Service Day & General RS Broadcast

We are going to have a humanitarian service day on September 29, 2012, 2 PM - 6 PM, followed by dinner and then the General Relief Society Broadcast.

We will be working on several projects at the stake center including sewing receiving blankets, making baby booties (new and easier pattern!), tying baby quilts, and painting wooden toys (helicopters and airplanes).

We need each ward to bring 2 sewing machines for the sisters to use.

Please ask your sisters for donations of flannel for the receiving blankets. We need 1 yard of flannel for the front or the blanket and 1 yard of flannel for the back, so 2 yards of flannel in 1 yard pieces. Also ask them to bring their best, sharpest scissors to use. We have the rest of the materials we need.

We will also be collecting knitted hats for newborns. If you would put the patterns below out to your sisters and ask any knitters if they'd make a cap or two and bring them to our activity or turn them in to you that would be great! The caps take a couple of hours max to make and use less than a skein of yarn.Tell the women to be creative and use the scraps of yarn they have left over from other projects!

http://www.themakeyourownzone.com/2011/03/knitting-newborn-hats-for-hospitals.html

http://alliknitts.blogspot.com/2008/02/baby-hats-for-hospital.html

http://www.knitpicks.com/cfBlog/post.cfm/good-for-goodness-sake-draft

Dinner will be served around 6:30 and the broadcast starts at 8.  It sounds like a long day, but you can stay as long or short as you want, we just want you to join us.