And Yet More Quilts of Valor - Here's What I Will Be Working On Next

There's always something next! Always! Maybe not immediately, but still next. The quilts of valor that I make run between 90-125 hours each. That's a lot of time. 4.5-5 yards of fabric in each - the top, the batting and the bottom. That's a lot a fabric. especially in the top, as it's multitudes of smaller pieces built up to that 5 yards of designed top. And thread, and binding, and thinking, designing, changing and re-designing. And driving, shopping, shipping. There's a lot involved in every single quilt. And I can only hope that they each serve their purpose. I get to choose the patterns, and I like most of the patterns I have made, some more than others. Most that I've made this year I really like!

I began this one at the end of June, and finished it sometime in July, with all the regular things that also take up time in our everyday lives.

Matching the triangle sets

Preparing to Trim

Rectangle is the base piece

Hold onto the scraps

This is NOT how they go together

This is correct

Laying out the 2-pieces for colors

Assembing as laid out

Assembling, assembling...

From chaos comes beauty

Pinning the sandwich

Pinning didn't go so well...

The back of the quilt

The top after quilted

Binding is such fun! Ha ha!

Bound with words

Blue Lightning Quilt

This is the 'Blue Lightning' quilt, that I made on (what I call) the 'Shadows' pattern, but with descending blues of various shades rather than a single color, as the earlier 'Shadows' quilt displays. I think you will agree that it's stunning now that I've finished. I had to wait until I got all the earlier quilts in the mail before moving on with this one!

This started as a quilt for a family member, who I thought that I had missed while making quilts for all the others. When it was nearly finished, I reached out, just to be sure that I had missed making this person a quilt in the last round, and found that I had, in fact, not missed him! Though it would have been easy just to send it to him anyway, that would mean that I would need to get working on another for all the others, to keep them all equal and even. Instead, I turned this into a Quilt of Valor, and got it on it's way! 

In a couple of years, when each of my family members are approaching another watershed point in their lives, I will create and send them each a quilt.

May 31 - two halves of the top only

 

Working and Working and Working

Finished 'Blue Lightning' QOV

Finished Red, White & 'Blue Lightning' QOV