Theme & Charity

This year is going be “Star Spangled!” The show theme creates visions of heavenly night skies, heroes who are stars in our lives, traditional quilt patterns that have been passed down through the generations, and patriotic enthusiasm. HMQS 2012 will have classes, booths, presentations and quilts, quilts, quilts that are Star Spangled bright!

HMQS 2012 Show Charity: Quilts of Valor

The mission of the QOV Foundation is to cover ALL those service-members and veterans touched by war with Wartime Quilts called Quilts of Valor. This foundation is not about politics. It's about people.

In November of 2003, Catherine Roberts founded the Quilts of Valor Foundation. She had retired from doing active clinical midwifery and in late 2003, started QOVF as a result of her older son, Nat's, upcoming deployment to Iraq as a gunner for his Humvee. She had this vision of a post-deployed warrior struggling with his war demons at 2 in the morning. She saw him sitting on the side of his bed wrapped in a quilt. That quilt not only comforted, but warded off his war demons. Thus QOVF was founded.

Catherine says, “All our combat warriors merit our healing and comforting Quilts of Valor. This means from any conflict. That translates into many, many more QOVs to make in the years to come.” To date the QOVF has donated 45,437 quilts to men and women in military service. For more information on the Q of V Foundation go to www.qovf.org. Help us honor those who serve our country this year. They are our stars!

Contributions can be submitted with your class registration, on site at the show in May or mailed to Ann Collet, HMQS Director, 869 East 725 South, Centerville, UT 84014. Donations may be made with cash, check or money order. Make payment to HMQS. 100% of all donations will be given directly to the Quilts of Valor foundation.