Ninnie

Well, I have never stitched my binding on the back and then front an Not going to start now! Never heard such a thing. glad there are other places and other ways to help!

And as for appliqueing stars on the front, why would they want you do do that? they will be washed a lot. , and I don't think the soldiers care for them to be patriotic material. I'm sure they would rather have something more cheerful! Sorry, don't mean to offend anyone, just my opinion/\.

Moonpi

http://www.quiltingboard.com/posts/list/1782.page
is where MimiSharon posted the link for direction. They are fast and easy to make, and work great even in humid Florida. They are also lightweight enough to mail out without going broke. I most often just hear them called neck coolers.

bearisgray

I did a couple of kids' quilts that way - sewed the binding on the back and top-stitched it down on the front. They looked good.

I couldn't quite figure out what the point of appliquing stars was, either.

patricej

How's this? Lets not pile on with criticism of QoV. Let each person read about the organization and decide whether they are comfortable donating through QoV or would prefer to make a quilt (or other donation) for a Warrior and send it through a different route.

I'm making quilts right now that i'll send to mimisharon. she knows how to get them to active military and to a veterans' hospital.

the Army has set up an information program for people interested in donating to soldiers and families: http://giftstoarmy.army.mil/ (i'm "heavy" on information about the Army because i happen to work on an Army post. does anybody know of something similar for the other services?)

MsSage

I would like some info on the Marines.

Ninnie

www.marinecomfortquilts.com

CajunQuilter2

I would love to donate, altho I do not think I could make one in a timely manner & also am not that accomplished at quilting yet. So if I could either donate material/and or money to someone on the board who could make one I would like to do that.
My dad is retired Air Force---I was a military brat & proud to be :thumbup:My dad retired from service when I was 17 so all of my childhood was military. My dad served in Viet Nam, I have an uncle who did 3 tours there with the Marines & I have a cousin who gave the ultimate sacrafice---his life at 19. So I will always be a strong supporter of our troops no matter what.

DJ

Here's what happened to me . . .

One of the women in our small vacation community who likes to craft, too (knitting and quilting) comes to see what I'm working on, so I show her the LWR (Lutheran World Relief) quilt tops I'm sewing. Sometimes I try not to show her things because she always has ideas about how I could do it better. When I showed her the LWR quilt tops, she didn't say they were nice or anything, she said "You know what you should do . . . " and proceeded to tell me that I should talk the quilting women at church into making quilts for Veterans instead of for LWR. She kept sort of harping on it, and in fact, I have made lap-size afghans to be donated to the VA as well as quilt sqares to donate to an organization that makes quilts with them. So finally I asked her what she was doing for the Veterans . . . (nothing) . . . After she left and after I fumed about it for a while, I went to her place and challenged her (sweetly suggested) to put her actions where her mouth is . . . so we decided she would purchase patriotic fabric, I would do the piecing, and we will set a quilt sandwich out on a table at our community potluck in August for the people at our little trailer park to help tie. It's a lap quilt and I'll make a label for the back that people can sign. Here's the pieced top (Warm Wishes), and I'm glad to have had the inspiration!

bearisgray

!!! At least she bought some fabric -

Cathe

Thanks for the link for Marine Quilts, but it doesn't work! My second son just joined the Marines. I would love to have more information about this, if you have a live link.