Sunday, July 10, 2016

A Quilt of Valor

Quilt of Valor 
60 x 84

I hope to surprise my brother-in-law, Bert, a veteran, with this on Veteran's Day.  I just have to remember to get it mailed off when it's closer to time.  I need to finish one more Quilt of Valor for the three veteran family members I hope to surprise - my nephew, my sister's husband and my husband's brother. 


I used 140 six inch blocks - some left over Twinklers from a past Quilt of Valor, some Chunky Churn Dashes from a swap and some Snowballs. 


I quilted it on my DSM with some freemotion loops and stars. 


I pieced a few fabrics for the back. 

This is also goal #2 in my list   for     Q3 Finish-A-Long. 


20 comments:

  1. Your QOV is excellent and even more special since you are gifting it to a family member. Awesome.

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  2. So many blocks! Beautiful and I'm sure it will be appreciated and loved!

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  3. What a wonderful, vibrant quilt!

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  4. It is beautiful! Thanks for sharing it with Oh Scrap! I find your quilts so inspiring:)

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  5. That's a beautiful quilt and will make a beautiful gift! You always have such amazing collections of blocks and fabrics!

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  6. I liked it before and love it now it is done. I really like how the red, white and blue works with this block design - bet it's going to be well appreciated!

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  7. So many of the official quilts of valor that I see seem to exude a slick polished look. Yours has a definite home made-in the best sense of that term-comfort filled and snuggle loving look to it. I hope that your family can appreciate these special quilts for decades to come.

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  8. Great use of orphan blocks. But it doesn't look like you used orphans. A very fun scrappy quilt.

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  9. Such a beauty! I love how those little twinkle stars live up to their name!

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  10. This quilt just sings! He will love it. Great job!

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  11. Cathy, the quilt is exuberant! Fun to see how you used swap blocks.

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  12. This quilt has a lot of patriotic vitality. I love it!

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  13. What a wonderful way to use up blocks and to honor Vets. It's a fun quilt.

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  14. wow one of the best QOV i've seen...love its scrappiness...great idea...a whole melange of different RWB blocks...love it!

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  15. Congrats on your finish, what a beautiful quilt!

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  16. A meaningful QOV for your brother-in-law. The scrappy look and bits from different projects looks like you really cared. BTW, my post is acting weird, just hit the Home button and it will show up.

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  17. Beautiful! The scrappiness is wonderful altogether. Plenty of time to enjoy it for awhile too ;)

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  18. Great quilt! A soldier will love it, I know.

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  19. What an awesome gift! Veterans are pretty amazing people! Thank you for participating in the FAL, on behalf of the 2016 global FAL hosts

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