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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….. 2 Dec 19

by | Dec 2, 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 –...

BLOCK OF THE MONTH TUTORIAL DEC 2019/JAN 2020

by | Dec 1, 2019 |

BLOCK OF THE MONTH TUTORIALDecember 2019/January 2020AUSSIE STAR BLOCK and AUSSIE SQUARE BLOCKWe are entering the busiest time of the year with Christmas and New Year.For many, it means long holidays away, or lazy holidays at home, lots of social time with family...

Weekly Dispatches 29th November 2019

by | Nov 29, 2019 |

Some more wonderful Quilts and Laundry Bagshave been posted off this week to their new owners...our Aussie Heroes.Each Quilt and Laundry Bag is an original and designed to include exactlywhat each Aussie Hero hasasked for...or as close to it as we can make it....

Block of the Month Quilts November

by | Nov 28, 2019 |

Here's another batch of Quilts made by the Coffs Harbour Sewing Teamusing the Blocks of the Month sent by contributors all over Australia...know as the BOM Squad.If you're one of them,Thank you for enabling us to make all these great quilts.  Watch for...

Happy Mail 27th November 2019

by | Nov 27, 2019 |

Blocks of the MonthIt's a STARRY kind of Post today.  Aren't these lovely blocks!THANK YOUto each generous contributor.These blocks will very soon be part of quilts for our deployedAussie Heroes.Would you like to make some of these blocks?Please go HEREfor the...

Grati-Tuesday 26 November 19

by | Nov 26, 2019 |

A rather special message to start today's gratitude post off. How cute is this?.....I have had my Aussie Quilt since my gulf trip on HMAS Melbourne. It is a special made quilt as it used one of the last pieces of fabric my mum gave me before she passed.This quilt has...