Does anyone make things for charities.?

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Wow, I was just reading about all the wonderful things you folks are doing! I am so impressed with your wonderful hearts you loving ladies:love_heart:!

My aunt and uncle and my cousin make patchwork quilts to go to the Mennonite charity. Yvonne cuts the squares, my uncle pieces them together and my aunt ties them. They don't put a fill in because most of them are going to Africa and their washing facilities aren't always suitable for handling anything too heavy I guess. My uncle even gets a little artistic and cuts even the scraps into tiny strips and squares and then pieces those into lovely patterns.

You folks are all so great for reaching out in such a practical but needed way! Pat yourselves on the back all of you!
 
Oh my gosh what cute and adorable talent! Nice to know there are such generous people still around.

I get compliments on my cloth bags I use for grocery shopping that I made myself. I don't have any time for sewing right now. I do have plenty of fabric. If I ever go to part time work, I'd like to sew some cloth bags and donate them to our PAWS thrift. I'm sure they would sell since grocery stores no long provide plastic carry out bags and charge for paper ones.
 
I've just been sent a photo of some Nepalese children from the earthquake affected area wearing beanies knitted by ladies at our church. From the photo we see that it is Summer and I suppose the children had to leave their shoes at the door. It makes me wonder whether we shouldn't have knitted some socks too.

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10+ years ago I discovered that if I carried a walking stick (shovel handle) I could get around, bend over to retrieve items & remain safely upright with my balance problems. I decided to carve a limb into a walking stick. The first one I carved turned out pretty good. During a yard sale my wife & daughter were conducting I had left it propped against the garage door. A man became interested, asked about it (price), my wife looked in my direction, I shrugged, nodded go ahead. She sold it for $25. Darn! I then got more interested.

I found a poplar limb in a ditch, brought it home, stripped the bark discovered worm tracks up & down the staff. Left them in, carved a rattler from top 2 bottom, laced on a leather grip, had hanging beads on leather laces (native American style) was offered $80 for it in Yellowstone by a souvenir shop owner. Decided to keep it, he gave me his card offered to buy more on consignment if I wanted, never did. I still have it. Seems like a lot of interest in it. Even had a pit boss in Las Vegas ask to see it, showed his co-workers, I really think they wanted to see if I had a weapon concealed in it LOL. Even made up a Norwegian (my heritage) legend & name about them, called them stentskits.

After awhile trail & error I found that Aspen worked great as a WS, light, easy to carve, interesting shapes & plentiful dead fall throughout the mountains of Utah. There was very little money in it so I ended up carving them for relaxation & help keep me from stuffing my face with goodies. I took maybe 10-15 over to the senior citizens center & donated them to the center. They called several months later & wanted more, but as things usually do I lost interest in them & quite carving. Always thought about starting back up but I lack the motivation & other things got in the way.
 
I'm not talented enough to make things like this, but my younger sister is amazingly talented. Her latest project has been making burial gowns for premature babies. Not sure how she got involved with the project called "Little Angel Gowns" where they take old wedding dresses and turn them into gowns for the tiniest babies. She's made dozens. Here's an example:
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I use to crochet cadaver buntings for stillborn babies, but had to stop was getting to me.It was charity work.We had patterns to follow. I hadn't picked up a crochet hook in 50 yrs. Until my youngest son and family had a baby girl. Other grandchildren got store bought. This will be my last grandchild and it had to be something homemade.
 
Marley said:
I use to crochet cadaver buntings for stillborn babies, but had to stop was getting to me.It was charity work.We had patterns to follow. I hadn't picked up a crochet hook in 50 yrs. Until my youngest son and family had a baby girl. Other grandchildren got store bought. This will be my last grandchild and it had to be something homemade.
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Those are just gorgeous little dresses. BobW
 
I make prayer shawls which are given to folks for various reasons. I make baby layettes that go to a hospital in an area where there is much poverty. The layettes are given to new Mums if they have nothing decent to tale their babies home in. They get a complete layette, undershirt, sleeper, cardigan bootees , mitts , hat, shawl and a quilt so at least they have a start. I make quilts for a preemie ward, they are put on the top of the incubators to keep the lights out of the babies eyes, each preemie gets one and Mum keeps it after, even if the wee baby doesn't;t make it Mum gets the quilt, often I am told t goes with the a baby at the funeral. I also make baby shawls and christening gowns for folks I know . I did make the little onesies for the fish and chip babies but now the association ahs so many we don't need to do anymore right now.

XX Jeannine
 

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