STEELS CREEK STITCHERS

The Steels Creek Stitchers is a dedicated group who enjoy the art of stitchery and combine to hold events and articles to support cancer research. We meet each Tuesday afternoon from 1:30-4:00 pm at the Yarra Glen Living and Learning Centre

We sponsor a Biggest Morning Tea each year, with proceeds going to the Cancer Council. In 2009 we donated a number of quilts to the survivors of the Victorian Bushfires.

There was an article about the group in the July 2010 Yarra Ranges Journal (click on image to the left to view it) which summarized this effort very well.

In 2006, we participated in the Long Yarra Quilt project that was initiated by Kate Whitehouse. In 2003 she walked the length of the Yarra with three friends. The 240-kilometre walk took three weeks and on the big bends of the river, where the group would camp overnight, local people would arrive to sit around camp-fires and share stories, history and knowledge of a watercourse that is so central in their lives.

Read more on this project by clicking on the quilt image to the left.