Home of the Brave in the News
The Denver Post
Stitches of healing
The Home of the Brave Quilts Project gives a handmade blanket to relatives
of each U.S. soldier killed in Iraq or Afghanistan.
By Nancy Lofholm
Denver Post Staff Writer
Article Last Updated:07/09/2006 11:54:38 PM MDT
Roslyn Atwood of Ridgway hopes to present a quilt to families of each of the 39 Colorado soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Atwood, who's been helped by Montrose quilter Gale Smith, has finished five quilts. (Post / RJ Sangosti)
Ridgway - Harold and Lois Geer's son, Army Pfc. George Geer, had been buried more than a year when Roslyn Atwood knocked at the door of their Cortez trailer and handed them a quilt she had made. . .
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A slightly different form of this article also ran in the Telluride Watch. Read it here.
Home of the Brave Activities
Montrose Quilt Show
HOB Colorado organizers Roslyn Atwood and Gale Smith had a booth at the 2006 Montrose Quilt Show where volunteers could sign up to help with the project. Several quilt guilds and individuals have since donated blocks and quilts as a result. Thanks to the Montrose Quilt Show organizers for sponsoring the booth.
The HOB booth at the 2006 Montrose Quilt Show.