News & Updates

Welcome to the Aussie Hero Quilts (and Laundry Bags) Blog. You can keep up to date with all the news and events that occur at Aussie Hero Quilts. Our regular blog features are:

Grati-Wednesday 20th August 2025

by | 20 August 2025 | Grati | 0 Comments

Happy Wednesday Friends! Once again we have a multitude of thank you's from around the globe. Grab a cuppa, sit back and relax while you soak up some well-deserved gratitude! AHQ Thank You Dinner is only 66 sleeps! Don't forget to buy your tickets. *** Dear Jan-Maree,...
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Request List 19 August 2025

by | 19 August 2025 | Request List | 0 Comments

Hi all, Cath here. Thank you all for your words of welcome and words of encouragement, much appreciated. Let me introduce you to one of our volunteers, Marianne. She does the mail on Wednesdays. Marianne posts out the items that you need for your request/s: for...
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Weekly Dispatch 15th August 2025

by | 15 August 2025 | Weekly Dispatches | 0 Comments

Hello Friday!!! Another week of Amazing Quilts and Laundry Bags sent off to our ADF pers!! I think we can all agree, a great display of quilts and laundry bags, yet again from our amazing volunteers.... Please enjoy!!! 🌟🌟🌟 This week we dispatched 17 Quilts which takes...
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Grati-Wednesday 13th August 2025

by | 13 August 2025 | Grati | 0 Comments

Happy Wednesday Friends! As the Request list has now moved to Tuesday we decided to move the Grati-blog to Wednesday.  It will give us that nice boost to get over the hump of the week!   Once again we have a multitude of thank you's from around the globe....
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Request List 12 August 25

by | 12 August 2025 | Request List | 0 Comments

Hi all, Just wanted to introduce my self to you. My name is Cath Harper. I have met many recipients at the annual AHQ dinner. (Have you got your tickets yet?) I am a volunteer, I make quilts and laundry bags and am the first paid employee of AHQ. I will be primarily...
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Weekly Dispatch 8th August 2025

by | 8 August 2025 | Weekly Dispatches | 0 Comments

Hello Friday!!! Another week of Amazing Quilts and Laundry Bags sent off to our ADF pers!! I think we can all agree, a great display of quilts and laundry bags, yet again from our amazing volunteers.... Please enjoy!!! 🌟🌟🌟 This week we dispatched 10 Quilts which takes...
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Grati-Tuesday 5th August 2025

by | 5 August 2025 | Grati | 0 Comments

Happy Tuesday Friends! Welcome to the first blog for August!     Another deluge of thank you's again this week from far and wide so grab a cuppa, sit back and relax while you soak up some well-deserved gratitude!   AHQ Thank You Dinner is only 81 sleeps!  Don't forget...
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Request List 4 August 25

by | 4 August 2025 | Request List | 0 Comments

Hi all, Well, as the picture says, it is Time for a Change. For the last 14 years the request list has gone out every Monday morning for you to peruse and select requests from. This means that I need to prepare the request list on Friday or some time over the weekend...
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Weekly Dispatch 1st August 2025

by | 1 August 2025 | Weekly Dispatches | 0 Comments

Hello Friday!!! Reminder that tickets for our Annual Thank You Weekend 2025 are on sale now for the whole weekend. Friday afternoon tour of ADFA - to be confirmed Friday night Volunteers' Gathering at The Rex Saturday morning breakfast at The Rex for any Newbies...
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Quilts for HMAS Sydney…..

by | 30 July 2025 | News, Update | 0 Comments

The lovely crew from HMAS Sydney put up a great post with photos of some of the quilts they have received recently with a lovely message. Thank you to Aussie Hero Quilts (and Laundry Bags) for their wonderful delivery of quilts for the crew. We will cherish them...
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Grati-Tuesday 29th July 2025

by | 29 July 2025 | Grati | 0 Comments

Happy Tuesday Friends! Welcome to the last blog for July.   On the downward slope to the end of the year. I bet it will be no time at all and we are counting down till Jolly Old Santa visits!!   Another deluge of thank you's again this week from far and wide...
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Request List 28 July 25

by | 28 July 2025 | Request List | 0 Comments

Hi all, Good morning. Since early 2016 we have sent out a weekly email containing Jan-Maree's message to volunteers and the Request List. But on and off our volunteers tell us this email just doesn't arrive. Have you missed out on receiving your weekly Request List by...
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Grati-Tuesday 2 June 2020

by | Jun 2, 2020 |

Hi Everyone,  Lots of lovely letters this week from our grateful recipients - all of them are special, but I think you will agree that the first connects you with the recipient so much. I have been sitting here trying to write a preamble for a while and the...

Aussie Hero Quilts – Request List 1 June 2020

by | Jun 1, 2020 |

Hi All CHANGES ARE COMING but STILL not yet! I will let you know when. Due to my impending cancer treatment changes will be coming but NOT YET.  I will let you know when. I am in the process of training people to take over but no one is ready yet and whilst I am...

Sandy is now wrapped with love

by | May 29, 2020 |

Hey all,Sandy received her this week and of course she absolutely loves it. The message I got is is that "She's over the moon and touched by love & care of the contributors.Thank you."On her Facebook page Sandy said "I will wrap up in this quilt and...

Weekly Dispatches 29 May 20

by | May 29, 2020 |

Hi everyone 👋 Hope you had a great week!As I sit at my desk and get this weeks posts ready I keep getting distracted by the birds flitting and tweeting outside my office window, one great thing about working from home. Getting to see all the little things that we...

Grati-Tuesday 26 May 20

by | May 26, 2020 |

Hi everyone!Hope you are all going well, I know it is almost Winter, but geese how cold was the weekend! It is certainly flanny jammies and slippers weather where I live at the moment.Just the kind of weather to grab a cup and scroll though this weeks...

Aussie Hero Quilts Requests 25 May 2020

by | May 25, 2020 |

Hi AllCHANGES ARE COMING:Due to my impending cancer treatment changes will be coming but NOT YET.  I will let you know when. I am in the process of training people to take over but no one is ready yet and whilst I am symptom free (at the moment) and then whilst I...