PAT'S BATIKS

Pat made this quilt - the pattern is Turning Twenty -with lots of great batiks.  I love all the bright colors.  It's 91 x 109.  She just wanted a simple meander all over it.  I used a grey thread that would blend with most of the fabrics.

The backing is also a batik, with lots of the colors from the front:

QUILT OF VALOR

Joanne in my Quilt of Valor group made this using a panel.  It's 64 x 80.  I used a white thread to quilt a pantograph with flags and stars.

the panel

She added stars in the corners and borders to add size

The backing is a blue print:

Quilt of Valor

Pat in my Quilt of Valor group pieced this using a panel.  She added churn dash blocks around it.  It's 54 x 66.  I used a red/white/blue thread to quilt a pantograph with flags and stars.

the center panel

Churn Dash block  - also called Monkey Wrench

a flag fabric for the backing and binding.

Charity Quilt

I made an I Spy quilt for my great nephew last Christmas, and I had a lot of focal fabrics leftover, so I made a disappearing 9-patch for my guild's charity group with the leftovers.  It's 54 x 71.  I used a multi-colored thread to quilt a pantograph with swirls and spikes, and used leftover binding pieces for a scrappy binding.

cards, dice and poker chips

crayons

dogs

basketballs

fish

ladybugs

watermelon

The back was from my stash too:

Sandy's Christmas Quilt

Sandy made this queen size quilt for herself with lots of small pieces of Christmas fabrics.  It's 106 x 118.  I used a light gold thread to do a large meander all over.  She didn't want anything different.

I had to put it on our bed for a picture because I don't have floor space big enough!!

There are 3 borders:

The backing a light gold crackle:

QUILT OF VALOR

This is one that I pieced.  I quilted one of this pattern for the national group, and liked the pattern so much that I made my own.  It's 60 x 72.

I used a great "fireworks" print for all of the stars and cornerstones.  Then I alternated a red or blue solid background, with white sashings.

You can see the hooks I quilted in the red areas, and the X's in the sashing below. 

 There is an 8-pointed star in the center, with line dancing in the star points.

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I had flag print that I used for the border, backing,  and binding.

Quilt of Valor

This is a Quilt of Valor that I drafted and pieced.  I saw a picture in a magazine, and used that to draft the fabric pieces needed.  I forgot to take a picture before I washed it, so it has that crinkled look.  It's 66 x 77.  I like the way the gold in the corners of the blocks creates a secondary pattern.

This quilt was presented to one of our Congressional Medal of Honor winners.  I was lucky enough to be the one to wrap him in it.  Beneath the quilt he has a prosthetic right hand:

I quilted an 8-pointed star in the center of gold triangles,

 and where there are 4 squares together in the center of each block.

There are hooks in the white triangles;

I quilted connecting curves in all of the other areas

The backing is a great patriotic print:

Barb's Son

Barb lost one of her sons, and sent me a few things to make a memory quilt for the remaining son for Christmas.  It's 28 x 44.

The highlight is a picture of her 2 boys:

She had a few t-shirts, his varsity letter, and even his baby blanket.  

She bought a few appliques to represent some of his hobbies:

The stripe that is the background and borders was one of his dress shirts.

I quilted it using a pointed meander.. The backing is a light blue grunge fabric.