I had plans for a roundup post in January so I could link up to Helen and Archie's Furtle Around but over the Christmas - New Year break the bushfires, already burning in parts of Australia, turned up a notch and so those plans were put on hold. By Christmas Day there were bushfires raging in every part of Australia.
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| photo - https://myfirewatch.landgate.wa.gov.au/ |
The town of Tumbarumba where I lived until a few years ago had fires at the edge of town on New Year's Eve and lost the mobile phone tower that night - by Friday the town was evacuated. Such a scary situation to be in. Thankfully no lives were lost.
Its such a tragic situation that its hard not to get drawn into the hopelessness. I'm listing a few places if you would like to donate directly.
Red Cross Australia
Wires Animal Rescue
Australian World Wildlife Fund
so instead of planning projects for the new year I started sewing pouches for wildlife and this week I worked on the first challenge for Season 11 of Project Quilting which I'll post about later.
I'll still have a roundup post to show off some of my makes from last year including my finally finished Double Wedding Ring quilt that I started five or six years ago - there are so many Finish Along posts about this quilt its probably the most mentioned quilt here - I might check the stats on that :)
and I'll also post my plans for this year which include finishing my Midnight at the Oasis quilt !
so a belated happy new year and cheers to another year of creativity :)
