Veterans quilts

I'm on a roll! I have 2 more veterans quilts done and am almost caught up.

This one is the courthouse steps pattern. I considered doing an all-over pattern but those light colored squares told me that I needed to do something else. Now, my #1 rule on these quilts is that the quilting has to be edge-to-edge. I will not custom quilt these quilts. If I did that it would mean quilting 20 a year instead of 40.

Can you see what I did here? I had background rows and the rows with the light squares. I wanted a swirl in the square so I did deep waves through the pieced block and a swirl on the light patch. On the background rows I did giant swirls. 

Now, looking at any of the motifs individually you wouldn't be particularly impressed but add the artistic concept of "repetition" and you've got yourself a pattern that looks pretty good!

Maybe you think you saw this quilt last week. You sort of did. Peg made 2 of these quilts.

I quilted both of these with a ribbon meander. I did one with a light thread and this one with a darker thread just to see how different they looked.