Hello beautiful people, Christmas is upon us, and I'm happy to see all the beautiful projects that you all have been posting for the community contest.
Well, I do not have any Christmas trees to decorate and have no idea if I will be decorating my home that Christmas. This depends on many things, as seamstresses will be busy loads of sewing this time. It's probably uncertain if we will ever get a little time as Christmas approaches.
I would be submitting a very humble and simple project for the contest. It is one of the projects that gets me excited to work on. It might be a simple task, but the joy and hope it brings to these children is what makes me feel so fulfilled and excited.
Every year we make it a point of duty to visit the orphanage and give them various donations, such as clothes, food items, and toiletries; we make sure that they do not feel left out of the celebrations in this season of love.
When we went there last year for this exercise, we had sewn and gone there with a good number of these hats, but the estimated number we took there wasn't enough for all the children. We were surprised to see so many children, including babies, in that home. It's so unfortunate that people still throw away their babies because of hardship, and every now and then a newborn baby is found in the refuse dump and taken to the home.
The plans for this year's program haven't fully commenced; prices of commodities are so high, and we are stuck about how to put the resources together for the donations. Our WhatsApp group made it a point of duty to encourage members to donate whatever they can in terms of skills or material resources. We often do not go outside the box to ask for donations so that people will not see us as beggars. Whatever good deeds we wish to do, resources are usually gotten from volunteer members.
Having gone out to ask for prices of some basic things, I realized that it is better to sew these caps when we find resources, as it will be cheaper than buying the ready-made ones.
In the midst of this uncertainty, with Christmas just a few days away, I decided to start with sewing the Christmas caps for the children. Including the babies among them who will be getting smaller sizes of the caps.
My baby sister volunteered one of her Christmas dresses for me to recycle. She has outgrown the dress, but the quality of the fabric is still good; let's make good use of it.
I started with losing the seams and hoping for which angle to cut the caps out so that the seam lines won't be scattered along the caps.
Next I measured out an estimate of the teenager's head and cut out of the dress.
The hemming of the dress was then converted to the cap base.
And then I stitched in the pom pom at the tip. I was able to make 3 caps out of my little girl's dress.
Then I did a hand washing to clean them up.
The other kids at the orphanage have their caps, and if we can get a few more, there will be enough to go round for the kids, including the babies among them.
I have lost most of the pictures from last year's event but have this one from one of the caps I have sewn for the kids. We had a mini party with them, and everyone was happy.