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08-14-2011, 02:38 AM
#11
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twin - full--- longer than normal
make them warm- it gets really really cold- and they are living in tents- (think winters on Mash tv show)
my son in law will be heading out for his 4th deployment in september-
he has memory quilts- with pictures of the girls (3 daughters who didn't want daddy to forget them)
i put the pictures in the center of star blocks (made with thimbleberry (dark) fabrics and outdoorsy flannels
backing camo fabric...his---never leave without it (blanky)
we also made each of the girls a rice bag with a picture of (daddy and girl together) so while he is gone each night they can warm their rice bag and take a nice warm daddy hug to bed with them--- or have a warm daddy hug anytime they need it :) the pictures on the rice bags are ones where he is holding that one child- they are happy- looking at each other---so special! it is always so hard on them when he is gone...the youngest at times has to take her daddy hug to school with her...
make them warm- it gets really really cold- and they are living in tents- (think winters on Mash tv show)
my son in law will be heading out for his 4th deployment in september-
he has memory quilts- with pictures of the girls (3 daughters who didn't want daddy to forget them)
i put the pictures in the center of star blocks (made with thimbleberry (dark) fabrics and outdoorsy flannels
backing camo fabric...his---never leave without it (blanky)
we also made each of the girls a rice bag with a picture of (daddy and girl together) so while he is gone each night they can warm their rice bag and take a nice warm daddy hug to bed with them--- or have a warm daddy hug anytime they need it :) the pictures on the rice bags are ones where he is holding that one child- they are happy- looking at each other---so special! it is always so hard on them when he is gone...the youngest at times has to take her daddy hug to school with her...
08-14-2011, 02:48 AM
#12
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Behind my sewing machine
Posts: 7,202
Reading this made me cry...What a good Mom and Grandma you are!!! Love the idea of the pictures on the quilt!! Just a thought...wonder if he would like a handy (the ones that no one these day use...he could have a picture of the girls and put them in his pocket.
Originally Posted by ckcowl
twin - full--- longer than normal
make them warm- it gets really really cold- and they are living in tents- (think winters on Mash tv show)
my son in law will be heading out for his 4th deployment in september-
he has memory quilts- with pictures of the girls (3 daughters who didn't want daddy to forget them)
i put the pictures in the center of star blocks (made with thimbleberry (dark) fabrics and outdoorsy flannels
backing camo fabric...his---never leave without it (blanky)
we also made each of the girls a rice bag with a picture of (daddy and girl together) so while he is gone each night they can warm their rice bag and take a nice warm daddy hug to bed with them--- or have a warm daddy hug anytime they need it :) the pictures on the rice bags are ones where he is holding that one child- they are happy- looking at each other---so special! it is always so hard on them when he is gone...the youngest at times has to take her daddy hug to school with her...
make them warm- it gets really really cold- and they are living in tents- (think winters on Mash tv show)
my son in law will be heading out for his 4th deployment in september-
he has memory quilts- with pictures of the girls (3 daughters who didn't want daddy to forget them)
i put the pictures in the center of star blocks (made with thimbleberry (dark) fabrics and outdoorsy flannels
backing camo fabric...his---never leave without it (blanky)
we also made each of the girls a rice bag with a picture of (daddy and girl together) so while he is gone each night they can warm their rice bag and take a nice warm daddy hug to bed with them--- or have a warm daddy hug anytime they need it :) the pictures on the rice bags are ones where he is holding that one child- they are happy- looking at each other---so special! it is always so hard on them when he is gone...the youngest at times has to take her daddy hug to school with her...
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