For those who want to do something for our deployed military families I have learned about Operation Kid Comfort. The family of a deployed military person provides pictures of the child with parent which are transferred to fabric. The organization makes up kits, with everything needed for a comfort quilt including the pictures, to quilters who are willing to put the quilts together within 8 weeks. The quilts are given to each child as comfort while their parent is away. The only thing not provided is the batting. I should add that these are small quilts. I forget the exact size but about 30X40.
Our local quilting group just got 15 kits from the Watertown, NY group. Each of us is doing one quilt. I just finished one for a 1 year old boy. I loved seeing the pictures of him and his dad together.
This is somehow connected to the YMCA. Here is the link to the organization. If you don't have a local chapter, I believe they will mail the kits out.
< http://www.asymca.org/what-we-do-3/n...n-kid-comfort/>

What a cool program. I wish this was up and running when my children were small. Their father went on 6 deployments.

I signed up to get a kit.
Thanks!

Coming from a Marine Corps family, that's an awesome thing to do :)

I'm an "Army Brat" also. My dad was in for 22 years. I was born in an Army hospital and he retired just before I was married. He was deployed without us 3 times. We would have loved such a gift. I was so glad to be able to do this.

From a military mom that is a marvelous idea. I am going to make one for my GD for when my son goes back to Afghanistan. I will also look for local chapters in the area and see if they have anything going. Thanks for sharing this!

the link is giving an error message

this link should work

http://www.asymca.org/what-we-do-3/n...n-kid-comfort/

thanks for fixing the link. The other one was copied from their page.

I just signed up also. Such a neat thing to do. and what a comfort for the kids.

I signed up for a kit.