The veterans quilt kits

I might have gotten a little carried away cutting veterans quilt kits the past 2 days but at least I'm prepared for the next several months of sewing with my quilt club!

This is the Kaffe quilt leftovers that started all of this. I had just enough of the scraps to make a version of the Blockade quilt. I had to use 2 hand dyed fabrics because I didn't have enough of either. I'm going to be interested to see how this turns out. 

Next I tackled a stack of patriotic batiks. I won a gift certificate for Fat Quarter Shop and decided to spent it on patriotic fabrics for veterans quilts. Of course I spent an additional $75 to get coordinating yardage. I added some batiks from my collection  and have 3 quilts cut from these fabrics now.

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The first kit is from my Regiment pattern. This one has been made many times and I like it every time I see it. 

The rest was cut into TWO (I'm being an overachiever) ribbon quilts. One will be red and white on a blue background and the other will be blue and white on a red background. Both will have blue binding. These will go together quickly.

Once I got started cutting I had trouble stopping! Next I was in the plaid bin cutting 4.5" squares. I found this dark green hand dyed for the 4" (finished) sashing and border. So, so easy. I hope it looks as good as I think it will.

I ended my cutting session with several pieces of leftover blue backing from the puppy quilt. I finally opened the rectangle Accuquilt die to cut enough for half the rectangles needed for this quilt. I didn't start looking for other fabric until I had cut the blue. I had a little panic because I didn't seem to have anything that I liked with the blue. But I went to the FQ drawers and pulled a warm side rainbow. I don't know how this quilt will be arranged, there are too many options. I could see myself getting a little obsessed with rectangles....

That's 6 kits and I need to stop this for a while. The sad thing is that the only difference that I can see in my stash is that I can get the lid on the plaid bin now. Otherwise, it looks exactly the same. 

Now I'm going to do some sewing and quilting and get on with the placemats and the Jackie's Choice quilt for my cousin.