Snugglybug Rug Project
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At a charity stitch-in I held down here I had two friends helping me who are not stitchers at all but they are Paediatric nurses at the Royal Hospital here in Hobart . What they saw and experienced on the day was the overwhelming impact a group of sharing, caring women had on each other and the possibilities this could lead to.
in conversation with the girls we launched the 'Snugglybug Rug project' as a way to provide a ‘snuggle’ quilt to each child diagnosed with either a terminal disease or a long term requiring treatment disease in Tasmania. Some of the kids she nurses there are in and out of the hospital for many years, some have a lot of family support, others have very little. The staff there become very attached to their ‘kids’ and are a major part of their treatment lives. Some have a special teddy or token of some sort, others have none. A quilt which could be taken to every appointment, treatment cycle, hospital stay to be wrapped ‘snug as a bug in a rug’ has an enormous supporting effect. The head of the unit and the head of Paediatric Oncology have been consulted on this and both also agree it is of great significance and assistance to the children.
When a child is nominated their favourite colours/themes will be given and a request sent out to the ' This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ' mailing list. We will need 9 blockmakers and an assembler for each quilt. The assemblers address will be given to the blockmakers and all blocks will be posted to her on completion to be put together. It will then be sent to myself for a border to be added and delivered to our lovely quilting volunteers for quilting. Once complete it will be presented to the child along with a permanent fabric pen and care instructions etc.
The design of the quilt as pictured below allows for both a conversational print if suitable and plain patches for messages of support and love to be written by special doctors, carers, family members etc.
So if you would like to be an ongoing part of it (remember you only put your hand up for a block each time a request is made, so if you cannot do it at the time you don’t put your hand up for that one!) please fill out and submit the form below. Feel free also to offer your services for assembling or quilting, even one per year– Any offers of polar fleece backing, quilting thread, pens, labels or cash etc are also gratefully accepted.
One person can only do so much but many people can do SO MUCH!!
Sign up here now if you wish to be a part of this project.
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George = 4 year old boy request made 18th November 2011
Loves anything ABC2 - Bob the Builder, Fireman Sam, Playschool etc
Colour 1 - bright red
Colour 2 - Bright green
Colour 3: yellows
Colour 4 - conversational prints in themes as above
Fran - 2 yrs Request made June 2011 - delivered
Evan - 5 yrs request made 24 June 2011 - delivered
Dottie 9 year old girl request made 18 March 11 loves purple, Hannah Montana and Horses
Colour 1 - dark purple
Colour 2 - hot pink
Colour 3 - soft lilac
Colour 4 - horse or heart prints in above colours
Caity 3 year old girl request made 24Jan 11
loves are puppies, fairies, babies, swings, fruit, ice-cream, books, farm animals, cooking...just to name a few.
Colour 1 - gelato pinks
Colour 2 - gelato greens
Colour 3 - white
Colour 4 - any conversational print (like puppies, fairies, babies etc) in the above gelato colours.
