Ohio's Home of the Brave Project
Honors Our Nation's Fallen Heroes

with information from Bev Macbeth

Bev Macbeth, who designed the quilt above and made it, and who has provided all of the directions below, has stepped forward be Ohio's state coordinator for the Home of the Brave quilt project.

She is leading the effort for making quilts for each family of Ohio's fallen soldiers, forty eight individuals, so far. As a courtesy to her and all those working on the Ohio project, we are providing space here for assembly instructions. Write to Bev at: blackriverquilts@verizon.net

The following directions are for a nine patch quilt with blocks set on point in four vertical rows consisting of four blocks each. The quilt has narrow vertical sashings, and four borders, the top and bottom border being larger than the two side borders.

Ohio “Home of the Brave” Quilt Project

Approximately 74” x  68”

Nine patch blocks 9” finished size (9 ½” unfinished): cut the squares 3 ½” (4) dark, (4) light, and (1) muslin center square for signature (name, city and state written on the diagonal)

Setting triangles: (6) 14” squares, cut twice diagonally to yield 24 side triangles

Corner triangles: (8) 7 ¼” squares, cut once diagonally to yield 16 corner triangles

Strip width of narrow stripe fabric between rows according to the stripe design width ( for example, mine was cut 1 ¼”)

Side border fabric cut: 6” width

Top and Bottom border fabric cut: 10” width

Fabrics to use: for the “darks,” Civil War reproduction in greens, blue indigo, purples, browns, golds, mid-1800s: Barbara Brackman/Moda, Sharon Yenter/In the Beginning, Judie Rothermel/Marcus Bros., Terry Clothier Thompson, and the Windham/Baum repros are all wonderful.