Syracuse Utah Quilters

Quilt of Valor Signature Blocks These blocks are easy to do and need to be returned in July. Suggest making a few so that you can call family and friends and tell them about this worth project. Ask them for a quote. And make one for them with their statement, name and where they are from. What you will need beside the basic sewing stuff, machine or hand, thread, iron or press, cutting board, quilting marking or pen, ect… 6 ½” Square White piece of fabric 3 ¾” Square 1 each Red and Blue fabric 2” x 6” piece of freezer paper (used for stabilizing diagonally while writing on fabric) Pencil in a light line on back of red and blue blocks diagonally Lay red and blue blocks face down on opposite corners. Sew diagonally on line. Cut or trim away ¼” from line. Iron or press out. Being gentle to not stretch or pull fabric. Iron Lay freezer paper to back side or block. Shinny side to fabric. Please use fabric pen to write message with RED corner at the top 1 or 2 line message, Name of you or you...

What a wonderful meeting we had. I hope you all share with me a BIG thanks to Suzanne for sharing her ideas about our use and storage scraps. It was all so wonderful that I am diffenatly going to put some of those ideas in to use. I love the strips and hanging idea as well as the zip lock bag of differant size sq. Thanks again Suzanne for also showing us your wonderful use of some of those scraps. I'm sorry I did not get my camera out fast enough to take pictures of everones show and tell. I was to busy ow and ahing myself or your achivements. Thanks gals for letting me get a group picture of our bags from last month meeting.