This is the Eagle Quilt Pattern with Red, White, and Blue borders makes a great quilt for the "Quilts of Valor", A young man getting his Eagle Scout award, Veteran's Day, or as a Thank you to anyone serving our Country. Size: the Eagle image is 42x36, with 6 inch Ohio Stars, plus stripped borders brings the finished quilt to 66x60. A great lap size. Skill Level: Beginner Like all Counted Quilts patterns, the image is made first using a chart with the given number of strips to be cut for each color. Second, it has a set of charts with piece lengths to be cut and labeled from those strips. The shaping is done with quick corner triangles, or the “snowball method” where a sew line is drawn corner to corner on a square and place on top of another square or rectangle. Once those squares are marked you follow a full page color labeled image of the Eagle, assembling piece by piece, row by row. Then there are instructions the borders including making the Ohio Star block, which is also made out of triangles and squares. You can replace these blocks with any 6" block design you want.
