News & Updates

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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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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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An Afternoon on the Gray Ghost by Diana G

by | Feb 13, 2020 |

Motto: Grow With StrengthWhat is another name for the galley on a ship? This is just one of the bits ofinformation we learned when a group of the enthusiastic quilters from Aussie Hero Quilts joined Jan-Maree on a tour of the HMAS Hobart III, the lead ship of the...

Happy Mail 12th February

by | Feb 12, 2020 |

Thank you BOM SQUAD contributorsfor all these lovely blocks for our Aussie Heroes' Quilts.Would you like to make some of the Red, Blue & Yellow blocks for thismonth?  Please clickHEREfor the Tutorial and all you'll need to know to contribute them.Linda LLiz J...

Grati-Tuesday 11 February 2020

by | Feb 11, 2020 |

Hey All,Here are this week's gratitude messages.  Grab a cuppa and have a read......To Noelene & Jim,I am currently posted to Adelaide.  I am 20 years old and have nearly been in the army for 3 years.  Before I joined the army I lived and grew up in...

Aussie Hero Quilts Request List 10 February 2020

by | Feb 10, 2020 |

Hi AllOh my goodness.  Australia is living up to her reputation… drought, bushfires and now storms and floods. One of our wonderful volunteers had a large tree land on the roof of their living room, garage and carport.  ☹  I hope everyone else is...

Weekly Dispatches 7th February 2020

by | Feb 7, 2020 |

THANK YOUto the generous volunteers who made all these Quilts and Laundry Bagsfor deployed Aussie Heroes!They've been dispatched this past week and will soon be in thehands of all their intended Recipients.  Imagine the excitement asthey open their parcels!This...

First Happy Mail Post 2020…5 Feb 2020

by | Feb 5, 2020 |

BOM SQUAD...you are amazing!The Aussie Theme Blocks of the Month that have been arrivingin my mailbox over the last couple of monthsare just gorgeous and are going to make SO many Aussie Hero Quiltswhere the Recipient has asked for something representing home and...