QOTW 29 March

If you are fortunate enough to be with your nearest and dearest this Easter Holiday then may your weekend be safe and happy and full of joy.  Please spare a thought for our wonderful Heroes and their families that cannot be together, and that includes not just those serving overseas, but the many around Australia who are posted away from their families as well.

To those of you in Afghanistan, Dubai, South Sudan, Egypt and anywhere else that our quilts and laundry bags find you serving Australia, thank you for doing what you do so well so that we may celebrate Easter, or not celebrate it, as our own individual preference dictates.  
You make us proud!

The tally so far-

 17 quilts this week and 49 laundry bags.

297 quilts and 671 laundry bags for 2013

1314 quilts and 2036 laundry bags in total.

The first picture isn't of a Quilt of the Week yet.  Earlier this week I received an email from Miah who is a ten year old student from South Australia.  Miah wrote to me to tell me that after reading the article in the Australian Patchwork and Quilting Magazine, she decided that she wants to make a quilt for Aussie Heroes as a community service project  for school.  As soon as she got the quilt specifics from me Miah sat down and drew up her design.  It is going to be one lucky recipient who receives her original Ayre Rock design and I reckon we have some serious competition ladies with young designers like Miah coming up with such creative designs!  Stay tuned!  I have asked Miah and her mother to keep me posted and to take plenty of photos so that I can feature her in an upcoming post.

Happy stitching Miah!

And now on with Quilts of the Week.

Caroline

This was a joint effort.  Pauline made all these blocks and sent them in.  They were put together at a sewing day and Caroline then quilted and completed the quilt.  The end result is an AWESOME quilt heading off to an Essendon fan.  Hope he likes it.

Bev and Jeff

Carole S (VIC)

Cath

Deb B

Outback Debra

and the back - and yes, this is going to a Navy fellow.

Dorothy sent in these blocks and they were sent on to Jeann who created this gorgeous quilt

Another joint effort.   The blocks were made by Kylie, they were then handed to Gail who pieced the top and then the quilt was sent to Angela who quilted and bound it and sent if off.  We really do make a good team ladies!

Judith M

This quilt top came from Nancy, it was quilted by Stephanie and Southern Cross added by me.

Joan

Judith R

Margaret

Julie Ann

Liz

Louise (front)

(And back, or the other way round - can't decide!)

The next two are BOM quilts.  That is Block of the Month quilts for the uninitiated.  The blocks were put together by Louise, then the tops were passed on to Stephanie who quilted and bound them.

Stephanie wasn't content to quilt, she also made this entire awesome quilt.

If you are on the roads this weekend, please stay safe!

Till next time...........keep spreading the word and happy stitching!

QOTW 12 October

622 Quilts 687 Laundry Bags to date!

Grab a cuppa, grab a snack, and get comfy!

I managed to finish a quilt for a change with the help of Carol (Turramurra Twin fame) who quilted it for me and Del who hand stitched the binding and Narelle who donated all the green strips in the chinese coin panels.

Obviously this is for a garden lover.

Deborah sent the first three of these quilts off a couple of weeks ago and I missed putting them on the blog.  Thank goodness she reminded me.  Please don't hesitate to job my memory if you  have sent a quilt off and haven't seen it on the blog.

More of Deborah's made it in the mail  this week.

Julie Ann dispatched this great brick quilt and 

a double sided laundry bag.

 Back and Front

 Karen B sent off another batch of laundry bags.

We had a request to send a laundry bag to a fellow who is in a position where he rarely sees Aussie Care Packages.  He spied his mate's Eagles Laundry Bag and naturally asked his mate to hand it over.  Again, naturally, his mate said "no way" but being a good mate, he asked very politely if Marg would make one more.  Well, let me tell you - MARG is a CLASS 1 softie but this is the VERY LAST, THE FINAL, THE NEVER TO BE MADE AGAIN  Eagles laundry bag.  

As this fellow is so isolated and obviously in need of a little Aussie love Liz also sent him a quilt.  I think this one will go down a treat!

 Liz is about to head off on a driving holiday for several weeks and reckons she hasn't got time for a holiday from Aussie Heroes but I know she will come back ready to sew! In the mean time she has managed to squeeze one more quilt into her schedule and sent this one and the coordinating laundry bag off as well.

Liz had to force herself to stop sewing quilts in order to get ready for the trip but she had managed to sew some laundry bags and this one went off this week as well.

Melissa  also made some laundry bags this week.  These ones are for the Navy but I have to laugh!  Army and Navy people often refer to the RAAFies as "Crabs"!  There are various reasons why, none of them polite.  These bags are destined for Navy personnel luckily!

  Stephanie had been busy scrap busting!

Gail has also been working with scraps - just love scrap quilts!

Jennifer B has just completed her first Aussie Hero Quilt and laundry bag.  It is not hard to tell that she is a professional quilter!  Gorgeous!

 Tarissa and the ladies from the RAAF Williamtown Craft Group have made a batch of laundry bags to send off.

Jacqui has completed a lovely quilt and I really like the different coloured sashing!  I am going to have to try and remember to do that myself!

Deb B made this gorgeous bright quilt - the colours just seem to say Aussie Outback to me.

She has teamed it with a fabulous laundry bag too but I can't show it to you as the recipient might guess it is for him and we don;t want to spoil the surprise.  Some I know aren't watching - others I am not so sure!

Joanne has also completed her first couple of Aussie Hero quilts, complete with coordinating laundry bags.  Isn't it great to see first timers joining in!

Carolynne D sent off this laundry bag and quilt a couple of weeks ago when I was away for a few days and somehow it slipped though the net so here they are tonight.  
Thankfully Carolynne reminded me about them!

Hillary has also been busy and this week she has boosted our numbers by a whopping six quilts and laundry bags!  WOW!
I have to say that I have a thing for pink and green so this quilt is my favourite from Hilary's selection.  In fact when I joined the RAAF I packed a pink and green floral doona cover into my suitcase (this was before I had discovered quilts) to brighten my room.

Nancy is bringing up the rear in tonight's post with 13 quilts!  These are some that she and her band of workers in WA have put together and also some tops that I have sent her for completion.  Forgive me if I don't give credit to those who made the tops - it is too hard for me to keep track of all of them - feel free to email me if you see your work and I will edit the post.

WOWO!!!  What a huge number of quilts and laundry bags!  And all of them different and striking in their own ways.

Till next time........keep spreading the word and happy stitching!