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January 2023 Sew day

We had another good sewing day in January 2023, our starting off a good new year!! Trella brought an amazing assortment of sandwich making foods, that more than covered everyone’s preferences. Johnny brought a cake to celebrate January Birthdays (mine, and Margaret).
Johnny brought Freckles to share with us doing our sewing day, and also made us a new sign to start our 2023 year out right!!

Attended:
Johnny Catanzarite
Margaret Kelley
Nancy Harrison
Florence Love
Trella Whaley
Karen Bunnell
Morgan Tangren
Jennifer Boyce Ham
Accomplished:
28 – PennyButton Carrier Hammies (made by Margaret)
9 – FN Sleepsacks
2 – Wonton Flower Hammies
2 – Inside/outside Sleepsacks
8 – FN Hammies

End of the Year – 2022

We have much to celebrate with the end of 2022, and now we are still up and running together in 2023. Karen has given me the totals below of what we accomplished in 2022, and you all have so much to be proud of for this. If I remember correctly we still will passing bedding back and forth until we were able to start meeting again at Brookdale in May 2022.

Year Total for 2022:

86 – Pocket Hammies

132 – Sleepsacks

27 – PennyButton Hammies

12 – Comfort Slings

74 – Wonton Flower Hammies

95 – Toys

426 – Total Pieces

We have much to be proud of and the commitment to succeed and help shelters continues to make my heart glad.

Much love and gentle hugs to all of you that have been there through the years.

November 2022 Sew Day

Just wanted to report in that we had another successful Saturday of sewing for the Crafty Weasels.

Johnny brought his wonderful two furkids, and also the main dish.

Attendees:

Johnny

Margaret

Karen

Nancy

Trella

Florence

Accomplished:

15 – FN Hammies

11 – FN Sleepsacks

11 – Wonton Flower Hammies

4 – Inside/outside Sleepsacks

October 2022 Sew day

We had another exceptional sewing day at our favorite sewing location in Roswell.

The group was just the right size to probably be heard out in the hallways because we did have residents come in to visit and see Morgan’s two furkids.We definitely laughed, joked and still were able to get a lot completed. We were so busy, I have to admit that I didn’t take any pictures of her boys because I spent that time getting kisses, and holding them.

ATTENDEES:

Trella

Johnny

Karen

Florence

Margaret

Nancy

Morgan

You will notice our pictures are a bit unusual, Johnny couldn’t resist the wax fangs, and Trella helped with the rattie and the snake.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

7 – WonTon Flower Hammies

18 – FN Sleepsacks

16 – FN Hammies

September Sew day

Special thanks to everyone for their continued commitment to working the sewing day into their busy lives, and they continued upbeat attitude during our adjustments coming back together.

Attendees:

Johnny

Trella

Nancy

Karen

Florence

Accomplishments:

7 FN Hammies

7 FN Sleepsacks

17 Wonton Flower Hammies

17 PennyButton Hammie (made ahead by Margaret Kelley and Nancy)

3 Comfort Slings (not in pic)

July 2022 Sew Day

We had a good day of sewing at the Crafty Weasels in July. We are small but powerful!!

Morgan brought her two sweet boys for us to hold in between sewing pieces of bedding.

Attendees:

Johnny

Trella

Margaret

Karen

Morgan

Florence

Accomplished:

13 – FN Sleepsacks

10 – FN Hammies

17 – WonTon Flower Hammies

August 2022 Sew day

We had another safe and successful Crafty Weasels sewing day last week. We even had a resident join us for a hour to help and get comfortable behind a sewing machine, her name is Flora and I hope she will join us again soon.

Attendees:

Trella

Margaret

Nancy

Florence

Johnny

Karen

Accomplished/Finished:

13 – FN Sleepsacks

11 – FN Hammies

Margaret and Nancy presented me with a wonderful Beeeee Quilt!!

June 2022 Sewing Day

We had one extra step before I could send out our monthly message for our June meeting.

Johnny took home a bag of bedding that had to still be QA/QC’d before we could do the final count.

Attendees:

Johnny

Margaret

Nancy

Trella

Karen

Florence

Completed:

Wontons – 10

Sleepsacks – 19

Hammies – 19

Johnny was kind enough to bring his two furkids which everyone wanted to hold for the pictures. I posted one of the fun pictures of the antics of Freckles, Nancy and Karen.

We were a small group, but we all pitched in, wore masks, and we really got a lot accomplished.

Trella found out about a good deal on material, and posted a message on Facebook, and received money from these people to help us with our mission: Brenda Taylor, Diane Lund, Daniel Kromke, Sabbie Bovens, and also Trella. (Sabbie is from Belgium – how cool is that ??!!!!)

May 2022 Sewing day

We had a very successful Sew Day at Bookdale on Saturday, May 7th, 2022. This was our first time back in over 2 years, and we can count this one as exceptional (IMO). We were careful with masks, and taking care to beeeeee safe, and still have a good time and make progress with us all being together.

Attendees:

Margaret

Nancy (Margaret’s friend)

Trella (and 4 kittens)

Morgan (and two furkids)

Johnny

Karen

Jewelz

Sue

Florence

Accomplished:

21 – FN Sleepsacks

18 – FN Hammies

1 Comfort Sling

I’m so very proud of all that was accomplished and all the extra that each and everyone did to make this possible. We are an amazing group that can really overcome any obstacle.!!

We will continue to be scheduled for the first Saturday or each month until further notice. I will continue to send out reminders and messages as needed.

Exciting News! May 7

Hi everyone:

Great news … Lisa just ironed out things with Brookdale and they want us back on May 7thand are looking forward to having us there again. This will be our first get together in over 2 years, and we will proceed with caution and make sure we cover all bases.

We will start at 10:00. Margaret and I will probably be there about 9:30. It will be our normal craft room which we have used in the past. Masks are mandatory especially when first coming into the center. The dining room will not be open to us, but then again, we had expected this. We can all bring something to eat, or I can make a run to Dreamland BBQ and pick up enough for everyone. I will definitely need a head count for this time, specially to pick up food, etc.

Please let me know your thoughts, concerns, etc. I’ve bcc’d everyone on this email, so if you have concerns to share with others, let me know when you respond.

Just a reminder location:

Brookdale Chambrel Roswell
1000 Applewood Drive, Roswell, GA 30076
My cell if you need it: 770-401-1107

Morgan is going to bring her two boys to visit with us.

We have been doing a lot behind the scenes to get ready for this. If you let me know you will be coming, it will make it easier to know how many machines, and which different parts can be covered and completed while we are there.

Looking forward to this first time back!!

Florence