The Weekly Wrap.

I've finished off 6 donated quilt tops as well as piecing and quilting another I Spy quilt with alternate blue squares. 

This week we also donated 10 quilts to SECASA and Norma Aitken very kindly couriered them for me. 

 Many thanks everyone for your generous support. 

Hugs, Jan Mac xx 

This Week's Arrivals.

Kim from the Somerville Community Centre dropped off a huge amount of donations including 7 lovely quilt tops  (2 ready for quilting), as large amount of beanies and bootiesas well.

Helen Walker has donated 6 cute elephant soft toys she made.

Eileen Nash has donated 12 crocheted blankets,  80 beanies, some puzzle books and some toiletries. 

Many thanks everyone for your generous support. 

Hugs, Jan Mac xx 
 

Very Exciting.

I've been working on a few quilts for family and finished this one for a special little girl.

I also knitted her another little jumper.

My excitement though is because I found an old UFO today and also found the patterns and most of the background fabric. I'd made 7 of the 20 blocks of the Civil War Bride quilt by Corliss from Threadbear in Castlemaine. 

  I originally started this in December 2009 and saw the original quilt in New York in 2010. I've just realised that I haven't worked on any of my own quilts since we moved to Melbourne and I really want to finish this one. I thought I might have started a few more blocks but haven't found them yet so I am going to just buy some more background fabric and get on with the remaining blocks.

I made the big mistake of moving a lot of my sewing things here before we moved everything and it's been hard to find all my treasures. I've also unearthed a few hand piecing UFOs and I plan on getting them finished too.

At the moment I gave another child's quilt to finish for family , an appliqued quilt for hand quilting and the Civil War Bride applique blocks. That's as well as the charity quilts to quilt. I think that will be enough for now until I  get some of these finished. 

Hugs, Jan Mac xx 

Lots Happening Here.

Gail Pan very kindly donated 6 beautifully made quilts. 

Lyz Kershaw dropped off another 2 lovely quilts as well as 30 soap pouches and 6 drawstring bags. 

Vicki Anceschi also very kindly couriered a car load of our donations to Big Group Hug.  We donated 7 crocheted blankets,  boxes of tote bags, drawstring bags,  soap pouches,  hand knits, baby wraps,  knitted beanies,  soft toys and teddies with custom made jumpers, as well as some bright fabric for their crafty ladies to make into pram covers. 

Thank you all for your generous support. 

Hugs, Jan Mac xx 

 

Lots Of Arrivals This Week.

The Murray Mallee Quilters are great supporters and have sent more fabulous donations with Annette Pearce kindly couriering them for me. Ruth Mitchell donated 4 fabulous quilts as well as 6 beautifully knitted baby's jackets and beanies,. Faye Hender donated 2 quilts a baby's jacket and some baby's toys. 

Joan Rossiter has knitted another 6 lovely warm beanies.  

Kathie Williamson has sent another large parcel containing 6 lovely warm knitted scarves,  a warm jacket,  2 pair of socks and 2 baby's wraps.

Joanna Moreland has sent another 2 large parcels containing 13 lovely quilt tops  as wellas some fabric for backings. 

 Many thanks everyone for your generous support. 

Hugs, Jan Mac xx 

A Relaxing Retreat.

I've just had a fabulous 3 night retreat with my wonderful quilting friend,  Norma, when she invited me to her holiday home in Ocean Grove.  I've been working on a special quilt for my granddaughter,  Sophie, and it was very rewarding to finish preparing all 12 of the blocks.

I played Visoflix "chicken" and managed to get every block finished thankfully as I only had a small piece leftover. The blocks took a lot of work and I managed to fuse all of them so they're now ready for buttonwhole stitching on the machine.

I've used a Red Boot Quilt pattern but have changed it a bit. I made more mice as I thought they were cute, and I'll add a plain border instead of piecing a checkerboard border. 

I'm hoping to fit in the stitching as well as quilting donated tops so this project doesn't stall. 

Hugs, Jan Mac xx  

New Arrivals.

Helen Ayres has sent another large parcel containing these 2 beautifully made quilts as well as 2 knitted baby's jackets,  2 pair of booties and 2 knitted beanies. 

Jill Khong has been busy knitting and sewing and has dropped off custom made jumpers for 17 teddies as well as 33 Santa Sacks and 39 drawstring bags. 

Many thanks everyone for your generous donations. 

Hugs, Jan Mac xx  

This Week's Wrap.

Today Deborah picked up 25 quilts and crocheted blankets for the Alfred Hospital's Palliative Care Units and it was lovely to hear how much they are appreciated by their clients.  Deborah also handed over $70 which was donated by 2 anonymous donors and it will be used to buy more batting. 

This week I only finished 3 of these donated quilt tops as well as knitting a toddler's jumper.

 I'm hoping to be more productive in the coming week. 

Hugs, Jan Mac xx