Nina

I decided to make them another quilt for the craft show in November. It will either be sold at a silent auction or raffled. I hope they raffle it. Many people who would buy a few raffle tickets and hope, just won't plunk down a bunch of money for a quilt.

Either way, I'm really pleased with it. If it's a silent auction, I'm going to have my mother bid for me so it doesn't go for cheap. I'd absolutely love to have it back.

Here it is:

I used my "Swirlz" template and baby pink thread, and then I used up all my scraps for the binding.

Mary

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Kay

Used flannel in the middle. Quilted swirls in the blocks and cables in the horizontal and outer sashes. Also swirls around the letters. The black border is just meandering.

The back is black, with a bright pink label -- just used a permanent marker to make the label. Used black bobbin thread, except over the label, switched it to pink, like the top, so it wouldn't overpower the label -- you can see the pink swirl on the right side of the label and the black 'cable' on the bottom.

I think it turned out all right. It's fun and funky, which is what I wanted.

I Spy was a lot of fun, but the sashing was a pain (only because I didn't accurately measure!). Will certainly do another one.

Kelly (Nebraska)

However, while I agree that it's a very interesting method of getting blocks on point, I LIKE my pointy points, and I never found putting blocks on point to be difficult.

Lay it out on a design board, sew the setting triangles onto each diagonal row, and sew the rows together. It really doesn't seem all that difficult! I set many quilts on point:

JMHO,
Mary

My thoughts were each participant makes a 12" block in red, white, and blue (or red and white, or blue and white), signs it, sends it to me. I will provide sashing, batting, backing, quilting and binding. I will keep a journal of the process, and include any and all journal entries and photographs from contributers who wish to contribute to that. I would also attribute the quilt (on the label) to the THS Quilting Forum Members, with everyone's actual or forum names.

I would prefer white on white for the blocks, because I have purchased many yards of this for backing the quilts.

The organization wants a quilt to be 50 x 60 inches minimum, but larger is OK, and usually what I do. So my thoughts are that 12 12" blocks with sashing and borders would make a really nice quilt.

I will also make a pillowcase for the quilt, embroidered with "Quilt of Valor". This makes for a nice presentation.

The drawback is that this is not a swap. You get absolutely nothing in return, LOL, except possibly the gratitude of a wounded soldier. And you may never even hear about that - I've not heard any response from the 2 I've already sent.

Mary C

Here's a view of the back. This will truly be reversible.

Here are a couple of closeups from the front.

Kay

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