Thursday 19th

Jackie came to visit us this week to talk to us about the Palliative Care Unit at Concord Hospital.  If you read our posts, you will know that we give quilts to this unit on a regular basis.  This is a 20 bed unit, with unfortunately a high turn over.  Our quilts are always welcomed.  Jackie showed us a photo of a pile of quilts being taken through the wards on a trolley to enable the patients to chose which they like. Family and friends often weigh in with comments etc., which makes for a lively chat, some lasting as long as an hour.  Once selected, the quilts are treasured by their owners.

Next meeting Kim from Cara House and a representative from All Hallows Church at Five Dock will be coming in to chose quilts for their respective raffles, and to see what we do.

We had quite a lot of gorgeous quilts come in this week. 

First three quilts were made by Jill:

 

Robin brought in three quilts which she had quilted.  The first two were a donation from Gillian, a Friday Quilters friend.  Lovely work Gillian, thank you.

 

 

Jan has been busy.  She brought in the next five quilts, the first four of which are hand pieced!

 

Maria's friend Robyn made the next quilt.  She has donated several quilts to us.  Thank you Robyn.

 

Another busy lady was Cheryl - she brought in 5 gorgeous scrappy quilts.

 

 

First July Meeting

I wasn't able to get to the meeting this time, so Evelyn stepped in to take the photos and Lesley took some notes, so that I could still put up a post.  Thank you ladies!

Jill and Maria went to the morning tea organised by the Senior Citizens Centre.  This event is an annual event and we donate quilts to be passed on to Westmead hospital.

Jill took 4 lap quilts to Meals on Wheels.  You might remember that we made a quilt for each client of Meals on Wheels, for both Burwood and Concord depots a couple of years back.  The ones delivered this time were top ups for new clients.

We also donated 12 single and 19 children's quilts, 16 beanies, 10 scarfs and 2 knitted rugs to Sanctuary House.

Robin brought in 35 quilts tops donated by a group of ladies from Shepparton in Victoria, which the kind ladies delivered to Robin at the recent QuiltNSW quilt show. I will be posting photos of these as they are finished.  How generous are these ladies!!

Here are the quilts for this week.

The first 6 quilts were made by Evelyn:
 

 

Bev made this one

And quilted this one, made by Dasha

And this one made by Jill

A Disappearing 9 Patch made by Robin and quilted by Maria

Maria made this one too

 

 

Maria also quilted this one made by Jill

 

Helen made 2 flannel wraps for kids....

 

And made all these beanies and scarves.

And that's all for today.

Second June Meeting

Our last meeting was a "normal" meeting.  That is no visitors, and no other exciting happenings to distract us from our usual tasks.  Lots of chatter and giggles though!

Here is the Show and Tell for the week:

Evelyn is first cab off the rank with this cute kids quilt.

 

She also made up 6 little baby wraps.

 

Bev made this sweet little quilt.

 

And quilted this one made by Jill

 

And also quilted this one made by Dasha

At our last meeting, we had a huge donation of wool which Helen grabbed with glee.  She has excelled herself two weeks later with 27 beanies, made with the wool from that donation!  They will be passed on to the Palliative Care unit for distribution.

 

She also made up 2 flannel baby wraps

 

And lastly.  Cheryl quilted this top made by Dasha.

 

 

Til next meeting......

6 June

Still a couple of people away, but we were almost to full strength this week, with a lot going on.

We had a visitor - Annette Hicks came to talk to us about the work that the Nicole Foundation is doing, to collect a quilt for a fund raising ball to be held shortly, and to present the group with a plaque recognising our donation.

This is the quilt we donated:

 

We have had feedback from Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic School at North Strathfield.  The Mother's Day raffle they held, which included the quilt we donated, raised $984 which will be used towards resources for the school.

 

Jill and Darleen represented our group at the St Patrick's Mortlake Parish Dinner (we donated a quilt there too).

 

Dale from Drummoyne Rotary popped in briefly and chose this quilt donated to us by Daphne from Wodonga a couple of weeks back for their raffle.  (I told you about Daphne and her quilts here and here)

 

 

 



Here is the show and tell

Bev quilted 3 quilts, the first was made by Robin, the others were made by Jill:

 

Helen made a swag of beanies and scarves and 4 flannel wraps:

 

 

Jan made the next 3 quilts:

 

Love those owls!!

 

Next two are by Cheryl:

 

Maria brought in 3 quilts made by Robyn, a friend of hers, and quilted by another friend, Mary.  Big thank you to Robyn and Mary.

 

This one was made by Jill and quilted by Dasha...

And lastly, a Challenge Quilt made by the ladies of Friday Quilters, with some gorgeous quilting by Di.

 

 

Thanks for stopping by.