Surfside Quilters Guild - San Clemente held their September meeting today and there were quite a few quilts donated by members for the Wounded Warriors Project. These quilts go to cover wounded service personnel when they are shipped out of a combat area to hospitals.
A really scrappy quilt with both printed and pieced blocks. Shown by Sue Butsko, but I'm not sure she is the maker. Members at the meeting were just picking up the quilts and walking around the room so that everyone could see the quilts better.
This is a panel simply bordered with a blue print and machine quilted.
Simple blocks - four-patch and one-patch combined with five stars set with one-patch - nice quilt.
Two quilts with some of the same fabrics. On the left quilt the "arches" on a yellow ground are red,white.blue bunting, but to my eye they give a sort of Egyptian note - I like the blue on white grid print in some of the half-square triangle patches.
This idea is from a workshop called "It Doesn't Matter" given by Rachel Maus in December 2009. It is a great way to use up scrap strips and the quiltmaker can coordinate her colors or not - it doesn't matter.
Simple, simple simple - just using red,white, blue fabric strips. The more the "merrier".
Here is one that took a lot of time and effort. The shape will not fit nicely onto a stretcher or gurney, but I'm sure the wounded warrior won't mind! It is a lovely quilt.
It seems to me to be a great philanthropic effort. What better way to warm someone who is suffering than to cover them with a soft quilt? Say "Thank You" by making a quilt for Wounded Warriors.
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