Thursday 7th August.

Our meeting last week was lovely.  Almost everyone was able to come, so a packed house on Thursday.  

Since our last meeting we made a delivery to Grace's Place.  It is a place we have only recently begun supporting and is a trauma recovery centre for children affected by homicide.  You can click on the link if you would like to know more about the organisation.

One of our members reported a conversation with a neighbour, whose daughter is a volunteer at the Concord Palliative Care Unit, where many of our quilts go.  This lady said that "the joy that the quilts bring to patients make her cry".  Isn't that lovely?  Makes all the hard work of making a quilt worthwhile when you hear something like that.

And on that note, here are the wonderful quilts that were brought in this meeting:

There was also a table full of knits and crocheted items.  Shawls, scarves, booties, beanies, a child's cardigan and a handful of flannel baby wraps.

Great work everyone!

Bye for now.  I am away for 5 weeks from next week, so it will be October before you hear from me again.

Second July Meeting

Our meeting last week provided a lovely bundle of quilts.  You actually don't see many quilts made with orange fabric, and even fewer with yellow fabrics. In this bunch of quilts there are several orange ones and two yellow.

We made a delivery to Meals on Wheels since our last meeting.  We "top them up" quite regularly so that they can provide a quilt to any of their new customers.  They are really appreciated, since many of the customers don't receive a lot of gifts, let alone a gift from a complete stranger.

A raffle quilt was also delivered to Our Lady of Assumption church for a fund raiser.  We will find out in due course the amount raised.

With no further ado, here are the quilts brought in this week:

The first three quilts were made by Robyn D.  Thank you Robyn.  She is very generous with her time.

The next two quilts were made by ladies from Friday Quilters.  The first is from Sue:

And this one is by Lyn:

Some lovely scarves and beanies:

The rest of the quilts were made by our members.  I always find the variety of designs and colours very inspiring:

See you next time.

1st July

I am very late with posting about our last meeting, and the next one is later this week!

This is the haul from our meeting.  First up are the lovely woollies - scarves, a shawl and beanies:

And here are the quilts: