What an amazing day! We sat in the University Centre from 12 - 4 pm and sold the squares of the quilt blocks to our fellow students. Honestly I had no idea that it would go so well.
Recently there are a lot of people setting up booths and asking for money for various charities. In fact most of the booths were selling baked goods. I was worried when we set up ours because we had nothing for our supporters to take away (other then a genuine feeling of helping). I was thankfully wrong. Students here at the University of Ottawa willingly opened their wallets, even when as a student money sometimes is not that easy to come by. It made me so proud to be a student here and actually instilled a little hope that we truly are a community!
Today we raised $164.33 towards our goal of five hundred dollars. Which as I said earlier is amazing! So ......
Thank you to everyone who donated:
- Gwen M - Jaques LaRock - Love
- Ailsa Miller - Natalie Panczenko - Kristina Galinac
- Steven Boucher - Natasha LeDuke - Aileen Black
- Billie Trahan - John - Tyire Rottman
- Cassandra Granata - Guy with Brownie Fingers - Julia *heart*
- A. M - Patrice Hull-narcisse - Kawlar Ghoulimi
- McLovin' - Ainsley Saumure - H.V
- Kathryn - Lady with the Purple Jacket - Randy R
- Kyleigh - Jacob Thornhill - Breanna M
-Terry Morin - Sherich Qureshi - Daniel L
- Lindsay Carkner - Deirdre Leavinater - Papa
- A.T - Prostagma - Alyssa M.
-Olexiy - Davis Barone - Alex Webb
-Jessica Snyder - Canada touque guy - Tyrone Lehmruhl
-Robin - Joe - Steven
-Patricia - Pat Wildam - Mike and Hajar
- Lisa - Lisa - Mallory
-Zeynep - Rebecca - Devon
-Holly - Jeremie - Amira
-Malca - Steph L. - Sarah L.
- Mariah Dean - Aayesha Dean - Maxwell Sunohara
- Allan Andre - Michael Goguen - Cody Boast
- Nicole Desnoyers - Amalia Savva - Heather Allin
- Edward Roue - Patrick Herold - Danielle Morrish
- Kevin Walker - Alex G. - Sarah Jayne King
- Blessing Jimoh - Lily Rogers&Anna Lambert - C. Paquette
-Angela O - Peter Borony-Borowki - Guy with the black t-shirt
- Lisa S - Michael Berbari - Brianne Smith
I am so grateful at the generosity of you all.
Remember to let your friends know that we are collecting money tomorrow (Feb 10, 2011) from noon till four. I hope that tomorrow will be equally successful.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Monday, January 31, 2011
Fundraising Next Wednesday and Thursday
Come and support us next Wednesday and Thursday in the student centre! You can 'buy' a quilt square for a toonie which will then go towards the micro-finance NGO Drombaya. Although we will accept any donation big or small. Buying squares guarantees that we will sew that square into a quilt that will then go to a person in need. The more you buy the more we sew!!
Remember that is Feb 9-10!
Remember that is Feb 9-10!
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Newspaper
We got interviewed today!! By we I mean Sewing Patches - Sowing Progress. Cat and Ashley represented us and told them our story. It went very well and if you parlez Francais you can pick up a copy of La Rontonde on January 31st, 2011 around campus or checkout the website. Cat also has an interview lined up with The Fulcrum our english campus paper. Fantastic!
Monday, January 24, 2011
Cutting Party Two
We had another cutting party. After missing Courtney at the LRC by minutes, we finally were able to get our act together and go to the main library and cut blocks. It seems that meeting to cut as a group is difficult as this semester is very busy. Courtney, Brita, Elyse and I were able to get another 36 blocks cut and ready to go.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Quilt Number One
Okay, so I finished a quilt and as we had discussed as a group - I tried to cut up the scraps and stuff the blocks. I apparently put too much in each one as the entire thing was so heavy! It would be a great way to make a mattress though.
Photo of very puffy blocks!
Finished quilt notice the lumps...
Quilt #1 finished
So I unpicked the stitching and cut the scraps even smaller so I could put less in each one. Theoretically this was a good idea but it seems that the scraps clump together making the quilt kind of lumpy. Warm but lumpy.
Monday, January 17, 2011
Cutting Party!!
At 4pm our group, minus a few late comers, met int the Learning Resource Centre to cut fabric. Bella and Courtney had picked up the fabric from le bras- SIDA, sorted through it all and brought 4 large and heavy boxes to meet us. We cut blocks and cut blocks and cut some more.
Ashley and Cat practised sewing and completed one row of six blocks. After seeing the length in an actual sample we all decided to change the dimensions of the quilt. We also took into account that people outside would want to wrap the quilt around them, and so the width would have to be longer. Our new dimension for the quilts are: 6 blocks x 6 blocks. Which means 36 blocks for each person to take home, and sewing.
Again we cut more blocks.
The highlight of the evening was Courtney and Bella's matching outfits that they modelled for us. I will hunt down a picture for the blog here. What a productive evening!
Ashley and Cat practised sewing and completed one row of six blocks. After seeing the length in an actual sample we all decided to change the dimensions of the quilt. We also took into account that people outside would want to wrap the quilt around them, and so the width would have to be longer. Our new dimension for the quilts are: 6 blocks x 6 blocks. Which means 36 blocks for each person to take home, and sewing.
Again we cut more blocks.
The highlight of the evening was Courtney and Bella's matching outfits that they modelled for us. I will hunt down a picture for the blog here. What a productive evening!
Saturday, January 15, 2011
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