AFTER losing everything in the Black Saturday blaze, Lee McGill (pictured) recalls a gift that touched her heart – knitted slippers. “I was given a pair of hand-knitted slippers and wore them all through winter thinking someone took the time to do this for me,” she said.
Now it is time for Black Saturday survivors to do something for the victims of the January bushfire that hit the small fishing village of Dunalley in Tasmania.
Ms McGill, of the Kinglake Ranges Visual and Performing Arts Alliance, has formed Connect, a group through which the community houses in Whittlesea, Kinglake, Toolangi and Flowerdale will hold craft workshops to make quilts, knitted items, felt objects and embroidered cushions for the Tasmanian townsfolk.
“It’s the personal things that leave the greatest impression on survivors.”
Details: call 0427 001 031.
