Happy New Years Eve 2010

Happy New Years Eve!

I keep asking the kids if they are going to make New Years Resolutions for this next year, and they keep laughing at me. I think they should be things like - I will make my bed every morning for the next year, and they think they should have something like - I get Chocolate cake for breakfast every morning.

Needless to say - Not many Resolutions are being written!

But we are enjoying our day. We got our much desired snow yesterday, but last night the much undesired wind has come up. 40-50 mph winds.... not much fun!

Even the dogs just run out, do their business, and hightail it back to the mudroom! Its (-15) degrees outside ( with the wind)

I have counted up the Quilts delivered this month - and the grand total for December is 143.

Thank you all for helping to make this possible!

Keep checking back for more pictures.

Hope you all have a Happy New Years Day.

Columbine Quilt Guild QOV's

I take pictures of all the QOV's that go thru here - and these - althought they were just given to me - are gone! They are being loved and used by our military wounded as we type!!

Hope you enjoy seeing them!  I sure appreciate that this guild chose Quilts of Valor as their charity for 2010. These quilts are wonderful !

Some Cool Quilts!

 Nancy L in Washington has been keeping very busy!! THis beautiful Quilt of Valor came from her! And I took a picture of the back. I really like the way she pieced it!

Thanks Nancy for your hard work - this will be a well loved quilt.!

 These next two quilts came from April in IA. The first is a Chunky Churndash quilt. The pattern was designed by Bonnie Hunter of Quiltville.com and she graciously let me use it as a mystery QOV on my blog.

 April also made this quilt. In my mind it is the boxes pattern called Peaches and Dreams from Judy L at Patchworktimes.com . Beautiful!!!   April - you are wonderful!!

The next three quilts come from Beryl of Utah. Beryl - these are just beautiful!!! The detail on this first quilt just blew me away!! I was in awe!

This one was Judy L ( http://www.patchworktimes.com/) summer mystery quilt.

And I am guessing that this quilt was a mystery quilt from QOVmystery yahoo groups.

Beryl - Thank you so much!


I thank you all from the bottom of my heart!!!

Columbine Quilt Guild

 I was invited to come to the Columbine Quilt Guild in Arvada to pick up some Quilts of Valor, and give a little speech. About 2 years ago, they decided to take on Quilts of Valor as one of their charity projects... and boy , have they done an awesome job.

This first picture shows the guild president, the  middle is Zoe Ann - she is the coordinator of the QOV Charity, and the far right is the gal who did the majority of the Long Arm Quilting. Sweet lady!!

They did a little show and tell of a few of the quilts.

 Then they sent me home with 26Quilts of Valor. They had finishe 3 more, but they were going to take them home to wash, and I will get those later. These 26 are completely washed, labeled, pillowcased... wow! What a sweet Surprise!!

I will be getting photos of these quilts to show them to you, but these two in the post are already on their way to wounded soldiers....

Thanks ladies and gentlemen - you ROCK!!!

A Quilt of Valor Quilt show

 here are some more awesome Quilts of Valor! Soldiers will just LOVE these too!!

This first one was made by Jessica and her *girls* in Denver. Jess sews with many sew groups and all of them help make QOV's in some way or another.




The quilt to the right is another one she and her groups made. They did a lovely job!!

This beautiful Animal Print quilt of valor came from Anna in OK. I think that I would love to justsit in her fabric stash. We all had the best time looking at this quilt and trying to identify each type of animal print! It is wonderful!!

 Next - Nancy from Wyoming ( http://wyomingbreezes.blogspot.com/ ) made this lovely pinwheel quilt.  It is really cool! The blocks give the quilt a feel of movement. I love it!!

The last Quilt of Valor for today was made by Cathy O in Pueblo. Her husband is retired military and has 2 Bronze Stars and 2 Purple hearts. Very impressive. And the quilt is perfect!!



Thank you ladies for all your help in this endeavor!! The soldiers in Colorado/Wyoming are so appreciative!!

You all have a wonderful day!

Quilts from Nancy

 Nancy in Fort Collins quilts with a group of ladies every week, and they have made quite a few quilts to donate to Quilts of Valor. I am SO appreciative of their efforts!!

These are the ten that Wrangler Man picked up for me. And yes, I am keeping him!

I Love these quilts! The colors and the designs are perfect.

Nancy - Thank you and your quilters for all of your hard work!!! These will be defineatly loved!

I still have not figured out how to move pictures around in these posts. You would think that I could figure something as simple as that out, but somehow I end up deleting them!

So I hope you kept going to the end, to see all of these wonderful quilts!

Hope you all have a great evening!

Judy V in Broomfield

Judy is another prolific quilter. There is not a piece of fabric that is safe around that girl!! She sees quilts out of everything!  I had her Grandson in our QOV quilting 2 years ago. great kid!!

Judy gave some quilts to her daughter for me to pick up, and lucky me, her daughter was willing to let me see all the quilts Judy had made for the daughters house. It was awesome!!! Judy is very talented.

Here are 4 more Quilts of Valor that she has made to contribute to our warriors!!! Thanks so much Judy!! I know these will be appreciated!


Enjoy!!

Linda Sue in Denver

Every once in a while they let me off the ranch to go to the big town... of Denver. The last time I headed down that way I met up with a very prolific quilter - Linda Sue. We had to meet outside the Tokyo Joes, because I bribed my kids to go with me.... 

She had said she had a Quilt of Valor or two for me, and she actually had 6!!! Apparently she quilts more than she thinks she does!!!

Here they are!

Thank you Linda!! it was great to meet you! These quilts are awesome!!

Enjoy your evening!

Quilts of Valor

I have gotten a little behind in posting the Cool Quilts of Valor that have been delivered. I tried to calculate the number of QOV's that I was able to present this month - and I counted up 56 QOV's. presented... You all have been BUSY!!!!  and you are highly appreciated!!!

So on to the quilts!

From Geri in the Pieceable Friends quilt guild ( in Greeley) and quilted by Jan of Eaton:

From Lyn of the Pieceable Friends quilt guild....

From Sharon Briggs - these are pieced by the Hollys Quilt Cabin Scrap Buggers, and one was quilted by Donna in Longmont and one was quilted by Gerry. ( I met Donna last year at a quilt show - she is cool!!)

Thanks quilters for these lovely Quilts of Valor.

I am off to join my kiddos, two of them are watching Santa Claus is comin' to town. I think they need me to bring the popcorn!!

Have a great one!



Meredith in Caly

Has been an extremely busy quilter again. She sent these tops to Ron O in NM to quilt - and I think these were up in the 900's of quilts that he has quilted.
http://www.superiorthreads.com/blog/2010/9/ron-olsons-quilt-970-971/

I love all of them and am so impressed! But this black and white one really caught my eye. I can't tell you specifically what it is - but that one is just cool!

Thanks Meredith and Ron for all that you do. These will certainly be appreciated!

Enjoy!