A Quilt for My Soldier

A Soldier's Star Barn Quilt design by Deonn Stott

The other day at guild meeting, one of the gals stood up for "Sew & Tell", held up her new Oct/Nov issue of Quilter's Newsletter and said, "We have a celebrity in our midst!" Then she opened the page to an article about the AccuQuilt Barn Quilt Design Unveiling party last June, and there's my little picture on page 14, telling the crowd about my 2nd place design ~ inspired by my son's current service in Afghanistan with his combat engineer unit, and that I named it A Soldier's Star.

With AccuQuilt CEO Steve Nabity
and National Sales Mgr. Linda Pumphrey



It's not the greatest picture, I was kind of emotional as the audience cheered for my son.

I plan to make the design into a full-size quilt for my soldier, and submitted a proposal to teach it as a class at next year's Home Machine Quilting Show in Salt Lake City.  The class was accepted! The theme for the Show is "Star-Spangled", and this is the perfect hands-on class for the event. AccuQuilt has offered to provide several Go! Cutters and dies for the class too! Oh, I can't wait! 

I can't do much more than pray for our boys serving in Afghanistan, but I can quilt. Now I need to get busy and get his quilt finished in time for his return home. It can't be soon enough.

And if you happen to drive past the AccuQuilt headquarters in Fremont, Nebraska this year, you'll see a 6-ft billboard of A Soldier's Star mounted on the side of their building.