Recently my local quilt guild, Virginia Star Quilters, put out a call for patriotic quilts to be donated to Leashes of Valor. Their goal is to bring service dogs to post 911 veterans. The guild is suppling quilts to the vets and mats to the dogs. I offered 2 finished patriotic quilts and one top. (see one finished quilt here.) Surprise! I have never shown the other finished quilt.
Below is the top I donated. It was originally set 5 by 6 which wasn't quite big enough. So I added 1 row and 1 column to bring it to 6 x 8 or approximately 60" x 80". I was happy to add the extra blocks since most of these blocks came from the FCQ Equilters group. These are Happy Blocks for Maine from MaryQuilts. I'm pretty sure mine started with a 6" center block. I didn't square mine up so the blocks ended 10" square. Mary has other directions for 5" centers and 4 1/2" centers. I can't tell you how many of these blocks and quilts I've made over the years. They work particularly well with novelty fabric.
I haven't shown my Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) blocks since the first month. So here are 6 colors. I'm glad I pulled these all out as I realize I don't have enough blocks of each color. I'll be making more of most colors over the next few weeks. Blues came up twice -- light and dark although I didn't do all that many of either. I'm looking forward to next month's color. These are 6 1/2" blocks so I definitely need to increase the number!
I'm calling it done for tonight. Here are the parties I'm linking up with: Mid Week Makers, Needle and Tread Thursday, Finished or Not Friday, Beauties Pageant, and Scrap Happy Saturday. when it is available. Have fun checking out lots of great blogs.
I'm ready to call it a night.
Happy Quilting All! Bonnie
I love your RSC blocks.
ReplyDeletecan never go wrong with red/white/blue....lovely!
ReplyDeleteI love all the colors in your friendship stars. Will you add sashing to them?
ReplyDeleteYour quilts and top are beautiful! I love your friendship stars. I started making friendship star blocks back in 2019 or 2020 and need to get back to them. I'll be interested to see how you lay yours out.
ReplyDeleteHappy blocks are the best! You can make something fun with them in any color and size combination. Those are such pretty friendship stars, too!
ReplyDeleteLove the hole in the barn door/churn dash and the 2nd was the next QOV I was considering. Simple but beautiful. Love those friendship stars, too!!
ReplyDeleteI love your patriotic quilts, and the stars are looking great. You can always carry that project over to next year, too, if you need more blocks.
ReplyDeleteSome really stunning patriotic quilts, Bonnie!!! And your rainbow stars are looking amazing!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful Patriotic quilts!!!!
ReplyDeleteThe Hole in the Barn Door RWB quilt is great -- upon closer look I think I see that the blocks aren't all exactly the same (some have larger HSTs). The pop of yellow in the Happy Blocks is a nice surprise. And the Friendship Stars are coming along well -- lots of ways to set those.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful QoV quilts. So wonderful for you to donate your quilts to such a wonderful cause. Love those RSC blocks too! Will make a happy quilt!
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