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Spring super update
Things have been a bit up in the air here – not with Stitch 4 Kids, with me personally. S4K is like a freight train rolling along the tracks and nothing’s going to stop it! We have now a total of around 1,300 dresses over the last 22 months, an amazing amount and beyond my…
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Patterns
We have 3 patterns on our Get Involved page for girls’ dresses.These are either printable on A4 paper or consist of measurements and instructions.If you don’t have a printer you can go to your local library, printshop or Warehouse Stationery. Good Deeds dress pattern The Good Deeds dress prints on the usual A4 paper and…
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Making sure every scrap is used – a new project
Meet the Yo-Yo quilt. These were most popular from the 1920’s to the 1940’s. A lot of people will not have seen them before, I read about them and had a lightbulb moment. At present we give all our scraps to our member Helen to make quilted bags and various other beauties. Helen’s feeling a…
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Mid-winter sewing update
It’s hard to believe we’re heading to the end of July rapidly. The weather’s been great for staying inside, snug as a bug, sewing your heart out. Stitching news At our last Meet-Up on 12th July we had a total of 97 dresses and 25 shorts arrive with their sewers. This was a month’s work…
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Annie’s autumn update
It’s been a busy month for Stitch 4 Kids. We have been madly making dresses and sourcing fabric. Fabric donations We’ve had several wonderful generous donations of fabric from people who have seen our posts on Facebook, these random donations are always extremely welcome, the more the better. The more fabric we have the more…
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March round-up
Little Bundles We had a special guest at our Meet-Up on the 22nd March. Kay from Little Bundles Wairarapa came along to pick up the needlecord dresses we had made for local 3 and 5 year olds.It was lovely meeting Kay to handover our dresses and we look forward to working with Little Bundles again.…
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March meet-up
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Little Bundles Workshop
On 23 February, our meet-up focussed on making needlecord dresses/pinafores for donation to Little Bundles Wairarapa.Well, I have to say first off that I never imagined the creativity and competition that our workshop caused. Safe to say we all had a lot of fun trying to make the prettiest pinny and showing them off to…
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February 2024 meet-up
A little reminder that our monthly meet up is this Friday, 23rd February. We’re having a special day creating needlecord pinafores for a local Wairarapa group called Little Bundles. These dresses will be donated to local families in need. You can read about Little Bundles on their Facebook page. Meanwhile here’s what I do with…
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First meet-up of 2024
On 26th January we had our first sewing meet-up of 2024 at St David’s Church in Carterton.We had a lovely day. Just catching up with each other was good fun for a start.Added bonus, we welcomed two new sewers, Danielle and Veronica, to join in the fun. We welcome new people coming along and sewing…
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