A tabletop banner changes the feel of a room without taking over your sewing schedule. The Tender Heart Tabletop Banner Kit, February's Kit of the Month from Riley Blake Designs, bundles the fabrics and pattern to stitch a sweet heart-themed banner from the Tender Heart collection. Sold through Linda's Electric Quilters by High Country Quilts, it removes the guesswork of choosing coordinating prints, so you can go straight to a February finish.
What This Kit Makes
The finished project is a heart-themed tabletop banner — a decorative accent for the center of a dining table, dresser, sideboard, or entry console. A banner adds a focused line of color and motif where you set vases, candles, and serving pieces, without the months of work a full quilt requires. The Tender Heart theme suits February especially well: hearts signal Valentine's season without limiting the piece to a single day, and the banner stores flat to bring out year after year.
What's in the Kit — and What to Have Ready
The product description says this kit bundles the fabrics and the pattern you need to stitch the banner. That pairing matters: in a small project the prints need enough contrast for the hearts to read clearly, and enough harmony to look intentional. A Kit of the Month bundle from a single collection, Tender Heart by Riley Blake Designs, solves that in advance. The product title notes 45-inch-wide fabric.
Before sewing, read the pattern's materials list fully. The listing describes fabrics and pattern for the banner itself, so confirm what the pattern calls for to finish it — batting, backing, and binding are the layers makers most often need to supply or confirm — and gather thread, a rotary cutter and ruler, pins or clips, and an iron.
Skill Level and Time Commitment
Tabletop banners are a friendly format for newer quilters and a relaxing make for experienced ones. The sewing is mostly straightforward piecing on a small scale, so steps finish quickly and mistakes are easy to fix early. If you can sew a consistent seam, press accurately, and follow a pattern in order, you have the core skills needed. Plan on a relaxed weekend rhythm: one session to read and cut, another to piece and assemble, and a shorter session for quilting and binding — a finish in days rather than weeks.
Tips for Success
Read first, cut second. Small projects move fast, and that speed is only helpful if the order of steps is clear. Read the pattern fully before cutting any fabric, and lay the pieces out in assembly order.
Let contrast do the work. Hearts are a simple shape, so their impact comes from value contrast against the background. As you lay out your kit fabrics, squint at the arrangement — if the hearts still stand out, your layout is working.
Press as you go. A banner needs to lie flat to look its best on a table. Press each seam as directed before joining the next unit, and give the finished top a careful final press before layering.
Keep quilting simple. Light, even quilting — straight lines or gentle echoes around the motifs — secures the layers without puckering a narrow piece or competing with the hearts. A flat finish is the goal.
Bind neatly. On a small banner, binding is a major visual edge. Take corners slowly, check that the binding width is even on the front, and hand- or machine-finish it consistently all the way around.
A Small Finish with a Big Welcome
That is the appeal of a Kit of the Month project: a coordinated, seasonal finish without fabric-shopping friction. Stitch this banner for your own February table, or as a handmade gift — the fabrics and pattern already work together, and your time goes into the sewing.
Shop the Tender Heart Tabletop Banner Kit of the Month February 45" wide fabric per yard at Linda's Electric Quilters.
