{"id":4470,"date":"2020-03-25T21:20:54","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T20:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/lichfield\/?page_id=4470"},"modified":"2024-07-24T14:46:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T13:46:12","slug":"sewing-bee","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/lichfield\/our-work\/sewing-bee\/","title":{"rendered":"Sewing Bee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our Sewing Bee is one of our most active service groups and perfect for members with those enviable textile craft skills such as sewing (hand or machine), knitting, and crochet.<\/p>\n<p>The members have mixed skills \u2013 some more advanced than others \u2013 but there\u2019s something for everyone to contribute to regardless of whether you\u2019re a beginner or not. The group is a lively one and very sociable.<\/p>\n<p>A group of around 6-10 members meets socially each month for an evening to make:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reusable sanitary protection kits for the Days for Girls project via the <a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/lichfield\/2018\/08\/26\/days-for-girls-sustainable-sanitary-pack-project\/\">Baraka<\/a> charity in Zambia<\/li>\n<li>Teddies for The Buddy Bag Foundation and for overseas charities<\/li>\n<li>Girls\u2019 dresses for The <a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/lichfield\/2020\/04\/26\/dresses-for-dignity-confidence-and-self-esteem\/\">Kori Project<\/a> in Sierra Leone<\/li>\n<li>Blankets and shawls for overseas mother and baby projects<\/li>\n<li>Special request items such as bereavement hearts, uniform washing bags which we made at home during the social isolation imposed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/lichfield\/2020\/04\/21\/weve-been-sew-busy\/\">CV-19 pandemic of 2020<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition we are open to other requests for items which we can make and donate to suitable charitable outlets in the UK and overseas.<\/p>\n<p>The group re-purposes fabrics such as cotton-rich bedding, table cloths and other household textiles for its sewing projects, and is always grateful for donations of fabric, thread, girls\u2019 T shirts, wool and sewing notions.<\/p>\n<p>If this is something you think you&#8217;d enjoy, why not <a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/lichfield\/contact-us\/\">come along and meet us<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Sewing Bee is one of our most active service groups and perfect for members&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":4456,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4470","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ 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