Stitches of Love

Happy Mother's Day to all our amazing Mom's!  You all do so many things for your kids and then spend time creating items for all our kids making all of us Moms.   We 'sew' appreciate you.  Before I get into all our news, I have a request.  We have a volunteer who lives in Gilbert at the [...]

Hi everyone, We will have our Open House this Saturday and while I don't know of any parades (sorry about last month) but I do know that I-10 will be closed in the tunnel.  So plan a different route, extra time and patience.  I hate it when the tunnel is closed!  We will not be having [...]

Hi everyone! Our next Open House will be Saturday, March 12, 2022, from 9-12 and NO MASKS!  Fingers crossed we stay on this course going forward.  We are not going to have a sit down meeting yet due to the boxes in our area, we did ship out our boxes but Robert needs to create hygiene [...]

Hi everyone, Before we chat about Open House, a few reminders 35th Ave Sew and Vac sew day 4th Sunday of every month (always the 4th even if there are 5 Sundays in the month)         We have not had many attend this excellent opportunity, last month no one came.  You can come anytime [...]

Happy New Year!! With the omicron variant being highly transmissible affecting both vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals, we have decided to cancel this month's Open House.  We just felt that it is too soon after Christmas and New Years for us to get together.  Hopefully everything will calm down and we will be good to go for [...]

Hi everyone, I wanted to give you the latest inventory and updates that we didn't have when I sent out the reminder Open House email. 64 Santa bags were created at home by various volunteers, thank you all so much and OCJ Kids were very happy! Attached is our latest inventory.  As you can see, there [...]

Hi everyone! We are back to our "new" normal for Open House, inventory drop off and supply pick up from 9-12.  Unfortunately I don't see us having a sit down meeting until at least 2022.  Mask wearing is your comfort level and we are still asking that you don't bring a guest so we can minimize [...]

Hi everyone! Can you believe we are starting our 2022 distribution!  We do have a big favor to ask, if you can, please hang on to your inventory until October. Why would we ask that you say! We are so full!  We have every box from the 2021 distribution in our area and we have started [...]

Hi everyone! Can you believe Saturday will be our last Open House for the kids for this summer! Please plan on stopping by between 9-12 to drop off your inventory and pick up supplies for our September Open House, we will not have another drop off until September.  As with our previous months, we will not have a meeting, [...]

Hi everyone, just a few things: April inventory is on the website and what do we need? Girl clothes sizes 8-12, dresses, tops/skirts, whatever you want to make.  Please remember that the deadline for inventory drop will be the June 12 Open House. A sad bit of news.  One of our volunteers, Donna Casanova passed away on [...]