2x Original WW2 patch quilts almost complete after 8 years in the making

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06-06-2013, 05:17 PM

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matraina

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OMG is all I can say!!!!!!!!!!!! Beautiful job.

06-07-2013, 06:20 AM

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tildiemae

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Wow! What a treasured way to honor our military men and women. Thank you for your service too. If you can later post where their permanent home will be.

06-07-2013, 06:27 AM

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rosiewell

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wow what an incredible accomplishment and dedication, lots of history in these quilts, good luck on your tour, I am sure lots of people will enjoy seeing them

06-07-2013, 07:49 AM

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Karen Mc

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Thank you Steve both for your service and for doing these quilts!!! Wonderful, wonderful job!!

06-07-2013, 08:07 AM

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callie

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Absolutely great quilts and done for such a wonderful reason Steve. Want to thank you for your service and being such a caring person to want to share these quilts with others. Job well done young man!

06-07-2013, 01:19 PM

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Originally Posted by SheriR

My FIL is 96. We just spent a week with him listening to his stories of WWII in Chile and Italy. He is an amazing man. His sons favorite story is of asking their father why he never got angry and he said because he saw so much bad and sorrow in The war. Nothing compares that is worth getting angry over.

My dad just turned 96 in April and was a WWII fighter pilot. Amazing that he is still able to live on his own, has a great social life with bridge, golf and eating out with friends (all 10-15 years younger than him) many times driving his friends that don't drive anymore and with family very nearby for support if needed. He doesn't talk much about the war except that he was lucky he never had to eject and always got his plane back to base even if it had been shot at and was barely limping back.

06-07-2013, 05:10 PM

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mimiof4

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Really amazing. Thank you for your time of service to our country, and also for making the wonderful quilts.

06-08-2013, 01:46 PM

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JBeamer

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Oh my goodness. What a wonderful way to honor our service men and women. Thanks for doing all this hard and I guess expensive work.

06-10-2013, 04:01 PM

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They have gotten to be "very expensive" =)

QUESTION: I want to get these quilts done ASAP as I will be starting grad school in 80 days. Is it WRONG to stitch in the ditch for the backside binding? Or SHOULD it be done by hand? Thoughts would be appreciated. I am not sure how long it would take a novice (me-first real quilts) to hand stitch the back binding along with two sleeves on each quilt (king size).

I just completed tonight the sewing of the binding on the front.

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