See you Sunday

It's nearly time for our December Days for Girls workday at Our Sewing Room.  Please join us on Sunday, from 10:00 am until 4:00 pm, or however much of that works for your schedule.

We have lots of jobs for you to choose from--sewing, cutting (scissors and Accuquilt), tracing, pressing, serging, etc.

Our Sewing Room has a collection of sergers and sewing machines that you can use.  Many of us prefer the familiarity of our own machines, so we tote them along.

If you'd like to bring your own machine, I'd suggest bobbins with a variety of colors, or an empty bobbin you can fill, so that the thread is a good match to the fabric colors.  Days for Girls asks that we use polyester thread.

Other helpful items to bring are good scissors, a seam ripper, and pins.

If you'd like to be working on a part of the kit you haven't made yet (or haven't made recently), I suggest you take the time to read the directions and watch the video on the Days for Girls website before you come.

We received a couple of wonderful donations of fabric today, so my washer and dryer are doing their things.  I'll have some of that pretty fabric with me on Sunday, ready for pressing and cutting.

As always, other donations are very welcome (details are in earlier postings):

     Ziploc gallon freezer bags, not the slider style
     Girls' cotton underpants, sizes 10-12, brief or hipster styles, as brightly colored as you can find
     Washcloths in colors--no white
     Twill tape, 1/2"--5/8" in colors--no white/beige
     Polyester thread, in medium and dark colors
     Small hotel/travel soaps
     Funds, easily donated on Crowdrise, through January 6th.

Please remember, although we make hundreds of these kits, each girl receives only one.  We want that kit to be something she's proud of, with every item in it attractive and perfectly made and able to last 3 years.  So please check your work for quality.  Don't trim dangerously close to stitching.  Backstitch where directed.  Sew straight when topstitching.  Trim all your threads.  Check the back of your work for tension problems.  It's so sad when we have to reject something that was made too quickly.  We'd much rather have fewer outstanding kits than more sloppily constructed ones.  If in doubt, please ask.

Here's a great video that shows why we're investing so much of our lives in this project:  http://www.projectforawesome.com/charity/days-for-girls-international/p4a-2014--days-for-girls