American Sewing Guild - Atlanta Chapter

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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

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