Thank you to all those who have responded to our request for fabric donations. Welcome to those who have joined our group to sew, crochet or knit. We look forward to meeting you and crafting alongside you.  Please come to a meeting as soon as you can.  If you will be helping from home, please stay in touch with us by phone or email.  We try our best to keep the website up to date.Thank you all for your hard work and support.

Our Calendar:

Sew Day: Thursday, March 15 at 9:30 a.m.  Our agenda is to prepare for the Sew Night and inventory our current stock of Days for Girls components.  

Sew Night: Tuesday, March 20 at 7:00 p.m. we have a plethora of tasks for busy hands - sewing and non-sewing. Please join us! Projects will include: Days for Girls, Sharing Hearts and Mini Blankets. 

At Home Busy Hands: Are you knitting or crocheting Easter NICU hats? We will deliver the hats to Children's Hospital St. Louis next week. Please drop hats off or call for a pick up by Tuesday, March 20.  Our next holiday/season themed hat is 4th of July and summer!

Love Packages Recap: Bill and Tina delivered the Christian literature (donations received at the February Sew Night) to Love Packages on March 7. Love Packages were excited to receive over 50 Bibles and other donations.  It is hard to believe that there are Pastors without a Bible. They currently have containers on the way to South Africa, India, Tanzania and Ghana. They shipped over 2,000 tons last year to people that would have no other way of reading God's Word.  Thank you so much for your generous donations. Busy Hands will make this an annual project. Please save Bibles, books, magazines, devotionals, CDs, DVDs, daily devotionals, puppets, Noah's ark, Bible games, nativity sets and biblical puzzles. If you have connections with churches, please spread the word...Lovepackages.org

Thanks to everyone who made Sharing Hearts for our February Challenge! 

We are getting our first set of Sharing Hearts
ready to deliver to Children's Hospital NICU. 

Fabric hearts are given to the parents of newborn infants admitted to the Newborn Intensive Care Unit. The fabric heart is worn against the mom’s or dad’s skin so that the fabric will absorb their scent. The heart is placed with the baby, in the isolette or crib, bonding parent and child with a heartfelt scent of love. 

This is an ongoing Busy Hands 4 All project!  The pattern is on our pattern page. Please keep sewing hearts and bringing them to sew days/nights. Other volunteer opportunities for this project include: donating flannel, prewashing/drying flannel, cutting hearts & printing poems.

Watch this awesome video of a father giving his baby his mother's dirty shirt to comfort him. It is the video that inspired us to find this project.

Days for Girls O'Fallon Team Update

What's new? Drum roll, please!

• Our team purchased an Accuquilt Go Die Cutter and a custom Days for Girls shield die. This system is a fast, accurate, fun, and easy way to cut shields out!
• We are excited to announce our new 'team within a team'. A group of ladies, from New Melle, have a special gift for making Days for Girls drawstring bags. We warmly welcome them to the team!
• We are preparing kits for two mission trips in 2018! Two of our team members will be taking Days for Girls kits and leading feminine hygiene presentations ... 'turning periods into pathways'. Aliy will be taking 50 kits to the Fond Blanc Orphanage in Haiti. Laura will be taking 100 kits to Honduras. We have completed an inventory of kit components and are gearing up to provide these two special ladies with the 150 Days for Girls kits they need. This will bring our kit total to 415! Every washable feminine hygiene kit gives back up to 6 months of living in just 3 years of use. 415 kits equal 74,700 days of education, health, safety and dignity! 
• Welcome, Jan! Our new Days for Girls volunteer who is sewing shields!

What is in 150 kits? 

• 1,200 liners
• 300 shields with 600 plastic Kam snap sets
• 300 pairs of panties
• 300 Ziploc bags
• 150 drawstring bags
• 150 washcloths
• 150 bars of soap
• 150 pictorial instruction sheets

That's a lot of Busy Hands ❤ Sharing Hearts (and fabric & thread)!

How Can You Help? 

• Come to a meeting and help prepare kit components
• Check out Our Wish List
• Share our blog page and our wish list to family, friends, co-workers, etc! 
• Donate to cover airline baggage expenses for kits

With your help, we can reach Every Girl. Everywhere. Period.

P.S. Do you sew at home? Save any type of fabric scraps.  One of our volunteers, Jan, uses the scraps to fill pet beds she sews and donates to local animal shelters.  Waste not, Want not!  Just bag your scraps and bring them to a meeting!