These 25 quilt designers are big names in the quilting world, and here’s one more reason to admire them: each has created a new pattern specifically to share the Quilts of Valor organisation’s commitment to cover military touched by war with quilts. The 25 quilt designers here know the ways that quilts can honour and even heal. They created these new patterns specifically for Quilts of Valor to share the organisation’s commitment to cover our veterans and service members with comforting and healing Quilts of Valor. Featuring clear, easy instructions and patterns, here is everything needed for quilters of any level, community groups, and family members to make a beautiful patriotic quilt for the special service members in their own lives, or to donate to honor a worthy Quilts of Valor recipient. The 25 quilt patterns are varied and inspiring, and you can mix and match patriotic colors and fabrics to make your own personal version of each, including V Is for Victory by Georgia Bonesteel, Shine On by Victoria Findlay Wolfe, From Sea to Shining Sea by Marianne Fons, Stars and Stripes by Mark Lipinski, Thumbnail by Paula Nadlestern, and so many more. Features a foreword by Kimberly Einmo, author, award-winning quilter, fabric designer, international instructor, quilt judge, and CRAFTSY/Bluprint class host. AUTHORS: Ann Parsons Holte has been quilting, teaching, and writing patterns since 1975. She attends her local quilt guild and antique quilt study group regularly. She comes from a family of Oklahoma quilters. Mary W. Kerr is an American Quilt Society-certified appraiser, curator, and award-winning quilter. Her many acclaimed books on quilts include Twisted: Modern Quilts with a Vintage Twist and Southern Quilts. She lives in Woodbridge, Virginia. Quilts of Valor has over 11,000 members nationwide, who have awarded over 300,000 Quilts of Valor to military members. Quilting experts Ann Parsons Holte, Tony L. Jacobson, Mary W. Kerr, and Sue Reich are dedicated to the QOVF mission to cover military touched by war with a quilt. SELLING POINTS: . 25 well-known quilt designers share new patterns to make amazing Quilts of Valor . Inspiring patterns for the thousands of people and communities in the US who sew quilts to honour the military . Celebrates the Quilts of Valor mission: to cover military touched by war with quilts 50 colour images