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The ASG 2006 community service project – infant sleepers – was a wonderful experience in so many ways. Of
course, first and foremost, the satisfaction that comes from helping people in our local community – 93% of the sleepers
will go to Sutter Hospital in Santa Rosa. Every component of this project was donated – from the pattern we used to
the knit fabrics, stabilizers and snaps. And, these items were donated entirely by our own members, not to mention the number
of community service hours spent cutting, pressing, serging, inserting snaps, washing and packaging. That, to me, is the second
most satisfying aspect of the project – spending time with these wonderful women. We had a great time. So, once again,
special thanks to Phyllis Mayer for managing the project, as well as personally cutting out and preparing most of the sleepers
on her own! Special thanks to Billie Jane Blankinship, not just for sharing the pattern she designed, and for donating all
of the snaps, but for personally producing several sleepers out of some of the cutest cotton knit you can imagine, and inserting
little ribbons with each snap! Penny Piazza and I managed to hammer and squeeze snaps into about 25 of the sleepers, but Billie
Jane is inserting the rest on her own at home “in her spare time!” And, thanks to the many members who lugged
their sergers to Neighborhood Group meetings and stitched the sleepers together. The end result of all of this effort and
camaraderie is 65+ sleepers.
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