This weekend I brought my girls to my local ASG meeting and we worked on a service project. We stitched together quick drawstring bags. These bags will be filled with toiletries and given to local homeless.
Service Project
These drawstring bags were super quick to stitch together and can be made with either a standard machine or a serger. We made them both ways. Lady A made an extra bag to keep from her old lacrosse tee shirt and Missy S added a fun patch to her bag. (I am secretly hoping it is given to someone with a child.) Either way, it was a great way to spend the day with the girls helping others.
Not only did they get in some stitching time but they did it for a great cause. It was an easy win for teaching the girls just how easy it is to help others in need.
Have you worked on any service projects lately? Or know of any that could use a helping hand? Please feel free to leave us a note in the comment section below.
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Comments & Reviews
It is so good to see someone doing something for another for a change and seeing you learning this to your kids. You inspired me to do something myself. i was already busy with stuffed animals for kids with cancer but they ended up unfinished in a box underneath my table because I wasn’t happy with the result. I just have to get myself together and finish it. Thanks for the inspiration.
Thank you! Thank sounds like an amazing cause. Maybe just pull out one animal at a time. I think it is wonderful to share our skills and sew with a purpose. Plus, it always feels great to give back.
~Heather
How fun AND generous!
I have made several quilt for a silent auction and two for a camp for foster children. Love teaching the grandchildren how to sew. I want to introduce them to making blankets for Linus projects as a way to give back. It is so important to teach them to give back and especially when they use their skills they are learning. Good for you! Love the idea.
I would love to do this with our Cadette Girl Scout Troop. Do you have instructions or a pattern you could share? They are looking for a silver award project … this might be a good one!
Today I made 4 more books for a little girl in our neighborhood who was born with a brain injury. Her brain cannot process books with pictures and words on the same page. I make up or summarize stories from my kids old books and cut out the pictures and glue them to the backs of the words. Little T’s family introduces 4 new books to each week (20 per month). Each book is read to her 2x per day for 7 days and is then retired to the family bookshelf or passed onto another child doing the Brain Injury Institutes program. My 5 year old helps me cut and glue and I feel that its a great way to teach him that we need to help others when we are so lucky ourselves to be healthy.
Sewing is my number one crafty love but this helps the crafty itch at the end of a long day too. Thank you for a wonderful site! Shannon (www.etsy.com/blissfulpatterns)
WOW, Shannon- you are my hero! That is fantastic! I am dropping you a line…. I would love to see these books.
~Heather
Always good to give back to the community where there is need. I help with Pillowcases 4 Smiles whenever I get some great fabrics. And I make purses for little girls for the Christmas Shoe Boxes project. I think it is special to give something handmade to someone who has little. Good job girls!