The next QFO working bee is on Tuesday from 10am until 2.30pm. BYO lunch. You can help out in many ways. Turn these green scraps into a quilt top: Turn these purple scraps into strip pieced quilt-as-you-go blocks: Help with pin-basting a quilt ready for quilting: Or put together donated blocks into a quilt:
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QFO Working Bee – 11 Feb
The first Quilts for Others working bee is on this Tuesday, 11 February, from 10am until 2.30pm. Come along and help make quilts for charity. You can pin baste the layers, hand sew some labels, cut strips – there is a job for everyone. QFO has an additional project this year to make 40 quilts for… Continue reading QFO Working Bee – 11 Feb
Quilts for Common Ground
Quilts For Others (QFO) is the Canberra Quilters arm that makes quilts for donation to various local charities- this year approximately 250 have been distributed. Periodically we get requests for a specific project and a separate effort is made, over and above what is usually done. About two years ago QFO received a request for… Continue reading Quilts for Common Ground
QFO Christmas Working Bee on the 10 December from 10am to 2.30pm
All our volunteers are welcome to attend a Christmas morning tea. Just bring yourself, we will provide morning tea. We will also have a small amount of fabric available for sale. The donors of this fabric are happy for it to be sold, and the money to be used for batting for our projects. Looking… Continue reading QFO Christmas Working Bee on the 10 December from 10am to 2.30pm
Quilts for Others – 12 November
Quilts for Others (QFO) working bee is the second activity of the week in the traditionally busy 2nd week of the month. (The first is evening drop-in on Monday night.) It is on from 10am until 2.30pm. Come along and help pin quilts, cut, sew blocks, hand finish. There are lots of activities you can… Continue reading Quilts for Others – 12 November
QFO Working bee- 8 Oct
Quilts for Others are having their next working bee on 8 October from 10 am until 2.30 pm. Come along to help make quilts for charity – morning and afternoon tea provided, BYO lunch. Here are some of our members in action at the recent exhibition: Brenda is explaining free-motion quilting Donna is piecing blocks… Continue reading QFO Working bee- 8 Oct
QFO extra working bee on Saturday 29 June
Quilts For Others have scheduled an extra working bee for Saturday 29 June from 10am until 2.30pm. If you can’t make the usual weekday bee why not come along and help out this Saturday.Here are some images of a recent get together so you can see what everyone gets up to: Quilt has been pin-basted,… Continue reading QFO extra working bee on Saturday 29 June
Quilts for Others working bee – Tuesday 14 May
The next QFO working bee is on Tuesday, 14 May, from 10 am until 2.30 pm. QFO gave 300 quilts to local charities in 2012.Come along and help put together quilts – sewing blocks, cutting kits, pinning quilts ready for quilting, doing some quilting or binding and labelling. There are jobs for everyone.Morning and afternoon… Continue reading Quilts for Others working bee – Tuesday 14 May
Quilts for Coonabarabran on their way
Yesterday, member Anne Arnold set off to Coonabarabran with the 52 quilts made for people who lost everything in the recent bushfires. Canberra Quilters members contributed some of these quilts and others came from various sources. The Thursday Friendship Group at Addicted to Fabric was involved in this. Addicted to Fabric is one of our sponsors… Continue reading Quilts for Coonabarabran on their way
Next QFO working bee – 9 April
Are you ready for the next Quilts For Others working bee? It is on 9 April from 10.00 am until 2.30 pm. Come along and make quilts for charity- there are many ways you can help.You could help with pin basting quilt layers together ready for someone to take for quilting. You could quilt a… Continue reading Next QFO working bee – 9 April