VA To Volunteers: Stop Quilting

Written by Pat's Papers | Thursday, 21 April 2011 9:52 AM

Officials can’t quite piece together their story but quilters say they’ve been asked to stop making blankets for veterans due to, depending on who you believe, either a bed bug infestation or a quilt surplus. The Minneapolis Star Tribune says because of the “generosity and efficiency of the quilting volunteers” the VA simply has no place to store the handmade donations. The official cease and desist went like this: “Thanks to your skill, talents and dedication to helping our hospitalized veterans of the Minneapolis VA Medical Center, we have an overabundant supply of lap robes, quilts, blankets, neck pillows, armrest pillows, heart pillows, slippers and laundry bags.”

The Quilts of Valor has distributed more than 37,000 quilts since it was formed in 2004.

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