February Hearts Block

February has been a long month with breaking my wrist limiting so much of what I am accustomed to doing. 

I have tried EPP and that did not work out too well, although I did get a little done on my Jacks Chain.

So then I tried embroidering on a BOM of the month I started in January.  This is the February block, appropriately named Hearts.  I had it a little less that half done before my fall.  I found that by balancing the hoop on a table I could stitch one handed,  but after just a bit of trying to undo knotted thread, rethreading needle and not so good stitches, I gave up on this too.  The heavier stitching is twilling, and the other is backstitch. I did finish the block!

So now I am trying to do a little machine piecing 4 patches. 
I have a tub full of 2 1/2 inch squares and have recruited a friend and my husband to cut scrappy off white and white tone on tone squares for me.  This is fun, and I can even press the seams open.  I have just been sewing twosies so far, but that is a start! 

I learned how to layout a custom quilt in EQ8, so I spent this morning designing my 4 patch quilt.  Going to have to teach hubby how to square the 4 patches for me, but he seems to be enjoying working with me on the quilt. Here are my designs.  The 4 patches will be scrappy, but I just used the same block in the design.

This one is my favorite so far, but that could change.

Least favorite, maybe too messy looking?

I like this, but it seems off balance to me - think it needs one more column of 4 patches to match the first vertical row.

Had to laugh, hubby asked me at supper how long it would take us to finish "our" quilt.

Teresa