Sewing items for the community is an activity enjoyed by many ASG members and chapters. Community service is not required of any ASG chapter.  However, reporting the work our chapter does is helpful to our chapter and the whole organization in success-fully obtaining donations, grants, and positive publicity for ASG.

The Plano Chapter has undertaken to support the Newborns-in-Need Organization as of 2007. Consequently our members have been sewing infant shirts, caps and demise wraps. These items are desperately needed in our metroplex and yet they take so little time to construct. The Neighborhood Group, Material Girls, is actively involved in contributing garments for this organization.

In May, 2008 the membership will meet to sew anti-ouch pouches for the ASG National project for the Chicago, IL chapter. This pouch is sewn together somewhat akin to a pillow with a strap. It is then lightly filled with fiber-fill and “worn” by women recovering from breast surgery.  The directions for making this bag can be found on the ASG website www.asg.org.