Those of you following along for a while know that each year we run a Christmas Quilt drive. The drive enables us to gift each baby in a Neonatal Unit bed on Christmas Day, a beautiful hand made gift, along with a sentimental ‘Baby’s 1st Christmas’ ornament which have been generously made and donated by Foote & Flame every year since our inception.
Most years we have accepted a mix of rectangular quilts and Christmas stockings. Following extensive discussions with our hospital network, this years project with be Christmas Stockings. Our goal number is 300 stockings. Any stockings in excess of this are distributed to maternity wards and then paediatrics at the hospitals we work with.
The Christmas Stocking pattern can be found at Diary of a Quilter, and it’s with thanks to Amy Smart for allowing us to share with our network. Pattern and Instructions Link.
The cut off date to get your stockings to us is Friday 18 November. This allows us enough time to collate and distribute all over the state. Some parcels are posted to our regional hospitals so we need to work with Australia Post Christmas posting timelines too.
Any questions that you might have about this project can be posted into our Crafty Creator Group.