South College Day of Caring

Yesterday was a very busy day at South College!  The students, staff and faculty all came together to tie fleece blankets for Laurel Elementary School.  The music was jumping, everyone was talking and laughing (and tying!).  Shortly after lunch - all of the blankets were done !!!  Here are some great pictures of their hard work.

And that is not all....... WVLT was there to do a segment called Volunteer Spirit.  I'll post the link after it has aired.

Happy Sewing,

Sharon

Hello Alice

I wanted to introduce you all to the most hard working member of Sewing Hands.   

Alice is a sit-down, Sweet 16 Handi Quilter.  She has been tirelessly quilting all of the beautiful tops.  Occassionally she complains but after a bit of oil and a new needle she's ready to go again!

Here are some examples of her work.....

Fund Raisers at South College, Knoxville, TN

South College Student Advisory Council, Community Service Club and Criminal Justice majors all had lunches to benefit Sewing Hands.  For three Tuesdays in August students and faculty ate wonderful lunches - chili dogs, meatball subs and pizza.

Many individuals gave donations on top of their lunch purchases.  The tremendous amount of support enabled us to purchase batting and muslin for our guilts.

THANK YOU students, faculty and staff !

Project Laurel Elementary in Full Swing!

Can you believe it is almost September?  While I'm looking forward to cooler weather I'm also realizing that we only have 4 more weeks till our delivery to Laurel Elementary School.

As you can see from the picture everyone has been very hard at work - and this isn't all of them....Mom just got tired of carting it all out of her closet!

We had some wonderful things happening for Sewing Hands - donations of money and fabric, new sewers that will be participating in our future projects and helpers who will be tying the remaining fleece blankets (see next post).

THANK YOU Terry for your donation!

THANK YOU Mary for your donation!

THANK YOU Patsy - she volunteered to bind all of the quilts



Irene from South Carolina





Clara from South Carolina

Our latest count is as follows:

Evelyn                          5
Irene                            1
Clara                            1
Larissa                         1
Aliza                            3
Lois                             3
Kathy                           4
Kathy (fleece)               5
Pam (fleece)                 5
Super Girls (fleece)       4

Total Scrappy Quilts Completed:  43 !!!   Needed:  54

Don't forget - if you have blocks or tops to send us we must have them by September 5th in order to quilt, bind, label and package them by our deadline.

Happy Sewing,

Sharon and Deborah





Angels Among Us

We have all heard of there being angels among us…..well, Sewing Hands has its very own angel!  A wonderful donation was given to us recently.  This donation will enable us to buy the remaining fleece needed for the fleece blankets AND buy some batting or muslin for the scrappy quilts.  I know the angel does not want any attention for his gift but if everyone can say a prayer of thanks for all of the blessings God brings us it will include the angels among us.  Thank you to our special one!  

Updates

A few updates.....
The Star of the Sea schooner is safely home.  Captain Bob had a great trip and will be forwarding us pictures of the Ile a Vache children shortly.

Nikki Ramsey of Tazewell, TN donated some great John Deere fabric for our Laurel Elementary project.  The little boys are going to love that!  Thank you Nikki.

Aliza Sparkman in Indiana mailed in three scrappy quilt tops!  Sounds like she got a lot of assistance from her daughters.  We'll upload pictures as soon as they are quilted.  Isn't is wonderful how little girls in Indiana are helping little girls in Tennessee.  Our world really isn't that large after all. 

Plans are being made for Sharon's students to put together a meatball sub lunch at the school to raise funds for supplies.  The community service club at the college has adopted us as their "day of caring" event and will be tying fleece blankets for us in September.

Deborah (mom) will be in Tennessee in another week and our project will be in full swing for the rest of the summer.  Please mail any blocks or tops or fleece blankets to Sharon as soon as you have them done.  If you don't have my address send an email to handmadebysewinghands@gmail.com and I'll email it to you.

Thank you everyone - and Happy Sewing,
Sharon


 

Scrappy Quilts

Quilts for Sixth Graders Delivered May, 2012

Can you hear it???  That's the sound of sewing machines from Florida to Indiana.  Everyone is coming together again to put a smile on the face of a child.  Our October delivery date for Laurel Elementary is going to arrive quicker than we can imagine.

We have heard from Larissa and Aliza in Indiana - they are busy making the blocks for the scrappy quilts.  Even Aliza's daughters - Madison and Lillian - have gotten involved and are officially "designers".

Kathy in Florida has been designing and sewing scrappy blocks along with Deborah but she has also been tying the fleece blankets that we will be giving the younger students.  Kathy's workplace has just told us that they would like to tie a few blankets too!

Lois, in Florida, has returned to her summer home in Michigan and will be continuing her blocks there.

Tracy in Tennessee is on board to make some blocks.

Jan and Connie in South Carolina, along with Jan's daugher Karen in Indiana, are all busy starting their blocks.

Evelyn has emailed us from her summer home up north and has her 92 year old mother helping make blocks.  Evelyn says she has 3 quilts completed so far!!

South College Community Service Club along with the Criminal Justice students will be having a fund raiser for Sewing Hands this summer and will be tying fleece blankets.

Sharon is quilting everything that has been made so far.  

If you are helping us and are not listed here please send an email so we can include you.