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January Groups
Group 2 - From Molly's page, it is an Army mash unit, with 100. 50 male and 50 female. Their theme is Valentine Day. If you have it great. If not, army, generic or any pretty female fabric will do. We will mail starting January 15 or 16th.
Group 3 - Proud ABH's son just deployed today, so am waiting for some numbers. I am looking for superhero fabric for this group-from Marvel comics, like Spiderman. Matt's mom has it. She will make and mail these.
Group 4 - Mary, proud mom of Nick has a future SIL in Iraq. He has 12 in his unit and I made him a Denver Bronco pc. Mailed today, 1-9-10.
Group 5: Sara's son is deployed. His cube is 18, but the unit is 55. They will be returning in a couple of months, so maybe sooner than later. I told her we could do the 18 for sure. Mailed 18 for the cube on 1-9-10.
Group 6: A Navy mom from the Quilter's Market has a son deployed in the Nimitz strike group. That store has donated so many pcs, that I want to do him. There are 8 in cube. However, he is an officer and said that he'd be delighted to distribute and if we were willing to send more, he'd make sure they were distributed. I have mixed feelings on this.
Mailed 16 on 1-12-10. His mom said that he will find sailors who could use some cheering up.
A couple of individual ones that I am doing. Mailed 1 today, 1-9-10.
Lyn has suggested that we have rotating months or groups for mailing. That way the crew will have time to rebuild their stash of pcs.
I think this is a good idea, but at the same time, I am concerned that others will feel left out. Ally had a great idea and Dori echoed it. Having a different mom be the "gatherer" for a group. I am not sure that mailing to that mom is necessary cause we give the PO more money, but I am wondering how you would feel about being the coordinator for a mailing.
I keep lists at my computer that I update when we are doing a group mailing, but truly, sometimes I get overwhelmed by it all. Your help would be appreciated.
Feedback please!
Our 1st group of 2010 mailed on 1-2-10:
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Permalink Reply by LLovesmysailor on
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Sue, I have 3 1/2 yards of Valentine hearts and another yard of Love Bug fabric. I also have 3 other females already made. So I think 20 should be no problem. They could be all female or a mixture of both. The Valentine hearts could be used for guys in a pinch.
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Permalink Reply by Matt's Mom/Cathy on
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Sue count me in as another for your 20 count. I will send you a picture of the material that I just bought for the Valentine project.
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Permalink Reply by Sue-Pillowcase lady on
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Great ladies. So we have:
Sue, Lyn, Cathy and Pat.
Cathy got some great prints. Can you post that picture on here? It's so cute. I have a couple with the hearts and the female, but the rest of mine are either going to be generic patriotic or army. I have some digital camo in the tan tones, plus some army seal.
We need 1 more person for 20 and they can be any print except for Navy cause this is the army. Any takers?
My friend Pat asked me if we are to include some of the other things as well. I told her that is up to each individual. I know that you can fit 20 pillowcases in a medium flat rate box-the rectangle kind with 2 open ends-and it is pretty stuffed full. I can usually get alittle something else in it, but our primary focus is on pillowcases. -
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Permalink Reply by DC - G'mother of My Fav Sailor on
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Sue, I will take 20.
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The large flat rate boxes are the same price as the medium ones, as long as they are going to an APO or FPO. So there will be room to put extras things in if you want to without it costing more in postage.
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wonderful Dori, So we have 5 sending 20 each. Now, I will just need to know how many females you each are doing. I'll check my stash and let you know.
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Sue, I've got 10 females and 10 males. I'm going to send you a picture of the fabric for the guys to see what you think. At least I will as soon as I can get the picture from the camera to the computer.
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great. this is paperwork catch up week for me, so it will be the weekend before I can sort thru the pcs. I heard from the quilting store, they have 35 ready to be picked up.
one of the employees there has a son on the Reagan and they are deployed. So I am going to talk to her about her child's cube anyway and maybe shop/. -
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Permalink Reply by Barbara (Derek's Mom) on
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The Reagan is deployed? My son's squadron is assigned to the Reagan so if they are out it's just for work ups or something because the planes didn't go with them.
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good to know. maybe that's why my moms hasn't contacted me. A Det doesn't count haha.
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I have 22 and 4 of them could be for the males ( they are bright green with brown hearts ) and the other 18 would be for females. This is a picture of the fabric that they are made from.
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I love those prints! thanks for posting and you are just "smokin' " girl. I am impressed!
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