Patriotic Heart - #32 December

I created this Patriotic Heart for my friend, Melissa L.

First I cross stitched the heart on the burlap that was leftover from Melissa's Mom's funeral as the background of the picture board.  I tried to cross stitch the white stripes too but they were not showing up so I gave up on that quickly.

Next I cut a heart from old jeans that was roughly like the cross stitched heart.  I lined the heart and the denim up on the quilting machine and quilted the lines out from the heart.  I did not applique the denim to the burlap first because I would do dense quilting that would not allow the denim to move much.

Piped binding finished this little item.