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At the beginning of 2008 Braidwood Quilters Inc. added to its annual program monthly community quilt workshops which are held in the auditorium of the Braidwood Servicemen’s Club. The first project is to complete twenty five quilts, ten of which will be given to residents of the Braidwood MPS Nursing Home and fifteen will be presented to the residents of the Narbethong Frail Aged Hostel.

Due to the generosity of the Servicemen’s Club, many members of the Braidwood community, textile companies, and local organisations which have donated funds to cover the cost of machine quilting, Braidwood Quilters and friends are well on the way to achieving the goal. The machine quilting sponsors will be named on the quilt labels and photographed with their quilts when completed.

At the time of writing this article, six workshops have been held and more than twenty people have contributed to the process. Not everyone has been an experienced quilter but has been a willing seamstress. Some have been to every workshop, others have helped when they can. It is not too late to join in if you would like to participate.

The workshops will continue on a monthly basis – usually on the first Tuesday of the month. So far seven quilts have been completed and machine quilted. Fifteen quilt tops are at various stages of the process. For some years Braidwood Quilters have supported Dr Margaret Fulton’s Westmead Children’s Hospital Quilts for Keeps program and will continue to do so. At our mid-year country luncheon guests were presented with a boomerang gift which, after making up blocks from the pattern and fabric provided and returned to Braidwood Quilters, will result in four children’s quilts being assembled at the workshops for Westmead.

The workshops have provided a very special experience for everybody and Braidwood Quilters wish to thank June Weatherstone for her guidance and one and all for their help and friendship.

BRAIDWOOD QUILTERS COMMUNITY QUILT WORKSHOPS
By Jill McLeod

MORNING TEA EXHIBITION OF WORKSHOP QUILTS FOR BRAIDWOOD NURSING HOME AND NARBETHONG HOUSE FRAIL AGED HOSTEL

Braidwood Quilters community quilt workshops for 2008 have produced the twenty-five quilts required for the beds of the Braidwood MPS Nursing Home and Narbethong House. A special morning tea exhibition of the quilts was held on Tuesday, October 28, at the Braidwood Servicemen’s Club. Guests from the hospital, the businesses and organisations that generously sponsored the machine quilting, and the Servicemen’s Club which made its auditorium available for the workshops, enjoyed morning tea and a relaxed viewing of the display. Members and friends of Braidwood Quilters continued to assemble quilts which will become a “stock” on which to draw for future requirements.

The following businesses and organisations were acknowledged and thanked for their generous sponsorship of the project and the machine quilting

Braidwood Lions Club
Braidwood Apex Club
Braidwood Country Women’s Association
Bendigo Community Bank
Braidwood Mason’s Lodge of Truth
Braidwood RSL Sub-Branch
Braidwood Garden Club
Braidwood Servicemen’s Club
Braidwood Outdoors

Mary Mathias

Dept of Primary Industries

McLeod Gallery

Braidwood Quilters will continue to hold community quilt workshops in 2009 and BQI Committee members will welcome new members and new friends who might like to join them next year. Braidwood Quilters has committed itself to the making of a quilt for the Department of Community Services from the blocks painted by foster children and will continue the long association members have had with the Quilts for Keeps project at Westmead Children’s Hospital cancer and renal units.

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The Servicemen's Club has been very generous to us over the past year.

We presented a plaque of appreciation to the Club management at the February workshop.

June presenting the Club manager Robby with the plaque

Robby responding on behalf of the Club management

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PRESENTATION OF QUILTS TO BRAIDWOOD NURSING HOME AND NARBETHONG HOUSE FRAIL AGED HOSTEL

Just before Christmas June, Jan and Cecily accompanied by representatives from the Lions Club and Lodge of Truth, (see full list of donors in article below) whose generous donations assisted with the making of the quilts, presented 28 quilts to the residents of the nursing home and the hostel.

All the residents were asked to choose their quilt and much fun and enjoyment ensued as the quilts were sorted through looking for favourite colours and designs. All the residents and staff agreed that the quilts were beautiful and were a fantastic Christmas present that will be really appreciated during the winter months.

BRAIDWOOD QUILTERS VISIT NARBETHONG, VICTORIA

June, Jill, Carol, Jenny and Rhani, ably assisted by co-driver Robert, travelled 800 kms each way to visit the town of Narbethong in the fire ravaged region of Victoria on Sunday and Monday, April 26 and 27. We delivered the results of our Narbethong Project which many Braidwood quilters and friends have worked on since February 7- 100 Bush Spirit bags (containing all the small necessities of life), 30 quilts, 30 fruitcakes and the “Us on Monday” friendship group provided a fabulous morning tea. We met Jo Kasch who is working out of the Black Spur Inn and is the ‘on ground’ co-ordinator for the Narbethong relief effort, together with other women who have been touched by the dreadful fires. There is too much to tell in this space but the trip has been well documented and the full story will be told at a later date.