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Bringing back the heart idea done last year...It's February 1, 2012!
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The heart would not look exactly like that because keyboard stuff tends to skew different characters such as the hyphen and the Capital "x" (X) You'd really have to be a real art programmer to figure it all out.
Oh, well, it gets the point across and can be transferred to a graph. That one's a little large if translated into 1 " squares. I should just start with a grid that's 25x40 or something, then space and border it to 45x60. In one-inch postage stamp squares, that's a crib-sized quilt, but oh, what a work it would be. Ack!
The above heart is 47 wide and 21 long. 21/47 = 44% difference or make the 21 horizontal rows 2.25" finished from top to bottom and the 47 widths 1" finished measurement in rectangle width. You'd need to add a modicum of height, just to make it look like it wants to be on a bed for a human being who is proportionately 8 x 3. (8 heads tall, 3 heads wide, plus 20 inches just to keep covered with no rolling for adults and maybe 14" for children.
IOW, cut rows 3.5" (or even a little more) into widths of 1.5". That would make it taller than wider like you'd want a quilt to fit a human being. If you left things in squares, you'd need to make 3 hearts which would appear rather flat, one atop the other. I'm not sure that would be too pretty, but even 2 hearts wouldn't make it a perfect square. You don't want a quilt to be a perfect square unless you are making a dual king spread on a bed that's 36" off the ground. It would have to be a minimum of 120" wide and long if you were young and healthy. I'm neither, so I have no choice but to do smaller things I can still handle. It's a happy thing to do and good therapy.
Just thinking out loud. Nothing serious, I hope.
