I've been busy finishing off some of my UFOs since Christmas and they will all be donated in the New Year. This one was made from blocks I swapped with some Southern Cross Quilter's members years ago.
As we reach the end of the year I've tallied the number of quilts and some of the other items we donated.
For 2025 we donated 761 quilts, 10,872 drawstring bags, 1,492 Santa Sacks, and 152 knitted/crocheted blankets as well as hundreds of teddy bears with custom made jumpers, knitted teddies, hand knits including beanies, jumpers, scarves and socks, soap pouches, library bags, pencil cases with school supplies, baby's bibs and burp cloths
The organisations we supported are the Alfred Hospital's Palliative Care Units, Eastern Palliative Care, Life's Little Treasures (premmies and sick babies in hospitals around Australia, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Backpacks 4 Vic Kids, Big Group Hug, SECASA and ECASA, Hope in a Suitcase, the Northern Hospital, and Monash Hospital's Children's ward.
We've had a very successful year in terms of how many people in need that we were able to help and it was only possible to achieve these numbers because of all of your support. Thanks to the Monday Quilters from Macedon, we have worked our way through lots of UFOs, sets of blocks and donated tops and I should be able to accept more sets of blocks, fabric, UFOs and tops in the coming year. In particular if you have any spare 9 patch blocks they would be great to combine to make more quilts, but of course anything handmade you care to donate, finished or not, will be donated on your behalf.
I hope you've enjoyed your year with the group and I will post in a day or so to tell you all what is needed for 2026.
Happy New Year everyone and I'm looking forward to what we can achieve in 2026.
Cheers, Jan Mac xx
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