Youngcare - Sinnamon Park. Brisbane

Youngcare is for young adults who need full time care and a building was designed and built at Sinnamon Park in Brisbane almost 2 years ago. It has 14 apartments and recreation facilities and is surrounded by beautiful gardens. Gay (our Chairman), Bernie and myself (Committee members) arrived at Youngcare on the morning of 24 June Almost all the residents and staff were waiting in the activities area to great us. (The area was all decorated out with balloons, flags etc as it was the day of the Origin football - Maroons verses Blues at Suncorp Stadium. The Maroon supporters outnumbered the Blue supporters). We were given a warm welcome and the quilt was presented to the group. Two or three of the girls were quilters themselves and they were pleased to see some of Gay's quilts she had with her as she was conducting a workshop at Moggill the next day. We were given a tour over the building and were very impressed with what we saw including some of the patio gardens. Virginia was proud to showed us the patchwork quilt on her bed which her Mother had made for her. Her Mother use to be a CWA member out of Moree in New South Wales. We were invited to share lunch - a sausage sizzle - footie fare - which we thoroughly enjoyed. Some had wheelchair bags on their wheelchairs but they were showing wear and we promised to make 14 to be given later in the year.

A closeup of the appliqued butterflies.

These two photos are (1) the quilt donated to Youngcare and presented on Wednesday 24 June 2009 and (2) the quilt photographed on a bed.