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Quilts of Valor

This is a great project - creating quilts for servicemen and women wounded in battle. My first quilt for the project went to a Vietnam vet:

The project includes not just a quilt, but also a journal of some sort & a presentation case to put the quilt in. Here's my presentation case:

I actually didn't quilt the top, it was sent to another volunteer who has a longarm machine.

Wish I COULD do that, too! Anyhow, here's my completed second Valor:

I haven't sent this one off, yet -- still waiting to hear back from qovf.org to find out where it goes. I really loved the quilting on this one -- they look so much prettier when they come back from the quilter. On this quilt, the quilter used white thread on top and variegated blue on the back side (which happened to be all white) and she interspersed some stars and a 'thank you' in the meandering lines - really nice.

Two quilts finished in February ...

These two quilts have been around for a long time -- finally finished them both. The blue, green and brown one is (I think) prettier in real life than it looks in this picture, and I spent forever hand quilting it and then ignoring it and then hand quilting it some more. The one that looks like layers of cards spread out one over the other is called 'Card Trick' and it definitely called for use of a design wall to preview which pieces should go where - I love the result!

My Roses quilt --- for Carol and Gary in January

January 2010 quilts

Charity quilts - January 2010!