ANZAC Day Laundry Bag Challenge

Welcome to the ANZAC Day Laundry Bag Challenge.

The Big Reveal!

Well what can I say!  This is an awesome bunch of laundry bags suitable for an awesome bunch of Heroes.  I am SO GLAD that I am not the judge!  Thankfully I found another willing volunteer "over there" though I might have to pay her in ANZAC Biscuits!

So, first up, my ANZAC Day laundry bag.  Obviously I am not eligible for the prize but I still had to make one right?

Well, I made two.  This first one was a no-brainer.  

What is more appropriate for ANZAC Day than ANZAC Biscuits and diggers and Simpson and his donkey.

And this saying appears on our Facebook page.  It rings true to me.   I regularly receive emails from fellows asking for a quilt and stating that they are not heroes.  It is generally those who do not think they are heroes who are the most heroic, the ordinary blokes who do the most extraordinary things.

And now for everyone else's -29 fabulous laundry bags. Well done everyone!

Karen B

Judy C

 Julie Ann

and a close up of the patches

Joan

 Joan

Liz

Liz

Millie

Jeann



 and the back

Jill Maree

Maddy

Angela

Angela

Janine

Claire

Naomi x 2 (1 Male & 1 Female!)

Bev

Michele

There are three prizes and I will give the judge around a week to come up with the first, second and third prize winning names.  I will let you know in an upcoming post exactly wen the winners will be announced but as far as I am concerned you are all winners for having a go and making a bunch of cool laundry bags for our heroes.

Hmmm, well, tonight's post was supposed to be just about the ANZAC Day laundry bag challenge but something else happened today that caught me completely by surprise.  It has already been shared on the Facebook page but I know there are lots of you who don't do Facebook and I am regularly asked if anyone who doesn't have Facebook misses out on anything so I am sharing it again here so you are all included.  This morning there was an unexpected ring of the door bell and there was Caroline (Deputy Nut).  Here is what she posted on Facebook.

Hi guys..... This is Caroline... I have just arrived at a special lady's house to pass on this lovely present on Anzac Day.... Thanks to all involved and I will do a blog post to give you all more details... if JM lets me LOL

OK here is our lovely JM receiving her gift.... she assures me that is just sand in her eyes !!!..... It was an absolute surprise, when I rang the doorbell, she thought it was playing up.... yes it was me playing with the doorbell.. With love from all your Aussie Hero Friends and I'm sure with love from all the guys and girls who's deployment you have helped make a little easier....
My special thanks to Naomi, Liz and Carolynne for helping get the project completed XXXXX

  
What can I say? Thank you to everyone of you wonderful sneaky people who had a hand in this. I can't say I didn't cry when I received it as you have all seen that awful photo of me. Thank yo so much, I feel very humbled and I absolutely LOVE it!

Caroline will tell the full story in the next few days.

And just before i go - if you have sent a quilt or a laundry bag in the last week and are not on this list please let me know as soon as you can.

Claire
Debbie M
Jill M
Joan
Judith
Judy D
Karen B
Keryn M
Kitty
Leanne M
Liz
Liz B
Sandra M
Stephanie D
Sue F
Nancy


Till next time................keep spreading the word and happy stitching!

The ANZAC Day Laundry Bag Challenge

The ANZAC Day Laundry Bag Challenge.  

Yep!  That is right!  Another challenge. 

After the spectacular Laundry Bags you all made for the Australia Day Laundry Bag Challenge I have been trying to decide which direction to head with this challenge.

Should we make it Army/Navy/Airforce?  or should we stick with Australiana?  

Well, how about BOTH!

What you need to do is make a laundry bag (or more) and it must fall into one of the following categories

Army/Navy/Airforce      or       Australiana  

  

They can be spare ones to send off separately to my distributors or they could be ones that are being made to accompany quilts that you are already doing.  They do not have to be posted off by ANZAC Day if you are saving them to go with a quilt - they just have to be finished so that I can post a photo.

To be included in the blog all photos need to be emailed to me no later than 10am Sydney time on the 21st of April. 

All laundry bags must have SOMETHING on them that is specifically Australian or which tie in with the military theme -you can even make some tri service laundry bags if you wish.

All laundry bag photos will be saved for posts around the 22nd and 23rd of April.   I will have to wait and see how many we get to see when exactly I will post them.  

All will be revealed closer  to time.  

There will be prizes!

I have some prizes here but if any of you followers out there would like to donate a prize please PM me.  This includes those of you who are serving.   It would be great if I could get a specific prize for the Navy bags, the Army bags and the RAAF bags and maybe something from Afghanistan or Dubai but this is as close as I will get to asking.  

So, any recipients or recipients loved ones who would like to help me there please get in touch.  Prizes do not need to be expensive, just tokens would be great.

I have a couple of Judges in mind but I haven't asked them so that will be announced at a later date - might have to sweeten them with some ANZAC Cookies perhaps - 

home made of course!

If you haven't made a laundry bag before, then now is your chance to give it a go!  

They are really quite easy!

We made 90 laundry bags in a week for Australia Day.

Surely we can blow that number out of the water this time!

How many do you think we can make between now 

and the 21st of April?  

Navy News

I had a great meeting yesterday with two of the Chaplains from the Navy.  As you know I never name our Aussie Heroes here on the blog and I am not about to break that rule but I thought you would like to see who I met with.  On the left we have the Fleet Base Chaplain and on the right the Chaplain of the soon to deploy HMAS Newcastle.  

I think it is fairly safe to say that Aussie Heroes is pretty well received by those in the Navy.  All is set in place now for HMAS Newcastle to send us requests when the time comes.  The Fleet Base Chaplain was particularly impressed with the variety of colour and design involved  in not only the quilts, but also the laundry bags.  I had loaded ALL the pictures of both onto my ipad and he took his time enjoying all of them as we talked.

These gentlemen were kind enough to remove their name patches so that I didn't have to get the Tech Guru to block them out for me.

Been to the Post Office this week?
As usual here is the list of those who have sent something off this week.  If you have sent something and are not in this list please email no later than midday tomorrow to be included in the post.

Angela
Bev and Jeff
Carol S (VIC)
Cath M
Outback Debra
Deb B
Gail
Jeann
Judith R
Judith M
Julie Ann
Julie
Liz
Louise 
Stephanie

Easter Schedule

With Easter coming up this weekend I thought I would let you know when the 

posts will be up.

Good Friday 29 March - Quilts of the Week

Saturday and Sunday 30 and 31 March - no posts planned

Easter Monday 1 April - This Time Last Year 

Tuesday 2 April - April Block of the Month 

:-(

And finally something that I have been trying to avoid but just can't put off any longer.

Last year I received a phone call, followed up with a hand written invitation to speak to a group this April. I can't remember the name of the group - it was just a small one.  Now at the time I was worried about losing that little letter in the little envelope so I recorded all the details in the calendar on the computer.  The only problem is that now I have had my computer crash twice and it is one of those things that I have lost.  This is so frustrating because unless the group calls me up to re-confirm which is what most groups do thankfully, I don't know where to go and when.  And I would HATE to be so unproffessional and I have no idea where to start to try and find the group!  

:-(  

So, if you have asked me to come and speak please contact me.  If you haven't asked me to come and speak - please PRAY that they do read this and contact me.  I will be repeating this regularly at the end of posts every now and then for a couple of weeks in the vain home that someone associated with the group reads it!

:-(

Till next time...............keep spreading the word and happy stitching!