There is a new look in the dining room!

The last communal quilt we made at the PROBUS Craft Group featured birds of Australia.   When we had finished it we gave it to the local Rotary Club and their sister organisation, Interplast, who send surgeons and nursing staff to Papua New Guinea to carry out surgical procedures, mainly on children born with hare lips and cleft palates, and children with other mainly facial deformities which would otherwise ruin their lives.   The quilt raised almost $1,000 and was won by non other than our friend Daphne!   We couldn't believe it, that someone we knew had won it, but then that is Tasmania!   However, that is not the end of the story.    I really wanted the quilt, Daphne wasn't that bothered and wondered where she would put it in her house, so I offered her $200 as a donation to her favourite charity, Riding for the Disabled, and she accepted.   SO, it now hangs proudly over our dining table and my fishes have been relegated to the bedroom, maybe they will help me to sleep better.

My contributions to the quilt were the Pied Oystercatcher, second row, third from left, and the Blue Wren just underneath.

We had two friends to dinner on Saturday, both of whom had helped with the quilt, they were surprised to be dining beneath it.