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
2009年12月16日星期三
IndustrialLeaders.com - IndustrialLeaders.com Launches Its New Textile Directory For Industrial Buyers' Worldwide
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290 Turnpike Road
Westboro, MA 01581
(206) 333-0355
The agenda offers a advanced ambit of bolt and fabrics, including canvas, felt, silk, leather, raw cotton, fibers, appliance fabric, branch drapes, linen, carpeting twine, bed-making thread, assurance blankets, fireproof canvas tents, wool, automated bolt and fabrics, cheesecloth, dyes and assorted cloth.
New offerings afresh added to the agenda include, nonwovens, Chinese textiles, designing services, awning press equipment, new and acclimated bolt machinery, bolt press specialists, bolt wholesalers and apparel, apparatus parts, Indian textiles, linen quilts, bolt printers, chemicals, recycling companies, bolt software, agents, consultants and dealers, Japanese textiles, luna and bare textiles.
All bolt articles on IndustrialLeaders.com can be begin anon by keyword or by browsing at, www.IndustrialLeaders.com/listings/canvas_fabrics_textile...
The new offerings are accepted to be of absorption to, a allotment of others, manufacturers of clothing, shoes, linen, carpets, upholstery, filters, tents, assurance accoutrement and added companies that buy, sell, produce, recycle, export, acceptation and barter bolt goods.
"We own and administer a amount of automated affairs guides and directories, and anniversary one serves its purpose of accouterment up to date and accurate advice on automated suppliers and manufacturers about the globe," says Conrad Bailey, business agenda of IndustrialLeaders.com. "Our bolt agenda is no altered as it has added duke best offerings and bargains than any added web website we apperceive of."
According to Bailey, IndustrialLeaders.com is the alone agenda of automated suppliers in the apple that has the adequacy to seek assorted affairs guides at once, and the alone automated accumulation agenda that duke selects suppliers for its database. Products cover a advanced ambit of automated supplies, machinery, accessories and accompanying services.
About IndustrialLeaders.com
IndustrialLeaders.com is a Web based automated affairs adviser and directory, and a analysis of 'Worldwide Industrial Marketplace,' an all-embracing arrangement of automated portals extensive bags of engineers, importers and abstruse buyers monthly, primarily in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, China, India and European Union countries.
Qualified manufacturers and suppliers of automated articles are arrive to account their aggregation chargeless of allegation at, www.IndustrialLeaders.com
IndustrialLeaders.com
290 Turnpike Road
Westboro, MA 01581
(206) 333-0355
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