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:

Request List 28 October 25

by | 28 October 2025 | Request List | 0 Comments

Hi all, For all of those who were able to make it to the AHQ Volunteer Thank You Dinner weekend in Canberra hope you have arrived home safely. For those who normally come but couldn't make it, you were thought of and missed. Welcome to our newbies, hope it was special...
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Weekly Dispatch 24th October 2025

by | 24 October 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 22nd October 2025

by | 22 October 2025 | Grati | 0 Comments

Happy Wednesday Friends! Grab a cuppa, sit back and relax while you soak up some well-deserved gratitude! *** Hi Heather B! You made my laundry bag with the fighter jets and helicopters on it. I only received it today as I've just come home from Europe! I just wanted...
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Request List 21 October 25

by | 21 October 2025 | Request List | 0 Comments

Hi all, It is down to only a few sleeps till Aussie Hero Quilts converges on Canberra for the Annual Thank You Weekend. For those that can’t make it, please know that you will be missed and we would love you to join us next year if you can. We will do our best to...
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Weekly Dispatch 17th October 2025

by | 17 October 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 9 Quilts which takes...
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Request List 14 October 25

by | 14 October 2025 | Request List | 0 Comments

Hi all, Raffle tickets will be four for $10 OR 10 for 20. In addition, every volunteer attending will be given one free ticket. Your names will already be written on the raffle ticket list before the dinner and winners will be chosen using a random generator. Ticket...
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Weekly Dispatch 10th October 2025

by | 10 October 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 8 Quilts which takes...
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Grati-Wednesday 8th October 2025

by | 8 October 2025 | Grati | 0 Comments

Happy Wednesday Friends! Grab a cuppa, sit back and relax while you soak up some well-deserved gratitude! AHQ Thank You Dinner is only 17 sleeps!Don't forget to buy your tickets. *** We received a beautiful hand written letter from the 11 year old daughter of a...
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Request List 7 October 25

by | 7 October 2025 | Request List | 0 Comments

Hi all, 2026 AHQ Calendars are now on Sale! Thanks to the very clever Bel, we have a new calendar for this year. For the very low cost of only $20 you can purchase a 2026 AHQ calendar. You can check it out here if you want to see what it looks like....
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Weekly Dispatch 3rd October 2025

by | 3 October 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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Op Southern Discovery Presentation 2025

by | 2 October 2025 | General Information, News | 0 Comments

Operation Southern Discovery 2025-26: from Hobart to Antarctica Hopefully readers will remember various blogs in the last 12 months about AHQLB's contribution to Operation Southern Discovery (OpSD). While OpSD has been running for some years, this is only the second...
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Grati-Wednesday 1st October 2025

by | 1 October 2025 | Grati | 0 Comments

Happy Wednesday Friends! Grab a cuppa, sit back and relax while you soak up some well-deserved gratitude! AHQ Thank You Dinner is only 24 sleeps!Don't forget to buy your tickets. *** Wayne T had the privilege of presenting a quilt to a very worthy recipient. He was...
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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...

Grati-Tuesday 4 Feb 2020

by | Feb 4, 2020 |

We have some lovely messages this week but up first a special one.  This comes from someone who received their quilt in 2012.  The quilt was made by Janie P from the Blackboy Hill Quilters. Now unfortunately, because of my house fire in 2016 I have lost all...

The ¼” SEAMRS are founded! by Heather Butler

by | Feb 3, 2020 |

Late in 2019, an invitation was sent to active, and some not so recently active, AHQ sewing friends, to join together at Gallipoli Barracks for an AHQ sewing day. 9am on 05 Feb saw our group of quilters watching the induction video to be allowed escorted access...

Aussie Hero Quilts Requests 3 February 2020

by | Feb 3, 2020 |

Hi AllHere is to another week of sewing. Hope you all have a good one. For those who don’t read Facebook or the blog here is a snippet of a thank you message that I thought you might enjoy…."For me and my colleagues here on deployment the quilts we receive from...