Saturday Sewing Sisters Grants

Saturday Sewing Sisters

The Seattle Saturday Sewing Sisters Sewing Circle will organize a series of community workshops located in various locations throughout the city. The workshops will provide the opportunity for Seattle residents from all socioeconomic backgrounds to come together to build relationships, and foster community building in a supporting and nurturing environment. There will be various creative activities and community building exercises that are free and open for all to participate. This project will be completed by December 2018.

Saturday Sewing Sisters

Seattle Community Sewing Circle currently has over 500 members of all ages who gather monthly at the First African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1522 14th Avenue, to work side by side connecting with each other while creating feminine care kits for schoolgirls who cannot afford feminine care products. This project will provide support of these efforts in 2 ways: 1) We will establish tool stations with assigned cart keepers who will train volunteers in the use of cutting tools, templates, snap presses, and other implements. (2) We will create a speakers program, developing several presentations for speaking engagements. This will enable us to be prepared to accept requests we receive from civic organizations, schools, churches, and professional associations to help educate hundreds of people in Seattle each year about reproductive health, the relationship between poverty, education, and employment for girls and women. This project will be completed by May 29, 2020.