Mid June

We have made contact with a group involved in deliveries of truck loads of donations to the victims of the floods in Lismore. Decision was made to send some quilts, scarves and beanies to be selected today, to be included in the next available truck.

Strathfield Mission Australia Homelessness services, have been contacted.  This organisation have 24 cottages for women 35+ in need, usually because of domestic violence.  They would appreciate a donation of some quilts, selected today.  We have also selected beanies/scarves for that.

There were some lovely quilts came in today.  Here they are:

That's all for today.  Thanks for visiting, and see you in a few weeks.

2nd June

We received a lovely Thank You from the Hawkesbury Hospital Palliative Care Unit for the quilts we donated to them.

9 quilts were delivered to Meals on Wheels

A bundle of quilts were delivered to Concord Palliative Care Unit.

We received a really lovely quilt in the post donated to us by the ladies of Shepparton Quilters.  It is absolutely gorgeous and will be used as a raffle quilt.  Just take a look at the work in this!

All the panels have been embroidered 

And each section has been beautifully custom quilted.

Several of the quilt tops from the Shepparton Quilters previous donation have been completed.

This one was made by Lyn H.

And this one by Cheryl J.

The rest were made by our members.

I am not sure who the lucky recipient will be for this one, but my grandson would crawl over broken glass for it.  Ha ha.

This cute little quilt had the bunny motif quilted in the borders.

The blocks for this quilt were donated many years ago and were sent to us from America.  I suspect it may have been a block swap, because most of the blocks have the maker's name on them.  Sadly I have not been able to find the original donor, or any of the ladies who made the blocks to credit them.  

And this one was donated last year by Robyn O from the Southern Highlands as a bundle of partially completed blocks.

Aren't these dogs cute?  I just love the one singing....

And these monsters 💖💖.....

One of our ladies has been busy making little t-shirts for kids and babies bootees.  They, and the warm crocheted shawls and beanies, will definitely be useful, as we are having a cold snap right now.

Lastly, for those of you who live in Sydney or nearby, you might be interested in the quilt show which is being organised by the Eastwood Quilters next month.  Details are here.

Til next time.  Keep on stitching.

Last Meeting for May

We received a gorgeous thank you letter from Margaret B –  her mother was given one of our quilts by Strathfield Meals on Wheels while she was recovering from a fall.  It's lovely when we get feedback like that.  

We discussed several new avenues for donating our completed quilts.  We have lost our outlet at Domestic Violence NSW as they are no longer distributing donations, so we have been looking for new avenues. More on that as we finalise things.

Remember last meeting, I mentioned that we had received a donation of quilt tops from Shepparton Quilters?  A number of these were brought in completed today.  Here they are:

Two from Cheryl J.

Two from Jan D.

Three from Lyn H.

And three from Wendy R.

The rest of the quilts brought in were made by our members.

Aren't they are great bunch of quilts this week?

Now I need to go and sew some more!  So I'll see you next month.