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Guess this would qualify as “Design Wall Monday”. Saturday morning was spent cutting 90 white squares for a QOV (Quilt of Valor) quilt I want to get done. Last summer I won a box of fat quarters that I had designated as a future QOV. Had no pattern in mind but wanted to have it somewhat be red, white, blue, and a yellow/gold to reflect the military theme. In the last few weeks Leah Day has been taking us through some quilting projects/tips as a quilt along. Her latest is a whole cloth quilt and I thought I would use elements of her quilting pattern in this quilt. Decided to do a “prototype” first and see if it would work. The floral lattice in this will be more of the color theme in the large quilt. This is just a little over 32″ square. Now, on to transferring the quilting design. The white squares were cut 7″, then cut diagonally. The strips are cut 1-1/4″ wide and inserted. That turned out to be the most efficient use of the fat quarter print fabric, as one strip (cut 1-1/4″x 22″ then cut in half) provided enough for 2 squares, which trimmed to 7″ square and will be 6-1/2″ finished. I didn’t want the white area to be so large that the quilt looked totally white. There will be a pieced border(s) on the larger quilt which will pull the red/white/blue/yellow theme out more clearly. Definitely a work in progress. Now, on to quilting…….