19th October

Lots of discussion this meeting - mostly about wadding (the nice warm middle part of the quilt).  We are always looking at how to source the best wadding at the best price and our current supplier is having supply issues.  We go through so much of that, and a large proportion of our sponsorship money goes on purchasing it.

A delivery was made to We Care Connect.  They are always so appreciative of our support.

One of our members has made some place mats for Life Skills Plus in Mudgee, a country town about 3 hours drive west of Sydney, which provides services to people with disabilities in Mudgee and surrounding villages.  These have been delivered.  We will approach them to see if they would like some quilts too.

The other topic was our annual Christmas donation to charity.  We normally give a cash donation collected throughout the year in our "piggy" bank to a charity locally.  We have decided to keep this year's donation back until we find a suitable charity.  Instead we will be collecting clothes and other goodies for the Wayside Chapel - an inner city charity which cares for homeless.

We have a lovely bunch of quilts to show you this week:

Look at these daring elephants!

And the border has been quilted with elephants too.

Can you see the cute animals stitched onto the little beanies??

5th October

Here we are almost at the end of the year, and planning our Christmas gathering.  Seems like only yesterday that we were celebrating last Christmas.

We have decided to make a donation of clothing and other goods for homeless and other people in need - donations will be brought in to our last meeting for November to be distributed before Christmas, along with our usual Christmas cash donation.

Concord Palliative Care Unit have asked that quilts we donate be the larger single size, a patients are mostly bedridden.

Distributed packs of squares for lap size quilts, cut from our stash of fabrics.  You will hopefully see them coming in shortly.

There was a suggestion that we might donate quilts to families caught up in the earthquake in the Atlas Mountains in Morocco.  These families were poor to begin with and have lost everything.

This first quilt was donated by Elizabeth VDH.  Elizabeth met one of our members at Spotlight by chance some months back, and has donated quite a lot of quilts to us.  Thank you Elizabeth!

Next up is a quilt donated by Lynn H from Shepparton Quilters, and finished off by one of our members.

The little beanies on the left of the photo here, are just so cute!  When you put them on, the square corners form little "ears".  Hopefully they will delight some little girls.

That's it for today folks.  See you next time.

5th September

Our last meeting was a big one, and despite 4 people being away (one was in Morrocco and experienced the earthquake), there were 25 completed quilts brought in, together with a bundle of flannel wraps and knitted items.

We have had grants from the City of Canada Bay Council and from Burwood RSL Club.  A big thank you to our supporters - without them we could not function.

We made a delivery to St Mary's Nursing home after the last meeting, and it was just in time for Father's Day.  They were thrilled.

The other very important bit of business discussed was the Christmas lunch.  Can't believe it is time to be preparing for that.  Can you?

A lot of the quilts today were those donated to us by our very keen assistants.  Although not members, they nevertheless spend a lot of time to support our cause with their donations.  

One of our members belongs to a group which meets at Hobbysew on a Monday for a sit and sew.  There were several quilts from that group, from Robyn, Cheryl and Ella.  These first 3 are Robyn's:

Ella:

Cheryl

Another member went to a display of quilts put on by a group called Caring Hearts Quilters, a group who are based in Penrith, a suburb of Sydney at the foot of the Blue Mountains.  They, like us, make quilts for charity.  To cut a long story short this lovely group donated one of their quilts to us.  There is a Facebook page for this group.

This one was made by Lyn H from Shepparton Quilters

Sue E from Friday Quilters, has given us 3 more quilts.

A large bundle of Flannel baby wraps have been made.  These are incredibly popular with organisations which support babies and young children.

And some beanies too.

Enjoy the rest of the quilts....

Just take a look at how many tiny pieces there are in this quilt!  I counted 64 in each block and there are 12 blocks plus the border!  What patience.

Hope you enjoyed the post for this meeting.  See you next week.