Lyn Spencer is making 100 quilts to send to the island nation this year in order to help with relief efforts.

She is being assisted in the delivery of the quilts by the Belgrave Rotary Club, whose Japanese counterparts will oversee the operation.

President Carl Robins said they were helping Mrs Spencer because "it's just the sort of thing Rotary gets involved in".

"Everything we do is at no cost to the person supplying the goods of value, so we'll pay to get the quilts to Japan."

Mrs Spencer was inspired to do her part for the victims after seeing them on the television.

"I was just devastated," she said. "I was sitting around watching all that happen thinking, what can I do?"

Although she could not donate financially, in the past she had made quilts for orphanages and saw it as the perfect opportunity to do something for the Japanese people hit by the tsunami.

Using her own quilting frame, Mrs Spencer has made about 58 quilts to date by using material that has been donated to her, or that she she has collected over the years.

She also gets woollen blankets from the op-shop to serve as the middle layer in her quilts.

Because she has rheumatoid arthritis, Mrs Spencer is unable to do the fingerwork around the edges of the blanket so she entrusts the job to family and friends or the ladies from the Dandenong Baptist Church's Patch, Stitch and Chat sewing group.

It takes the 65-year-old a few days to make the quilts and she is on track for her goal of 100.

"I'm just hoping that somebody will feel warm because of something I've done," she said.