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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...

Quilts for HMAS Sydney…..

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...

Grati-Tuesday 29th July 2025

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...

Grati-Tuesday 19 February 19

Hey all some great messages.. and just as awesome photosEnjoy!.....Received this message from a very happy recipients of Marg B's It arrived! I’m literally blown away by it, it’s perfect! It will become an heirloom that I will cherish always, can’t wait until my...

A thank you Video from HMAS Ballarat….

Received another thank you video from HMAS Ballarat. This one for a bag made by Ruth S.Love these videos! Wishing you Fair Winds and Following Seas Team Ballarat!Till next time... keep spreading the word and happy stitching!Jan-Maree xx

Melbourne Catch Up……last call…

Hey there A few people have told me they did not see the first post so here goes again... Next week I am heading to Melbourne for a very short visit so I thought it might be nice to arrange a catch up if any recipients and quilters are interested.  The...

Requests Aussie Hero Quilts 18 February 2019

Hi allLOTS AND LOTS OF REQUESTSWe have a huge number of requests on the list at the moment and March is not really a good time for me to take time off.  I usually do a lot of prioritising and shuffling around etc to get as many quilts made as possible in the time...

Weeks Dispatches 15 February 2019

Hi to all of you clever, handy and imaginative Sewers,A fantastic week again!thank you for all of your effort   This year so far we have sent off 135 quilts and that has brought our total since we started and more than 10,270 quilts.We...

Happy Mail 13 Feb

BLOCKS OF THE MONTHThank you to all the contributors who have sent the following blocks.These blocks will be part of quilts for our deployed Aussie Heroes.All blocks are used in the quilts made by the Coffs Harbour Sewing Team.  If youwould like to make some...