15th August

Quite a few of us turned up on the 15th and we had a lively meeting.

Bev dropped off quilts to the Palliative Care Unit at Concord Hospital. She was asked  if we could make “fiddle quilts” for the dementia unit. Lesley and Bev have worked wonders and produced a couple of prototypes.

 

These have flannel on the back, with ties on the sides, and have sliding items, textures, buckles, Velcro, buttons, zippers, tassels things to do.   Bev and Lesley are happy to make more if they are needed.

Coleen has taken some beanies to  the St Patricks night patrol, which were well received.

Jill took several children's quilts to Ronald McDonald House.

These are the completed quilts brought in this week:

 

If you remember, I mentioned in the last post that we had received a large donation of fabrics.  Amongst them were a pile of triangles.  Bev has put together a couple of quilts with these. 

 

 

These bags have been made for Legacy Kids.  Lesley did the embroidery (also part of a donation) and Bev made the bags.

 

We had a donation from ladies of St Paul's at Kincumber, of half a dozen scarves and a couple of knee rugs. 

 

Running Late

This afternoon I thought I should get a wriggle on and do a post for the last meeting, since the next one is tomorrow!  I didn't go to that meeting and Lesley very ably took the photos for me, and sent them through to me ages ago, so its not her fault!

Certificate and letter of appreciation received from Barnado’s for the quilts delivered to them last month.

Dale Larson, of Drummoyne Rotary, advised that the 3 quilts we donated for their Christmas in July event held to raise drought relief funds for the Parkes community, raised over $10,000 on the night.

Colleen and Bev took a bundle of adult beanies and scarves to be distributed to the Concord Hospital Palliative care unit.

There were heaps of lovely quilts came in this meeting.  Here they are in no particular order:

Ann made a couple of little baby wraps:

Roslyn brought in some baby wraps made by her group, the Wattlegrove Quilters:

Helen made 2 baby wraps:

and some crocheted scarves and beanies.

Jill made the next two quilts...

Maria brought in 2 quilts made by her friends.  The first one was made by Robyn and Mary:

And this one is by Mary.

I don't think Cheryl sleeps!  She brought in 5 quilts she made:

Besides that, she quilted this quilt made by Anne.

These two quilts were made by the ladies of the Trinity Grammar school craft group and Evelyn quilted them.

So that is it for now.  I promise I won't be slack, and I'll do the post for tomorrow's meeting promptly!

18th July

Well I seem to have mislaid my notes on this meeting, so I am doing it from memory.  If I have allocated a quilt to the wrong person, or forgotten something, please do feel free to tell me!

 

Thank you email and letter received from Katie Matthews from Legacy. She has also invited any of us who would like to go to the Legatee’s lunch which is held at their head office in York Street at 11.30 every Thursday.

Helen took raffle quilt for Leichhardt Seniors as they are currently raising money for the Farmer’s Drought Relief Fund.

Colleen has taken the 20 single quilts for Yaralla Women’s Refuge to be given to Tania Chahoud to be passed on.

Dasha and Jan took 18 quilts, 11 flannel baby wraps and a bundle of 24 beanies to Barnardos at Wyong.  They deal with children in crisis care, so have a huge turn over of children, and were thrilled with this bundle.

 

Robin brought in a huge donation of lovely fabric given to us by Melinda, Amanda Daly and Sandra Lyons. Besides that, Linda Butcher has given us a generous voucher from Craft Deppot.  We are so very appreciative of all those donations.  Thank you ladies!

First two quilts were by Evelyn.

 

 

Cheryl brought in the next three quilts.

 

Helen made 2 flannel wraps and some beanies and scarves.