16th November

Our last meeting was also our last working meeting for 2023.  Hard to believe the year is gone!  Things are ramping up for Christmas, but we are all making time to gather for a Christmas lunch later this week.  No quilts to show then!  

We had a bumper crop of quilts turn up this meeting, so get ready for a feast of colour.

One of our supporters is the Trinity Grammar Quilters.  This is a group of mums, and mums of alumni from the school Trinity Grammar, and one of our members has been part of that group since it began in 2005.  Click here or on the name above to read more about the group. 

Trinity Grammar Quilters donated a bundle of 14 quilts this month!  Awesome effort ladies, thank you.

If you have been following our posts, you may remember me babbling on about using up some of the fabrics we have stored in the group cupboards.  Some of that fabric has been cut and made up into kits, and the first of these are complete.  You will be seeing a few more over the next months.

One of our members made up a kit; she liked the pattern so much she put this quilt together with her own fabrics, and a bit of a variation to the design.  I love it!

And the next two were kits made up from our children's novelty fabrics.  You would have seen lots of these as they have been coming in a few at a time throughout the year.

And here is a bundle of bags, children's t-shirts and beanies.

'Til next time.....

First November Meeting

Our meeting last week was the second last working meeting for this year.  Hard to believe that it will be time to plan Christmas soon.

Lots of wonderful quilts came in as well as other goodies for us to distribute to those doing it tough.  

Quilts included donated ones from two Lyns.  This first one is from Lyn H of Shepparton Quilters, who has made heaps of quilts for us. Thank you Lyn H.

And this one was made by Lyn L from Friday Quilters.

Just take a look at this loaded table of goodies!

Beanies, booties, and bags...

Flannel wraps and more bags...

T-shirts, more flannel wraps and other children's clothing.

Hope you have enjoyed this little lot.

Bye for now,

 

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.