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

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...

Request list 26 August 2025

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...

Weekly Dispatch 22nd August 2025

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...

Grati-Wednesday 20th August 2025

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,...

Request List 19 August 2025

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...

Weekly Dispatch 15th August 2025

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...

Grati-Wednesday 13th August 2025

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....

Request List 12 August 25

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...

Weekly Dispatch 8th August 2025

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...

Grati-Tuesday 5th August 2025

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...

Request List 4 August 25

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...

Weekly Dispatch 1st August 2025

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...

Weekly Dispatches 23rd August 2019

Hi Everyone,Thank you for any and all of the ways you support Aussie Hero Quilts.The Quilts and Laundry Bags we send to deployed Aussie Heroes mean a lot to their Recipients.  Check out the Thank You letters on the Grati-Tuesday postevery week...we are...

A week in Canberra…

 Hi AllAs some of you will know I headed down to Canberra last week and enjoyed a jam packed week of visits, meetings and catch-ups for Aussie Heroes. I had so much on my schedule that I had to have it written out to refer to and some days I had to refer to...

Laundry Bags for Townsville still spreading the good will…

I thought you would like to know that I just got a phone call from the Welfare Officer from the 4th Regiment of the Australian Artillery in Townsville telling me that the laundry bags we sent up for their efforts during and after the floods are still being handed...

Happy Mail 21st August

What a great batch of blocks.  They'll soon be a part ofquilts made by the Coffs Harbour Sewing Team, and on theirway to very deserving Recipients in our Defence Force. If you too, would like to make some of these interesting blocks, there'sstill time....

Grati-Tuesday 20th August

What a wonderful lot of thank you letters we have to read in this Post.  I love to get a glimpseinto the lives of those we send the Quilts and Laundry Bags to and find I am inspired to make more.Enjoy your reading...Good evening Helen,I’m writing to thank...

When the Chief of Navy popped in for a cuppa

Yesterday, on his way to start some well earned leave, the Chief of Navy, Vice Admiral Mike Noonan, AO, dropped in to HQ AHQ to say hello and thank you for what we do.It was only a short visit, long enough to have a cuppa and an ANZAC or two, but it was lovely that he...