Last month I was given a couple of quilts to quilt for Quilt of Valour (QOV). This first one is made up of half square triangles (HST) 8" square with the one side a plain light yellow and the other side is strips from a jelly roll, sewn together. The ladies of QOV received a bunch of these HST squares already made, and they only had to come up with the layout. There were many different layouts, this was merely one of them.
The main fabric/the border is a floral, so I quilted a pattern called picnic, which has flowers and butterflies in the design. You can see the design in the light yellow sections of the quilt in the close up picture below. One of the ladies for the QOV group will be doing the binding.
This next quilt is a popular one for using up scraps. The block itself is large and you only need eight in total to make up the quilt. You choose eight different fabrics (in this case florals), and from each fabric you cut out one of each of the pieces that make up this block. This way there is one type of fabric in each position, spread out amongst each block. When you have the blocks assembled, you rotate the blocks to make up the quilt.
This last one I made up a pattern for it, for out guild if anyone would like to have a quick and simple design to make. These QOV quilts are at least 54" x 78". They make a nice lap size quilt.
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