Quilts of Valor

Quilts of Valor is a nation-wide project to provide a comfort quilt to wounded soldiers in every branch of our military.

Below, you will find an Anne Bright design donated to the purpose. We would like each quilt in the project to include the Simply Continuous machine-stichable design.

For participation details, please see www.quiltsforsoldiers.com and www.houseofhanson.com.

The Purple Heart Design

Instructions for printing, use, and quilt design are below.

Please be aware that the designs and images provided are copyrighted material and are for use in the Quilts of Valor project. You may not use these designs for any commercial purpose.

Printable Designs

Click on the image link of your choice. Print the image directly from your browser. Use the back button to return.

Basic Purple Heart Design
Purple Heart Four Triangle Square
Whole-cloth Design 1
Whole-cloth Design 2

Digitized Designs

To download a digitized design, right click on the filename of your choice, select Save Target As, and save the file in your prefered location.

PC Quilter
Basic Purple Heart Design: purpleheartdesign.txt
Soldier Marching (seen below): soldier.txt
"Troops" Ribbon: troopsribbon.txt

Statler Stitcher
Basic Purple Heart Design: purpleheartdesign.dxf
Purple Heart Two Triangle Square: purpleheart2trisquare.dxf
Purple Heart Four Triangle Square (seen below): purpleheart4trisquare.dxf
Soldier Marching (seen below): soldier.dxf
"Troops" Ribbon: troopsribbon.dxf
Flag Triangle (seen below): flagtriangle.dxf
Eagle Triangle (seen in whole-cloth below): eagletriangle.dxf
Eagle Two Triangle Square: eagle2trisquare.dxf

Quilting Ideas

For a complete book of patriotic Simply Continuous designs, try Simply Continuous Americana, available in our online bookstore. Many of the designs used in the whole-cloth patterns are taken from this book.

Seen here are two possible whole-cloth designs for Quilts of Valor. You will notice that they are constructed mostly of the repeated triangle designs found above in printable or digitized format. In both patterns, the triangle Purple Heart Design is on point, forming four-triangle, six-triangle, or eight-triangle squares. Play with the triangles to form squares, squares on point, larger triangles, borders, and more. The possibilities are endless.

Whole-cloth Design One has an optional border begun at the bottom. As many of you know, you can always add a border to enlarge a quilt.

To print either of these whole-cloth designs, use the instructions above.

Whole-cloth Design One:

Whole-cloth Design Two:

A basic Four Triangle Square:

Other sketches you might want to include: