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We are excited to be participating in The Everett Quilt Show. The name of the show is “Reflections of a Quilter.” Mark your calendars. They are having an evening event April 26th. It will be a lovely gala and micro workshops on how to examples. The show will be April 27th and 28th from 10:00… Continue reading Everett Quilt Show

Yesterday we got the most wonderful letter from the 455th EXP Mission Support Group. Since we send the quilts and we occasionally hear from someone who got one we always hope they fulfill their mission of metaphoric hugs and support for our service men and women. It is so nice when we hear that the… Continue reading Wonderful letter from the 455th EXP Mission Support Group

Happy New Year.  It is always difficult to write this blog both because I feel like I do not have much to say and it would seem I am constantly having to delete so many spam messages that I sometimes dread coming here. However, I have the good fortune to meet or correspond with so… Continue reading Happy New Year

Sometimes we make the quilts, imagine where they will go and then we are on to the next one. Recently we got two letters that reminded me that the quilts can do so much more for families. We have posted both letters on our website but I thought it would be important to share with… Continue reading Letters from families

Lately we have had a dramatic upswing in quilt requests. We try to honor all requests. It became quite frightening to realize that we had given out over two hundred quilts recently and as usual, there is a slump right before the holidays. We had a reserve of less than twenty quilts. On Thursday November… Continue reading I believe in miracles

Lately I have been thinking about continuity. One example is people count on me to let them know what is going on with American Hero Quilts. It feel as though I have nothing new to say on that score. It feels like the same things happen year after year. This started me thinking about what… Continue reading continuity and change

Yesterday was the first day of spring. It was hard to tell that given the soggy state of affairs here in the Pacific Northwest. We have had the most wonderful visitors here in the last two weeks. Two weeks ago Sam and Betsy came to pick up the last quilt for the Capt. Joseph house.… Continue reading Spring is here?

I have been remiss in not updating this blog more often. It seems that time just gets away from me. I wanted to take the time to thank all our volunteers for all your hard work quilting and the monetary donations, people have been so generous with their time and money. You are all the… Continue reading Happy New Year

Thanks to all the lovely folks who shared their stories about how they started quilting. I had hoped you would share with everyone but I did enjoy the stories. Summer was a bit too hot for us. Very difficult to put a quilt on one’s lap and sew on the binding when it is 90+… Continue reading It is nearly October

Quilting is such an interesting pursuit. It can be a solitary experience or a group activity. It is the same here. Sometimes people come here to work or to deliver or pick up quilts and supplies. It is wonderful to meet so many of you. I treasure the friendships, your kindness and support. It is… Continue reading Musings by Sue