Use your talents to show these brave young men and women how much we appreciate their sacrifice and service with something very American and very tangible: A War-Time Quilt of Valor.

I do not want this war, but I feel for these brave young men and women who have been hurt. This quilt goes to a person who has been wounded and will recieve a purple hart. If everyone creates 2 pieced blocks and sends them to me, I will put them all together into the final QUILT! If I get a big enough responce I will make as many as I can.

Example of the quilt we are going to make:

Illustration of how the blocks come together (4 across):

Size & Cutting Instructions
Cut 2, 6" squares in red
Cut 2, 6" squares in blue

I would reccomend having each of the 4 original cut sqaures be in different fabrics.

Slice these sqaures into triangles and sew together with a quarter inch seam, forming 4 small squares (see yellow highlight on image below). Now sew these 4 sqaures together.

This should create a 10 1/2 inch unfinished square, 10 inches when finished.

It may be easier to try and trim each square to 5 1/2 inches after you sew your triangles together before you sew all 4 smaller squares together, that way you don't cut off any of your points.

Fabric
Needs to be good quality fabric, in "Tone on Tone" colors (No Walmart Fabric's please, Quilts of Valor has a very specific policy on using tightly woven, 100% cotton fabrics).

Examples of good fabrics:

All fabric should be RED or BLUE to keep with a patriotic theme. Fabric should never be both red and blue at the same time or any other combination of colors.

Sample Block

This block was created by Amy from from Garden web, she helped me figure out the directions above! THANKS AMY!!

As you can see she did not use tone on tone fabric for this example (the white dots and white stars). I would prefer the tone on tone look, but it is not a requirment.

Additional Info
www.quiltsforsoldiers.com - more info about "Quilts of Valor".

Once you have completed your block you can email me so I can give you all the mailing information. I think this would be such a fun thing to do, with just a little effort from everyone, combined to make a really sweet big effort!

The final quilt will be 50"X60" and it will be long-arm quilted. I will be handling all the sewing of the strips and providing the batting and backing.

Backing
I found a great red fabric to use for the backing! It's the United States Constitution on red.

How Many?
I ask that each person makes 2 blocks. Each block should be created from at least 4 different fabrics’ (2 different blues, 2 different reds). So if for example you could get 2 different blue fat quarters, and 2 different red far quarters you would be able to create the two blocks!

Contact
Once you have completed your block please email me for postage information (pixie AT pixiepurls.com)

- THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT!!

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Finished Quilt Blocks
The KnitRider completed these loverly blocks this weekend (8/14)