This was just last year’s BOMquilts.com’s block of the month quilt, but it is absolutely gorgeous using wonderful batiks!
Print this pattern. Save this pattern. It’s definitely one you need to put together as the colors are smashing!
This was just last year’s BOMquilts.com’s block of the month quilt, but it is absolutely gorgeous using wonderful batiks!
Print this pattern. Save this pattern. It’s definitely one you need to put together as the colors are smashing!
This quilt is one that I had the most fun making. I *love* raw-edge applique and I designed and made the templates for my quilt using a pinking blade in my rotary cutter. The instructions allow for other types of applique but most of our local little quilt group made this quilt with their own scrappy fabrics and colors and it was SO. MUCH. FUN. to see how different everyone’s finished out (you can see one here and a few more here)! Not to mention that each block goes together very quickly, if you use raw-edge applique, because you just cut and sew using your own creativity!
Santorini Stars 2010 BOM Quilt designed by BOMquilts.com
I was a nanny to a baby 25-years-ago (eeeek!) and this was the quilt I gave her upon her college graduation. I had intended to give her a completely different quilt when she graduated from high school…but, it didn’t fit with her personality. THIS one spoke her name to me and she absolutely loves it!
Go on, have a little more quilt therapy fun and enjoy making this festive quilt!
Donna and I decided have been virtual friends for about 14 years. We’ve never met though we came pretty close one time! LOL We have emailed back and forth and even talked to each other on the phone in year’s past. This year, her daughter graduated from high school. I asked Donna if I could make a quilt for her daughter. She was speechless, to say the least, that I would want to do something like that for folks I’ve never met. But, there’s more to virtual friendships than meets the eye…and I felt compelled to send a quilt to her daughter as a graduation gift. As Donna wrote about it, she said it was the most personal gift that her daughter received.
Here’s a pix of the completed quilt top:
And here’s a pix of the beautiful quilting that Meloney Funk used – of special note is that the recipient’s middle name is Rose so Meloney quilted the quilt with cabbage roses:
And here’s a photo of the high school graduate with her quilt:
I hope she uses it as it was meant to be used – and loves it as it was made with quilted love!
There is the national organization, Quilts of Valor Foundation (QOV), a non-profit group that delivers beautiful quilts to our service men and women. It is a fabulous non-profit group that is from any quilted hearts.
But, with so many of our service members from the most current conflicts in the past 10 years, there are dwindling numbers of older Veteran’s who have yet to be recognized with a quilt. I do not see that there are any WWI Veteran’s still alive and the numbers of WWII Veteran’s are now dying off. The Veteran’s from the Korean and Vietnam wars/conflicts are now mostly senior citizens and, again, there are more deaths each day from those who served during the 1950’s and 1960’s.
And unfortunately, QOV can barely keep up with the most recent returning Veteran’s, either wounded or not. Which leaves our older Veteran’s perhaps recognized on a local level but rarely on a national level.
Enter in Military Veteran Quilts. I started this website and hopefully, with the help of volunteers, it will grow legs and race across the United States – to help recognize those older service men and women who have yet to be noticed by the QOV. Once the concept came to me, I wanted our first quilt to be made for someone local. Our county’s American Legion was our Girl Scout Service Unit sponsor so naturally (I was a Girl Scout leader here for three years), that was the first place I looked for a recipient. And then I recalled that the current Commander of our American Legion lived right here in the town that we lived in. I didn’t have to look any further. He was my chosen Veteran to receive the first Military Veteran Quilt.
Here is the Commander, reading the words written on the back of his quilt.
Here is the Commander holding his quilt.
The Commander was in the Vietnam War as a Marine. I machine appliqued these small round emblems onto the four corners of his quilt. “Once a Marine, Always a Marine”
This first Military Veteran Quilt‘s fabric was donated by AbbiMays.com, the designing and piecing by myself and the quilting donated by Meloney Funk (herself an Air Force Veteran for 27 years). To find out more about Military Veteran Quilts, please click on the link and visit our website. Please remember to honor the older Veteran’s, too, as they deserve it for their service to our country!
I snapped this photo of the finished quilts that I have ready to send to my longarm quilter, Meloney! I still have a few to make before sending these off…but am waiting on my mother-in-law as she has a quilt she wants to send to Meloney and then I’ll send this stack and any others I finish before my MIL is ready with her quilt. I love to see these stacks of quilts, knowing that I have been able to accomplish so much despite my disability. It may take me longer to get quilt projects done…but, this stack is proof that I have made some quilt therapy progress!