Busy Hands 4 All Update Last Friday, we joined in O'Sew Personal Fabric Shop's Charity Sew and helped make 54 diaper change pads for Sweet Babies! Barb (of Sweet Babies) visited the sewing event and answered questions and greeted all of the volunteers. Thank you to all of the wonderful charity sewing volunteers at O'Sew Personal! We look forward to sewing with you again.
We have received some fabric donations and purchased some fleece - we need all hands on deck this Thursday, February 27 for notion sorting/counting, fabric organizing, bear stuffing, tying bows on the bears, and stuffing comfort pillows! No need to bring your sewing machines this week.
We received a request for 100 sets of 5" sharing hearts for NICUS. They are due by March 23rd. Some are being sent home in kits to sew. Some are sewn. All will be staged for pinking the edges by next week. If you have pinking shears or a pinking rotary cutter - please bring them Thursday, March 12.
There will not be a sew day on Thursday, March 5. But don't worry - we will have home kits available for Rice Bags, Comfort Pillows, Bears, and Needle Holders. So please sew with us at home!Angel Gowns buddy sew day will be on March 26 at 9:30 a.m. Please bring your sewing machine and basic sewing supplies. Fabric, trim and patterns will be supplied.
Days for Girls Update Last Thursday we were packed 45 Days for Girls kits that will go to India this weekend! Woo hoo! It was a fun and rewarding experience to see the kits come together especially with the new transport bags. Mary Clark picked them up this week! We wish her and her team a safe journey and thank them for all they are doing to get the kits and women's' health education to the girls and women!
We also shipped 87 shields and 137 pairs of panties to Days for Girls' headquarters for distribution to refugees. Go, Team O'Fallon!
New Project Colette was asked by Charity Sharity to take over checking out and repairing donated machines to be given to OASIS International refugees and other Charity Sharity volunteers. She agreed to help. To accompany each refugee's machine going will be a pictorial (language barrier-free) user guide. We would like to gift the Oasis recipients some necessities and niceties! A fabric drawstring bag for the foot controller and a matching fabric velcro wrap for the power cord would be a welcome addition. How can you use a sewing machine without some basic notions? We'd like to make zipper pouches and include basic notions such as neutral thread, scissors, seam ripper, tape measure, pins, sewing needles (hand & machine), pins, pincushions, needle holder, bobbins etc to get them going. We picked up many notions from Charity Sharity but could use more of the basic necessities. If you have extras in your sewing box, send them our way! If you have sewing machine - we will take it ;)
Project Ideas
- At the O' Sew Personal sewing event, Barb mentioned a possible future project...black and white visual stimulation book for newborns. She asked us to develop some prototypes to visually stimulate the babies they serve. Colette made a small fabric book with four high contrast black and white fabrics and batting. Tina is making one from felt in book or card form. We are looking for ideas and or additional prototypes!
- Diaper bags for Sweet Babies' moms? Let's look for an easy pattern for a diaper bag that we could easily make for the new moms.
- Patriotic Bears with blue and white star fleece and red bows for first responders! We are looking for police or fire department contacts.