Army Rules about Quilts?
07-12-2014, 10:07 AM
#34
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
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Army quilts
After basic training and their school, they can have whatever they want because they are on their own.
07-12-2014, 04:19 PM
#35
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Charleston, WV
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Thanks to you Jan in VA and your quilting buddies. Sometimes quilters think everyone feels the same as quilters do about their quilts. When you donate quilts overseas, they are going to be subject to some rough wear.
07-12-2014, 05:56 PM
#36
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Behind my sewing machine
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If you send your quilt overseas...just remember he will only have so much room in his bag so you may want to make him a scrappy so that he can leave it there for others to enjoy. Then make him another one for when he comes home.
07-13-2014, 04:29 AM
#38
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Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Middle TN
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Three years ago, with tremendous help from members of this board and my local guild, the supportive public of central Virginia, and some financial help from our local VA, we made and mailed 128 quilts from Virginia through an APO address to Farah, Afghanistan to cover a whole battalion with quilts that were a colorful "hug from home"....The Barracks Quilt Project.
No problems. They were well received and definitely gave the men happy faces in the photos they sent us. We used only 100% cotton fabrics and batting and the quilts were about 50" x 70" for their military cots. Our program was initiated by a request from an Army captain for his men, so I can see no problems with service personnel receiving these now.
Most of our recipients were very young men; they did not have the intimate personal attachment we quilters have for quilts. They just needed color and knowing that "someone somewhere" was thinking of them and caring. We knew many of these quilts would likely be left behind when they transferred home, or would be harshly used while in country. It didn't matter to us....the quilts were a gift sent as a "hug", not a chore for them to "take care of".
Jan in VA
No problems. They were well received and definitely gave the men happy faces in the photos they sent us. We used only 100% cotton fabrics and batting and the quilts were about 50" x 70" for their military cots. Our program was initiated by a request from an Army captain for his men, so I can see no problems with service personnel receiving these now.
Most of our recipients were very young men; they did not have the intimate personal attachment we quilters have for quilts. They just needed color and knowing that "someone somewhere" was thinking of them and caring. We knew many of these quilts would likely be left behind when they transferred home, or would be harshly used while in country. It didn't matter to us....the quilts were a gift sent as a "hug", not a chore for them to "take care of".
Jan in VA
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