PFC Paulson, USMC - Quilt

From Marine Mom: "When my son entered the US Marines at age 18, I was proud of him, but missed him terribly. At the 2005 PIQF Quilt Festival, I discovered Tammie Bowser's Quilted Photography system. I purchased the software, and was able to create this quilt based on his first Marine portrait in his dress blues. This was my first photography quilt, and I used 10,000 1-1/4" squares (sewn to 3/4" squares).

This quilt honors him and all the young men who are serving our country. My son is stationed at Camp Pendleton in San Diego as part of the 2nd battalion, 1st Marine Division as a CAAT (combined anti-armor tank) weapons specialist and is slated to go to Japan, Korea and Australia in January 2007 for seven months and to Iraq in spring of 2008. Creating this quilt was very therapeutic for me, and my way of "letting my oldest son go."

It was machine quilted by Faye Johnsen in San Jose, CA, and embroidered with "PFC Ryan Paulson / US Marine Corps/ February 2006/ Love Mom" on the back. The backing is Marine red, and the embroidery is in gold.

I had only done a queen size sampler quilt 20 years ago, and this was my first quilt since them. It was absolutely a labor of love!"

Read the review of the Quilted Photo Xpress software.