Archive for the 'Philanthropy' Category

Sewing + Librarians = Fun

Published on April 12, 2010 in Events, Philanthropy and Sewing. 0 Comments

Lakewood Public Library is going green! They are hosting a free event where you can make your own tote bag to carry all of those awesome finds from the nooks and crannies of the library… or the grocery store, or the market, or anywhere else, really.

Join us on Saturday, April 17th from 9am to noon. You can either volunteer with us to be a seamster and assist registered participants in sewing their totes or you can register yourself and learn how to make a tote! We are really excited to be a part of this event… and hope you’ll join us in making Lakewood a more awesomer place to craft…  and read.

To register or volunteer please contact the Lakewood Public Library at 216.226.8275 or stop in to Stitch Cleveland and we’ll be happy to pass your info on to the library!

We Challenge You…

Published on March 25, 2010 in Church of Craft, Customer focus, Events and Philanthropy. 0 Comments

This month during our Church of Craft craft-on we will be participating in a great charity project – The 1 Million Pillowcase Challenge:

Calling all quilters, sewers and crafters! American Patchwork & Quilting is challenging you to join our efforts to Make a Pillowcase, Make a Difference. Every pillowcase can make a difference in your community. A pillowcase can provide comfort for a cancer patient, hope for a foster child, encouragement for a battered woman, or beauty for a nursing home resident.

We’ll all be getting together to work on our pillowcases. We have many donated fabrics for you to use or you can bring your own or purchase some here at Stitch Cleveland. Bring your machine if you have one and a basic sewing kit (scissors, thread, etc…) and we’ll make space for you at our last event in this location. Check out the 1 Million Pillowcases Challenge website for free patterns and more information about this great event.

Our event will be on Saturday, March 27th from 1 – 4pm. See you then!

Keep Cleveland Warm this Winter

Published on December 10, 2009 in Philanthropy and What's new. 0 Comments

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The Giving Tree

Published on December 5, 2009 in Events and Philanthropy. 0 Comments

nakedtreeWell, it’s that time of year again! Time to bust out the holiday decorations and drive around the neighborhood oo-ing and ah-ing at the neighbor’s pretty lights! Stitch Cleveland has been busy putting up our tree, too.

We left it naked so that you can warm it up with your generous donations for the Cleveland area families that would otherwise be cold this winter. We will be busy making sewn, knit, crocheted, and felted items to add to our tree and hope that you join us! On December 21st we will donate our ‘decorations’ to the West Side Catholic Center’s Giving Tree Program.

Please drop any items that can help a family this winter. Although we are focusing on handmade items such as sweaters, socks, scarves, hats and mittens for adults and children, your generosity is welcomed in any form. See www.helpcleveland.org to see more items to help Clevelanders this winter.

What a great way to teach your children to be generous. Help them make a simple fleece scarf to hang on the tree!

MetroHealth and Stitch Cleveland

Published on October 17, 2009 in Events, Philanthropy and Quilting. 0 Comments

Stitch Cleveland is partnering with MetroHealth and The Cleveland Institute of Art to contribute to the Aids Memorial Quilt. Together, we will be contributing 20 new panels to the quilt that is displayed throughout the country. 20 Cleveland area families will be chosen to team up with artists from CIA and volunteers from Stitch Cleveland to create and assemble 3′ x 6′ panels that will then be used to create a 12′ square quilt to be displayed in Atlanta, GA and be a part of the traveling exhibit!

Stitch Cleveland is excited to be a part of this project. Janome has kindly donated machines for our use. Sulky has donated supplies such as thread and stabilizer. We are still looking for volunteers to help the families with their creations. Sewing experience is great but not a necessity… we will also need quilt sitters, sketchers, and much more! For more details about volunteer opportunities with Art, Activism and Aids you can click, call or stop in!

Cleveland Knit Out & Crochet

Published on October 6, 2007 in Crochet, Events, Knitting and Philanthropy. 2 Comments

Don’t forget about this weekend’s big event! We will gather for the Knit Out around noon at Voinovich and have five hours of fun with needles… and hooks. Among the other stores and guilds that will be representing: River Colors Studio, Knitting on Square, the North Coast Knitting Guild. Prizes for attendees were donated by The Bag Smith, FiberWorks, and Knit Wit Knits.

This community event will give you a chance to catch up on your knitting or crochet, learn how to knit or crochet at our teaching table, or meet some guilds and clubs you didn’t know about. We will be doing multiple demos throughout the day including Shibori and crocheting with beads. You can even donate your time tomorrow to helping us with our Warm-Up America squares!

See you there!

Quilt Pink & Knit for the Cure weekends

Published on July 25, 2007 in Knitting, Philanthropy and Quilting. 0 Comments

Come together at Stitch Cleveland two weekends this September to raise funds for breast cancer research!

September 21-23 is Quilt Pink Weekend, a fundraising event created by American Patchwork & Quilting magazine to benefit Susan G. Komen for the Cure. In 2006, more than 1,000 shops across the country held Quilt Pink events, uniting 100,000 stitchers of all ability levels in the fight against breast cancer.

During Quilt Pink Weekend, stitchers make quilt blocks at local shops. Stitch Cleveland and other retailers nationwide will piece them together and send the finished quilts to American Patchwork & Quilting magazine for an online auction in May 2008. (Check out the current 2006 quilt auctions here!)

The weekend after, September 28-30, is Stitch Cleveland’s Knit for the Cure event. Shop co-owner Shannon Okey has been raising money for breast cancer research as part of Team Knitty for the past four years. Team Knitty, founded by Knitty.com magazine editor Amy R. Singer, participates in the annual CIBC Run for the Cure in Toronto, where Knitty is based. Last year, Team Knitty raised over $13,000 for the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation.

To encourage participation in both events, Stitch Cleveland is raffling off two large specialty gift baskets designed to appeal to sewers and knitters, including several hundred dollars’ worth of class gift certificates, craft materials and other items. Raffle entries can be earned with financial donations to Team Knitty via the link above and by volunteer hours at both Stitch Cleveland events. Stay tuned for other opportunities to earn raffle entries, too.

We’d like to encourage local HR managers who want to combine a team-building exercise with a worthy cause to contact the shop to set up times for their employees to participate. (See here for more information on these kinds of activities at Stitch Cleveland).

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