19th September

You might remember I told you (here) that we had donated a bundle of quilts to Legacy for distribution at their morning teas.  Well we have received a lovely thank you and some photos of some of the recipients, which I have permission to share with you.  Just look at those happy faces!

 

Now here is a blatant plug for a great service.  We always put a little label on the quilts we give out.  Just recently we used a local business in Lilyfield to do our latest batch.  Greg did a fantastic job of the art work and the printing.  Here are his details:

 

 

 

It would be great if could you mentioned that you saw this on our page!

 

We had a lot of unfinished quilt tops come in today.  You will see them as they get completed, but in the meantime, here are the completed ones:

 

The first three are flannel baby wraps, and the next two are flannel cot quilts.



 

 

 

Maria brought in two completed quilts made by her friend Robyn.  Robyn is really generous with her donations and has made a lot of quilts for us.  Thank you Robyn!

 

The blue triangles were part of a large donation we had about a month ago.  And the centre medallion was stuck in the cupboard for ages, waiting to be used.  They look great together.

 

These blocks were also part of a donation some time ago.  Love those little mushrooms, aren't they sweet?

 

That's it for today.  Thanks for stopping by.

Spring!

Here in Australia, 1st September is the official start of Spring.  Last Thursday we had a beautiful sunny day for our meeting.

We had two visitors today.  Darleen, our founding member, came along for the first time in ages, and Dale Larsen from Drummoyne Rotary came to give us an update on their fundraising.

The Christmas in July fundraiser for Drought Relief was held in conjunction with Parkes Rotary and Canada Bay Council. There were over 100 attending. Auctions were held and 30% of funds raised came from the 4 quilts donated by our group. A total of $11,000 was raised on the day.

Bev took the 2 fiddle quilts I showed you in the last post to the Palliative Care Unit at Concord Hospital.  They were well received.  Two more have been made, and we have been requested to make 2 more.

The raffle held by Leichardt council with one of our quilts as the prize raised $120 for the Drought relief fund.

Here are the completed quilts brought in this week:

 

The two Fiddle quilts made this week.

 

Two cute little Teddy Bears to go with the beanies.

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. 

 

Running Late

This afternoon I thought I should get a wriggle on and do a post for the last meeting, since the next one is tomorrow!  I didn't go to that meeting and Lesley very ably took the photos for me, and sent them through to me ages ago, so its not her fault!

Certificate and letter of appreciation received from Barnado’s for the quilts delivered to them last month.

Dale Larson, of Drummoyne Rotary, advised that the 3 quilts we donated for their Christmas in July event held to raise drought relief funds for the Parkes community, raised over $10,000 on the night.

Colleen and Bev took a bundle of adult beanies and scarves to be distributed to the Concord Hospital Palliative care unit.

There were heaps of lovely quilts came in this meeting.  Here they are in no particular order:

Ann made a couple of little baby wraps:

Roslyn brought in some baby wraps made by her group, the Wattlegrove Quilters:

Helen made 2 baby wraps:

and some crocheted scarves and beanies.

Jill made the next two quilts...

Maria brought in 2 quilts made by her friends.  The first one was made by Robyn and Mary:

And this one is by Mary.

I don't think Cheryl sleeps!  She brought in 5 quilts she made:

Besides that, she quilted this quilt made by Anne.

These two quilts were made by the ladies of the Trinity Grammar school craft group and Evelyn quilted them.

So that is it for now.  I promise I won't be slack, and I'll do the post for tomorrow's meeting promptly!