Second May Meeting

Most of those who have been away recently came to our second May meeting, so lots of business was discussed:

Quilts have been delivered to the Concord Hospital Palliative Care Unit; Kelly from Domestic Violence has offered to come to talk to us; we have donated a quilt to Our Lady of Assumption Primary School for a fund raising raffle, we don't know yet how much was raised; several thank you letters were read out; Lynn from Shepparton in Victoria has offered us 30 quilt tops and a roll of batting - to be handed over at the Quilt Show in June.  Wow!; and the Senior Citizens Club will be having a Morning Tea on the 25th June.

Nicole came to give us an inspiring talk about Sanctuary Housing, a local organisation which provides crisis accommodation for women who are homeless, most of whom have experienced domestic violence.  The women are referred here either by the Police or through outreach programs, and about 75% arrive with nothing at all from very difficult environments. The project relies heavily on Community awareness and donations to supplement Government funds. Click on the above link to read a bit more about this amazing project. 

These are the finished quilts that were brought in today:

Evelyn

 

Evelyn also quilted three children's quilts posted to us by Daphne from Wodonga, Victoria (I told you about that in my previous post here).  Aren't they cute?  Thanks Daphne.

 

Dasha

Made by Dasha and quilted by Robin

 

Robin

 

Next two made by Bev

 

Not sure who made this one, but Bev quilted it.

 

Helen has been busy while away!

 

Maria

 

And a lovely little cot quilt made by Bev's friend Dawn.

 

Our next meeting is the first week of June.  See you then.

3rd May

Our last meeting was short and sweet.  With 4 people overseas and 3 away with medical issues, we were a very small band indeed!

Most of the discussion was about wadding.  A perennial issue as we go through so much of it!  So we are always on the lookout for decent, economical wadding.

Since our last meeting, we delivered 14 quilts to Life Without Barriers.  This is an organisation supporting just over 14,000 people in more than 440 communities across Australia. They support children, young people and families, people with disability, older people and people with mental illness.

We were contacted a few weeks ago by a lovely lady in Wodonga, Victoria, in response to the article in Australian Patchwork & Quilting, who asked if we would like her to send us quilt tops.  Well three little cot quilt tops arrived!  You will see them shortly after they have been quilted and completed.  Thank you Daphne for your generous donation.  They will be well used I'm sure.

Here are the completed quilts brought in.  Enjoy.....

Evelyn

 

Dasha

 

Jan

 

And finally here are Colleen, Ann and Lesley jigsaw puzzling together a Disappearing 9 Patch top that Coleen is making.