29th May 2011

Greetings all,

Having had a extra little time showed how so many articles have been made and donated, thank you to all the girls that have spent so much time donating the many things. Well done :-)  :-)


Our AGM meeting will be held in December as to make the audit from January to December. Thank you to Yvonne for all your work and expertise in looking after the money side of Sunshine Linus.


At the meeting everyone shared the items made:


Bev's DH  (dear husband) Rowan has offered to pay next year's Public Liability costs. A very big thank you for your offer.


The weighted blankets were greatly received.


A.E.I.O.U. via the Local University is interested in our venture. Sue Eagle has a contact there.


10,000th QUILT was donated to a Brisbane lad. Jake's sister and Mum were given a quilt as well.

Judie was invited to speak and also be on a panel lead by Robyn Franks at an Ideas festival.
The podcast of the ideas Festival has been posted on the web.
 I can only just hear it, maybe you will be able to hear it.

http://www.youtube.com/user/statelibraryqld#p/search/1/FPBJ4EZQdeM

A journalist from the Buderim Newspaper has offered a 2 page spread about Sunshine Linus.
Janine Hills will be contacted to invite her to visit Sunshine Linus on one of our Monday gatherings.

Judie has designed a flyer a flyer " Providing quilts and other comforts to those in need on the Sunshine Coast, Qld." Thank you Judie it does look great. 
We can all print off and use wherever the need arises. Judie sent a group email and the flyer as an attachment.

Thank you to Thelma who took the donated Janome sewing machine to the Sewing Machine Doctor at Forest Glen.
He serviced the machine and added a SafetyTag.

What a good result, the machine is now in good condition and the BEST part he donated the service to Sunshine Linus.

If you need a machine serviced just take the machine to Penny at Patchwork Angel at Forest Glen and he will pick from there and return it to Penny.
I am not too sure, the cost of a  basic  general service cost is approximately $120  His name is Stephen. 

The fete that Judie is affiliated with is on the 8th July 2011 at
St Matthews at Sherwood in Brisbane. Any donations are greatfully received. 

Sue Eagle is as ever busy making things for Linus include Box zip bags, quilts, a lovely baby quilt.
Sue had a call from Howards selling his fabrics.

Sharron, for the month made 12 xray bags. Leeanne from Oncology has a request for little bags to put the Wheat packs in. A good size is 12 inches by 18 fold in an 1inch at the top for a drawstring.

Sharron uses caps in theatre and will bring one in to show us and some of us will make them for Nambour Hospital Theatre.


Tony made his way into the Monday gathering with more quilts from his wife Lee. I think he enjoys the little bit of stirring he gets when he enters. Thanks to Lee and Tony.

Clever Ann made seven bags, seven hats a quilt with seven inch blocks and a pinwheel quilt.

Judie has a friend who has donated $50.00 to Sunshine Linus. Very greatful for the donation.

Thelma continues to make lots of bindings for the completed quilts then some of the ladies sew the binding on to the quilt, then others sew the labels on the back.

Barb always has some spectular quilts to donate.
During the last month barb had a nasty sewing machine (maybe because she is such an over achiever) her machine died from old age and over use.
Come in Janome that was donated.

A quilt made of Liberty fabrics will be raffled and the funds will go to Breast Cancer.

Barb has a constant craving for Liberty fabrics. If anyone has some Liberty fabrics Barb will use them well.


For every item made there is a label added to the back. This is a very big job and I send them a big thank you. They work very well together at the Monday gathering. It is a big job and it gets done so
quickly.

Bev made a quilt as you go quilt and then quilted it. A friend Jill sewed the bindings onto the quilt.

Not too sure who made the Angel quilt. This will make a little girl very happy.Judy ???







Margaret helped Bev make a trip around the world quilt.

Pat made many premmie beanies, obviously needed in this cold spell of winter.

Judy made some premmie beanies.

Carolynne (?) sorry not sure, made flannelette boys big quilts and more box bags, and strip quilts.

Judy made some lovely place mats for nursing homes, some premmie blankets and a beautiful little girl bag, and some more bags.

I have finished some Touchy Feely quilts.
My daughter has connections with some of the nursing homes so we will visit the Beachwood Care Services at Kawana and will donate some of the touchy feely quilts to their dementia people, who will  enjoy them.
Lots of laces, ribbons and different textures are sewn onto them will help in their times of sitting.

Our next gathering will be on Monday the 27th June 2011 from 9.30am to approx 2.00pm.
Can you please bring old sheets to put under the tables as it saves vacuuming the large area. Thanks.

Until next we meet happy sewing and quilting, BFN   Lorraine H 

Here is some eye candy to show the many talents of the group.

One of the bundles of    quilts completed.

April meeting moves forward a couple of weeks.

I do hope you all had a very restful and enjoyable Easter.  We did miss those who could not make it.

Judie bought some quilts for distribution.

Cheryl told the group about a lady who lives in America by the name of Temple Grandin, a lady who has Autism en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Grandin she also has Phd's in Animal husbandry found some types of animals displayed similar behaviours of that of children with Autism.
Needless to say the "weighted blankets" are greatly needed.
I counted 9 weighted blankets completed ready to be given to the appropriate children / adults who will benefit from them.
You might like to look up her website I have listed. I am sure you will understand a little more about Autism. I have done studies about this lady and found her to be inspirational, yet she has many of the Autism traits. Enjoy!

Bev taught Jill how to make the weighted blanket, Well Done and thank you, Bev


Chris Potter who represents The Foster Children of the Sunshine/Gympie districts has a group known as "GIFT"  accepted 44 zipper bags made by the Sunshine Linus ladies for their EASTER APPEAL.
With toiletries added the girls and boys will be grateful to receive them.
Here are just a few of them ready to be added with the others.

While Chris was there on the 18th Linus S.C set a target to aim for.

The number of quilts targeted for donation has been set at 100 for the year. A good  size is 40" x 60"

Theme quilts are great and brightly coloured quilts are also well received.

Kate , Janice & Lorraine had some finished Touchy Feely Quilts for Visually impaired and Alzheimer's suffers.

They are very touchy and feely.

Thelma bought some things Liz Kerr gave her. All items are greatly received.Thelma achieved her 1st quilt for Linus.  By the way Thelma has made hundreds of quilt bindings which is certainly a big effort.

Lifeline are keen to take any fabrics that we cannot use after many culling sessions. They use any donations.

Coolum quilters are having a show at the Baptist Church, David Low Way sometime in May. 14th May was mentioned but someone could let me know I will add a blog message.

At the last gathering we had ready for distribution:

47 X Ray bags

  3 Touchy Feely quilts

 29 Blankets of Love

   9 Weighted blankets

 21 Girls quilts

 14 boys quilts

That is a wonderful effort from all the ladies from Sunshine Coast Linus

Our next gathering will be on at Nambour Uniting church on 30th May at 9.30

Hope you all had a pleasant Mother's Day.

Til next meeting I wish you happy days of quilting.

BFN  Lorraine H

Photographs from the 28th Feb 2011 gathering.

A lovely embroidered blanket which was donated with just the duck made. The donation included the blanket binding.

This quilt is ready to be sandwiched and quilted for completion.

A "Touchy Feely" quilt completed. These quilts are for visually impared children and Alzheimer's patients in Nursing homes.

These ladies are cutting and preparing kits for the "Touchy Feely" quilts.

This quilt is a "Mile a Minute"  quilt for obvious reasons. It is made using many strips.

Zippered bags for many things. The blue bag is the sample that Sue took us through an impromptu demonstration.

These bags will be used for Foster children to carry their personal things,eg tooth brush and toothpaste.

Many of the members will be keen to make these as gifts as well.

I would like to thank Bev for supplying the photos.

Enjoy the quilts etc.

BFN. happy stitching,  Lorraine H

February 28th 2011 gathering.

We had a wonderful day at Sunshine Linus. We welcomed three newbies to our nest and made them feel right at home.

SHOW AND TELL

As usual the work continues to be amazing with so many comforts made for the needy up and down the Sunshine Coast.
There was quilts, weighted blankets, blankets of love and x-ray bags delivered to our group, which had been made by our group members.
We had a wonderful donation of fabric from Julie at NIMBLE STITCHES which is located in Burnett Street, BUDERIM. Thank you so much julie for your generousity, it is very much appreciated. The fabrics will go into quilts for children.

Ann told us that the x-ray bags she delivered to Premion were greatly received, and a phonecall of thanks was also received from this private Oncology service on the coast.

We had some great news from Chris, our Foster Parents contact - the department has approved the making of " comfort bags" for our little foster kids, so it is full steam ahead.

Sue gave the group an impromtu workshop on making these " Roly-Nesters ", and we will be getting busy  make as many as we can for Chris's organisation.

Marilyn got a few members together and they worked their little fingers off and made 18 kits containing all that is needed for the " Touchy Feely " quilts that we are making for the not only visually imaired, bu for those sffering Alzheimer's and Senile Dementia on the coast. These quilts are quite easy to make.
They are simply a square of fabric, which has lots of feely touchy items sewn on to raise the sence of touch for those that use them.
In Alzheimer's patients patients, sometimes the sence of touch is the one that works best, and these quilts offer comfort and a calming effect.
So now will will be busy making as many as possible to offer to nursing homes.

All in all we had a very busy day, and although it was very hot, the overhead fans kept us pretty cool.
We are very greatful to the Uniting Church of Nambour for allowing us to use their hall as our home.

Just a reminder to our members, to make something special for the fete that will be held at the Church soon.
We would like the items delivered to the church at our next gathering which will be 28th March.

We have our April gathering coinciding with the Anzac Day holiday, so we have moved just the April gathering to the 18th April, one week before the usual last Monday of the month.

I will add lots of photos (thank you Bev) in my next blog later today.

I would like to personally thank each member who do such great things to make Sunshine Linus Group
what it is today, and the group is less than a year old. Well done.

BFN and happy stitching,  Lorraine H

13th December 2010

HO, HO, HO,  
Christmas Greetings to everyone at Linus Sunshine Coast,

We had a great time at Linus on Monday.

Chris Potter from the Foster Children in Care on the Sunshine Coast came to our meeting and it was with much happiness that Sunshine Linus was able to give her 60 quilts to be given to foster children throughout the district. Chris told us that the department has up to 500 foster children on their books most of the time.  The group would like to continue in providing quilts and other needed things for the young in need for the future.

Some of the quilts going to Foster children.
There have been well over 100 quilts made and distributed since Linus Sunshine Coast started in June. The quilts have been given to Nambour Hospital, Foster Kids on the Coast, Many tens of knitted beanies and preemie hats, knee rugs, sitting mats for children at Kuluin school, Blankets of Love for stillborn babies, breast pump bags, and breast drainage bags for the needed people.

Chris kneeling in frontof Lorraine H

Maureen has designed some very handy little toiletry bags that we would like make and to donate to the Foster children via Chris Potter.

Maureen's little bags that will be made for toiletry bags for the foster children.

Some xray bags have been made to go to the Wesley Breast Clinic.  The fabric that has been used was donated. It is a cotton flock lined material. The size of these are 19"  x 16" These simple bags have either short or long handles/straps.

Sharron making the handles for the xray bags.

Thanks go to Leigh and her husband who have donated and fitted up a cupboard for all the quilting needs, resources and notions, eg ironing boards, irons, the rolls of wadding plus many other items. It is lockable and the church is happy for us to use the corner.

I would like to thank the church members and everyone involved at the Uniting church at Nambour for allowing us to use the great space any time. It is such a valuable place for us to be able to use as the hall is quite large and allows us to utilize the area very well.

I would like to personally thank Judie for her amazing energy and positive actions put into Linus here on the Coast and in Brisbane. Judie drives up from Brisbane every month.

Judie and Chris

I would also like to thank Sue Eagan for all the behind the scenes work she puts into every months gathering as well.

I would like to say "well done" to everyone for the great effort put into all the quilts and knitted items that are completed every month. What a wonderful team effort made by everyone.

We listen to ideas that are put forward.

We will meet again on the last Monday of the month. Next meeting will be held on 31st January 2011 at the Uniting Church in Nambour on the main road heading north of the shopping centre.

Lastly, I wish everyone great happiness for the festive season and be well rested in the new year.

BFN  Lorraine Hartley