Originally Posted by
terriamn
See, thank you for sending all those quilts, wonderful you made them but sad our soldiers hadn't been adequently provided for
Most of the guys were taken care of but the ones in the "forward bases" didn't have much at all and when my son called home telling me he was freezing I almost flipped out. It gets down to -40 degrees in the winter over there so I had to hurry and do them before it got to cold. By the time I finished sewing all of them I was exhausted but it was well worth all the time I put into doing them. The guys loved them & said they were warmer then the sleeping bags they were equipped with.
Even as much as I like sewing blocks, I could never produce that many quilts or spend that much time sewing again in that short of time. All I did was sew, slept maybe 4 hours a night but the thought of them freezing to death kept me going. I think I slept a week straight after I got the last batch sent. LOL
I still have pictures of all those quilts I made for them, no two were the same, if I remember right.
If I know how to put them in an album on here I would.