Welcome to The Handmade Afghans Project

Our objective is to thank those wounded in service to our country.  To bring comfort and warmth to our wounded service members, we create handmade afghans.  Most of the afghans are delivered to Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C. Others are sent to military hospitals in the U.S. and Afghanistan. You can help by crocheting or knitting 6" x 9" rectangles that will be joined together to produce twin bed size afghans.

On this website you will find helpful hints for creating correctly sized rectangles, upcoming events where hundreds of rectangles are laid out and assembled into completed afghans, and other ways to help. 

Please sign up for our listserv to get announcements and updates from HAP. Afghan photos and project events can be viewed at Shutterfly.

Most of our participants live in Maryland and DC but we have friends knitting and crocheting in 48 states and four other countries. 

Please join us in thanking those wounded in service to our country.

Deborah Starobin-Armstrong
Founder and National Coordinator 
Rectangle6x9@comcast.net

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