mira loma musical hearts quilt

finally catching up on another quilt from last summer!
to be fair, it didn't get delivered until the beginning of this year, so at least that isn't too far off... right?
much like the migration music quilt, this one was made with a specific recipient in mind.  my parents met in high school at mira loma, and were very involved in the music program.  their director ted weber went on to begin many music projects they were involved in post high school, including donner mine music camp which were the recipients of the majority of the former music quilts made over the years (see all those here!)  ted fought a valiant fight with leukemia, but passed away in 2017.  i felt like his wife carol was very deserving of a quilt, and after combining a few patterns together, came up with this for her!
i combined the raspberry kiss block (12.5" tutorial by heritage threads) with the pixelated paper heart block from the quilt pattern by my tea & brie to create this sort of "hugs and kisses" pattern.  mira loma high school colors are this bright blue and red, which tied perfectly with the cream sheet music background.
i did have to hunt down a little more of the background fabric, which was an adventure in itself.  it was pretty fun hopping around the local shops in order to find the perfect reds to make the scrappy hearts as well as the raspberry kiss blocks.  i even had some help from a few of my quilt guild members to make the kiss blocks.  there are a few extra in my stash that are waiting to be made in to a second quilt even!
> i used the remaining blues to create a scrappy binding to bring a little more blue in to the quilt.  the backing is a tone on tone red, which framed up well with the blue around it.  additionally, i used a long arm pantograph that was similar to a trebel clef.  it is one of my favorites to quilt, and has looked great on anything i've put it on so far!
i had quite a bit of fun combining these two block patterns in to one and mixing up the reds for these scrappy hearts!  i would absolutely use these patterns again to create quilts in their own (potentially proper use) ways.  the hardest part was probably finding the perfect blues, closely followed by hunting out more of the background fabric.  the quilt was well received, and i'm glad i was able to deliver it myself to her.
pattern information:
raspberry kiss block (12.5" tutorial) - heritage threads
pixelated paper heart block - my tea & brie

quilt count: 116