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Monday, June 11, 2018

QUILT OF VALOR

This is one I pieced.  It looks complicated, but is really quite simple.  The piecing uses all rectangles, but a specialty ruler is used to trim blocks to create the small blocks. 
 Four blocks are sewn together to create the pinwheel effect. 

I like the effect of the blocks staggered rather than lined up.








The blue pinwheel is obvious, but there is also a red one -
 those you have to fill in the blanks  to see a full one.





I used a red white and blue variegated thread to quilt connecting curves in the red, white, and blue areas, and a gold thread to quilt the wiggles in the gold areas.






I used a blue thread and a ruler to quilt in the sashings.  the top picture is the horizontal sashing, and the bottom picture is the vertical sashing.



wiggly lines in the border also -  spacing is based on the piecing in the blocks





the backing is a mottled gold - the same fabric seen above for the binding



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