Author Topic: Does your wife have extra fabric laying around? (Read 410 times)

texasmom · « **on:** December 26, 2007, 09:17:49 AM »

If so, this is a great place to send it to. Or yarn (which they use on some quilts to fasten the sides together). Awesome work that this lady has been doing.
http://www.freedomquilts.net/

Jackal1 · « **Reply #1 on:** December 26, 2007, 01:53:17 PM »

I will pass this on to the better half.

Fulmar · « **Reply #2 on:** December 26, 2007, 05:43:47 PM »

Is it considered extra fabric if its hanging in the closet or still by the front door in shopping bags?

Anways, awesome cause.

Tigeress · « **Reply #3 on:** December 26, 2007, 05:57:33 PM »

No doubt, it is a labor of love, TxMom.

I see they take donations, too.

I will get something out to them.

Thanks for the tip...

TIGERESS

texasmom · « **Reply #4 on:** December 26, 2007, 05:59:49 PM »

Yep, she does good stuff. She's been sending quilts to families of our local soldiers who have been killed in Iraq ~ as well as families from everywhere else (if the families authorize it). She's got some great photos on her website from all of the places she's gone to organize quilting bees & pass out quilts. Most of them are mailed though (which is where donated monies go to: shipping costs).

Jackal1 · « **Reply #5 on:** December 26, 2007, 07:57:08 PM »

Guess this is a little off subject, but this takes me back in time.
Both my grandmothers had suspended quilting racks in their homes.
Was quite the occasion when the ladies got together for quilting sessions when I was a kid.
Same could be said for the times when everyone would get together to help someone build, harvest, etc.etc.
People helping people...............so I don`t guess it`s too far off topic.

texasmom · « **Reply #6 on:** December 27, 2007, 12:12:52 AM »

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Originally posted by Jackal1
Guess this is a little off subject, but this takes me back in time.
Both my grandmothers had suspended quilting racks in their homes.
Was quite the occasion when the ladies got together for quilting sessions when I was a kid.
Same could be said for the times when everyone would get together to help someone build, harvest, etc.etc.
People helping people...............so I don`t guess it`s too far off topic.

No, it's not off topic at all. In fact, Ms. Nielson is a farmer ~ and all the local farmers wives get together to harvest, quilt, etc... which is how they thought of coming together to make the quilts.

texasmom · « **Reply #7 on:** December 28, 2007, 05:29:41 PM »

I'm so glad I went back & revisited that.
One of the things I've really regretted was not having taken photographs of our motorpool row of the cup-messages and the hand-made welcome home messages on sheets. Those are both on her website.

There's just two more photos I'd look for, and those are the hand-made welcome home messages on sheets which were placed on a pedestrian bridge over a well traveled road here on post ~ and also at the gate as you exit the airfield. All of the soldiers coming back pass through that gate ~ and when it's FILLED with those welcome home messages, it's a pretty spectacular site.

bsdaddict · « **Reply #8 on:** December 28, 2007, 07:11:53 PM »

"extra fabric laying around?" well, that's one way to put it...

(for the record, I'm single. Just saying what the married guys were thinking...)

texasmom · « **Reply #9 on:** December 28, 2007, 07:22:03 PM »

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Originally posted by bsdaddict
"extra fabric laying around?" well, that's one way to put it...

(for the record, I'm single. Just saying what the married guys were thinking...)

If you were married ~ it would have made COMPLETE sense. Married gals have stacks of fabric laying around... just sitting there... been sitting there forever... stored in the garage, closets, taking up valuable storage space, all that jazz