No Point Stars for QOV

 I follow The Fabric Patch quilt shop on You Tube. They are a fun, generous mother / daughter duo. They often spearhead community projects. Each year they host a breast cancer fundraiser in October and I've started donating to this cause.

Last week, Cindi's son, who is a Navy Veteran, celebrated a birthday and he requested 12 1/2" blocks for the Quilts of Valor group he and his wife are a part of locally.

My Dad was in the Air Force and our son is a Marine veteran and we've always supported our military. I've made a few QOV and would like to do more. This is a good place to start.

Here's a link to the video. 

If you would like to participate, you can mail blocks to the address in the screen shot below.

After shuffling through numerous ideas, I decided to make the No Point Star block. I found a tutorial from Jessica Dayon that walks you through the block construction

I chose it because they will be receiving blocks from all over and it will be an easy block to incorporate into a quilt without losing the points.

I pulled out my  QOV bin and started sorting through fabrics. I tend to lean more towards the Americana colors than the brighter whites, but I think I can cobble together some of both.

Yes, I think this will work even though I didn't orient my stripes the right way.

DH had left at 5:30 Sunday morning to help pull cattle off of wheat and I headed straight to my sewing room. I was able to cut pieces for 24 more blocks by the time he came home at 1

I'm not a fast stitcher. I keep the speed on my sewing machine at less than half of it's capability. The outside world is fast  and loud and  I enjoy the slower pace when I sew. Even so,  It'll probably take me less time to sew these blocks together than it did to select, press, and cut the kits, but I hope to get them together and in the mail next time I'm in town.