Good morning,
Still waiting on the requests from Operation Kudu (our troops training Ukrainian soldiers) but there are a few more requests for you to choose from so no need to sit idle if you want to sew. There are some cute requests to choose from too.. just a couple of pics to whet your appetite.
Defence Community Dog Stay Mats: just a reminder…..I only heard from a couple of people who took home the Stay Mats after last week’s email so please get in touch if you have one.
During our Quilters Gathering on the Friday night at HMAS Harman last year we handed out quite a number of kits to make Stay Mats for the Defence Community Dogs. Now that Christmas and the New year have been and gone, and school is about to start up, I am hoping that you can find the time to get on and get the mats made so that the DCD team have them when they need them. Your kits contain everything you need to complete a mat and they took quite a bit of time and effort to put them together so please, if you don’t think you have the time to complete the one you have, go ahead and send it back to us so someone else can complete it. If you have any questions regarding the instructions etc please let us know. I hope to see some pictures of completed Stay Mats in the coming weeks. I know they will be well appreciated.
Here is the request list for this week. Happy hunting. I hope you can find something that tickles your fancy.
POST BY DATE
The post by date for all Requests on this list is 13 March 2023 please, or earlier if you can manage this. If you cannot make that date, please let me know. Do reach out if you have any timing issues and we’ll resolve one way or the other. In fact, if you are going to be late posting it please let me know BEFORE you post it. Also, if this time frame is too tight for you, there are options, just email me to discuss, thank you.
Request Information
When selecting a request, remember, you do not have to include everything they have asked for. Footy quilts do not need to have the logo or even the team’s name. Using the team colours is all that is required. Simple is perfectly acceptable. A number of these requests have given you favourite colours as well as footy teams or other hobbies and interests. It is fine to make a quilt using their favourite colours and include only one of their interests. It is fine to keep it simple.
If there is more than one request on this list that you would be happy to do I suggest that you send me a list of requests and tell me how many you want to be allocated….i.e. one of the following please….There are always a few requests that everyone wants to do (and I can never pick them) so if the first one you ask for is taken then I can allocate another from your list if I have a list.
Any queries you might have, please don’t hesitate to contact via the AHQ email as per usual with any queries and we will assist you from there. We may not know the answer, but it will be our pleasure to research and get back to you.
A reminder, when you are ready to post the quilt or laundry bag you’ve created, please use the PMKeyS number given to you in any correspondence with the admin team. This helps the volunteer admin team keep a track of what’s been sent etc. The PMKeyS number is included in the address details we supply for your recipient e.g. the 7-digit number in bold below.
CPL Wanda Quilt 8765432
TG 3456
AFPO XX
ADF
Sydney NSW 2890
Also, please use the Aussie Heroes PO Box address on your parcel in the event the parcel is Returned to Sender – the PO Box is a safe place in the event of any mishaps with postage.
Aussie Hero Quilts (and Laundry Bags)
PO Box 248
Cherrybrook NSW 2126
Don’t forget to take a photo of your completed quilt or laundry bag to email to AHQ with the name and PMKeyS of the recipient and we can include in the Weekly Dispatches blog and add to the tally of quilts and laundry bags sent off to the troops. I personally love viewing the photos of those projects dispatched – so inspiring.
If you are using a AHQ supplied prepaid satchel please kindly use the AHQ address for the return address– also for your own packaging – if a parcel is Returned to Sender it is likely we can expedite its journey to the recipient from Sydney.
Please also please hold on to the Tracking number (the pink sticker that you should remove before posting – we’ve experienced mail delays lately (haven’t we all?) and having the Tracking number is very reassuring to keep an eye on the parcel’s progress in arriving at its destination.
Don’t forget, if you look at today’s Request List and need help choosing, please feel free to get in touch to discuss, we will be ready to reply and offer guidance by email. Our goal is to help you find a request that you will be comfortable with doing. If you need a crest etc we may be able to post embroideries / printed fabric images or email some of these to you.
Helpful info may be gleaned here from Information For Those That Sew
I look forward to seeing the photos of completed quilts and LBs when they are ready to post off.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE copy the ENTIRE line if you wish to nominate for a quilt or laundry bag.
For example….
| Marvel Theme. Ironman | M | LB | 1 |
This is really important to make sure that neither you nor I copy the wrong number which could lead to me giving you the wrong details for specific request. If you find it hard to copy and paste, please copy or write the line out as above as:
Marvel Theme. Ironman M LB 1
Decoding The Columns:
The first column is the theme or preferences requested.
The second column indicates the gender of the recipient:
F = female
M = male
The third column is as follows:
B = both quilt and laundry bag (feel free to nominate to JUST do the laundry bag if you wish)
Q = just a quilt
LB = just a laundry bag
The fourth column is the number of the request.
Please let the Admin crew know if you have any other questions….Just email co*******@******************rg.au
Looking forward to seeing what you want to make this week. Happy stitching!
Cheers,
Jan-Maree
P.P.S. Don’t forget to check out AHQ on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.
| Tiger/Whale Sharks, XXXX Gold beer, labradors | F | Q | 1 |
| Red, Adventure Dirt Motorcycles, 4WD Adventure, Dakar Rally | M | Q | 2 |
| NRL Cowboys, Red cattle dog, Rick and Morty, Adventure time, Katana (Sword). F1 | M | Q | 3 |
| NRL Melbourne Storm, Gym, Chef | M | Q | 4 |
| Rotweillers, surfing, VBs | M | Q | 5 |
| Surfing, Kitesurfing, Yacht, Blue/Grey | M | Q | 6 |
| Southeast Asia / Northeast Asia theme, missiles, destroyers, AEGIS logo (we can provide the logo) | M | Q | 7 |
| HMAS Hobart, Star wars LEGO (We can supply HMAS Hobart crest) | M | Q | 8 |
| Melbourne Storm, 2 names on it | M | Q | 9 |
| adventure time cartoon, rick and morty cartoon | M | Q | 10 |
| Staffy dogs and pineapples. With some military aspects like Lest we Forget, RAAF crest (we can provide the crest) | F | Q | 11 |
| Navy blue, tuquoise, black, silver, red. Tennis, surfing, sports cars, super hornets | M | Q | 12 |
| Blue, Sports | M | Q | 13 |
| Red, Liverpool Football Club | M | Q | 14 |
| Navy Veteran, enlisted 1963-1984 RAN Crest with personal details, HMAS Albatross and HMAS Melbourne Blue, anything Navy (we can provide the RAN and ships’ crests) | M | Q | 15 |
| Air to Air Refuelling RAAF KC-30A & USA KC-46A partnership (we could provide silhouette for applique) | M | B | 16 |
| naval flavour and/or snowy mountains (WE can supply RAN Crest) | F | Q | 17 |
| RAAF Crest, the Roundel, 26 SQN crest, some of our iconic aircraft would be fabulous. RAAF 100 year anniversary patch, RAAF Toowoomba Cadet Flight Crest, Childrens names and DOB. Children’s photo (WE can supply crests/badges/embroidery of children’s details and children’s photo. We can also supply silhouette of aircraft for applique) | F | B | 18 |
| dark blue, light blue, black, silver, orange Historic motorsport, Formula 1, Walking (especially in rainforests etc) Old World War 2 aircraft and love the AP-3C Orion aircraft !” | M | Q | 19 |
| Formula 1 (Sebastian Vettel), Le Mans, All things car racing. My favourite colours are Blacks, Greys and blues. | M | B | 20 |
| The RAAF Crest and WOFF rank to be included. 38SQN with the Caribou aircraft and 10SQN with the Orion aircraft. OP Helpem Fren Solomon Islands 2004. Blue and green. Passionate North Queensland Cowboys supporter (we can supply RAAF crest and WOFF Rank) | F | B | 21 |
| Brisbane bronco’s or happy to go an AirForce theme, I have spent my whole career working within Air mobility group (transport aircraft) including C130 Hercules, Caribous, and C-17 Globemaster. Very passionate angler and love my lure fishing also as a theme RAAF Crest (We can provide the crest) | M | Q | 22 |
| military theme and has worked on C-130’s, P-3C Orion’s and currently works with F-35’s at 75 squadron which has the magpie on their unit crest. Please include Grandfather’s service details Red poppies and the Australian flag. | M | B | 23 |
| Rising Sun Badge Australian Flag Warrant Officer Class Two Rank Badge, RASIGS Badge a “Poppy”. Text Afghanistan Op Slipper 2012 Solomon Islands Op Anode 2003 My include : Barramundi Fishing & Sunsets (We can supply the badges and text embroidery ) | M | Q | 24 |
| Geelong Cats, RM Williams & ARIAT fan. Rising Sun and artillery badge (WE can supply the badge) | M | Q | 25 |
| likes animals and is a dog trainer. He just recently got his light aircraft pilots licence and likes to fly his drone. | M | B | 26 |
| RAAF crest, aircraft worked on – HERC, Falcon, Hornet, hawk, spartan or 37sqn, 34SQN, 77SQN, 2 SQN (before planes arrived ) 35SQN, 76SQN ..he loves Holden cars, Star Wars, star trek, scotch (whiskey make his own home brew-spirits ) Remembrance poppy (We can supply the RAAF crest and crests for the air force squadrons. alternately we can supply silhouettes of aircraft for applique) | M | B | 27 |
| Rising Sun, Army but served on HMAS Kanimbla. HMAS Kanimbla crest and JMCC Wagon wheel. (We can provide the Rising Sun and Kanimbla crest, JMCC wheel easy to applique) | F | B | 28 |
| Red White Blue Green Gold Themes: Army, Rising Sun, Australia Flag, Infantry Badge, RSAR Badge, AMCU Camo. | M | Q | 29 |
| Blue colour please. My proffession is a GP, so perhaps incorporating red cross, stethoscope or something similar. Hobbies include BBQ, pizza making, Labradors, reading, cruise shiop vacations | M | Q | 30 |
| RAAF crest, Training System Officer (TSO) patch. Likes purples, red or blues. I would love something that shows the locations I have served: VIC, ACT, SA, NSW and Ohio in the USA. Married to a serving Air Force engineer and we have grown children – 2 girls and a boy. Two spoodles, photo available | F | B | 31 |
| RAN Crest HMAS Toowoomba Slipper 2011 HMAS Darwin Catalyst 2004/05 Falconer 2003 Slipper 2002 HMAS Darwin Toowoomba Anzac, Childers, Broome (Commisioning Crew), Maitland, Ararat (We can supply the crests) | M | B | 32 |
| Rising Sun, with personal details Signals Corps. Text East Timor (Posted) 2001/2002 ADLO – Australian Mission East Timor Iraq 2007/08 – Op Catalyst Iraq 2018 – Op Accordion/Op Highroad Afghanistan & Iraq 2018/2019 Op Accordion/Op Highroad/Op Okra) Ash Wednesday Domestic Response 1983 Army theme, poppies etc. (We can include the badges) | M | B | 33 |
| RASIGS badge, WRAAC badge, Rising Sun. United Nations flag and MFO badge. Swimming Running Basketball High Jumps Volleyball (We can supply the badges) | F | Q | 34 |
| AFL Essendon Footy Club red and black theme. Photographer, so general video game or photography theme | M | B | 35 |
| RAN Crest, divers helmet (Photo available). Navy blue colours with a touch of nautical. We can supply the crest) | M | Q | 36 |
| Black, white and blue (Cronulla Sharks), Crests for HMAS Leeuwin, Sydney, Waller, Dechaineux, and RAN crest with personal details below. (We can supply the crest and embroidery) | M | B | 37 |
| Traditional patchwork, RAAF ensign, Boxing Kangaroo. royal or dark blue, gray or gold, RAAF crest, Australian Flag (We can supply the badges) | M | Q | 38 |
| Something to combine my RAN service with raising a family in the country please. RAN crest HMAS Melbourne crest x 2 with the following underneath Op Slipper ROT 48 2010 Op Slipper ROT 52 2012 We moved to Orange and have a veggie patch, a beehive and chickens | F | Q | 39 |
| anything that relates to the Northern Territory including culture and lifestyle of the Top End. Text “Op Resolute TSE 108” Rising Sun and RAN Crest. (we can provide the crests and text as embroidered patch) | M | Q | 40 |
| Poppies and sunset/sunrise theme. RACT and AAAVN badge, Rising Sun. (We can supply the badges and silhouettes) | M | LB | 41 |
| Chicago Bulls (NBA), Michael Jordan, West End draught | M | Q | 42 |
| Music, surf, beach, sun, stars | M | Q | 43 |
| RAN Crest. Boatswain’s Mate badge, transferred to Medic. Ships served – HMAS Ararat and Pirie, HMAS Leeuwin and Melville HMAS Kanimbla and Manoora, LHD Tobruk, AOR Success. Bases served – HMAS Cairns, HMAS Kuttabul, HMAS Penguin, HMAS Waterhen, HMAS Stirling, HMAS Cerberus, HMAS Albatross, HMAS Creswell 01/02/1999 – 04/04/2022 (We can supply the crest/badges) | F | B | 44 |
| RAN crest with personal details below, a Navy theme would be amazing (We can supply RAN Crest) | F | B | 45 |
| Dogs / Green | F | LB | 45 |
| purple, camping, fishing, reading, kids cats romcoms – love actually Favourite place in the world: Greece | F | Q | 46 |
| Purple Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Favourite place in the world: Scotland | F | Q | 47 |
| Purple camping, kayaking, SUP Outdoors/Adventure Favourite place in the world: Western Australia | F | Q | 48 |
| yellow Golf and gardening Cats Fav Person: Queen Elizabeth Fav Country: Vietnam | M | Q | 49 |
| Red Tennis Miniature Pinscher (black and tan dog) Favourite genre of TV shows/movies: Thriller | M | Q | 50 |
| Green Eating and Gym Dogs and Cats Favourite genre of TV shows/movies: Action | F | Q | 51 |
| Likes floral prints. Avid netball player, also plays oztag. 2 beautiful dogs that she rescued. loves travelling all over the world. | F | Q | 52 |
| Favourite Colour: black Radio (Presenting), volunteering, teaching, writing/ journalism, all things IT, going on walks, going to cinema Favourite place in the world: Vienna | M | Q | 53 |
| Green Traveling Australia and International Red Cliff Dolphins NRL team | M | Q | 54 |
| Cooking, Camping, ANZAC/Blue | F | B | 55 |
| Camoflauge, RAN crest, Navy theme | F | B | 56 |
| Floral/Colourful/pink and orange/spring vibes | F | B | 57 |
| Star Wars / Green | F | Q | 58 |
| Star Wars / Purple | F | LB | 59 |
| Stars Wars / Blue | F | LB | 60 |
| Pink / Floral | F | LB | 61 |
| Multi-Coloured / Floral | F | B | 62 |
| Dora the Explorer / Blue | M | LB | 63 |
| ANZAC / Blue | M | LB | 64 |
| ANZAC / Blue | M | LB | 65 |
| ANZAC / Blue | M | Q | 66 |
| Winter Sports / Blue | F | Q | 67 |
| Blue/Green/Rainforest | F | LB | 68 |
| Banana’s in Pajamas/Yellow/Blue | M | B | 69 |
| Blue/Green Tropical | F | LB | 70 |
| My Little Pony (Pink) | F | LB | 71 |
| Flowers/Multicoloured | M | Q | 72 |
| Curious George / Yellow | M | Q | 73 |
| Lilo & Stitch / Blue/Black | M | LB | 74 |
| Australiana (Green and Gold/Yellow) | M | LB | 75 |
| Brisbane Broncos Maroon | M | LB | 76 |
| Flowers (Light Red) | F | LB | 77 |
| WALL-E (Grey/Blue) | M | B | 78 |
| Canadian Alps (White and Blue) | M | B | 79 |
| Blue / Wildlife / Flora & Fauna | F | LB | 80 |
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