Penny's Postcard Posse
Penny's Postcard Posse began last year Rounding up fabric postcards to send to the troops in Iraq for the 4th of July.
After all, the 4th of July in Iraq is just another day unless it becomes something different by virtue of quilters' intervention!
That Posse Rounded up more than 239 tiny postcard greetings for the soldiers in Iraq. These fabric cards were sent through Camp Pendleton in San Diego, California, and pictures of them are posted at: www.Fabric-Postcards.com.
Thanksgiving Turkey postcards for the Troops was just as successful with 284 postcards collected.
For Christmas, one class of children at Kempton Elementary school, all of the children at Casa De Oro Elementary School (both in Spring Valley, California) made fabric postcards to send to the troops. And families at Maryland Avenue Elementary School (in La Mesa, California) made cards at their Family Craft Night in December. Including fabric postcards from our quilters, I stopped counting at 639 postcards, and am certain that we sent more than 800 postcard greetings to the troops abroad.
Several Canadian quilters requested that postcards be sent to their troops who are stationed in Afghanistan. So, for Valentine's Day 2007, quilters sent in 217 postcards that were forwarded to Donna in our quilting community who lives in Alberta, Canada.
The Spring Postcard Posse Rounded up 242 postcards that were sent to wounded soldiers in the hospital in Landstuhl, Germany.
We at How-to-Quilt have been honored to sponsor these Posse Roundups, and look forward to continuing Penny's Postcard Posse Roundup again in 2007. By way of planning ahead, here are the dates and deadlines for the 2007 Postcard Posse Roundups:
Dates for Penny's Postcard Posse
2008
Celebration |
Send your postcard by this date |
Actual date of Celebration |
| Troop Deployment from San Diego |
throughout January |
January - March |
| Valentine's Day |
January 31 |
February 14 |
| Easter / Spring |
March 21 |
April 8 |
| US Independence Day - 4th of July |
June 8 |
July 4 |
| Halloween (just for fun!) |
September 28 |
October 31 |
| Thanksgiving |
November 6 |
November 27 |
| Christmas / Holidays |
November 16 |
December 25 |
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The guidelines are: any size, any shape, any color, any design. For each holiday, we will provide a packet of FREE quilt block patterns you can download and use. Or create your own design. "Welcome Home," "Thank You" and other general designs are also appreciated.
Most of the cards have been about 4" by 6." But, as you look at the pictures of other cards, you can tell, the range is wide:
Penny's Postcard Posse Pictures
Round 'em up and send 'em in to us here:
How to Quilt
7723 Tyler's Place Blvd. #327
West Chester, OH 45069
We'll do the rest - make sure they get to the base to be delivered to the troops, and post the pictures.
If you would like to pass this information along, please feel free to download a flyer that has all of the details of the Postcard Posse Project including the dates for 2008.
Also - if you are a teacher or first time quilter, here are instructions for sewing a simple fabric postcard. Thanks for participating and Happy Quilting!
P.S. If you have any questions, please email Sherry at: sherry@how-to-quilt.com
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