Quilt of Valor #51 - White Out

A snow-filled scene of a mountain, waterfalls, giant trees, a winter's day. A Quilt of Valor for a soldier long returned from service. I found what I think would have been the right fabric after this was finished. I am currently arguing with myself as to whether I should make another, with those fabrics, and see if it's better...

These were as close to the colors I wanted
for this that I could find.

It feels like I'm always cutting !

The first half of the top of this quilt

The Quilting has begun!

Sandwich, pinning the second half

Need to add lace to the bottom of the waterfall, to give it the look of movement. and maybe some snow laden branches across the rocky face to the mountain, to make it clearer what it is.

 

Quilt of Valor - Another Sky Scape Number 48

So, here's the coming storm! I've made this one in two pieces, and will quilt them and put them together after, as it's just so bulky doing it separately. A Quilt of Valor for a soldier long retuned from service.

Top half of the quilt, it's easier this way

Bottom half of the quilt

The quilt put together - Storms Bring Life

Lightning, bad lighting for it!

Looking down on the lightning

Quilt of Valor number 46, A Seascape Art Quilt

And so on to the next Quilt of Valor, a gift to a combat veteran begins. A seascape, maybe 'From Sea to Shining Sea' who knows!

The Fabrics, though the red changed

 

The bottom begun

The quilt top pieces laid together

Quilt of Valor - Purple Mountains Majesty

This is the next quilt of Valor - number 45, I think, in a series of 55. I should be finished in about a year. Each one takes, you will remember, about 100 hours to make. Lots and lots of work involved.

I've driven through area's where the mountains feel like layers upon layers stretching to the horizon...

 

Part of the sky and mountain tops

More Mountains

Purple Mountains Majesty

Quilt of Valor ...And Amber Waves of Grain

Here I go again! Actually, I'm about a week in, not at the beginning. With everything that's going on, (and there's a lot going on! Two family members broke arms, a month apart, both needing help, three new puppies, that car crash in December still having reverberations in that my car was not repaired well....) I'm starting on my 40th Quilt of Valor! It's tentatively named '...And Amber Waves of Grain'. 

For a long time, I've felt that 40 might be my last quilt. It always felt like a distant number, but had no meaning beyond that. But I realize now that's wrong, it has to be 55. So far, that's how long Curt has been left behind in Vietnam. One quilt a year for surviving forces, that made it home.

 

Choosing fabric from my stash

First into strips, then into triangles

Enough triangles to start building blocks

How I begin my block builds, then stack to rows

The first two rows laid into blocks

The 3rd row going together

Using the row above to build the 4th

The last two rows set up ready to sew

6 strips set and sewed, laid out into quilt top

Sandwich built for the first 2 strips

Sandwiching the last 2 strips

Quilting, stitching backwards to build the top

Top two thirds quilted, pinning on last

Changed! Bottom added and pinned.

Landscape Quilt - I've always wanted to make one as a QOV

My next Quilt of Valor - Who says that they all need to be red, white and blue?!! Especially for veterans of long past wars. An image of the American Southwest is just as celebratory, right? I happened to see an ad, for a calendar, and I am taking my inspiration from this. I've done art quilts before, so, onward! I've even done landscape quilts before, but it's been a while, and it's time to do another one.

Update: This quilt went into the mail on March 1st, with the last quilt I created at the same time. I think I may try my hand at a couple more of these 'type' quilts. Folk Art at it's finest.

One of these may be my next attempt!

Choosing fabrics

I think I add a base to each block

Building strips, 3 here

A different view of strips

Strips (6), not yet assembled

Same strips from a different angle

The Quilt. I like it!