I saw this cute pattern on another site, by an amazing quilter. I really loved the mix of classic style quilts design with a more modern and interesting feel. That's my 14 year old, Jacob, holding the quilt for me. I made the top about 2 weeks ago, but there are technical difficulties in getting it on the blog. Those difficulties involve my 17 year old daughter, Victoria,
who always seems to have the camera when I want to get some photos off it! Now it's Saturday morning, and I see the camera, so if I can just find the cord to connect to the computer, all is well! No way that teenager is up before she has to be....
This quilt was pretty easy to make. That is, if you're not me :) I somehow managed to turn one of the block styles 90 degrees, so that the movement of the dark and light colors is interrupted and less obvious. Good news: it's a scrappy quilt, so who cares if it's exact? It called for 2 inch squares finished, and I wanted a bigger feel, so I used 3 inch squares finished. Now I'm in the middle of a 2nd one, this time blue. We'll see if I can do this one right! Since I'm using fat quarters for the blue, I'll keep to the 2 inch squares -- I'll have less waste with the fat quarters that way. For the lights, I just used a bunch of left-over scraps I had, so some of them are a bit darker. I added in the gold originally, to give it a touch of Marine Corps. I think I'll also use the gold with the blue, for a little Navy feel. It's been fun to put them together so far.
My goal is to make 5 Quilts of Valor this year, to send over to the rehab at Camp Pendleton or Balboa Hospital in San Diego. The only problem I have with the Quilts of Valor is that I'm not a pre-washer, and they want everything pre-washed. So I ended up washing it after I put the top together, then pressing and trimming all those raggedy seams. I use a little liquid starch with the water when I'm ironing, and it really smoothes it out.
