2nd February

Amazingly there were almost as many completed quilts brought in for this meeting as there were for the first meeting this year.  Brilliant work ladies!

We made a delivery of 13 quilts, and some beanies to We Care Connect on the Central Coast.  They are always very pleased to see us when we arrive loaded up with bags of "stuff".

A couple of weeks ago we had a truly lovely thank you letter from a lady whose mother passed away recently and who had been given one of our quilts by the nurses in the Intensive Care Unit at Concord Hospital where she was being cared for.  The lady came to visit today and we were asked if we could divide the quilt we donated into 4 for her 4 daughters who had been very close to their grandmother.  Not a problem!

We also decided to send a few quilts to Archie's Army.  This group delivers quilts to children in need all over the state.  Unfortunately, they are based at Harden which is almost 350km from here, so we decided that it is not feasible to donate there again even though they are a worthy cause.  Several quilts were chosen and will be delivered by one of our members to a contact in Canberra.

As is often the case, we have had some quilts donated.  This first one is from Sue, from Friday Quilters.  She has been a regular donor for some time.

This one has been made from some blocks we had donated.  The ladies at the Monday Quilting Group have completed it for us.

This large, double sized quilt is also donated - a bundle of incomplete blocks, now sewn together and quilted.  Sadly, I cannot tell you where the blocks came from.

A few masculine quilts came in.  Always good to get those!

This was an interesting quilt.  You could be forgiven for thinking it was just one piece of fabric, I certainly did, til I looked a little closer.....

It is made up of an intricate design of two very closely matched colours.  Not an easy pattern to sew at all!

And that's it for today folks.  Enjoy the weekend.