Sew For Hope Kids

Dear friends,

Much to our surprise, ARTS After School, who very generously provided Sew for Hope free work space and storage room for the last 4 years, has asked us to move out in three weeks because of its own space needs. We put out the call for help and you responded.  First of all, thank you all for your rapid offers of assistance. The immediate and strong offers to help us through this change have been really heartening.

The good news is, thanks to all the help we had last Saturday, July 20^th, we have pared down our fabric and sent much to new homes where it will be used to help other sewing/quilting groups. Everything else is neatly packed and stored in our closet at ARTS ready to be moved on Saturday, August 3^rd. We do NOT need help with the move as we have determined we have enough trucks and SUVs in our core group to handle this. We have the offer of one of our member’s home where we can store everything in one place if needed.

But we need a new home. It should have about 800 – 1,000 square feet of work space in one or two adjacent rooms for our twice-a-month work sessions and a permanent, approximately 8’ x 10’ storage closet in the same place. And it should be free or very low cost. If you have ideas or contacts, please contact using the contact form on our web site (https://sewforhopenow.com/?page_id=2356)

Thank you again for all your help and kind words. May the force be with us!

Hi There,

It’s your friendly reminder that we’ll be sewing and having fun at ARTS After School from 10 – 3 on Saturdays 7/6 and 7/20.

Yes! We continue to meet during the Summer even though our group is sometimes smaller — what with several of us traveling about. Fun aside, our mission is to make and give blankets to children who are homeless and/or impoverished. That’s serious business so we could use your help. We appreciate all our volunteers and supporters. We’d be nothing without you.

We’re currently accepting donations of UFO’s. If you have left-over quilt blocks or quilt tops, that you know you’ll never finish, we’d love to have them. That’s one of our specialties. We take those UFO’s, finish them, and get them into the hands of kids in need. But it’s not enough just to give us unfinished sewing projects. We also need stitchers to finish those projects. Sometimes we receive a stack of quilt blocks and have so much fun arranging them and figuring out what to do. This is a fun charity for people who have imagination and/or are good with their hands. We also need folks to take fabric that’s been donated to us and make charity quilts to return to us when finished. If you’re newly retired and now have extra time, please consider joining us. We’re a helpful and friendly bunch.

Last month I mentioned that we’re accepting 12 1/2″ unfinished log cabin and 9-Patch eye-spy novelty blocks. We’ll continue to accept those. The eye-spy blocks should have a different fabric in each square.

We’re also in the business of keeping fabric out of our landfills. People who love to sew buy so much fabric that they never use. Yes, we take that fabric and make quilts, but several of our members also make pet beds. We make cases out of heavier-weight fabric then stuff them with our snippets of thread, fabric and batting so those tiny bits don’t get thrown away. Many a shelter animal has received a comfy pet bed from a local quilter.

That’s all for now.

Thanks for all you do,

Cynthia and her Sew for Hope Sisters

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