Bobbie Socks and Bows with Lil Blue Boo

Check out this quick and easy project and craft for a cause!

A back to school surprise for children in Haiti through Three Angels Children's Relief

More information at Lil Blue Boo

Craft Hope Project 13

In addition to collecting bracelets for Russian orphans, Craft Hope is also collecting handmade blankets for Tornado survivors in the southeast. Check it out! Deadline is June 15th.

Craft Hope Orphan Outreach

There is still a little time left to join up with Craft Hope and give joy to orphans in Russia!

They are collecting bracelets to take to children (age 4-18)... a great project to get your kids involved with.

June 15th is the deadline, so get crafting!!

Find out more about project #12 here.

Craft Hope Update

For those of you who have the fantastic Craft Hope book, there is an update to the Baby Kimono pattern on p69. Download the new project template here.

Check out the current Craft Hope Project: Konbit Sante. The deadline to contribute has passed, but it is so inspiring to thing what such a little donation can do.

As things continue to unravel in Japan, I am hopeful that I can find some way to craft some love and send it that way. I can't even imagine what they must be living through there...

Dress a Girl Around the World!

Little Big Girl Studio is hosting a great sew-along March 7-12. If you have the time to sew a pillowcase dress, join Vanessa and Dress a Girl Around the World! Tutorials and ideas to come over at lbg studio next week. Check it out!

Adoption Auction

Want to be a part of helping a family grow? Check out this Adoption Auction to help raise money for Team Chase!

Flood Relief

Check out the Queensland Flood Appeal Auctions, get some great stuff, and help out! Link via Noodlehead from Toni at Make it Perfect
p.s. Sorry about the lack of posts... the stomach flu hit our house last weekend. We are slowly recovering.

Gabe's Gifts

Have you heard about this? Check out Amanda's Story and get involved with a beautiful piece of patchwork.

Honor Someone!

One type of gift I've noticed growing more and more popular each year is the gift of donating to a cause in someone else's name. I LOVE this idea! Many sites will even send a notification by email to the honoree... In my opinion, this is the perfect last minute gift. I suppose you could even do this Christmas day and have your gift be perfectly on time!

My current favorite place to donate: Love146.org - working toward the abolition of child sex slavery and exploitation

Care Wear

Just discovered Care Wear.

Care Wear is a nationwide group of volunteers who knit, crochet, and/or sew, providing handmade baby items to hospitals. All Care Wear items are given free to infants, children and their parents.

Included on the site are sewing, knitting, and crocheting patterns to use for your donation!

Out of the Cold

The project for this weekend:

Make a hat, a scarf, or a blanket for someone who needs shelter from the cold. Drop it of at the local homeless shelter or simply take a walk downtown and give it to someone in need.

How about sewing a Deep Pocket Scarf with this tutorial from Delia Creates, or a warm Fleece Hat from this tutorial at Mountain Mom Report?

Create something with us? Be sure to add it to the Patchwork Collaborative flikr pool!

National Tie One On Day

How fantastic is this? An easy and thoughtful gift.. Let's do it!

From the Apron Memories website:

National Tie One On Day™ has nothing to do with purchasing anything special or even driving!

Participation is simple. On the day before Thanksgiving, November 24th this year, pause in the preparation of your own meal, wrap a loaf of bread or other baked good in an apron, tuck a prayer or note of encouragement in the pocket, and tie one on…an apron, of course! and deliver the wrapped bundle to someone without your bounty… a neighbor, friend or family member in need of physical or spiritual sustenance, a bit of recognition or just a kind word.

I know it to be true that whether you live in a high rise apartment building or on a quiet block, no matter which direction you walk out of your own front door, someone deserving of a gesture of kindness is close by.

Care to make your own apron to give? Check out this great tutorial from Prudent Baby.

Pillowcase Project

Got a little time this weekend? Sew a pillowcase for a sick child in the hospital. Sew one or sew ten and make somebody happy. Instructions and a drop-off location near you can be found here.

Create something beautiful that makes the world a better place? Be sure to add it to the Patchwork Collaborative flikr pool!

Craft Hope

I love Craft Hope! Need some great ideas to get you giving this holiday season? Check out the Craft Hope website for tutorials and donation ideas.

Today's Project

To get into the spirit of the Holidays, today my eldest and I are packing a box for Operation Christmas Child with Samaritan's Purse. Care to join us? More details here.

So far, our box only has one occupant.

Thanks to the Black Apple Doll tutorial from Martha Stewart. Are these not the cutest? And the perfect gift for a little girl.

Feel in the mood to send some handcrafted goodness to a little one around the world?

Try one of these tutorials...

the Black Apple Doll from Martha Stewart

the ever popular 90 minute shirt from Dana at MADE

a lumber jack hat from Delia Creates

a toddler backpack from indietutes

Now, we're off to fill up our box!

Create something with us? Be sure to add it to the Patchwork Collaborative flikr pool!

Knit for Orphans

Knit or crochet and donate to help keep an AIDS Orphan warm.

Find out more about Knit-A-Square here.

Time to Vote

Jo-Ann fabric and craft stores is hosting a Craft for A Cause contest. The organizations that received the most donations were Project Linus, Operation Write Home, and American Cancer Society.

It's now time to help choose the charity that will receive $50,000. Voting begins November 7 and ends on December 4, 2010.

More at joann.com.