2013-What A Banner Year for WOCS

2013 was our best year yet!  We brought smiles to a lot of faces this year as more and more members are participating in our charity work.  The group continues to grow in size as we had a net gain of 112 members over last year.

Highlights include:  Our Valentine's project netted 78 Valentine cards, 67 bookmarks, and a multitude of other gifts.  Our holiday card making yielded 140 holiday cards.  Throughout the year and especially at holiday time, we delivered: 55 quilts, 32 therapy pillows, 86 wheelchair/walker bags, 73 totes,  56 bookmarks, and 59 other stitchery gift items as well as many purchased tote bag items to Century Care Center, Berry Hill Manor, Favor House, Ronald McDonald House, Baptist Cancer Institute, Santa Rosa Kids House, and three special request individuals.  

Designers Marti Harrington, Renate of Stickeule, Brooke of Brooke's Books, Ellen of EMS, Loretta Oliver, of Stitching the Night Away,  generously helped us by allowing us to use their patterns free or at a significant discount.

This past year our group stitched, sewed and quilted many items for charity.  We had a variety  of quilt themes open, such as:  Stars, Ballerinas, Wild Animals, EMS Animal Babies, Patriotic,Veggies, Cats, Cars, Stitcher's Alphabet, Nautical, Patriotic, Houses, Sunbonnet Sues, Chickens, Snowflake, Autumn Leaves, and many more. 
  
Several generous businesses contributed to prizes for our blog giveaways, including:  Fat Quarter Shop, Everything Cross Stitch, Riley Blake Designs, Quilting Lodge, Auriful, Vee and Company, Tie Dye Diva,  Green Fairy Quilts, and members of WOCS.

The group is off to a good start already in 2014, as we encourage our members to join in and participate in whatever way they are able, empowering WOCS to do even more good things for the people we serve.

"Santa" Delivers Lots of Gifts to the Seniors

Today, "Santa" delivered goodies to the BerryHill Nursing Home, in Santa Rosa County, FL.  Another "Santa" Melanie delivered gifts to Century Care Center in Century, FL 


WHEW!  What a lot of items are being delivered today... so many quilts, totebags, cards and all kinds of goodies that were made for the Seniors.  A special thanks goes out to all our members who crafted, sewed, stitched, quilted and sent in homemade items, donations and other supplies to make this year's delivery to the nursing homes so very special.  The Seniors are going to love them all.
 









Here is a list of today's deliveries..
Century Care Center 

 









8 filled Walker Bags

15 filled Tote bags

8 Small filled bags

pillows

cards

Quilts:

Snowflake

Chicken

Cats

Veggie #2

SunBonnet Sue

Nautical # 2

Houses #2

Berryhill Care Center 

20 filled Tote bags

pillows

cards

Quilts:

Butterfly

Houses #1

Village

Veggie # 1

Nautical # 1

4 Seasons w/birds

4 Seasons 

Stars

Cars

Flowers

Bonnie, one of our quilters (and the author of this post) said, "As this year comes to an end, I would again like to thank you all for being such a important part of WOCS... We have delivered quilts, pillows, totes and all kinds of goodies to the Seniors and children all year long. The items that are made are amazing, so much love goes into each and every piece that is crafted,  sewn or stitched.. I am so glad to be part of this group that shares their talents to those who need a smile. Many of our members have encountered personal problems or medical issues of their own this year, yet they continue to share their time and talents with others.  Here is wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Autumn Quilt Theme

Our current theme for a quilt (or two) is Autumn.  The senior who receives this gift will be able to cuddle under this quilt on cold winter evenings.  Some of our cross stitchers are still working on their squares.  

If you would like to join us in stitching some of these quilt themes, please go to our website and join. If you think you might like to join but have too many obligations right now, put our name, World of Charity Stitching, on your computer calender as a reminder and join in the stitching in the new year.  It is a lot of fun, very rewarding, and relaxing. 

We create a lot of beautiful quilts, but we couldn't do that without the help of so many of our stitching and quilting members.  

If you have any questions, please post on this site and we will try to answer as soon as possible.  

 

Don't Forget to Enter our Giveaway

 
This Giveaway has closed.
Winners chosen by Rafflecopter are:
Barbara Woods and Beth Talmage, who have both been contacted via email.

Don't forget to enter the Green Fairy Quilts sponsored giveaway at World of Charity Stitching.  (ends Nov. 25th)
Green Fairy Quilts is offering one prize to two separate winners:   Moda Junior Jellies - either the Celebration Boy or Celebration Girl by Bunny Hill Designs.  Enter by clicking on the Giveaway Tab on our blog.

GIVEAWAY Sponsored by Green Fairy Quilts

Judi and Clint, owners of Green Fairy Quilts,  are offering one prize to two separate winners:   Moda Junior Jellies - either the Celebration Boy or Celebration Girl by Bunny Hill Designs.  

There are so many items to choose from at Green Fairy Quilts:  Fat Quarter Bundles, Quilt Kits, Quilt Patterns, Pre-Cuts, Charm Packs, Jelly Rolls, Layer Cakes, and many more.   Go to their website and take a look at some of their wonderful products.   

Please enter by clicking on the Giveaway Tab above.

Please leave a valid email address so you can be contacted if you are a winner.

Wounded Warrior Patriotic Quilt

Our group, World of Charity Stitching, is currently working on cross stitch squares for a Patriotic Quilt.  This quilt will be donated to a wounded warrior, Dustin Tuller, of Milton, Florida, who lost both legs in Iraq in 2004. If you would like to read more about Dustin, please go to this web site.  

http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=27274

We hope to have more than 12 squares; if we do, the second quilt will be donated to a Veteran in a care facility.
 

 

A Young Boy Who Loves to Cross Stitch

Gavin, who is 10 years old, is a very caring, giving child.  He is in the 4th grade, is very involved with Cub Scouts, wants to learn to play the guitar, enjoys playing baseball, and really enjoys playing with his cousins now that his family has moved to WA. 

Gavin's mom, Charity, has been stitching for our group, World of Charity Stitching, since 2010.   Gavin started cross stitching when he was seven years old and has become quite the expert stitcher.   Recently he has stitched (along with his mom) several farm squares that they have donated to our group, to be made into a quilt for a child.

These are the farm squares stitched by Gavin and his mom, Charity: 
 
We hope that Gavin will continue to stitch as he gets older and will continue to enjoy it.