Our Trip To Corryong- 516 Quilts Delivered So Far.

We're home again after a few big days of delivering quilts to the Corryong area. Thanks to all of you for your support we delivered 348 quilts on this trip. Previously we had distributed 85 quilts here and

Anne Jones and her group, Girl's Big Shed, combined with us by donating 59 quilts as well. This means we distributed 492 to the people affected by the devastating bush fires in this part of Victoria as well as the adjoining mountains in NSW. We were very fortunate to be able to connect with Keryn Sheather who is employed by the Vic Bushfire Recovery organization and she now is entrusted with the job of distributing the quilts to her community. Corryong hasn't had any people affected by Covid-19 and we certainly wanted to be very careful to socially isolate so we were unable to be present when the quilts are given out. However, we trust Keryn to do this on our behalf, and hope to receive some photos in the future.

We came home via Shepparton and met up with 

Marjo Reijnen

, a member of Oz Comfort Quilts as well as 4 members of GV Quilters. They all brought more beautiful quilts to donate, while socially distancing in the car park. I've twisted my knee so resting it up at the moment but I will share the photos of their beautiful quilts very soon. Thank you all so much for your generous support. Xx

CURRENT TOTAL OF QUILTS DISTRIBUTED - 516.

Sorry for shouting but I didn't realize it was so many. To date we have donated 492 in the Corryong area, 23 to Buchan primary school and 60 to students at Nicholson primary school and 1 to a man who lost his home in El Dorado. I haven't included the Tocumwal 59 quilts into our numbers yet.

I now will concentrate on parts of East Gippsland which are remote and don't appear to be receiving as much help. I have contacts and information about Wairewa and hope to follow up Sarsfield again now that Corryong is covered. I have written to many organizations, school etc in East Gippsland and haven't received any reply other than from Mallacoota college who declined quilts. I have heard that more quilts have been donated to Mallacoota but I don't know if they ended up in the Op Shops as the first lot did. I also know of 3 couples in Buchan who lost their homes but they don't want quilts for some time until they are settled in new homes.

I'm giving all of this information as I like to be transparent about what is happening with all of your beautiful donations. Could I please ask that you don't send any more donations at the moment as I still have quite a few quilts here, although they are mainly smaller children's sizes, and the Covid-19 restrictions mean we might not be able to deliver quilts again for a little while. In the meantime I will still be busy quilting the donated tops and finishing quilts from the donated QAYG blocks, and getting information about where we will deliver next. By holding off sending quilts for the moment it means we won't be living in a Quilt Factory for months. Lol. If you want to keep making quilts for the next delivery the best size to make is one large enough for a couple rather than a lap sized quilt.

When we take the quilts they are all surprised at the variety and how beautiful they are and that they have been donated, and they all pass on their thanks to you all for your compassion and love. I'm going to rest up for a few days, and see an osteopath tomorrow, so I can get busy quilting once my knee recovers from all the lifting and standing. Many thanks for helping us to help so many people. 

Hugs, Jan Mac