If you aren't familiar with Blogathon, it's an annual event where bloggers post every half hour for a full day raising money for charity in the process by getting people to sponsor them for this feat. This year, that day is July 25, 2009 starting at 0600 PDT/1300 UTC. For those who know me, just getting up by 6 am (heck, by 9 am for that matter) takes a miracle, so I suggest that my actually blogging at 6am at all would be donation worthy!
I'm planning to work on some charity stitching projects and blog my progress. I made a personal commitment to stitch 3 different charity projects at the beginning of this year, so I'm going to see how close I can come to completing that commitment in one day.
The charity I'm blogging for is The Embroiders' Guild of America (EGA), which is involved in education about and preservation of embroidery as an art and craft. I'll have another post about why I picked them in detail, but I've been particularly impressed with what I've seen of their programs for educating and involving children in embroidery. (Unfortunately, there is very little on their website about this, but I've seen a number of interesting articles in their publications, and they offer classes for adults in teaching embroidery to children.)
The three projects I'm going to try to work on are "Kissing Pillows" for service members and their families (I committed to 2 tops), a bookmark for a children's literacy project , and a Christmas ornament to be auctioned off to raise money for breast cancer research. These are all projects that my needlework guilds support.
I hope that you will be inspired to support the EGA or join me in stitching for charity. Co-bloggers with similar interests are encouraged! Feel free to comment below if you'd like to join this blog or are doing something similar yourself!
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