Happy Wednesday Friends!

There are, as always, some awesome letters which definitely pull at the heart strings.

Grab a cuppa or cool drink, sit back and relax while you soak up some well-deserved gratitude!

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Hi Ellen N,

I have received my hero quilt and it is amazing. Thank you so much for the effort and time into it. I love it.

Thank you again for all of your work.

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Hi Ellen N,

Your creative talent has blessed our home once more with hubby’s laundry bag arriving today.

He’d not long returned home from a meeting tonight to be intrigued with a parcel he wasn’t expecting mail of any sort (heehee).

Your gifts are a highlight in our collection of service treasures.

Warm regards

Note from Editor: The writer of the thank you had also received a laundry bag from Ellen.

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G’Day Aussie Hero Quilts

Thank you for the quilts and the “Dhoby Bags”. They were a very pleasantsurprise, the work involved in making these would be considerable.

Once again Thankyou, I have sent a letter of response to the Quilt maker (Deidre B-L). I am in the process of doing the same for Ellen N who made the Laundry or Dhoby Bag, as us sailors refer to them as.

I’ve attached some photos of (us with) the quilts.

Kind Regards

Quilt by Deirdre B-L

Quilt by Sue N

Note from Editor: The writer of this thank you was the recipient of the LB bag from Ellen N reported above.

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Dear Gail McQ,

I wanted to express to you how grateful I am to have received your quilt.

When my Company Sergeant Major organised our requests for the Aussie Hero Quilts, I was pretty excited. I deployed overseas once before in 2019 but didn’t know about your generous and thoughtful organisation at the time. As quilts and laundry bags arrive in our headquarters, we excitedly have the member open them and show them to everyone. They are all so amazing and unique and it’s great to see how you all have interpreted our requests. Of course, I love mine, and my son has already asked if he can have it on his bed when I return from our six months apart, which is only fair as he gave me his doona cover for my deployment.

Recently we had a cake made for a formal Australian Army Birthday dinner that we hosted for our ten other partner force nations here.

It is easy to get homesick, and writing this email hasn’t helped! But we know we are contributing as best we can to this important mission, so that Ukrainian fathers too might return to their families, and so their nation may know victory and that victory will bring peace.

On behalf of this contingent, I would like to thank you, the other volunteers, and your wonderful organisation, for adding some colour to our otherwise olive green and grey rooms and giving us each a memento of the opportunity we were given and the honour to serve our nation. As we look to commemorate Anzac Day, it is lovely to know there are people like you thinking of us.

In eternal gratitude,

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G’day Clarissa L,

Thank you so very much for the beautiful laundry bag. I’m so grateful for all the time and skill you have put into creating this for me.

I’m about five months in of a six month deployment with Operation KUDU-E, so I’m finally on the home stretch now! This deployment has been both personally and professionally extremely rewarding for me. Although I am very grateful for the amazing opportunity and experiences that I’ve learnt from, there’s nothing like coming back home to Australia. Your laundry bag is such a delightful reminder of what a beautiful country Australia is to be able to call home, I especially love the pattern on the back with the koalas and kangaroos!

I am going to be moving to Canberra when I get back so the only thing I’m not looking forwards to is the fact I’m going to have been experiencing cold weather for about 9 months straight!

Thank you again for this amazing laundry bag, receiving this has absolutely been one of the highlights of my deployment. I feel very blessed to have been able to receive such a thoughtful gift.

All the very best to you and your family, I loved hearing about your life. It honestly makes me miss home even more!

Your work with Aussie Hero Quilts is greatly appreciated. I will absolutely cherish this gorgeous laundry bag forever!

Kind Regards,

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Dear ladies at Sew Crazy Quilters Club,

I serve in the Australian Army and recently received a lovely laundry bagfrom you guys.

I just wanted to reach out and pass on my wholehearted thanks for yourefforts. Receiving gifts crafted with genuine care and thought goes a longway to reminding us who serve that there are wonderful people in thecommunity who are always thinking of us.

Rest assured the laundry bag will be used well and will likely travel allover the world in the coming months and years. Always reminding me ofAustralia and the wonderful people who hold it dear.

Stay safe and please keep doing what you’re doing.

Sincerely,

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Cheers Catherine D

Until next week keep your letters, emails and photos coming in. Wednesdays would be so totally boring without them!

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