Snowflake Design

My group, World of Charity Stitching, is creating a quilt made of these beautiful Snowflakes.  This chart was created by Brooke Nolan of Brooke's Books, another group where I am a member.  

The members chose what colors to use in the blue, lavender, or gray families.  The white floss was B5200, the bright white color.   

This took quite a while to finish, but I kept on stitchin' and finally completed it.  It has over 5,000 stitches, which is the most I've stitched on one project in a long, long time.  

We  have about 25 signups for this theme already, which is a really good start.  Our quilter will create two quilts from this theme and possibly be able to make a couple of pillows to go along with them.  

The quilts will be donated to a senior care facility when they are finished.

 

 

Stitching and Sewing for Charity in 2012

Loretta at Stitching the Night Away is hosting a blog hop for readers to write about their accomplishments in 2012.

I cross stitch and sew for a Yahoo group called World of Charity Stitching.  I'm also one of the co-owners.  This has been a great year for stitching , sewing, and giving.  I finished 25 cross stitched pieces for WOCS.   I also stitch for Love Quilts USA and finished 10 cross stitched squares that have been or are going to be made into quilts for very sick children.  Since I retired in 2006, stitching and sewing for charity have been my main craft focus.  

This past year I sewed and donated to charity the following items:

29 tote bags
21 pillows
6 eyeglass cases
4 walker bags
1 Kindle Cover

My stitching and sewing is just a small part of some of the items the members of my group quilted, cross stitched, sewed and donated to charity.    The squares the members stitch are made into tote bags, pillows, walker or wheelchair bags and also lap quilts.

At World of Charity Stitching we currently have 244 members from all over the world, with many members from the United States, and members from Canada, the UK, Australia, the Netherlands, Indonesia, Italy, Germany, Japan, Egypt, to name a few.

These are a few of the bags, pillows, and walker bags I finished for WOCS this past year:

Stitched and Finished by Peggy

Stitched by Judith in Germany and Finished by Peggy

Stitched by Sharon T. and Finished by Peggy

Stitched by Judith in Germany and Finished by Peggy

"Orphan Square" - bag finished by Peggy

"Orphan Square" - bag finished by Peggy

Stitched and Finished by Peggy

Stitched and Finished by Peggy

Stitched and Finished by Peggy

Stitched and Finished by Peggy