Quilts to Westmead Children's Hospital

Yesterday we delivered 15 quilts to Westmead Children's Hospital, these quilts were made by numerous members of the Southern Cross Quilters (my online friends) the quilts will be given to teenage boys over the next few weeks.

The Story behind these Quilts...
Before the SCQuilters Retreat in Sydney last March we called for donations of 8 inch blocks... Black & White with a Touch of Colour suitable for a teenage boy... a prize was given for the best block. More than 300 blocks arrived so I sorted them into themes such as 9 patch, stars, pinwheels or novelty and 13 SCQuilters took a bundle each to turn into Quilt Tops. Machine Quilters were then called for and they volunteered from all over Sydney, Canberra, as far North as Hervy Bay in Queensland, South to Melbourne in Victoria and West to Orange in NSW. When the quilts came back to me several Sydney SCQuilters helped me bind and label them. Then out of the blue two Quilters donated fully finished quilts which made our total donation 15.

The first photo is of the pile of finished quilts and the second is of Lyn, Michelle and myself being taken on a tour of the Hospital... here we are in the kitchens.