Winter

Last week was the official start of Winter here in the Southern Hemisphere.  It always astounds me how quickly the weather changes with the start of a new season.  The week before last we had beautiful sunny weather and quite warm, and last week it was still sunny, but decidedly chilly.  Our woolies will be very gratefully received I should think.

You might remember me mentioning that we donated a quilt to a Biggest Morning Tea event.  It was very well received, and they advised us that together with other items, they raised $14,000 for the Cancer Council. 

We have a little Piggy that we use to pop in spare cash each meeting.  The proceeds go to a charity a couple of times a year.  We decided to donate collected funds to Street Side Medics who provide a mobile medical service to homeless.

A delivery was made to We Care Connect, which they were delighted to receive.

We had a lovely email from the wife of a man who passed away in the Concord hospital Palliative Care unit in September 2021 and had been a recipient of one of our quilts.  She treasures the quilt given to him so much that it has prompted her to take up quilting!

Meals on Wheels will be having a thank you morning tea shortly, invitation to come soon.

There were 19 quilts brought in this week, and 11 woollen items.

The table with the woollen items included a super cute Mrs Kangaroo, complete with a baby in her pouch.  Isn't she gorgeous?

And a jumper for a child

This quilt was donated by Cheryl from Friday Quilters

I love this!  I am not sure who made it, but she must have bags and bags of black and white scraps as there have been at least 3 quilts like this already.  I might have to hunt out my black and white fabrics 😄

That's it for today.  'Til next time....

21st May

A week or two back, we received a lovely email thank you from a lady who was a Concord West & Inner West Meals on Wheels client.  She had received a purple toned shawl from our group, and said she really appreciated the effort that went into making it.  I have no idea which one it was, as we make regular donations to the Meals on Wheels groups, but it was lovely to receive a thank you like that.

If you are a regular reader of this blog, you will remember that I generally mention the Trinity Grammar quilt group several times a year.  They donate batches of quilts they have made to us for distribution to the various organisations we support.   About a week or so ago, I stumbled across a Newsletter put out by Trinity Grammar which mentions Stitching Hearts,  and thought I would share a link to the article - click here. 

Here are the goodies which came in this week.

Thanks for popping in.  See you in a fortnight.

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.