Another cool square that Stuart stitched.
29 January, 2017
28 January, 2017
More Charity
This one was a theme of Australia. My square is the May Gibbs koalas & ended up as a pillow!
Nice.
Another with a picture of the finished quilt.
27 January, 2017
Charity Stitching
This girl named Courtney got 3 of my squares. Her theme was obviously Angels.
Butterflies was a common theme. This pattern was really effective & pretty in all different colour ways.
26 January, 2017
Thursday Thanks
- Fascinating things to see in our own area.
- Beautiful weather for exploring.
- Beaut weather to enjoy the last weeks of holidays.
- Lovely days not having to rush about anywhere.
- The start of the homegrown summer vegies.
615/1000
Australia Day 2017
We visited caves today that aren't far from home. Quite impressive when you think of a place with all these amazing features 50 meters underground. The boys enjoyed it. So did Stuart & I too actually. Neither of us had been there since we were children so it was quite something to be back now with our own I guess.
25 January, 2017
A Long Time Ago
I used to do a lot of stitching... cross stitch.
I did a lot for myself & family but I did a lot for a couple of different charities that were pretty special at the time. The idea was to stitch a square of a design following a theme that a child (or the family) had chosen. These children were all sick. Most of them terminally. It was great to be a part of. Stuart even stitched a few squares for them at the time. We also had the opportunity to deliver a couple of completed quilts to children from this area which was amazing.
I used to have all my pictures stored online but that place shut down & all my pictures went poof! I have come by one of the organisations again through social media that never existed like this back then. Gee, it would have made a difference back in the early 2000's to have used that to organise something as massive as it turned into.
Anyway, having retrieved a few of my pictures & a few of the finished quilts to go with them with the children that received them, I am going to post the pictures on here for you to see. It was quite something to be a part of back then. Maybe if I do some stitching again a little more down the track I might do a few more again. I still have fabric squares sitting here made to measure. So humour me & put up with an influx of squares over the next few days won't you?
These were the start of my squares. Quite sentimental these ones.
This cool elephant is one that Stuart did. We remember him well. He was quite a special piece.
It's sad that these children were all terminal with this illness Spinal Muscular Atrophy. (SMA) Hopefully this brightened their days a little all those years ago.
I did a lot for myself & family but I did a lot for a couple of different charities that were pretty special at the time. The idea was to stitch a square of a design following a theme that a child (or the family) had chosen. These children were all sick. Most of them terminally. It was great to be a part of. Stuart even stitched a few squares for them at the time. We also had the opportunity to deliver a couple of completed quilts to children from this area which was amazing.
I used to have all my pictures stored online but that place shut down & all my pictures went poof! I have come by one of the organisations again through social media that never existed like this back then. Gee, it would have made a difference back in the early 2000's to have used that to organise something as massive as it turned into.
Anyway, having retrieved a few of my pictures & a few of the finished quilts to go with them with the children that received them, I am going to post the pictures on here for you to see. It was quite something to be a part of back then. Maybe if I do some stitching again a little more down the track I might do a few more again. I still have fabric squares sitting here made to measure. So humour me & put up with an influx of squares over the next few days won't you?
These were the start of my squares. Quite sentimental these ones.
For some reason I did 4 squares for this next girl.
A couple of single squares to go on a couple more. I did enjoy the alphabet one. Not very often a child would pick the alphabet as a theme.
This cool elephant is one that Stuart did. We remember him well. He was quite a special piece.
It's sad that these children were all terminal with this illness Spinal Muscular Atrophy. (SMA) Hopefully this brightened their days a little all those years ago.
22 January, 2017
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