September 10th. Twenty rugs from Mill Park, Vic.

Sue N who lives in Mill Park, an outer suburb of Melbourne - is one very generous lady!  She has made 4 quilts and 16 bunnyrug style wraps for our PNG babies!  Rather than photograph them all individually, I simply piled them on the floor to take one picture.  That does not make them any less appreciated than others that I have photographed individually!   Sue also gave me a huge bag full of fabrics cut into pieces ready to make up into more quilts.   I have thanked her in person of course, but want to acknowledge her kindness here as well - many thanks again, dear Sue - hope to catch up with you again soon!

When I collected these from Sue, we dropped into Savers, where I found two gorgeous little baby quilts for $3.99 each, so I snapped them up to give to Yaso :-)

September 3. Quilt from Sue W. in NSW.

A second cosy warm quilt from Sue.   What a great way to use your scraps!  How easy it is to make quilts from your stash scraps by simply joining them together, cutting them into neat lengths, separating the coloured lengths with sashing, and finished off with the wadding and backing, or simply a warm flannelette backing!

August 31. Ten bunny rugs from Jane L. in Leongatha, Vic.

On Sunday, Jane from Leongatha in rural Victoria, delivered ten bunny rugs to me for the PNG babies.  She'd made them all from flannelette - lovely and cosy for wrapping babies up on cool nights!

August 12. Two quilts by Gina.

I've used a different technique with this quilt - the 'envelope technique', so it doesn't need binding.  All I have to do is quilt it, and sew the last side up.  I love that fish fabric; it was an offcut from somewhere, maybe the opshop,  I can't remember.  But I knew I'd find a use for it one day!

August 5. One quilt from Sue W in NSW.

This lovely quilt arrived today from Sue W. in NSW, who emailed me to say she is not an expert quilter.  Hey!  Did I say I only wanted expert quilters to donate??  No - this is for anyone who is kind enough to use up some of their stash for a good cause!  I think Sue's quilt is just as charming as all the others that have been donated so far.

Update, 1st August.

I have been emailing photos to Yaso every time I receive a donation of quilts, and today I received an email from her, part of which I am reproducing here so you can all see how much your work is appreciated:

The quilts encourage me constantly to carry with my work.  I am organizing to have the quilts and other things transported to PNG  end of year. This will work with me going there Jan 2014. The tribe is already so thrilled with knowing about the response to your quilts call. They are so overcome that so many people care and you are coordinating all this because of your own enormous care for them.  

So, thank you all again for your donations.  I know of many more that are on the way here, so by January, Yaso will have a veritable shipload!!

July 31. Five quilts from Madeline in Toowoomba, Qld.