QOTW 22 March

The tally so far-

 20 quilts this week and 28 laundry bags.

280 quilts and 650 laundry bags for 2013

1281 quilts and 2015 laundry bags in total.

Woo Hoo  - finally notched up 2000 laundry bags!

These first three quilts were made by Annette, Lynn V and Carol Mc.  Annette and Carol both live in QLD.  Carol is Annette's friend and mentor and together they are making the quilt tops using a stash of donated fabrics.  Lynn is one of Annette's sisters and she has a longarm quilting business in VIC and Lynn quilted two of the quilts and donated the third!  Don't you wish you had a sister with a long arm quilting business and a friend with a stash of donated fabrics.  Lucky Annette!

Now talk about a coincidence.  I gave Annette a name to send a quilt to - let's call her A.  After she had posted A's quilt Annette sent me the following messages - 

I found out that A is the sister of a girlfriend of mine..   how amazing is that.  I didn't say who I was posting too, the friend said she had requested a quilt for her sister and wouldn't it be funny if she ended up with one of mine…   I asked her her sisters name.  There can't be that many A's over there…  or heading over there very soon….    lol..

Fran W

Joan

These next two quilt tops were made by Kylie, sent to Diane for quilting and then bound by Kylie.

Leanne Mac is back with four awesome quilts.

Leone is a new AH Friend and debuted with this awesome quilt.

Rita M is back with another footy themed quilt

Su completed this striking quilt and laundry bag.

More laundry bags from Sue N 

Another combined effort - top by Louise, quilted by Nancy, bound by Sharon and Southen Cross added by yours truly!

Melissa and the the Do Your Block for a Cause page completed this quilt top and it was ably quilted by Diane, bound by Angela and sent on its way. 

Liz J

Michele

Rita M

Rita C 

Linda

Fran T has outdone herself with a reversible quilt - Hawthorn on one side  

and the Manly Sea Eagles on the other!

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

Quilts of the Week 1 March

The tally so far-

 31 quilts this week and 77 laundry bags.

234 quilts and 522 laundry bags for 2013

1235 quilts and 1887 laundry bags in total

Another great week everyone! Some fabulous quilts and laundry bags heading off.  Before the parade of lovelies for this week a couple of quilt announcements.

Just a few notices before the show and tell.

I am still looking for people to quilt for us.  I receive a large number of quilt tops each week and it would be great if I could share the load of quilting among a few more quilters, preferably in Sydney as it is too expensive to pay the cost of postage plus batting for too many quilts.  If you know of any quilters in Sydney either let me know or ask them if they would be interested in getting involved in a good cause.  Bear in mind though that most quilters already donate their efforts to one cause or another so go gently.

The Penrith Sewing Day is coming up again.  Sunday 17th 

March at Penrith Patchwork.  10am to 2pm.  BYO lunch, 

snacks and sewing machine.  Coffee mug not a bad idea 

either.  I will provide all materials for the laundry bags we will

be sewing.

And now to view the goodies.

Angela

There is a tutorial for this awesome star - you can find it here?

Carol

This little fellow was particularly impressed with this quilt.

Caroline

 Cheryl

 Christine C (WA)

Dasha

 DeEmEss

This is Donna's signature and she is a newbie to AHQ but a very welcome one don't you think?

Donna 

( this is the same Donna who has been with us for a while hence the need to use DeEmEss for our newbie)

 Evelyn

 Janie

Jan-Maree (that would be me)

Judy C

 Jenny and Gale, two AHQ newbies, surprised me with three quilts!

 Karen B

 Linda

Liz j

 Kaye completed the second quilt made by the children of the Bethany Catholic School in Werribee.

 Liz B

You have to read the fine print on this one!

 Liz

Maddy

 Tess (NSW)

 Pauline

 Miriam created this quilt top and I have just sent it off to a chaplain who is going to deliver it to a fellow who was seriously wounded and missed out on one of our Wounded Warrior Quilts because of the route he took to come home.  Our precious wounded heroes need looking after in particular so I am so glad to have found out about him.

 Gayl L is new to us and created this gorgeous quilt.

 Stephanie

Just had to show you the pigs in this quilt - gone to a 7RAR fellow of course

The next bunch are all quilted by Nancy from tops either pieced by her and her helpers or donated to her.

And as they say in the movies

That's all folks!

till next week anyway!

except for a quick lovely thank you for a quilt that Nancy sent off.

My husband received a lovely quilt yesterday. Thank you so very much! He said it was 

such an incredible gesture and he loves it. He took a photo but hasn't sent it to me yet 

but I will forward it once he does. Thank you again for your incredible support for our

 soldiers in Afghanistan

New Block of the Month coming up on Sunday!  

We will be doing something a little different!

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