Too bad the servicemen cannot take our quilts over to Iraq and Afghanistan to remind them of home!
My husband was able to take a quilt with him on his deployments because he was on an air craft carrier. He has spent 26 years in the military and our daughter was born three weeks after he left on one of his deployments. He met her when she was almost 6 months old. Now, he is getting ready to deploy again. This time, he will be in Afghanistan and not on a carrier. I get so stressed, just thinking about it. He will be gone 18 months. When he gets back, he is retiring (assuming he doesn't get promoted again and decide to stay in for another three years!). I am so ready to be done with deployments. We have been blessed to have four years of shore duty, but now I have to go through all this again. Unfortunately, we are not near any Naval base, so this time, I will not have any support. We thought it didn't make sense to move for a year and a half when he wasn't even going to be home.
Anyway, there is a group near my parents' home that makes the Quilts of Valor, but the guidelines are very strict. I would like to make one, but I have a hard time parting with quilts when I don't actually know exactly who they are going to.