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Join our Quilts of Valor outreach today!
We are honored to be a QOV-registered shop and welcome our customers to join the effort in making patriotic quilts for service men and women touched by war! We've awarded 189 quilts since our local chapter started in 2021.
A Quilt of Valor® is our award to service men and women who have been touched by war. A Quilt of Valor says unequivocally, “Thank you for your service, sacrifice and valor in serving our nation."
Want to help? We always welcome volunteers! You can donate a single block (or many!) or an entire quilt top - all three of our shops locations are participating. You may also donate a fully completed quilt to this effort! This is a wonderful project for guilds and retreat friends!
Block sizes preferred
Completed quilt and quilt tops also accepted:
The recommended size of a Quilt of Valor is 60″ x 80″; it must be a minimum of 55″ x 65″ and a maximum of 72″ x 90.
We recommend donating blocks or quilt tops (or entire completed quilts) before labor day weekend so there's plenty of time for fall piecing, longarming, and binding before early November so we can award quilts the Sunday before Veterans Day at our annual event. We also award quilts throughout the year as needed due to medical urgency, special presentations, and many other requests.
If you'd like to help piece donated blocks (or longarm or do quilt binding), please let us know by emailing shopthesewinghouse@gmail.com to be added to a volunteer list - or join our group on Facebook!
JOIN OUR QOV FB GROUP!
We welcome you to join The Sewing House Quilts of Valor Volunteer group on Facebook. It's a great place to ask questions and see last year's photos!
What to expect:
After Labor Day each year, we ask volunteers to help us sort blocks and put "piecing kits" together with fabric for sashing/borders. September is a great time for volunteers to come into the shop to pick up kits. They can take kits home to piece quilt tops and drop off within a few weeks by early October.
Longarm "Army" helpers are VERY MUCH appreciated to help! Batting and backing is provided thanks to our generous donors (Collierville Rotary, A-Team Roofing, and many individual donors)! This process starts in mid-September through mid-October. We also welcome binding volunteers to finish the quilts by the end of October.
How to help - Choose Your Fabric and Patterns
2. A Quilt of Valor does not have to be red, white, and blue, but patriotic colors are very popular with recipients.
3. Patterns and blocks can be of any design suitable for a patriotic theme. The QOV site has FREE PATTERNS.
4. Avoid juvenile, gender or branch-specific fabrics, unless the recipient is known to you.
Use the official website to nominate someone. www.QOVF.org
To view images of some of our past QOV presentations, check out our Facebook photo albums for 2026 HERE, 2025 HERE, 2024 HERE, 2023 HERE and 2022 HERE.
Photos from our first year (2021) HERE.
Thank you for your interest in honoring our local service men and women who have been touched by war! Your time, talent, and fabric donations are appreciated so much!
Interested in becoming a business donor or individual donor?
Every $10 or $50 or $500 helps! Link below to donate online (or bring a check payable to "Quilts of Valor" into our shop and we'll mail it to the national chapter with our local group # on it to get credit for fabric reimbursement. We need to keep our volunteers supplied with batting and backing fabric)!
Donate - CLICK HERE for our link to support group #80241 The Sewing House Quilt of Valor Volunteers
Special thank you to the Collierville Rotary Club for providing a grant in December 2024 and September of 2026 to help us purchase fabric and batting! We appreciate each and every donor!
Quilts of Valor Foundation began in 2003 with a dream, literally a dream. Founder Catherine Roberts’ son Nat was deployed in Iraq. According to Catherine:
"The dream was as vivid as real life. I saw a young man sitting on the side of his bed in the middle of the night, hunched over. The permeating feeling was one of utter despair. I could see his war demons clustered around, dragging him down into an emotional gutter. Then, as if viewing a movie, I saw him in the next scene wrapped in a quilt. His whole demeanor changed from one of despair to one of hope and well-being. The quilt had made this dramatic change. The message of my dream was: Quilts = Healing.
The model appeared simple: have a volunteer team who would donate their time and materials to make a quilt. One person would piece the top and the other would quilt it. I saw the name for this special quilt: it was Quilt of Valor, a QOV."
Touched By War
“Not everyone answers the call to serve our country. It is those rare individuals who are selfless enough to sacrifice so much so we can all enjoy the freedom we have. We’ll never know exactly what each Veteran experiences and how they are touched by war. But we can welcome our Veterans home, support them and their families, and thank them for their service whenever possible.”
