January gathering news...

Well, we had a very busy day yesterday at Sunshine Linus Inc as it was our first gathering for 2013 and we hadn't seen each other for about 6 weeks, there was much chatter and catching up.

We welcomed a number of new members to the group and we hope that our newbies enjoyed their day with us.  It was hot, hot, hot, and luckily we have the use of this wonderful facility and it's ceiling fans!

We had a huge pile of goodies that had been made by our regular quilters as well as others who don't attend our meetings, yet are busy making goodies for us to distribute. 

To the right of this column you'll see a link "What we make and where it goes".  This link is updated after every gathering with a listing of the goods that we have donated in that month.  Please click on that to see just how much we put out each month.  It even surprises us!

Here's some photos of yesterdays gathering -

Margaret made this beautiful Jewel Box quilt.  Aren't the colours gorgeous?



This quilt is a "Mile and Minute" quilt, very colourful

Joy made this beautiful quilt, which was donated along with one other to two children who lost everything in the Tasmanian Bushfires recently.

 

We loved this quilt from Rosemary, who used the Foundation Piecing method.

 

These two are great examples of boys quilts, which we always are in need of.



 

Bright and Bubbly, perfect for a child.
 

We are pleased to announce that 2013 will see our first "Sunshine Linus Inc Quilt Open Day" to be held on Saturday 31st August at the Nambour Uniting Church, Nambour.  We are very excited about being able to showcase what we do and meet people from our local community.  So, please claim this date on your diary and we'll keep you informed of more details as they come to hand.





 

Support for Sunshine Linus Inc most appreciated

Sunshine Linus Inc has a large group of members who actively attend meetings and contribute enormously to our output of quilts and comforts for people in need on the Sunshine Coast.

We also have a large group of supporters who help Sunshine Linus in different ways to achieve our mission. 

One such supporter is Diane Farrugia, who has a Machine Quilting Business in Brisbane.  Her business is called Diane's Quilting Quest.  Diane made contact with us during 2012 and has offered her services to Sunshine Linus free of charge.  It is incredible to receive this kind of support and we are so grateful to Diane for thinking of us. 

Sometimes we have quilt tops that are just too big for our quilters to machine quilt on a domestic sewing machine and that's where Diane comes in.  Her work is very professional and we can recommend her work to any quilters who are looking for exceptional workmanship, a reasonable turnaround time and a very reasonable price.

Here's a link to Diane's website where you can find out her contact details and lots more:  www.quiltingquest.com.au
 

Cycle for Girls 2013

On the 1st of March, 2013, one of our intrepid quilters Maureen Markwell is leaving her sewing room,  putting her bike shoes on and cycling 400 km from Vietnam to Cambodia to support a global social movement for positive and sustainable change in the lives of girls. 

Girls in developing countries are among the most disadvantaged people on the planet.  Education is one of the strongest tools for embowering girls to lift themselves and their families out of poverty.

The Cycle for Girls 2013 mission is basically: Educated girls will become smart women and productive adults.

Sunshine Linus supports Maureen and her colleagues in her fund-raising endeavours and wishes Maureen every success.  If you'd like to support Maureen, here's a link to the Plan donation page.
http://fundraise.plan.org.au/hero_pages/view_posts/maureen_markwell

December Gathering - A Celebration.

Just can't believe it's the end of another year.  We've been so busy with our heads down during 2012, we didn't notice the months zooming past.  We downed tools for our December gathering and enjoyed each other's company over a christmas lunch. 

We did do a little work though.  Throughout the year we receive donated fabrics from lots of quilters and people who see that we can use their unwanted fabrics and we're so grateful for their generosity.  We certainly couldn't do the amount of quilts that we do without people's generosity.

The ladies decided that it was time to sort through our boxes of fabrics and get things neat in readiness to hit the ground running in 2013.  So we had a working bee, folding, sorting, tidying.  The busy bees had everything looking neat and tidy just after morning tea.  Well done ladies!

We were treated little show and tell too. Barb bought a quilt she has just completed and we were completely blown away with this very lovely quilt.  As always with show and tell, some of us now want to make this quilt (in our copious spare time!!).






Barb and her beautiful creation

Our Christmas lunch was delightful.  We moved all the tables to the middle of our huge room and dined together, like one big family.

 Afterward, we mused on the year that has been and our plans for 2013.  I can't divulge too much here, but keep a watch on this space for an exciting event mid year.

Our Sunshine Linus is a fabulous group of generous, giving women, some who attend every gathering and others who are unable to attend, yet contribute crafted items for us.  All of these wonderful crafters have the same objective -

To provide quilts and other comforts to people in need on the Sunshine Coast. 

This is our Mission Statement, pure and simple.  On behalf of the Sunshine Linus committe and members, I'd like to wish all our followers and donors, readers, members and clients a very happy Christmas and all the best for 2013. 

- Judie Bellingham (President).



 



November AGM

Our meeting today started with the very important business of our first AGM since Incorporation.
I'm pleased to be able to report that all positions have been filled as follows:
President, Judie Bellingham; Vice President, Ann Wells; Treasurer, Barb Newman; and Secretary, Cynthia Gray.  You might notice there's not too much change there, but we sincerely thank outgoing Treasurer Yvonne, for the fantastic job that she has done for the past two years, and welcome Barb to the executive team.

We had 30 ladies in attendance today, and all have obviously been very busily sewing and knitting during the last month.

42 of these delightful dollies came our way from a donor who loves to knit.
 

Wendy has been on overdrive with a Pinocchio sensory wall hanging - he even has a nose that grows!
 

This fabulous large quilt was sent to us by Rhonda Williams.

 

A generous quilter from Woombye popped in and left seven quilts without giving her name; these are just two of them.

 

This quilt has been made with indigenous kids in care in mind.

 

And there's lots more.

 

 

 

 

 

 

We distributed 42 knitted toys and 3 children's jumpers, some slipper socks and toiletries to Lions Emergency Accommodation Centre;  66 xray bags to Premion; 35 quilts and 8 carry bags to Gifts for Kids in Care; and 6 oncology hats, 1 crocheted blanket and 4 baby jackets to Nambour General Hospital.

 

The date for our January gathering is a bit up in the air at the moment, due to it falling on a long weekend Monday, but we hope to have something sorted out to tell you by the party day, Monday 10th December.