Winter is here!

1st June is the official start of winter here.  Our last meeting was on the 3rd, and it was certainly a cold, wet and wintery day.  A lot of people away too, which made for a much smaller meeting than usual.

Coleen delivered quilts to St. Mary’s Villa, and once again they were very grateful.

We were advised of a possible new outlet for our quilts - St. Vincent’s de Paul, Bondi Junction, who run Delores and Killara Refuges.  These are crisis accommodation for single women and women with children who have experienced domestic/family violence. As a result of the recommendation, a number of quilts were delivered to them by Bev.

Also last week, Philippa Campbell, of Domestic Vilolence NSW interviewed Dasha to profile 

Stitching Hearts on Facebook for Volunteers Week.  If you have a Facebook account, you

might like to see the post here.

We decided to donate the $110 collected this year in our charity Piggy Bank to Wombat

Rescue. 

Here are the quilts which were brought in this week.  First up are some knitted goodies, which

I am sure will be welcomed with the cold weather arriving:

A knitted cot blanket donated by the members of St Paul's Kincumber:

 

And last, but definitely not least, some flannel baby wraps.

Until next time, stay warm.

3rd October

Dale Larsen and 2 committee members of the Drummoyne Rotary Club, Lorraine Plant (Treasurer) and Nora Duane (President Elect) came to visit today.  Stitching Hearts has been supported by the Rotary Club for many years, going back to the early years of our little group.  Dale mentioned the Art Show Rotary Club organised in 2008 at which Stitching Hearts was invited to participate.  If you are interested, you can read about that Show here.

Robyn took some quilts to domestic violence, who were very happy with our donation.  Quilts are much appreciated as they bring life and colour to the rooms for the residents of the refuges.  We have been asked for flannel wraps 30 x 30 for Christmas, and for booties, crotched bonnets for babies.

Jeans for genes day thank you letter received for the quilt made by Jan.

Jill took 3 quilts for the Senior Citizens Christmas lunch lucky door prize gifts.

We have had a very generous donation from Susan and Shelly from Pittworth in Queensland, who saw the article published about us in the magazine a year or so back.  These two lovely ladies have made and posted 8 quilts to the group together with lovely letter.  All the quilts need quilting, so you will see them as we complete them.

The Parish of St Paul's, Kincumber have donated some beanies, crocheted lap rugs and a large bag of wool as well. 

Here are the completed quilts

 

The pretty soft colours don't show up too well in the photo, so here is a close up.

 

 

These lap rugs and beanies were donated to us by the knitters of the Parish of Kincumber.

 

The rest are flannel wraps.

 

These two above, and the last two were made with the cutest fabric!  Love the gingham kitties and the butterflies.

15th August

Quite a few of us turned up on the 15th and we had a lively meeting.

Bev dropped off quilts to the Palliative Care Unit at Concord Hospital. She was asked  if we could make “fiddle quilts” for the dementia unit. Lesley and Bev have worked wonders and produced a couple of prototypes.

 

These have flannel on the back, with ties on the sides, and have sliding items, textures, buckles, Velcro, buttons, zippers, tassels things to do.   Bev and Lesley are happy to make more if they are needed.

Coleen has taken some beanies to  the St Patricks night patrol, which were well received.

Jill took several children's quilts to Ronald McDonald House.

These are the completed quilts brought in this week:

 

If you remember, I mentioned in the last post that we had received a large donation of fabrics.  Amongst them were a pile of triangles.  Bev has put together a couple of quilts with these. 

 

 

These bags have been made for Legacy Kids.  Lesley did the embroidery (also part of a donation) and Bev made the bags.

 

We had a donation from ladies of St Paul's at Kincumber, of half a dozen scarves and a couple of knee rugs.