Snuggle up for sick kids

QUILTERS are assembling for their annual show this month in Coldstream, aiming to display their work, raise money and deliver quilts to sick children.
The Patchwork Collection Friendship Group’s annual quilt show will be held from Saturday 15 to Sunday 16 March at Wallace’s Garden at 7 Maddens Lane, Coldstream.
The show, which has been held since 2009, aims to raise money for dedicated quilters to make quilts for patients at the Royal Children’s Hospital.
Event organiser Bev Busiko said the group behind the show had formed in 2007 to make quilts for very sick children through the Victorian Quilters Snuggly Quilts project.
She said that she hoped the community would come out to support the cause.
“There are lovely quilts on display and some for sale,” she said.
“You can come and look at the quality of the donators’ quilts.”
The friendship group had come together through classes at a Healesville patchwork shop and, after the 2009 bushfires, co-ordinated donations of about 6000 quilts to fire-affected communities.
Other attractions at the quilt show include a cash-only trading table offering discounted fabrics, a raffle, special quilts on display and Devonshire teas made with local jams.
Admission to the quilt show is $5, with doors open from 10am-4pm at the Coldstream gardens.
For more information ring Pat on 0418 993 428 or Anne on 5962 4792.