April’s Monday Meeting – Show and Tell

Monday’s Quilts of Valor meeting brought in some more fabulous quilt tops – it’s amazing how unique and beautiful all of these are … See if you agree!

QOV Mystery quilt top done by Barb from Crafty Threads - designed by Le Ann Weaver of Persimmon Quilts - see her QOV Mysteries (this is #20) at:
 http://www.persimmonquilts.com/index.html

Jill’s first is an excellent Eagle top:

And Jill’s second is from our current pattern – love the stars!

And this beauty - adapting our current pattern with sashings and borders - is from Pam:

Our current pattern is adapted from the Fon’s & Porter book “Patriotic Quilts”.  It is a design called “Waving Old Glory” by Toby Lischko.  It looks stunning in all its variations!

April Meeting Show and Tell

These are the fabulous Quilts of Valor tops and quilts from April’s Friday meeting at the Crafty Threads Quilt Shop.  There will be another meeting on Monday, April 21^st, so watch for more later!

Top made by Diana for a friend who served in the US Army

Top made by Janice (AKA the Barefoot Piecer)

Ginger's April top - to go to a Vietnam Vet in memory of Roger

Ginger's May top - to go to a Vietnam Vet in memory of Roger

Pat B's quilt for a friend's husband - a US Marine Vet (Vietnam) with a Purple Heart Award

Sharon's quilt for her church's deacon, a Vietnam Vet   -   to be Awarded to him on Memorial Day

Quilted by Virginia Isaacs - see sidebar

Detail of Virginia's special quilting!

Quilted by Pat B

Quilted by Pat B

QAYG by Pat N

QAYG by Pat N - detail of the backing fabric

Bound and finished

Another QAYG by Pat N - Bound and finished by Marilyn

Bound and finished by Marilyn

Rows sewn together by Jolene - soon to be another quilt!

Not a Quilt of Valor - but a special quilt made by Janice - it is to be sent to a Navy serviceman currently posted in Afghanistan who will then send it home as a special gift from him to his beloved daughter.  What a sweet story!

Donations of fabric panels from Janice

Final Recap from the March Meetings

More lovely quilts were finished and/or turned in at the Monday meeting.  Here's the show:

Linda's winning entry at the Plant City, FL, Strawberry Festival

Barbara's jelly roll quilt - her daughter Sharon finished up the binding after it was expertly quilted by Pat B

Pat's quilt-as-you-go serger method quilt with the cute backing detail

Virginia did some exquisite quilting on this quilt that I think was made by Debbie (forgive me if I got that wrong!)

And here are the ladies busy as ever ...  Thank you to all of our Volunteers!!

Please join us at the meetings scheduled in April if you are in town:

Friday, April 18th

Monday, April 21st

Recap of Quilts from Friday’s Meeting

Some great quilt tops and quilts were turned in at March’s Friday meeting of our Quilts of Valor group.  Enjoy the following show!

First the tops:

Sharon’s top using Northcott Fabric’s Star’s and Stripes panel:

Diana and Maria each made row quilt tops from kits that Debbie had put together.  Each has the US Air Force logo on it:

Diana also made a jelly roll quilt top:

Janice had three tops – one she called “retro” for its WWII fabric, one using an eagle panel, and one with curvy squares:

detail of above

Pam made two from a Fons & Porter pattern – don’t they look very different depending on the fabrics she used?!  Just plain gorgeous.

Kathy made the QOV Mystery – this pattern is Persimmon Quilts’ #16:

detail of above

 And Ginger made this wonderful quilt top as March’s tribute to Roger.  I'll try to get a closeup of the star blocks after it is quilted - they are intricate!

Second, we have the quilted items:

Pat B did a beautiful job with these - check out that detail photo below!

detail of Pat's quilting

Hope you enjoyed the show … maybe we’ll get to see you on Monday if you couldn’t be with us today!  Meeting at Crafty Threads from 10 - 4:00, Monday, March 24th ................... hope to see you then.