November 2, 2016
Members from the Quota Club of Kingaroy spent two days at the Orana Lutheran Complex last week.
They’d been called together by former Kingaroy Shire Councillor Marie Shaw, who told them she had an urgent sewing assignment.
It appeared Orana had inherited 400 king-size bed sheets.
But since there wasn’t a single king size bed in the aged care complex, the sheets needed to be cut and resewn into singles.
Marie had been approached about the problem by Orana’s management; and she, in turn, approached her fellow Quota Club members, who are well known for their formidable sewing skills.
True to form, the Quotarians gathered in a large room at Orana’s central administration building with their sewing machines and scissors, and completed the mammoth task in a day.
And the next day, a smaller number returned to sew the remaining cloth into pillow slips.
Marie said she was very proud of what the club was able to accomplish.
She also thanked Orana’s staff for providing morning and afternoon teas and lunches while everyone applied themselves to the task.
“It’s not a sweatshop when you’re so well fed,” she joked.
“And we had a lot of fun doing it.”
