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Weekly Dispatch 22nd August 2025

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 26 Quilts which takes...

Grati-Wednesday 20th August 2025

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,...

Request List 19 August 2025

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...

Weekly Dispatch 15th August 2025

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...

Grati-Wednesday 13th August 2025

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....

Request List 12 August 25

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...

Weekly Dispatch 8th August 2025

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...

Grati-Tuesday 5th August 2025

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...

Request List 4 August 25

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...

Weekly Dispatch 1st August 2025

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...

Quilts for HMAS Sydney…..

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...

Grati-Tuesday 29th July 2025

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...

Aussie Hero Quilts Requests 25 May 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...

A Mother’s Perspecitive…..

Hi all, I'd like to share a story with you about love and gratitude! I know many including yours truly don't get a lot of thank you's from our recipients? I've worked out its about a third and while I don't sew for AHQ for thanks or accolades it is lovely...

Weekly Dispatches 22 May 20

Afternoon everyone!Hope you are all well and warm, today has been chilly all around Australia I see, even the NT had to break out the jumpers!My friends who quilt always say winter is the best time to finish a quilt, as when you put the binding on (the edging for...

BOM Squad Update….. Feedback needed for a new way ahead…..

Hey there BOM Squaddies...Noooooo, not that kind of BOM....BOM = block of the month.... and our BOM Squad are the ones who make the Blocks of the Month.As you all know our wonderful Sandy has been struck down with a brain tumour and she is no longer able to run our...

Grati-Tuesday 19 May 20

Hey all,Before I hand over to Kylie for the gratitude post just a few words on another subject.  At the beginning of March I told you that our lovely Sandy from the Coffs Harbour Sewing Team had been diagnosed with a brain tumour. Last week I called for...

Aussie Hero Quilts Requests 18 May 2020

Hi AllWe have a few more new people this week (welcome!) so I will include this information again just for them.   If you look at the list and need help choosing please feel free to let me know.  I know it can be overwhelming and I am more than happy to...