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Weekly Dispatch 22nd August 2025

by | 22 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 26 Quilts which takes...
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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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Aussie Hero Quilts Request List 16 March 2020

by | Mar 16, 2020 |

Hi AllGreetings all… I hope you noted the blog post about the date for this year’s Aussie Hero Quilts Annual Thank You Dinner. Here is the link if you missed it…http://aussieheroquilts.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-2020-aussie-hero-quilts-annual.htmlHere are this week’s...

At last…. you have been very patient… and here it is……

by | Mar 13, 2020 |

Woo Hoo!!! Thanks to the wonderful Raylee we now have a Video Tutorial showing How To Make A Laundry Bag!!!Thank you so much Raylee.  If you would like to check it out all you have to do is to Click hereYou too will be able to put some smiles on happy faces with...

Weekly Dispatches 13th March 2020

by | Mar 13, 2020 |

Aussie Hero Quilts Volunteers have been so busy this past weekas they have sent SO many quilts and Laundry Bags on theirway to deployed Defence Force personnel in far away places.THANK YOUto everyone who has been a part of this great effort.This year so far we have...

Happy Mail 11th March 2020

by | Mar 11, 2020 |

BLOCKS OF THE MONTHThank you to the BOM Squad for the following contributions to bemade into quilts for deployed Aussie Heroes.What a lovely lot of blocks...I can't wait to design them into quilts.Have you seen the Block of the Month for March?GoHEREto see it with all...

Grati-Tuesday 10 March

by | Mar 10, 2020 |

Good afternoon.You just know that the authors of these letters and emails home are smiling when they write them.  Grab a cuppa, sit back and enjoy the read. .....Hi Ruth,  I received the lovely laundry bag you sent over, thank you. The ANZAC scene...

Aussie Hero Quilts Request List 9 March 2020

by | Mar 9, 2020 |

Hi AllGreetings all… I hope you noted the blog post about the date for this year’s Aussie Hero Quilts Annual Thank You Dinner. Here are this week’s requests.  I have numbered them slightly differently again this week. Laundry bags used to be numbered 1A, 1B etc...