Anysoldier Quilts

American soldiers stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan continue to send regimental patches to the Ministers of the Cloth, the quilting group at our church. We just completed the second quilt with their patches -- pictured above with many of the group. The quilt is now on its way to Anysoldier.com, the organization which collects the patches and forwards them to us. You can check them out here. Anysoldier provides many different ways to support our troops overseas.

Below is a picture of the first quilt we made with these patches. It is being displayed at airshows around the country. Here it shown on display at the Miramar Air Show in San Diego from October 14-16.

Each square with a regimental patch is embroidered with the name, rank and regiment or division of the soldier who contributed it. The quilt is VERY heavy because of the patches and the embroidery. A local quilt shop contributed the machine quilting on the second quilt because we found that the machines made for home use just couldn't handle all that bulk very well.

The Ministers of the Cloth continue to make lap quilts for wounded soldiers (distributed through Anysolder.com at hospitals in the Washington, DC area) as well as baptism quilts for infants baptised at our church.