July/December 2007 Project – Operation Homefront Quilts

The Savvy Saturday Sisters’ cottage group is coordinating this project for our guild’s July and December programs. For the July guild meeting there will be work centers for machines, fabric, cutting, and batting to help with the project. If you have fabric (see directions) to share please bring to the July meeting. We will distribute tops to be machine or hand quilted at this time and throughout the remainder of the year. Completed quilts are preferred.

Project:
“Operation Homefront Quilts is a project to send a special MEMORIAL quilt to the immediate family of each U.S. service member killed during the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. We want to HONOR their loved one’s ultimate sacrifice and offer love and support to these families through the comfort of a handmade quilt,” from the OHFQ website.

Directions:
Lap size quilts (approx. 45” x 60”) made with 100% cotton fabric in patriotic prints, themes, and colors (red, white, blue, navy, burgundy, ivory). The quilt design is your choice. (A gold star on the quilt signifies a soldier killed in the service of our country.)

No July 4th themes (rockets, firecrackers, fireworks, celebration-type, etc.).

No rag quilts.

No black fabric.

Sew all appliqués.

Your quilt needs to be washable as the families are using them. (Please pre-wash fabrics so they don’t bleed when the families wash them.)

If possible, label your quilt with the following: “With gratefulness for your loved one’s ultimate sacrifice and devotion to freedom, Operation Homefront Quilts would like to present this memorial quilt.” Include your first & last name, city & state, and year on this label (sew on lower left).

To help record keeping for OHFQ, please safety pin a 3x5 card with your name, address and email address (if you have one) to your quilt.

The Savvy Saturday Sisters’ cottage group will deliver the quilts to Jessica Porter, Hudson, FL after our December program.

Jessica and helpers will attach a machine-embroidered label (on the lower right) that says: “In Remembrance and Gratitude”, the soldier’s name and rank, “American Hero 2006”. They will photo transfer a picture (if available) of the soldier to this label from one of the military websites.

Special Notes:
To read more about Operation Homefront Quilts, please visit this website.

http://westpascoquilters.org/ohfq.htm

Thank you,
Savvy Saturday Sisters
Nancy Adams, Mattie Alday, Iris Helmuth, Susan Jackson, Valerie King, Marlene Kurtz, Rosie Routh, Kay Schlabach, and Sharon Schlabach