Quilt of Valor Blocks

Interspersed with the  making of  Bailey's graduation banner, I have also been working on my Quilt of Valor blocks.  I have them all done now, and have been auditioning different fabrics for the outer border and inner border.

I don't have enough of that dark blue to frame in the body of the quilt.  I added a lighter blue strip, (on the left), but I don't care for that either.  I think a trip to the fabric store is in order to see if I can get more of that dark blue that you see in the blocks!  

Phyllis, the gal in charge of our QOV project, gave me some yardage of the "hearts and home" fabric for the outer border, and I think that looks ok.  I'm going to add it but cut the fabric WOF instead of the long grain line.  This way, I can sew it with all the hearts facing into the quilt center, and there won't be an "up, down, left or right" to the quilt.  That's one of the things I don't like about directional fabrics in quilts.

Graduation Banner

Bailey's Graduation banner is finished!  This was a fun project to make.  Easy to quilt because it was a smaller project.

Here's the quilting.

The Quilting

This shows the backing.

Close up of the center applique.