Hello Tammy!
Saturday October 04 1997 19:15, TAMMY MCCANN wrote to ANNE MCREARY:
 TM> I wanted to ask you if I could canvass the echo for a charity project
 TM> that I'm starting.
You posted this in the crafting echo, Tammy.  You need to talk to Pat Knox 
about the Crafting echo <
 TM> I wanted to see if any of the others in the echo
 TM> would be interested in joining with me to make up some really cute
 TM> little cross stitched dolls.  I was planning to donate the finished
 TM> dolls to homeless shelters and domestic violence shelters here in
 TM> Canada and in the US.  I am compiling a list of US battered women
 TM> shelters and homeless shelters along with the list I already have for
 TM> Canada.  I am also going to be canvassing local stores like Walmart,
 TM> FabricLand, and Lewiscraft to see if they'll donate supplies.  I was
 TM> hoping to act as a clearing house for the finished dolls and will
 TM> organize and supply the patterns for the dolls.  I will be offering
 TM> two different cross stitched dolls to make.  One is a tiny 3"
 TM> doll with a pocket-like bed that can fit in a child's pocket which
 TM> I'll be distributing to the homeless shelters and a cross stitched
 TM> topsy-turvy doll for the women's shelters.  I'm also considering
 TM> including a knitted and a crocheted doll pattern so that any crafters
 TM> who would like to participate can.
 TM> I had been thinking a lot lately about how sad children who are living
 TM> in these shelters must feel not having a home of their own or their
 TM> own toys because they've fled an abusive situation or had lost their
 TM> homes because of poverty.  I wanted to find a way to make things a
 TM> little easier for these almost forgotten children, especially now with
 TM> the Christmas season only a few months away.  I went through my
 TM> patterns and found an adorable little doll that's easy to make and
 TM> cross stitch and is small enough to fit into a child's pocket that
 TM> might cheer up the homeless children and is tiny enough to be carried
 TM> with them all the time.  I have always seen knitted topsy-turvy dolls,
 TM> but just recently aquired a pattern for a cross stitched doll.  I was
 TM> hoping to distribute these dolls to the women's shelters so that the
 TM> children that have fled their homes could have something of their own
 TM> to hold close to them.
 TM> Please let me know what you think of the idea and whether I could
 TM> either organize a stitching group to make up the dolls or if I could
 TM> post to ask anyone if they have any leftover fabric (cloth, linen, or
 TM> AIDA type material) that they could send to be used for the dolls.
 TM> Also can you please tell me who the moderator is for the Cross
 TM> Stitching echo so I can ask their permission to organize a stitching
 TM> group through them too.
*I* AM the moderator of the CROSS-STITCHING echo, Tami.  Pat Knox, and Tami 
Cool are my assistant moderators. <
Again, Pat Knox is the moderator of THIS ECHO <
Take care!
Anne McReary
mcreary@oz.net
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