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We Need to Craft For Our Australian Friends
There’s a massive effort underway to help the survivors of the bushfire that devastated parts of Australia over the weekend killing more than 180 people. I’ve read the media reports online and the destruction is hard to fathom. According to Reuters, the disaster area is more than twice the size of London and encompasses more than 20 towns north of Melbourne. My heart breaks for the people who have lost relatives and friends and their homes to boot.
Thankfully, my friend Bev and her husband are okay. And it’s no surprise that they immediately stepped up to help others. And this is where we come in. As crafters, we can do what we do best for this cause. Check out these links to find out how you can help.
Kaotic Kraft Kuties This is an art auction and international artists are invited to participate.
Handmade Help - This is a new Melbourne-based craft blog created to track and handmade donations to the Red Cross. Find out how to make a donation or bid on an item here. See the left side bar for updates and postal addresses to send handmade items.
The Toy Society, that secret service of softies, is collecting toys to give to the families, along with the Rainbow Packs.
CurlyPops- Check out this site for craft Bushfire activism and updates.
Here’s a list of links to more relief efforts. And, if you live by Bev and and want to craft for the cause, there will be a sewing bee to make Rainbow Comfort Packs on Saturday. And Bev and her friends are organizing a quilting bee, too.
Please help however you can.
Hugs to Australia.
Posted: February 11th, 2009 under Charity Crafting, CPSIA, News, Pincushions.
Comments: 4
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Comment from Sarah-byneedleandthread
Time: February 12, 2009, 5:50 am
Jennifer there is also a Bushfire Quilt Project going on. It’s on Flickr. We are making blocks to send to Tia in Australia and she has gathered a group of people to sew them together honesycklecottage quilt shop is donating batting backing and thread and quilters will be finishing them up so they can be given to those in need.
Comment from Jess
Time: February 12, 2009, 3:16 pm
Six years ago there were terrible bushfires in Canberra, Australia and 640 homes were lost. One of the survivors of those bushfires has written an open letter about what the Victorian survivors will need in the coming months and years. You can read it here: http://www.abc.net.au/emergency/stories/s2489763.htm
It has heaps of great ideas of what to donate and what people will need once the initial urgency has gone.
Comment from Therese
Time: February 12, 2009, 9:02 pm
Thank you ever so much for your support. As an Australian it is very much appreciated.
Comment from Philipa
Time: February 27, 2009, 8:55 pm
I am in Emerald in Queensland Australia, a long way from the bushfires but it seems that everyone in Australia knows someone who knows someone who was killed or lost their homes in the fires. Our local patchwork group has been sewing up a storm since the Weds after the fires making quilts. We are aiming to have 50 done to send down. Mining is am major industry here (coal) and the two major ones have donated wadding and backing fabric, local fabric shops have given us fabric and all sorts of folks have given us fabric or money to buy it with. We have 8 quilts finished off, 8 with people quilting them, 8 ready to go to be quilted, 6 with the binding to be stitched and 14 tops made waiting for me to cut the wadding and backing fabric (that has been my major group job) And they are still sewing tops.
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