Veterans quilts

I'm a little distracted and this is why. Our house is over 25 years old and over that time the house has settled along with the sidewalks. It was time to do some drainage work, get new sidewalks and regrade the driveway. We are adding drainage basins in the driveway and at the end of the brick gutters so hopefully this will eliminate some of the pools of water that collect during rainstorms. The old sidewalk was about 5" thick so it took 2 days to remove. Now we wait a few days for the ground to dry out some and they can start the sidewalks.

It's really messy so I just keep repeating "It will be worth it in the end"...almost like a prayer.

When I'm distracted like this I find that I need "easy" things to do and that's why I'm working on veterans quilts again.

This scrappy 4-patch was made by Cathy and she's been waiting on it for a while. I did some quick all-over swirls on this one.

With the block design in this quilt I decided I wanted something a little more custom to highlight the block pattern. I don't know who pieced this one.

For quilts like this I generally do some sort of continuous curves design. Once you have a travel pattern you can add any kind of swirls, spikes or feathers to the curve. I quilted the block in 2 passes (top of the block left to right and the bottom right to left). Each pass included one edge of the blue section.

I think it made a nice pattern on the back.

I have a couple of more quilted and will get them trimmed and photographed today. Then I have lots of fabric to wash out.