Wednesday, March 04, 2020

Kids make Quilts of Valor too

If you know me, you know I have been a champion of kids making Quilts of Valor since forever!

My first groups of kids making QOVs was in 2004/2005 - and some of those kids now have kids - whoa  ( Mind blown!!)

Anyways
recently we had the chance to work with the Local FFA ( Future Farmers of America) 
AND!!
With the University of Northern Colorado Softball team

I probably wouldn't have called those college students kids.. but you know... someday they will be old and appreciate it right? haha!!



These are the three Combat Veterans that received the most recent Quilts of Valor created by these groups - the two on the Left were made by the Platte Valley FFA, and the one on the right was made by the UNC Softball team.

I did the quilting on them, and was so honored to be able to award them

8 comments:

The Joyful Quilter said...

Awesome quilt presentation, Alycia!!

Cheryl's Teapots2Quilting said...

Years ago, a middle school near me asked for our local QoV group to come teach the kids how to make blocks for a QoV quilt. We went a couple of weeks in a row, and the kids had a blast. They loved seeing the quilt tops finished.

Jeanne said...

wow love the idea that kids are giving back to the community

Rosalee said...

Awesome!!!

Audrey Schaefer said...

Spectacular!!

Sherrill said...

Anyone 5 years younger than me is a kid (so yes, Alycia, you're a kid! HA)!! Those kids did GREAT on their QOV's and you did great teaching them! Great teamword!

Anja @ Anja Quilts said...

Awesome that kids are involved with making quilts. Well done.

Delighted Hands said...

The presentation is the best part of the process! Hooray!