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 27th August 2025

by | 27 August 2025 | Grati | 0 Comments

Happy Wednesday Friends! One of the thank you's in today's blog gave me a good chuckle. The recipient has a way with words! See if you can work out which one! We once again have a great lot of thank you's from around the globe. Grab a cuppa, sit back and relax while...
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Request list 26 August 2025

by | 26 August 2025 | Request List | 0 Comments

Hi all, Woo Hoo, only 8 weeks to go until we will be meeting in Canberra for our Annual Thank You Weekend. It promises to be a good weekend as always. For our newbies or those that have not attended before, we have a packed agenda or activities planned. This dinner is...
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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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Poppies Fabrics

by | Dec 9, 2019 |

Poppy fabrics are often asked for by our Aussie Heroes and theymake the ANZAC quilts and other themes very special.Spotlight have several of these on SALE at the moment for $8 per metre.They're marked "clearance" so this a great opportunity toget a bargain and stock...

Aussie Hero Quilts Request List 9 Dec 19

by | Dec 9, 2019 |

Hi AllBadges, crests, silhouettes…..Don’t be intimidated by the requests that want the above, I can probably send the badges and crests to you and can also send you silhouettes that you can print out and applique as is, or enlarge for extra impact.Priority Requests –...

Weekly Dispatches 6th December 2019

by | Dec 6, 2019 |

As Christmas approaches, I'm hoping that many of the Quilts and Laundry Bagsshown here will be received by their new owners in time to puta smile on their faces and remind them that everyday Aussiesare thinking of them and remembering the sacrifice of separationfrom...

The Mystery Group Quilts….. by Lynn

by | Dec 5, 2019 |

Well, this group may be small but they are mighty.For those who do not know of these ladies, they originally came together to assist Jan-Maree in the early days of AHQ.  They made blocks and sent them to her for use in various requests as they came to hand. ...

And the recipients are…… HMAS Hobart…

by | Dec 5, 2019 |

Remember this batch of laundry bags that we scrambled last week to get them to their destination on time. I can now reveal that they were bound for HMAS Hobart and they made it. We had a very short window of opportunity to connect with the ship, and thanks to some...

Timtams….. chocolate currency…..

by | Dec 4, 2019 |

Follow up to The Project “Quilting Army” – AHQLB and Tim Tams“Tim Tams are like gold over there”. I am sure most of you will have seen or heard about the segment about AHQ&LBs on The Project back in late October 2019.  It featured Jan-Maree and her team at...