Stitchin’ Caddy Sewing Bee

Last Thursday a group of ladies from my quilting group – Star Sea Quilters – joined me for a sewing bee to make stitchin’ caddies for the New Beginnings Kits that we Nutters at Among the Gumtrees are putting together for the poor quilters who have lost so much in the recent floods right across Queensland and now Victoria too.
Here’s a pic of the gawjus SSQ ladies who came along … one or two are missing, the lovely Bec from Homestead Quilting is one – bless her gawjus heart, she travelled all the way from the Sunshine Coast (almost 2 hours each way) to help us out – Thank you Bec :o)!!!! Bec and I have chatted through our blogs and more recently on facebook for nearly 2 years so it was terrific to finally meet each other in person – she’s a real sweety :o).
Here’s how many we’ve got so far …

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(about thirty-something) and there are about a dozen or so more still to come from ladies who are still stitching!!
Thanks so much to everyone who has made or is making a New Beginnings Kit – every single one is greatly appreciated!!

If anyone would like the pattern for this cute little 'Stitchin' Caddy' you can buy the PDF for just a $5 donation to the Premier's Flood Appeal - just click on the piccy on my sidebar :o).

Here’s the Caddy pattern :o)

Thank you all for your patience, I’ve been busy typing madly to get this pattern ready for you all and I’m pleased to say……

IT’S DONE :o)!!!

Woohoo!!!!

Stitchin’ Caddy by JoyPatch ©

If you’d like to make some of these caddies for the quilters who have lost so much in these awful floods – or even just for yourself - then please make a donation of at least $5 to

THE PREMIER’S FLOOD APPEAL

then all you have to do is send me your receipt number (and your email address) and I’ll be happy to send your PDF pattern of my “Stitchin’ Caddy by JoyPatch ©” to you.

We Nutters will be sending “New Beginnings” kits all over Queensland, so if you’d like to donate any that you’ve made then please email Jenny at

jennyofelefantz at bigpond dot com

and she’ll let you know where you can send them.

If you’ve missed the post on what we girls from Among the Gumtrees would like to put into our New Beginnings kits then please click the link and take a peek.

Calling Brissie Bloggers ;o)!!

I’m having a sewing bee on Thursday 20th January to make caddies for the sewing kits we girls at the Among the Gumtrees blog are putting together for the Qld flood victims. These kits will be distributed to various quilting groups in Queensland and if we have enough we’d also like to send some to Vic and Tassie too since they’ve also suffered flooding recently too. If you’d like to come along please leave a comment on this post and I’ll email the details to you. The Sewing Bee will be at Cleveland in Brisbane.
I’ll be putting the pdf pattern for this caddy on my sidebar this afternoon for just $5 – all proceeds to go to the PREMIER’S FLOOD APPEAL.