19th June

Very few of our members were able to come to this meeting, and consequently not many completed quilts were brought in.

·       Last meeting we decided to donate the money currently in our piggy bank to Backtrack, who are working in Taree with the recent Flood recovery.  As a result we sent that organisation $70.  We had also decided to give Greg, the owner of CBon Printing, a quilt for his family who have been affected by the flooding in Taree.  CBon have been doing a fantastic job of printing our labels for some years now.  

·       We made a delivery to Canterbury Hospital, who sent us a lovely email in appreciation. 

·       We also received news that Archies Army is winding down but will accept donations until the end of the year.          

      Here is the booty from today's meeting:

Bye for now....

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Winter is Here!

Winter began officially here in Australia on the 1st June.  And interestingly enough in that week we went from lovely sunny Autumn days of 20C+ to cold wet weather.  How is it where you are?

The cold bleak weather didn't deter our members from turning up last week armed with a whole lot of lovely quilts. 

You might remember we donated a quilt for fund raising to the UCA Congregation recently.  They have advised us that the event raised $8000 and $2000 of that was sent to Taree to help with the flood relief.

We also decided to use the money raised so far this year in our piggy bank for the Taree flood victims too.

We had 22 completed quilts come in this meeting:

The first two were donated by Cheryl from Friday Quilters.

And these two were made by Sue from Friday Quilters.

There were some really interesting designs came in.  This one I found intriguing:

With the wintery weather we are having this table load of lovely woolies will be gratefully received, I am sure:

Til next time......

May 15th

We had to cancel our meeting on 1st May because we got advice that the centre where we meet had a power outage.  So today's meeting saw two meetings worth of quilts.  So inspiring to see the floor covered!

Although the last meeting was cancelled, several ladies who live locally, met for a chat and a cup of coffee.  They just happened to have a bundle of quilts with them, so they chose a some quilts to be donated to Chiswick Manor Car Community - these first three are to be auctioned at their fund raiser to be held shortly:

And this lot is for the residents:

You might remember me mentioning that we had given a quilt to the Drummoyne Pre School for their fund raiser a while back.  Well we received a delightful certificate of appreciation:

And here are the quilts which came in......

There were also a large bundle of lovely warm woollens.  They will be useful since the weather has turned and it has been cold, windy and very wet in the last week or so.

Thanks for making it through to the end of this post.

Bye for now, and see you soon.