Author: Sue

Thank you to all our service men and women. We appreciate their bravery, service to our country and sacrifices. We would also like to thank family members of our service members. When one serves they all serve. You all have our gratitude. Thanks also to our American Hero quilters. We appreciate your efforts to provide… Continue reading Memorial Day

Happy Holidays. We are so grateful to all our wonderful service men and women as well as their families. We owe a big thank you to all the wonderful quilters and generous supporters who help us keep American Hero Quilts going. Without your support we could not continue to honor our warriors with quilts, our… Continue reading Happy Holidays

Veterans Day Today is veterans day. It seems to me that every day should be a day that we honor our veterans and their families. Every day our veterans, and to some extent their families, sacrifice their lives to keep us safe and to make sure our democracy stands. For many of us it is… Continue reading Veterans Day

Once again our quilters step up to the challenge. In this strange time of Covid 19 we find ourselves facing so many challenges we could not have foreseen. For years now American Hero Quilts has provided quilts to Franciscan Hospice for vets. They are such a wonderful group of warm loving employees and volunteers we… Continue reading Quilters always up to the challenge

It is with great sadness I let you know that we will not be participating in the All In Stitches quilt show scheduled to take place May 1st and 2nd in Everett Washington. We feel given the Corvid 19 virus we can not expose our wonderful volunteers and friends to the chance of contagion. The… Continue reading Cancelations of Appearances

Happy New Year! It has been an interesting year for us. Very scary when we thought we would no longer be able to ship quilts. So very grateful that we had a shipper step up to the plate. We have had some wonderful financial support this year. A godson who wished to honor his godmother,… Continue reading Happy New Year

We are thrilled to announce that a wonderful company has stepped forward to ship the quilts. Agility Global Integrated Logistics has agreed to ship quilts for us. We are so happy. Some old friends are now at Agility and once again stepped forward to help. We are so happy to know that once again our… Continue reading Quilts will ship

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” Charles Dickens Tale of Two Cities This is certainly how it has felt here this week. We had a call to send at least 100 quilts to Bagram as soon as possible. We didn’t have the quilts to send. We got a large… Continue reading Best and Worst of times

Memorial day seems to be time when families and friends get together to have picnics and generally enjoy each others company. We know you will take the time to think of all the service men and women who have served to make our lives free and safe. On behalf of me, my family, and our… Continue reading Memorial Day

It has been very busy here. In nine days we sent out 320 quilts. One hundred went to Bagram and  100 to Qatar. Here in U.S. Fifty quilts went to V.A. counseling services, 50 to V.A.  hospice and 20 to Navy programs. Our cupboards are bare. Since we think we have things covered, no pun… Continue reading Happy Holidays