Circling Hearts or Card Trick?

The block for March 3 (today) is Circling Hearts. It's also known as Card Trick. The math on the block is in fiddly numbers in order to please my publishers and make it a "normal" 12" size.

Here's how the block was made by Patricia Bryant of Australia. She was working from my previous calendar (2007).

Card Trick

Kathy M. made the Circling Hearts block using the Finding Your Way fabrics by Lisa Ruble for Benartex.

Circling Hearts by Kathy M. - 12"

There are 4 distinct hearts there. I call my adaptive version "No Tricky Card Trick" and made a fun quilt using some Kaffe Fassett fabrics. Easy to cut triangles and squares and rectangles, though it does create an "odd sized" block. Who cares if they all go together into one quilt?!

No Tricky Card Trick: 54" x 54"

The quilt pattern version is an alternate path to the traditional block (which is in my calendar). Let's see:

Center of the Card Trick block

All I need to do is add the corner setting triangles:

Here's another block made by a fellow quilter:

Now that I've given away my secret method, go check out the pattern for my No Tricky Card Trick in my Etsy shop.