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11 Valentine Quilt Ideas

January 18, 2025

Valentine’s Day is the perfect opportunity to express love and affection for someone special. And what better way than with a Valentine quilt?! I have gathered some fun ideas to inspire you in this blog post.There’s even a free pattern offer from a friend of Handi Quilter! Sweet!

Hi, I’m Mary Beth Krapil, Handi Quilter National Educator. I’ve been quilting for decades and traveling world-wide teaching longarm quilting for almost as long. In this blog post, I’ll share some creative Valentine quilt ideas that are sure to make your loved ones feel cherished and warm their hearts. It’s not too late to get in on the fun! There are some ideas for quick projects too.

Valentine Quilts

1. Three of Hearts

There is a sweet Valentine quilt pattern available for purchase at the Pro-Stitcher website. It’s called Three of Hearts. If you happen to be a Pro-Stitcher Member it is your FREE monthly down load for January 2025.

photo of a Valentine themed quilt featuring 3 hearts in the center
Three of Hearts
pattern by Ellen Pahl

If you are interested in learning more about the Pro-Stitcher Membership click HERE.

2. Quilt inspiration shared from Handi Quilter friends

Cindy Weatherly

picture of a quilt with multiple pink and red hearts
By Cindy Weatherly of Flower Mound, TX

This quilt would sure use a lot of your red and pink scraps! Love that backing fabric.

 

Cathy Fields

Picture of a Valentine quilt made with vintage prints.
By Cathy Fields,
using her collection of vintage Valentine prints fabric

Love those vintage prints and the background fabric is perfect!

 

Pam McBride

picture of an appliqued Valentine quilt with Vintage motifs
By Pam McBride
of Clayton, GA

Pam created this stunning applique quilt using the Vintage Valentine pattern by Verna Mosquera from The Vintage Spool. She quilted it on her Amara20 with Pro-Stitcher using the Ginger Heart pattern from Apricot Moon Designs.

 

Ann Hull

Red, white and black Valentine quilt with hearts tipped in different orientations.
Hearts for Amy by Ann Hull of Willow Spring, NC

 

close up photo of red.black and white Valentine quilt
Detail of Hearts for Amy by Ann Hull

 

Label on back of red white and black Valentine quilt. Backing fabric shows black music notes on a white background.
Label on back of Hearts for Amy by Ann Hull

 

Ann made this playful Valentine quilt for a dear friend back in 2006. It was a Christmas gift. I’m so happy to see labels on quilts!

3. Valentine Quilts with Couching

Couching using the Handi Couching Feet Kit is a fun and addictive way to embellish and quilt your quilts all at one time. You can stitch down yarns and ribbons as you quilt. Use free-motion, ruler work, or Pro-Stitcher with the couching feet. Here are a some examples from Handi Quilter friends.

Emily Cheney

Valentine quilt with multi-colored hears and embellished with a heart quilting design using couching.
By Emily Cheney

 

Emily used her Pro-Stitcher on her Amara 20 and stitched the yarn using the Red Hot Hearts design in the built-in Pro-Stitcher library. This was Emily’s first time trying couching! It really is easy and fun to do.

 

Paige Murphy

 

Solid red Valentine quilt enbellished with white yarn couched on top.
By Paige Murphy

 

close up of red quilt couched with white yarn in a double heart design
Detail of Paige Murphy’s couched quilt

Paige achieved a gorgeous effect by simply couching white yarn in a double hearts pattern on solid red. Gotta love that striped binding to frame it!

Want to learn more about couching? Read the blog post linked at the bottom of this post.

4. Quick Valentine Quilt Ideas

1. Place mats

If you’re looking for a smaller project that still captures the Valentine spirit, consider making quilted place mats like these. They stitch up quick using Pro-Stitcher!

Quilted pink place mat with a quilted frame and a red appliqued heart in the center
Quilted Valentine place mat by Mary Beth Krapil

The digital quilting design (not including the heart in the center) is available HERE.

To learn an easy way to make quilted placemats on your longarm read the post titled Holiday Project that is linked at the bottom of this post.

 

2. Little Wall Hanging – FREE pattern!

Want to make a cute little scrappy wall hanging to help you celebrate your love story? Here’s a FREE pattern from Stash Bandit, Diane Harris. Diane is a quilter, speaker, teacher and designer of scrap quilts made from stash. She’s full of helpful how-tos and  inspirational ideas for scrappy quilts. And she quilts on a stationary Handi Quilter machine!

Picture of a Valentine quilt with 16 hearts made from scrap fabrics
To You, with Love
by Diane Harris, Stash Bandit

3. Quilt a Valentine panel

I have one wall in my home that always displays a seasonal quilt. I love this time of year because I love this quilted panel. It was a blast to quilt using Pro-Stitcher with a little ruler work and free-motion thrown in for good measure. The digital design I used was from Pro-Stitcher Patterns called Faux Free Motion Edge to Edge 2.

Valentine quilt with large letters spelling the word LOVE
Valentine quilted LOVE panel quilted by Mary Beth Krapil

 

close up of Valentine Quilt with large letters spelling the word LOVE
Detail of Valentine LOVE quilt by Mary Beth Krapil

Learn more and get more ideas about quilting panels by reading the blog post linked at the end of this post!

4. Make a Doll Quilt

Do you have a sweet little who loves dolls? They would LOVE a little quilt for their dolly. And you can include a quilted message just for them.

Valentine quilts don’t always need to be red or pink. As long as it has a heart on it, you’re good. My granddaughter’s baby doll was a boy named Jimothy. So his quilt needed to be blue!

This little doll quilt has a raw edge applique heart and a quilted message. It measure only 19 x 24 and was made with a scrap of flannel for the top and back and a small scrap of the appliqued heart. I quilted the sandwich with an all-over hearts design using Pro-Stitcher. Then I placed the scrap of fabric on top and stitched a single heart. I cut around the heart shape leaving about 1/4 inch fabric outside of the stitching. Using a small scissors I fringed the edge so that when the quilt is washed it will fray and bloom up like chenille.

Small doll quilt in blue with an appliqued polka dot heart and quilted with an all over hearts and loops design
Baby doll Valentine quilt by Mary Beth Krapil

Bad lighting resulted in inaccurate color in the photo (sorry). The quilt is baby blue (not gray).

I stitched “Gramma loves you” in a cursive at the bottom.  Jimothy loves his quilt!

Quilted fabric showing the words "Gramma loves you" stitched on it.
Back of baby doll quilt. “Gramma loves you”

 

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Happy Valentines day!  We LOVE all our Handi Quilter family.

Quilt Every Day!

by Mary Beth Krapil

 

 

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