The time has come once again to make “Read” Bags. Last year, our lovely stitching community stepped up to the plate and made 250 book bags for disadvantaged children in Columbia, MO.
Read more about the Jumpstart program here. Read about what you can do to support early childhood education in Columbia, MO.
We’re asking for your help again, here’s what you can do:
-Donate fabric to the “Read” Bag program: A minimum of one half yard will do the trick for one bag. You can give us as much as you want to get rid of!
- Help make the bags. Watch the video, make a bag, donate it to Jumpstart!
Right now, we have canvas panels at Zede’s Sewing Studio that you can pick up in order to make the bags. If you’re far away, you’ll have to supply your own canvas. Also, if you don’t have an embroidery machine, we’ll be embroidering “Read” panels at the shop- you can pick them up and make the bags on your sewing machine.
Enjoy the videos. If you feel inspired, make some bags! They make great gifts for friends and family as well!
Here are the embroidery designs! Choose either .PES or .ART. The 4×4 and 5×7 indicate the hoop size that the designs will fit in.
Thanks everyone!
Mallory….you are a wonderful, precise teacher! Making a “READ” bag is really simple, and now I have no excuse for not helping!
Hello, Zede’s!
Jo Connolly here. I designed the “Read” bags and wrote the article and instructions for them for Designs in Machine Embroidery magazine. I love how you’ve taken the idea and run with it for such a good cause! Keep up the good work. I’d love to see photos of your efforts. Please be in touch via my website: http://www.gardenofdaisies.com I’ll blog the photos!
Keep stitching!
Jo
Garden of Daisies Embroidery
Thanks Mallory, As I told Jo Connolly and Eileen Roche, you have done an awesome job of making this a very special project for so many young people. Learning to read is vital and helping to inspire that love of reading by providing such cute bags for those young children is way too cool! Linda