Baby Boy

Sewing Hands has made a special quilt for a baby boy soon to be born. His mother is one of the ladies in a local women's shelter. Prayers and love are sent to both of them.

Recognition

Sharon from Sewing Hands received the distinguished service award from South College. You may remember their enormous support last year on fund raising and making blankets. What a blessing to be recognized and to have such encouragement.

Project Update

Both boxes for the New Orleans project were delivered . We are waiting on pictures and will post them soon.

A special thank you to Dottie Follett for her generous donation! We were able to purchase all of the spray basting needed for our Michigan project because of her help.

And speaking of the Michigan project....the fleece blankets have been completed and are already on their way up to Michigan. 15 of the 20 quilt tops have been made. Many crocheted winter caps in all sizes have been (and are continuing to be) made. I'll put some pictures of those up too. Plus Deborah has plans to make slippers from the leftover fleece blanket pieces. The Michigan ladies and their children are going to be toasty warm this winter!

A "Sewing Hand"

Meet Kathy - a Sewing Hand extraordinaire from Florida.  She has been helping Deborah with fleece blankets, scrappy tops and even items for our fundraising event this fall.   Thanks Kathy for all of your hard work!

Delivery to Immokalee's Friendship House

Deborah Nichols and Lois Botkin made the trip to Immokalee, Florida on April 1st and delivered 25 dresses, 25 shorts and 25 stuffed animals to The Friendship House (a homeless shelter for men, women and families).  Here they are with Administrative Assistant Ana Estrella.

Super Kids Club girls help Sewing Hands

Once again the girls from the Super Kids Club in Bonita Spring, Florida are busy at work helping Sewing Hands.  You will remember that last year they helped us with the fleece blankets.  This year they are expanding their sewing skills and have been making the scrappy squares for our quilts.  Way to go girls !!!! 



 

 

 

We have also had a number of Sewing Hands making the dresses and shorts that are going to the Friendship House.  They are Kathy Donohue, Evelyn Fennema,  Lois Botkin,  and Deborah Nichols.  Good job ladies!

More Thank Yous

We are well into our 2013 projects.  Here is an update:
New Orleans project:  Deborah is putting the finishing touches on the dresses/shorts.  Sharon has all of  the quilt tops made and will be quilting them over her Spring Break.

Immokalee project:  Dresses are made and just need labels in them, Shorts need buttonholes but will be done soon.

Michigan project:   There are still some fleece blankets (for children) AND scrappy quilt tops (for women) that need to be made.  If you are helping us with any of these please let Sharon or Deborah know so we can include them in the count.

In October/November we will have a table at a church craft day to raise funds for Sewing Hands.  We will be selling pillowcases with matching dolls (dressed in the pillowcase fabric), placemats and matching christmas tree napkins, and tabletoppers with fabric that is appropriate for either Fall or Christmas.  As we get samples of these made up I will post them along with the prices.  We are also going to have ONE very special Christmas quilt that will be available for purchase.  All of these things will not only be wonderful for you to have for yourself but will make great gifts for the holiday season.

We've had a couple of recent donations -
         
        Joyce, THANK YOU for your generous donation
        THANK YOU Lynda for the space bags


Happy Sewing to Everyone,
Sharon & Deborah