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Quilts of Valor

For the last several years I've wanted to participate in a quilts of valor group (they make quilts for soldiers who have been wounded or served our country in a war), but the closest groups at the time were in Wake Forest or Fayetteville...both of which were too far to go for a day of quilting. Then last fall Bernina World of Sewing in Raleigh started a group that meets once a month. I've made it the last two months, and am really enjoying getting to know the ladies, as well as seeing the variety of quilt blocks and tops everyone is making.

At our last meeting, I finally completed the squares for my quilt top, and it's not quite turning out the way I had hoped. My fabric choices are very different from what most people do (red, white, and blue), but the print, which you can't really see here, is an Army print, and all the colors surrounding it are in that print fabric.

Here it is on the design wall in the classroom:



So far I've been able to sew the bottom two strips together. Hoping to have the entire top finished by the 18th so I can turn it in to the lady who does the quilting (QOV wants all quilts to be professionally finished...and I'm not at that level yet!).

So hopefully there'll be more pictures to come!

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