In the spirit of the coming Thanksgiving, I decided to take part in a little project through a new blog, Mama to Mama, which was created by one of my favorite blog authors, Amanda Soule of SouleMama. The purpose of the new blog is to reach out to other moms throughout the world using craftism...giving through making, rather than monetarily. The first proposed idea was the Caps to Cap-Haitien Project, and it's goal was to make cotton jersey hats for newborn infants, which would be put in home-birthing kits in Haiti. To learn more about the project and why this is needed, see the above link, or check in my side-bar. It's such a great thing.
Here are my completed hats. Despite some initial insanity with sewing knit fabric on a regular machine, I had such a nice experience doing this. It felt so good to take part in a project which I knew would help other mamas...women like me. Although our backgrounds and needs are different, we all need help sometimes. As I was working, I was thinking about all the little children who would be wearing these caps, and sewing those little thoughts into each one.
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