2009年12月16日星期三

How to Quilt.com - Quilters Create Turkey Postcards for the Troops

Quilters from about the country are bushing the mailbox of How-to-Quilt.com with bolt greetings for soldiers abroad in the additional Postcard Posse Roundup.

October 20, 2006

With Thanksgiving fast approaching, quilters accept alone aggregate to actualize tiny quilts. These pocket-size greetings, fabricated from bits and pieces of fabric, will be beatific to the troops in the limited locations of the Middle East to let them apperceive that association actuality in the States are cerebration about them and praying for their safe return.

Target date for accession - Thanksgiving, November 23, 2006

“Quilters accept a history of sending quilts to soldiers,” empiric Penny Halgren, architect of Penny's Postcard Posse. “Generally, though, quilts go to blood-soaked soldiers and the families of collapsed soldiers. We capital to do something appropriate for the soldiers who are out there still angry the action for freedom. Full admeasurement quilts didn't assume too practical, so we absitively to accomplish tiny quilts that the soldiers could backpack with them.”

Quilters plan to aggregate added than 400 bolt postcards by November 7. That's a alone slight amplitude because that the 4th of July Postcard Posse Roundup aggregate added than 215 bolt postcards to forward to the troops in Iraq.

“Quilters are amazing,” Halgren continued. “And absolutely responsive. I doubtable that abounding would adore accommodating in this activity again, back it was something anybody could do and so abounding requested that the activity be again from the 4th of July Roundup. For this Roundup, quilters from the UK are sending in cards, and a quilter from Texas has angled up a accumulation of non-quilters to forward a box blimp with bolt postcards.”

How-to-Quilt.com has created a packet of turkey patterns for the postcards, and is accouterment them chargeless for everyone. Posse Participants can use these patterns or actualize one of their own. The patterns and all of the data are acquaint at: www.Fabric-Postcards.com

Pictures of completed postcards are acquaint on the site. Visits to the page accept already accomplished added than 1600, and it's alone been up a week. New pictures are acquaint circadian as the cards arrive, and www.How-to-Quilt.com newsletter subscribers are adapted on adornment capacity apropos to authoritative the bolt postcards as able-bodied as advance against the goal.

Brand new quilters are accepting their anxiety wet with this project, and accepting a acceptable faculty of what adornment is all about. Based on hundreds of years of tradition, adornment is not alone about authoritative something balmy either to bundle up with or wear, but it's about demography the debris of a activity and creating a admirable bolt affiliation amid people.

Penny's Postcard Posse gives quilters an befalling to crop bits and pieces of bolt and transform them into a bulletin of adulation for anyone 7000 afar abroad who may be apprehensive whether anybody cares. Many quilters accept included their name and abode with their message, possibly acquisitive to authorize an advancing advice with a soldier far abroad from home. Everyone is arrive to participate. No adornment acquaintance is appropriate or bare to accomplish one of these tiny quilts. It takes just some debris of fabric, a way to stick them together, and an abode of area to forward the completed bolt postcard.

Happy Quilting!

Penny Halgren is a quilter of added than 25 years who provides Inspiration and Education to Beginning Quilters. Her capital website, www.How-to-Quilt.com has been online for two years

Penny Halgren
www.Fabric-Postcards.com
Phone - 619-697-6667
Fax 619-303-3339
email - turkeys@Fabric-Postcards.com

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Penny Halgren
www.Fabric-Postcards.com
Phone - 619-697-6667
Fax 619-303-3339
email - turkeys@Fabric-Postcards.com

Penny Halgren is a quilter of added than 25 years who provides Inspiration and Education to Beginning Quilters. Her capital website, www.How-to-Quilt.com has been online for two years

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