Nov
30
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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Nov
22
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 …
Nov
20
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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Nov
14
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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Nov
3
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 …
Nov
1
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 …
Oct
23
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 …
Oct
10
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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Oct
2
Shari Jensen dropped us a note to let us know that the Stitchmap Yahoo Group is collecting needlework items to share stash and hope with stitchers of eastern Texas who lost their homes in recent fires. She says,
There is a
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Sep
29
Etsy seller Berene Campbell of Happy Sew Lucky is raising funds for breast-cancer research with sales of this original embroidery pattern. She says,
I designed this pattern for my friend Krista Hennebury’s team “Kickin’ Cancer with Creativity” in the Walk to
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Sep
23
Jane of Chilly Hollow Needlepoint shares this announcement:
Needle Bug in Montgomery, Alabama is participating in the September fund raiser for Children’s Hospital in Birmingham. Pick up an ornament kit for $25 to stitch for a child visiting the Children’s
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Sep
7
In association with the Dream Rocket project, teachers are asked to engage their students in creating artwork to be displayed at the 2012 National Art Educators Association Conference in New York City March 1- 4, 2012. Promotional materials note,
The Dream Rocket
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Sep
7
Stitchers around the world contributed to Hearts for Christchurch, an effort to express loving and healing thoughts for those affected by last year’s devastating earthquake in New Zealand. Organizer Evie Harris posted,
Two heart shapes sewn together, stuffed or not,
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Sep
3
Sherri Lynn Wood‘s work continues on her communal mourning project in which names of American and Allied soldiers and Iraqi civilians who have died in the war in Iraq are hand stitched on coffin shaped patches and appliquéd onto prayer banners. She …
Aug
31
Yes, those are needlework portraits of vulvas. If the image makes you uncomfortable, please keep reading anyway.
The Embroideries Campaign is not about shock value or sexuality, per se. It is about bringing an end to female genital mutilation. The …







