A YEAR OF GIVING & OUR NEWSLETTER DEBUT

We are debuting our new World of Charity Stitching Newsletter with a giveaway the first week in January.  You can sign up to receive the newsletter in the left hand column.  This first newsletter will also introduce our theme for 2012 which is A Year of Giving.  We hope you'll join us.

LOVE QUILTS USA

Be sure to click on the tab above titled "Charities" and read about Love Quilts, another stitching group bringing smiles to the faces of ill children.  At World of Charity Stitching, we believe it is important to work together with the other charity groups.  The more items we make, the more smiles we create!

Do You Crochet or Knit!

If you crochet or knit, Afghans for Angels, California Chapter could use your help.  Please click on the "Charities" tab above for more information.

Peggy Won A Giveaway!

Peggy, co-owner of WOCS,  won a fabulous giveaway - some beautiful hand-dyed fabric by Jackie White of Jackie's Art Quilts.  You can visit her Etsy Shop to see all her fabulous hand-dyed fabrics.  Peggy sent this fabric over to our quilter Bonnie who is going to use it in our Birds and Crosses quilt for a lady with MS who lives at the nursing home we support.  Here at WOCS, we all enter fabric giveaways as it helps so much to win quilting fabric!

A Wonderful Fabric Donation

We received a wonderful donation of fabric from Jan Schillo today.  30 fat quarters of beautiful vintage style fabrics.  I have wrapped them on comic book backboards so I can place them on a shelf and be able to easily choose the right color.  This will help us make so many quilts, totes, and more to donate to adults and children in 2012.  Thank you Jan!

Tote Bags Are Ready For Favor House

The 30 tote bags are now ready to be delivered to Favor House and Ronald McDonald House.  Most will go to Favor House, a domestic violence shelter for the kids who may not have a wonderful Christmas.  Each bag is filled to the brim with goodies such as stuffed animals and more.  Thanks you ladies for all your hard work and donations of items for the bags.  So many smiles!!!!

We Have A Winner!

Congratulations to Nancy Sue who has won the $50 gift certificate to The Fat Quarter Shop!  An email has been sent to you.  Thank you to everyone who entered.  Please keep checking back with us as we will be having more giveaways soon.

Welcome To The Blog Hop Party! (Dec. 10 -17)

THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED!

Hello fellow hoppers!  And welcome to World  of Charity Stitching.  We are a group of ladies who make quilts, totes, walker bags, wheelchair bags, pillows and more from cross stitch squares.  The ladies pick a theme to stitch from our database and when finished, they send it in and we make quilts and more for nursing homes, domestic violence shelter, and Ronald McDonald House.

This is one of the Garden quilts which have been quilted by Bonnie and her quilting machine, Nellie Belle.  This quilt and 11 others will be deliver to Century Care Center with tote bags and more. Two quilts have already been delivered this month to Ronald McDonald House and two have already been given to Favor House for Christmas.  Favor House, a domestic violence shelter, will receive filled tote bags for all the children too.


We decided to join the Blog Hop Party first because it's just too much fun!  Secondly, we wanted to introduce ourselves to future sponsors, stitchers, sew-ers and quilters who might be interested in donating their time, talent and supplies to bring smiles to the faces of children and adults.

So beginning Saturday, December 10, here's what we would like to give away.  A $50 gift certificate to the Fat Quarter Shop donated by the Fat Quarter Shop.  Who doesn't love the Fat Quarter Shop!  These ladies have to be the most generous online fabric store especially when it comes to giveaways.  Fat quarters, jelly rolls, layer cakes and more - you can spend the whole day just browsing through all the wonderful pre-cut fabric.  And the patterns - I want them all!

Here's how to win.  Remember, do not enter until Saturday, December 10 or it will not count.

2 MANDATORY ENTRIES:

Visit the Fat Quarter Shop and sign up for their newsletter, come back here and leave a comment below that you did.

Visit our Flickr Photo Stream and check out some of the quilts and other items we have made.  Come back and leave a comment below as to what you liked best.

ADDITIONAL ENTRIES:


1.  'Like' us on our Facebook Page and leave a comment below that you did.
2.  'Follow' our World of Charity Stitching Blog and leave a comment below that you did.

If you like to cross stitch, sew, and/or quilt, we would love to have you join World of Charity Stitching at our Yahoo Group but that will NOT give you another entry for the giveaway. We are always in need of more cross stitchers, sewists, & quilters but please only sign up if you can donate your time and talent to us. Thanks!

AND DON'T FORGET TO VISIT THE OTHER BLOGS IN THIS HOP.   JUST CLICK ON THE BUTTON BELOW.

A big thank you to the Quilting Gallery for sponsoring this hop!

 

WARM QUILTS AND SMILING FACES!

Twelve warm quilts equals twelve smiling faces!  This is part of our Christmas delivery to Century Care Center.  Bonnie (and Nellie Belle) worked feverishly to get these quilted in time for delivery.  A HUGE THANK YOU  to all of the ladies who stitched the beautiful cross stitch pieces, to the ladies who sewed together the quilt tops and to Bonnie & her wonderful quilting machine (Nellie) for quilting each one.  Warms your heart just to look at their beauty and see what all of you have accomplished for those in the nursing home.  This will be a very special Christmas.

THANK YOU EVERYONE!

The holidays are fast approaching and we are in the home stretch to finish our gifts for Favor House, Ronald McDonald House, and Century Care Center. The fun has already begun however. Two quilts were delivered to Favor House and two more to Ronald McDonald House along with two pillows. Twelve therapy pillows brought smiles to the faces of seniors at Century Care.

Finishes during November include: 25 bookmarks, 18 quilt/other squares, 2 totes, 4 quilts yet to be delivered, 1 quilt top, 2 wheelchair bags, and 6 other items. Several members have contributed many gift items to help fill the tote bags made for Favor House and Century Care too. Seven new members joined us this month.

We have five quilts ready to be delivered. Eleven more are still in progress and we expect to have at least 6 of these finished in time for December delivery. The remaining five, in various stages of completion, will probably be finalized next year.

GIVEAWAY TIME!

We have a new sponsor and a giveaway.  Judy and Vicki at Quilting Lodge have given us a beautiful Moda Jelly Roll to give away.  Which Moda Jelly Roll is it????  Click on the "Giveaways" tab above to find out and to enter.  Hurry!  Giveaway only runs for one week!