A Quilt of Valor is Born! w/Updates

A little more than 36+ hours ago, this Quilt of Valor had not even been conceived!

36+ hours later, a Quilt of Valor is Born!

That was 'until', my latest shipment from my Quilty friend, Lisa - who owns & operates her online quilt shop, www.QuiltJubilee.com, arrived. Lisa decided to surprise me with this beautiful Eagle panel.  Thanks, Lisa!:

Eagle panel auditioning w/Evening Star quilt blocks

Our East Central IL QOV Group had been working on the Evening Star quilt blocks earlier in the week, in preparation for our annual QOV National Sew Day.  Once I opened the shipping box and saw the enclosed eagle panel, I noticed the colors in the panel were virtually identical to those in the star blocks we'd completed - it was obviously meant to be for these two to be matched up.

The seeds of inspiration had been planted, thanks to Lisa and her generous gift, and we were off to the sewing machine to get busy sewing our QOV idea into a Quilt of Valor.

Adding the very last exterior border

We are very pleased with how well this Quilt of Valor turned out.  And even though we didn't use a pattern per se, we will be utilizing this design to create additional QOV panel quilts in our future, since we have three (3) Purple Heart Veterans who are scheduled to be awarded their Quilts of Valor later this year, along with this one.  Still pondering the final quilt design but fairly certain it will include some Gold quilting thread ;-).

For now, time for some shut-eye...

UPDATE 10/23/2018 - Quilted!  Soon to be awarded to an East Central Illinois area Veteran:

Quilt of Valor comes off the quilt frame

Quilting close-up w/Superior's Gold Grain Acres Fantastico thread

Eagle in flight gets quilted with "Windy Night" by Keryn Emmerson

This Eagle Quilt of Valor will soon be awarded to one of our East Central Illinois Veterans during one of our upcoming Veteran's Day Celebrations, and was also chosen to be our East Central IL QOV group's "Honorary" 200,000th Quilt of Valor.

Bound, labeled and all ready to be awarded to a very special Veteran

UPDATE:  11/9/2018 Awarded!

To read about the awarding of this Honorary 200,000th Quilt of Valor, Please visit this media link:
https://www.mywabashvalley.com/news/a-quilt-of-gratitude/1585139529

Thanks goes out to Everyone who helped make this QOV Award and so many others possible for our area Veterans and Service Members for their sacrifice and service for our country.


My Best,
~Deb