By JESSE GRAHAM
QUILT lovers of all kinds will have two days to indulge in the annual Patchwork Collections Friendship Group Quilt Show at Coldstream’s Wallace Gardens later this month.
The show will be held from 10am-4pm on Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 March at the gardens, with quilts for sale and Devonshire teas to enjoy.
Group member Bev Buziko said the event would raise money for quilt materials, with the subsequent quilts donated to the Royal Children’s Hospital.
“We make very bright and happy quilts for the very sick children,” she said.
She said the event started shortly after Black Saturday, when the group, made up of Toolangi and Yarra Valley-based quilters helped to organise donations of 6000 quilts to fire-affected communities.
Since then, the show has been run each year as a fund-raiser to help make quilts for the hospital and the children and teenagers undergoing treatment there.
Visitors will be able to take part in a raffle for a “beautiful” quilt, according to Ms Buziko, along with other prizes, and can buy their own quilting materials from a half price table.
She said she hoped to donate about 90 quilts to the hospital after the event.
The Patchwork Collections Friendship Group Quilt Show will be held at Coldstream’s Wallace Gardens, 7 Maddens Lane, Coldstream, from 10am-4pm on Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 March.
For more information, call Pat on 0418 993 428.
