A north Houston woman has just finished sewing the photographs of 3,600 fallen U.S. service members on to what she calls an Iraq war “memorial quilt.”

Cindy Catlett said it’s the first pictorial memorial tribute ever created to show the faces, but not the names, of the men and women who have died fighting in Iraq.

“It’s a tribute to the people who have lost their lives,” she said. “I’m hoping the faces will show that these are real people that are dying over there.”

Catlett found the photographs on the Washington Post’s “Faces of the Fallen” Web site, which offers photographs and biographies from the Department of Defense and the Post’s own reporting.

She then spent nearly three months printing the photographs on to fabric, and stitching them on to a quilt that’s 88 inches wide, and 99 inches long. She has left extra space on the quilt to eventually include other fallen soldiers.

“We have space to add more Veterans,” Catlett said. “I’m hoping we won’t have to add a lot more. But each square is a hundred Veterans, so you have to have a hundred people die before you add another square. I’m hoping it will be a while before I have a hundred to add.”