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Jojoebi of A Bit of This and a Bit of That blog invites you to participate in a project to express love and caring. She says,

I started thinking that it would be nice to send the survivors of the

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Leonie Hartley-Hoover of Stitching with Attitude created this remarkable art quilt as a donation for Foto/Fiber 2012, which benefits the American Cancer Society. She calls it Love You to the Moon and Back. I call it crazy quilting meets modern …

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Chris of Ella’s Craft Creations has put her own spin on SharonB’s TAST challenge. She intends to make a beaded mandala each week highlighting the week’s TAST stitch. The first two are shown here. She says,

I do hope that

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Foto/Fiber 2012 is Virginia Spiegel‘s monumental effort to raise funds for the American Cancer Society. The current push is to add US$ 7,000 to the US$ 215,000 she already has raised! How does Foto/Fiber work? In brief, for a …

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Check out this announcement from Barbara Bergsten of Create Needlepoint:

My daughter, Sally King, is running her first marathon…The marathon will take place February 12th, 2012 in Jacksonville, Florida and is an amazing way to bring awareness to Breast

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Back in October, I mentioned the efforts of Shari Jensen and the Stitchmap Yahoo Group to gather and share stitchy stash with women in eastern Texas who lost their homes to widespread wildfires. This week, Shari filled me in on …

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Maureen of Maureen’s Vintage Acquisitions tells us about an awesome project by the Crazy Quilt International Yahoo Group. She says,

Over the past few months many of the women on the…group have made hearts for Betty Pillsbury to show her

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Christie of The Fabric Shopper is still working on her raffle to fund an after-school program for inner-city kids to learn to craft and sew. She says,

I have two main life experiences.  Teaching kindergarten for 6 years is the

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Doreen of The Art Needlepoint Company sent us a heads-up that the site is doing a benefit for Heifer International. This amazing organization is headquartered in my home town, and for ten years I worked for a collaborating international …

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Christie of The Fabric Shopper invites us all to participate in a raffle to support a remarkable cause. She says it’s

a community outreach program that will provide opportunities for youth (and adults) to have a safe place to come,

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Check out this heads-up about a worthy stitchy opportunity from Susan Brubaker Knapp of Blue Moon River.

Virginia Spiegel is at it again! This woman is simply unstoppable. Her “Fiberart For a Cause” has already raised more than $215,000

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Barbara Bergsten of Create Needlepoint gives us the heads-up about a nonprofit needle arts mentoring program: “A project of Helping Hands Foundation, Inc. has been established to create community partnerships that promote and encourage relationships between adults and youth, fostering …

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Bead&Button is now managing Jeanette Shanigan‘s Bead-It-Forward bead-quilt project and invites you to participate. Beaders from around the world stitch 1.5 x 1.5-in. (3.8 x 3.8 cm) beaded squares depicting the year’s theme. The squares are then joined into …

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In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, here is Frankenboobies, a work by Rebecca Martz-Burley aka NDBex. She created this embroidery as a way of helping purge her discomfort with her mastectomy scars. In a personal note, she …

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Lyanna of PurplePandaQuilts guest posted this announcement at Jolly Jabber blog:

I work with foster kids. I love it – they are always so happy and make me appreciate the things I have in life. Anyway this year for the

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