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Snugglybug Rugs - A Charity Project by Hugs 'n Kisses

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Our story:

I'm very proud that my daughter is now a paediatric nurse at the Royal Hobart Hospital and after watching our program over the years now brings home the requests and presents the quilts to the children. She now sees first hand the effect they have on the kids and works alongside my two nurse friends who started all of this.

At a charity stitch-in I held down here when I first arrived in Tasmania, I had two friends helping me who are not stitchers at all, but they are paediatric nurses at the Royal Hospital here in Hobart. What they saw and experienced on the day was the overwhelming impact a group of sharing, caring women had on each other and the possibilities this could lead to.

In conversation with the girls, we launched the 'Snugglybug Rug Project' as a way to provide a ‘snuggle’ quilt to each child diagnosed with either a terminal disease or a long term requiring treatment disease in Tasmania. Some of the kids she nurses there are in and out of the hospital for many years. Some have a lot of family support, others have very little. The staff there become very attached to their‘kids’ and are a major part of their treatment lives. Some have a special teddy or token of some sort, others have none. A quilt which could be taken to every appointment, treatment cycle,hospital stay to be wrapped ‘snug as a bug in a rug’ has an enormous supporting effect. The head of the unit and the head of Paediatric Oncology have been consulted on this and both also agree that it is of great significance and assistance to the children.

When a child is nominated, their favourite colours/themes will be given and a request sent out to the 'Snugglybug' MAILING LIST. We just need 9 block makers and an assembler for each quilt. The assembler's address is given to the block makers and all blocks are posted to her on completion to be put together. It is then sent to our lovely quilting volunteers for orders and quilting. Once complete it is returned to me to be 'finished' ( the border is fringed (very soft and tactile) and a label added) it is then presented to the child along with a permanent fabric pen and care instructions, etc.

The design of the quilt as pictured below allows for both a conversational print, if suitable, and plain patches for messages of support and love to be written by special doctors, carers, family members, etc. So if you would like to be an ongoing part of it (remember you only put your hand up for a block each time a request is made, so if you cannot do it at the time you don’t put your hand up for that one!)

 

Feel free also to offer your services for assembling or quilting, even one per year. Any offers of polar fleece backing, quilting thread, pens, labels or cash, etc are also gratefully accepted.

One person can only do so much but many people can do A WHOLE LOT MORE! SIGN UP HERE NOW if you wish to be a part of this project.

We have made over 100 quilts as of 2019, and have tried to keep a list of those presented. Note: due to patient privacy reasons I am not told the name of the children and as such we allocate them a name following the alphabet - hence all names following are not their real names.

  • Boy 4, Lyndon - trucks. Request made March 19.

  • Boy 16, Kyle - St. Kilda. Request made March 19.

  • Boy 12, Jasper - Carlton. Request made March 19.

  • 3 year old girl Izzy. Request made Jan 19.

  • Harry, 16-year-old boy. Request made Dec 18.

  • Gina, 2 year-old girl. Request made Dec 18.

  • Francina, 9-year old girl. Request made 12 Sept 2018.

  • Edwina, 3 years old. Request made 14 May 2018.

  • Davinia, 17 months. Request made 15 Jan 2018.

  • Chrissie, 13 years old. Request made 18 Oct 2017.

  • Bobbie, 12 years old. Request made 18 Oct 2017.

  • Arabella, 4 years old. Request made 23 June 2017.

  • Zara, 11-year old girl - purples, moderns. Request made 12 June 2017.

  • Yolanda, 7 months, baby girl. Request made 12 June 2017.

  • Xander, 3-year-old boy - Paw Patrol. Request made 12 June 2017.

  • Wade. Request made 27 Sept 2016.

  • Vance. Request made 27 Sept 2016.

  • Ugo. Request made 27 Sept 2016.

  • Timothy, 7 years old. Request made 6 July 2016.

  • Simon, 7 years old. Request made 5 June 2016.

  • Ritchie, 11-month-old. Request made 5 April 2016.

  • Quentin, 7-year-old boy. Request made 1 April 2016.

  • PJ - baby born after Mum died in an accident. Request made Jan 2016.

  • Ozzie, 2 years old - mum killed in an accident. Request made Jan 2016.

  • Kerryn, a mother of one of our recipients, also was doing it tough with a battle of her own. We decided to make her her own quilt to snuggle in.

  • Nissa - Ella, 9 years old. 3rd time - request made 2 Dec 2015.

  • Mandy, 4-year-old girl. Request made 6 Nov 2015.

  • Liam, 2-year-old boy. Request made 6 Nov 2015.

  • Kane, 8-year-old boy. Request made 6 Nov 2015.

  • Jemma, 5-month old girl. Request made 6 Nov 2015.

  • 9-year-old girl, India - likes butterflies, fairies, pink and purple. Request made 6 Nov 2015.

  • Howie, 5 years old. Request made 12 Jan 2015.

  • Greg, boy, 2 years old. Request made 28 Oct 2014.

  • Frederick, boy, 6 months old. Request made 28 Oct 2014.

  • Eddie, 16-year-old boy - Hawthorn. Request made 28 Oct 2014.

  • Daniel, 2 years old. Request made 28 July 2014.

  • Caleb, 14 years old. Request made 29 June 2014.

  • Betsy, 9 years old. Request made April 24, 2014.

  • Annabelle, 13 years old. Request made 28 Jan.

  • Zane, 10-year-old boy. Request made 4 March 2014.

  • Yani, 6-month old girl. Request made 15 Oct.

  • Xander, 13-year-old boy. Request made 15 Oct.

  • Will, 13-year-old boy. Request made 3 July 2013.

  • Verne, 12-year-old boy. Request made 3 July 2013.

  • Timmy, 15-year-old boy.

  • Sally, 15-year-old girl. Request made from Project.

  • Rosie, 5-year-old girl. Request made 8 March 2013.

  • Quin, boy, 5 years old. Request made 27th Feb 2013.

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    Monty, 14-year-old boy. Request made 27 Oct 2012.

     

  • Liam, 16-year-old boy. Request made 27 October 2012.

  • Scotty, 12-year-old boy. Request made June 10. Completed and delivered.

  • Nelly, 12-year-old girl. Request made Jan 10 - finished and presented.

  • Lottie, 4-year-old girl. Request made Jan 10 - finished and presented Feb 10.

  • Jilly, 18-month-old girl. Request made Jan 10 - finished and presented March 10.

  • Izzie, 12-year-old girl. Request made Nov 1, 2009 - delivered Dec 09 - comfort to her. Quinn - 6-year-old boy. Request made 5th October 07 Carlton FC fan.

  • Rosie, 14-year-old girl. Request made 28th June 07 - full, completed.

  • Boy - Patrick, 4 1/2 years old - likes Blue and tools. Request made 25th June 2007.

  • Girl, 9 years old - Olivia. Request made 12 April 2007 - completed. George 15 year old boy - Essendon fan, completed - request made: 1 September 2006.

  • Girl, Daisy. Request made: 23rd December 2005. David, 3-year-old boy. Request made from Project - whole quilt given by Jose Penelope, 5 years old. Request made 20 Dec 2012.

  • Ollie, 3 years old. Request made 1 Nov 2012.

  • Kim, 6-year-old boy. Request made 21 Sept 2012. Harriet, 3 years old. Request made 11 Aug 2012.

  • Isla, 11 years old. Request made 11 Aug 2012. 

  • Jasper, 3 1/2 years old. Request made 11 Aug 2012.

  • George, 4-year-old boy. Request made 18th November 2011.

  • Fran, 2 years old. Request made June 2011.

  • Evan, 5 years old. Request made 24 June 2011 - delivered.

  • Dottie, 9-year-old girl. Request made 18 March 2011.

  • Caity, 3-year-old girl. Request made 24 Jan 2011.

  • Adam, 16 years old. Request made 20 Dec 2010.

  • Briony, 14-year-old girl. Request made 20 Dec 2010.

  • Yolanda, 16-year-old girl. Request made 9th September 2010.

  • Xenia, 7-year-old girl. Request made 9th September 2010, delivered.

  • Victor, 14-year-old boy - likes South African rugby team Springboks.

  • Ursula, 4-year-old girl. Request made June 10, completed and delivered.

  • Tristan, 8-year-old boy.

  • Ruby, 14-year-old girl. Request made June 10, completed and delivered.

 

As we have many volunteers, I will try and share the load around. Email your acceptance in and I will confirm your involvement. Do not start your block until you receive your confirmation, as we may have too many volunteers for the quilt.

Most of us have children, and if you haven’t gone through the process of watching and caring for a sick, frightened child, then we can only imagine how difficult it is both for the child and those that love them. If through a small part of your time doing something you are passionate about we can ease the pain and ‘loneliness’ of the process in any way, I am more than eager to do it.