American Sewing Guild - Atlanta Chapter

The Blanket Project
The Houston Chapter, host of ASG’s 2012 annual conference, invites all ASG chapters to participate in The Blanket Project which addresses a need common to all communities and provides warmth and comfort to those most in need of it. We have selected three types of blankets for our national community service project:

Lap blankets for hospice patients
Lap blankets for veterans (VA hospitals or other veterans service programs)
Receiving blankets for babies (indigent families)
We’re encouraging you to support your own communities by donating blankets locally; please find an organization in your area that can use these blankets.
Download Service Project Instructions

Finished Turtle Pillow
The Painted Turtle camp for seriously ill children.
Click here to download instructions only. Pattern is large and will be given out at
your local ASG - Atlanta Guild neighborhood group meetings.

WALTER REED DUMP BAG SERVICE PROJECT

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Create something that will make an injured American soldier’s life much easier.

Front and Back of Walter Reed Dump Bag.
Click here to view slide show of illustrated instructions for the Walter Reed Dump Bag.
Click here for written instructions.

Click on above banner to download "tips on putting this bear together".
The Memory Bears are for Compassionate Hospice of North Georgia. Pickens, Bartow, Cherokee, Forsyth, Cobb, Fulton, DeKalb, Paulding, Douglas, Fayette, Clayton, Henry and Rockdale Counties.

When one of their patients pass and the family wants a Memory Bear, their volunteer will contact the closest ASG Atlanta Neighborhood Group Leader. Compassionate Friends will deliver to the ASG member-clean clothes and a bag of stuffing. Each Neighborhood Group will furnish the sewing and the bears eyes/nose (available from Hobby Lobby or JoAnn's or on the web at crscraft.com). All Neighborhood Group Leaders were furnished with a Simplicity Bear pattern #5461, we are using the 18" size. We hope the turnaround time will be 2 weeks. The Compassionate Hospice Volunteer will be notified when the bear is finished and will come pickup the bear to deliver to the grieving family. We have agreed to one bear per patient.
Nancy Crow (pictured with the bears) took up the committment several years ago when Vitas Hospice contacted ASG Atlanta. She has singularly made over 100 bears for their hospice patients families, giving comfort to the grieving families. The Memory Bear is a Nationwide Project.
Judy Cable, ASG - Atlanta - Community Service

2010 ASG Service Project

Operation Care Package believes it's an honor to ship care packages to our deployed troops throughout the world. Please download this .pdf file for more details, pattern and directions. Drawstring Bag