Thank you so much for each an every one of you that donated to the Sewing for Orphans drive. It was successful beyond my wildest dreams with more than 350 items donated. I’m thrilled to be able to help out with donations being sent to orphanages in Tam Ky, as well as to the orphanage […]
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I want to thank Teresa for the opportunity to sew for the orphans of Tam Ky, Vietnam. I’m Mary Striegel and when I’m not working as a chemist for the National Park Service, I’m teaching 4th, 5th and 6th grade girls to sew. The girls are part of the Girls in Action mission group of
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I spent an hour or so packing things into a big ol’ box this afternoon. about 2/3 of the donations fit into the box and I’ll be sending the rest after the next paycheck. This box will be winging it’s way down to Los Angeles to be brought back to Tam Ky by the lovely
To put it mildly, this sewing drive has been more than expected. I was hoping to round up enough people to make a hundred items. In the end, I have more than 100 dresses. {and then I was interrupted by the doorbell and more packages arriving} I don’t know how many items I received in
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From Vanessa Christenson’s new “Simply Color” line from Moda. I have no idea what I’m doing with them yet. I just find them slightly addictive to make.
When the doorbell rang this morning, I thought it was the GuyFriend’s daughter returning from a sleepover so I strolled down the stairs and opened the door, still in my pajama bottoms and a tee. It, of course with my luck, was not his 10-year-old daughter, but the neighborhood mailman with packages in tow. He
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What started as a comment on a friend’s Facebook page: “Hey, I have that pattern, too!” ended up with three of us making the same dress over a weekend. Jen over at BettyCrockerAss made hers using a shirting fabric, I used Robert Kaufman’s Essex yarn-dyed linen and Kim from Go-Go Kim picked a knit fabric
I’m in love with this new fabric from Rashida Coleman-Hale. I adored her Washi line, of course, but this one grabs a hold of my little heart and hard. Maybe it’s the cranes! We saw them all over the rice fields in Vietnam, too. Anyway, it’s lovely, organic fabric from one of my favorites: Cloud
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As donations start showing up in my mailbox (thank you! thank you!) I thought it would be awfully nice if sewists could upload their own pics of their creations and we could all connect via Flickr. If you’re on Flickr, please connect with me (crinkledreams) and join the Sewing for Orphans group so we can
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This makes me so stupid-happy! Can you imagine how thrilled the kids are going to be when these lovely shirts, tanks, tees and skirts get passed out?! Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, Laurie!
