My most recent veterans quilts

I've been working on several of my own veterans quilts lately but wanted to wait to post about them until all 3 were done.

This first one isn't totally mine. The blocks came from several people and Carolyn sewed together the center of the quilt. It wasn't quite big enough so I brought it home, added the borders, quilted it and put he binding on it. So I'm counting it as "mine". I think the lime green narrow border and binding made this quilt.

I quilted it in a free motion all-over design that I've seen called fern or banana peel. It's fun and fast.
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This was one of my veterans quilt kits that I started sewing together last fall. The stars are made from hand dyed scraps. I had planned a different border but it looked horrible so I had to dig in the stash and came up with this medium blue.
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I wanted some light custom quilting and came up with this. It went fast and looks OK but I don't love it so when it came time to quilt the next one I did something different.
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The quilt kit for the blue quilt actually had the making of 2 quilts in it and this was the second one. I love this pattern and will make more kits with this one. It makes great use of small scraps.
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I decided to go with a small wavy crosshatch on this one and I like it much better.
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We had sewing days this weekend and I started a new kit that also had 2 quilts in it. It's a super easy pattern and all I have left to do is add the borders. I might get that done this week although we will be getting ready for vacation this week. Who knows what will or not get done.
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Yesterday we picked up Mom and went to my brother's to deliver Eli's tie dyed tshirts. After we dropped Mom back at home we saw the Weinermobile! Honestly, I've never seen the Weinermobile before. It turns out that you can find out if it's going to be near you on this website. It's a quite shocking thing to see unexpectedly driving down the street.