Fourth of July

The 4th July in the United States commemorates the Declaration of Independence of the United States in 1776.  In Australia it is not a holiday, and we had a busy day at Stitching Hearts. 

It was a long meeting starting with a visit by Katie Matthews from Legacy to speak  about their program.  She took 12 lap quilts and we will give her more as needed. We have been invited to attend a morning tea at Rhodes on 26th July. Lesley and Bev will represent the group.  Cheryl and Bev will be attending Grants Night at the Council Chambers, Drummoyne on Thursday 25th July.
Dasha took 11 baby wraps, 18 children’s quilts and 24 beanies for Barnardo’s at Wyong.  They will be delivered on Monday, 15th July.
 
Louise popped in to donate a bundle of wool and some half finished projects.  This was passed on to Helen. 
 
Maria brought in 3 quilts made by her friend Robyn.  Robyn is very generous and has made a lot of quilts for us.  It would be lovely to meet her one day to thank her in person!

 

 

 

Helen made 5 beanies, and 5 flannel baby wraps.

 

 

 

 

 

Evelyn brought in 2 quilts she had made. 

 

 

 
Evelyn also quilted 2 quilts.  The first was made by Jill. The second one we think was a donation.
 

 

 

Cheryl also made 2 quilts.

 

 

 

And quilted two.  The first of these was a donation, completed by Evelyn, and quilted by Cheryl

 

 

This too, is an unknown maker.  Quilted by Cheryl.

 

 

Jan made this whimsical Mushroom Village.

 

 

Lesley appliqued the CaraCare logo on 2 more pillow cases.

 

 

This one is by an unknown maker.

 

 

And lastly, one by Bev.

 

6th June

Edited 23/06/2019 to correctly attribute a quilt.

Alys from Cara Care came today to present us with a certificate of thanks for the quilt we gave them for their Ball in May. It was auctioned on the night and the gentleman who bought it paid $300. Alys said he was very pleased with it and had the biggest grin on his face all night.

A raffle quilt has been donated to the Palliative Care Concord Hospital and also one to the Cabarita Mortlake Preschool.   The one we donated to Concord West Rhodes Preschool will be put up as a wall hanging in their “chat corner”. The Director asked for a photo of our group, and asked if a few of the ladies would like to come for morning tea one day.

Evelyn reported that the quilt we gave to Concord Hospital for their Mother’s Day Raffle raised $1,680.

We had a very nice lunch at The Palace Hotel on Thursday 30^th May, there were 10 ladies attended. We decided to put in $10 each to be given to the Drought Relief at Crookwell C.W.A.

Kathleen York House, Legacy and Rivendell to be contact to see if they would like a quilt to raffle.

Some lovely quilts were brought in today.

Ann made this quilt, which was quilted by Cheryl

 

Cheryl also made this pretty pink quilt.

 

Dasha made this quilt which was quilted by Bev

 

Evelyn brought in two quilts this week which she has made.

 

She also quilted three more.  This first one was made by Katy of the Trinity Grammar School Quilters.

 

And these next two were made by Friday Quilter Lyn at their Retreat in May.

 

Helen made three little flannel wraps, a bunch of beanies and a couple of scarves.

 

Roslyn made this pretty quilt

 

 

And the last two were made by Jill

 

 

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Second April Meeting

Our last meeting was the Thursday before Good Friday.  School holidays as well, so usually a dire combination on the roads.  That didn't put us off coming to the meeting!

We had a couple of visitors today.  Emmanuel (Manny), House Manager and Social Worker at Cara Care came with Ashley to select a quilt for their Ball in early May. We also gave them the pillowslips we had appliqued with the Cara Care’s logo.  These are given to the kids who enrol in their programs.

Evelyn advised that the quilt we gave to Concord Hospital to raffle has raised $700 so far.  Great to see that kind of feedback.

Jill selected 12 lap quilts to deliver to the Concord Palliative Care.

Here are the quilts which came in today.  First cab off the rank is Ann, who made a little flannel wrap:

 

Bev made this one.

 

Bev also quilted several quilts.  This jungle themed quilt was made by Lesley.

Great fabrics!

The centre panel of this one was donated, Evelyn added a few borders and Bev quilted it.  A prime example of how we work as a team.

 

We don't know who made this quilt, but Bev quilted it.

 

 

 

Cheryl can't have slept at all this last fortnight, she made the next 5 quilts!

Cheryl also managed to quilt 3 quilts.  This was made by Coleen

 

And the next two were made by Jill, also quilted by Cheryl

 

Jan brought this one in:

 

 

And this last one is a mystery!!

 

Great work everyone.

21st February

While the lovely ladies were hard at work at the last meeting, I was gadding about in Queensland, so Lesley very ably took the photos for that day.  Thank you Lesley.

We were contacted a few weeks ago by Roslyn R who wanted to donate some quilts.  She was able to come along to this meeting and enjoyed our little group so it seems she may come to some more of our meetings.

Maria brought in 2 beautiful finished quilts from her friends, Robyn and Mary. These ladies have donated a number of quilts as well as fabrics in the past.

A huge thank you to Roslyn, Robyn and Mary for their support of our group.  We will definitely be able to make use of these lovely donations.

First quilt today was made by Robin

This one was made by Sheryl from Shepparton.  Evelyn quilted it.

 

Ann made the next two quilts, quilted by Evelyn.

Helen made a handful of scarves and beanies

 

And also this little flannel baby wrap.

 

Roslyn donated these three gorgeous quilts made by her mother and completed by the Wattlegrove Quilters.

 

Lesley has appliqued the CaraCare logo onto some pillowcases.  We now have 13 of these ready to go to CaraCare

The next two lovely quilts were donated to our group by Maria's friends Robyn and Mary.