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If it's a quilt you have in mind, I recommend a wonderful site called Quilt Lovers Guide. You'll find free quilt block patterns that would work well with these cross stitch designs.
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Anne Cloth Afghan
The top layout looks similar to my first heart cross stitch quilt pattern. The corners display our Goodnight Prayer. The center three blue hearts display the name; the lower heart in the center gives the birth statistics (date, weight, length).
The solid hearts surrounding the center were actually stitched with variegated floss, shading from dark to light. Solid hearts work as well.
The top center heart contained the picture heart entitled "Sunshine;" the bottom, "Rainbow." The heart outlines in the remaining squares consisted of picture hearts and design hearts.
The second layout is the same one, filled with blanks to help you begin to plan your afghan design.
There are lots of layout options. Use one of these or design one of your own.
Decide how many hearts will have pictures and how many will have designs. It may help to print out the pictures of each design, then lay them out on the floor so you can stand back and get a better idea of how the squares look together.
You can see all the cross stitches, baby hearts and design hearts, by clicking on the "Free Charts" menu button on any page, or click here. Then click on each picture to get its chart.
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