Pillows for children

I am new to the site, but sewing for me has been a joy and something I can do without deadlines as I am homebound because of ME/CFS for many years. Why I am writing is because I make small travel-size pillows with pillowcases for children who come to an Advocacy Center here in the Prescott AZ area. These are children in crisis, but this is the middle-step place, not the domestic shelter. They come in because of abuse or unstable homes. When they come, they can select one of the pillows which is theirs to keep. I try to make as many as I can for them. Why I am writing is fabric. I use what I have, and my hope is that if you have a half yard of some fabric that a child would like (nature, children's characters, etc.) and you don't need it, would you consider sharing it? The last ones I made had "sixties" symbols, fairytale castles, Disney CARS (movie), AZ Diamondbacks -- everything I can find. The Center tells me these are very good for the children. I hope so.

I will continue making the pillows as much as I can. I know the joy of these little travel-size pillows (I was given one during some harder days). Thank you for reading this. Nancy

------------------------------------- "Do not wait for leaders. Do it alone, person to person." Mother Teresa /o)\ \(o/

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Maybe you should visit thrift stores in your area for a cheap source of fabric for pillows. Shirts, skirts, sheets, etc. should give you a lot cheaper source of fabric.

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Samantha Hill - remove TRASH t

Since she said she is homebound, this would be difficult. Where I live, bag day at church rummage sales and free church rummage sales are a good way to get quite a bit of fabric for very little. Maybe a local friend could go to just a couple of these a year for her to stock up.

--Betsy

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betsy

I also emailed her and suggested she contact her local paper and try to get them to write a human interest story on her project, because I bet that would net her lots of donated materials as well.

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Samantha Hill - remove TRASH t

That sounds like a great idea. I'm sure that there are plenty of people locally who would like to donate. If she participates on a local freecycle group, that would be another place to request fabric.

--Betsy

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betsy

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