Community Service

Thank you to everyone that contributed with any of our projects this year!! Sewing for our community has been a huge success!

Our goal of 250 drawstring bags for the troops has been reached!! Thank you all for your hard work to complete this service project. We will be mailing the bags to Operation Care Package soon. This is the non-profit organization that receives, fills, and distributes the bags to all branches of the armed forces.

Children’s clothing (any size)is always needed (currently warm clothing and boys wear is appreciated) for the foster children project in San Mateo; as are small, simple kids quilts (45” x 45”). The quilts do not need to be machine quilted, they can be tied. They must be washable. These are given to the Quilts for Kids organization that distributes them to the San Jose Family Shelter and to Stanford Hospital.

Denise is contacting all the other organizations we work with to see what their needs are for 2010. Keep watching this site for updates. If you know of an organizaiton that could use some help, please contact us.

Past Community Service Projects

Pillowcases, bathrobes, and totes for JW House,

Santa Clara

“Memory Bears” and neck pillows for Vitas Hospice

Chemo hats/scarves/turbans, heart pillows, and “ouch

pouches” for the American Cancer Society

Sleeping pads for the kitties at the Humane Society

of Silicon valley.

Pillowcases for the children at Help One Child in Los

Altos and the Bill Wilson Center in San Jose

Pillowcases and totes for JW House, Santa Clara

Children’s clothing and pillowcases for the Children’s Fund Program of San Mateo County

Summer sew camp with the Eastside San Jose Boys and Girls Club

Quilts for Quilts for Kids, serving Stanford Hospital and the San Jose Family Shelter

Adult shirt covers for Sunnyview Retirement Center

Drawstring bags and cool neckties for our U.S. military troops

Pillowcases for Ronald McDonald House

PJ’s for the Shriner’s Hospital in Sacramento, CA

All neighborhood groups are involved in our ongoing project to make children's clothing to be donated to the San Mateo County Foster Children. Any size from 6 months up to teens is accepted. Those outfits that are extra special are saved by the program director for any of the children who have a special occasion clothing need. We have sent well over 150 garments to them over the last couple years.

We have an ongoing need for tote bags, dimensions 10” x 13” with short handles that are sewn in kid friendly fabrics. These are used by JW House to give children to carry coloring books/crayons to take with them to the hospital. If you have a coloring book to put in it, that would be especially nice.

Also, JW House needs more pillowcase that are made from fun, children’s fabrics. And, an ongoing request for drawstring bags or tote bags that are about 15” square. These are used for the adults to carry toiletries, etc. while they are there.

The Mid-Peninsula neighborhood group has an ongoing project of sewing pillowcases for the Help One Child group in Los Altos.

If you have any questions regarding Community Service, please contact us for more information. We gladly accept any items year-round and welcome any new ideas that you may have, or know of any group that is in need of specific items.

Patterns are available for most projects if you would like to make any of these items on your own.