and 1 1/2 inches. 

 Then decided to add another bow border (what happened to simple?), which I'm working on now and I have made some instructions for, you can see below.

All scrappy

Actually, since I'm adding the other borders I took out a bunch of the hearts, so almost have enough to make a second quilt!  The 12 1/2" heart blocks are made using the tutorial, I share here.  Valentine block.  The only difference is those hearts nest, so here you have to add a triangle to each bottom side.  Cut a 6 7/8" square and cut in half diagonally, which will give you the two triangles that you need.

Here's a picture before removing quite a few of the blocks. Doesn't it just look a little too plain??

I made some diagrams with some cutting instructions below for the bows.  I'm going to make my streamer ribbons longer, so that is why the instructions say you can make extra ribbon parts.

I included three methods to construct the sections. I like to make templates which is less wasteful.  Be aware that some of the 2 1/2 x 4 1/2" blocks are mirror images which matters if your fabric has a wrong side and doesn't matter if it does not have a wrong side, because then you can just flip it over.

You do NOT need to stitch and flip the ribbon corners for the streamer parts, if you use the template method, but can just sew them together (saves lots of seams and sewing)