Quilt Pink & Knit for the Cure weekends
Come together at Stitch Cleveland two weekends this September to raise funds for breast cancer research!
September 21-23 is Quilt Pink Weekend, a fundraising event created by American Patchwork & Quilting magazine to benefit Susan G. Komen for the Cure. In 2006, more than 1,000 shops across the country held Quilt Pink events, uniting 100,000 stitchers of all ability levels in the fight against breast cancer.
During Quilt Pink Weekend, stitchers make quilt blocks at local shops. Stitch Cleveland and other retailers nationwide will piece them together and send the finished quilts to American Patchwork & Quilting magazine for an online auction in May 2008. (Check out the current 2006 quilt auctions here!)
The weekend after, September 28-30, is Stitch Cleveland’s Knit for the Cure event. Shop co-owner Shannon Okey has been raising money for breast cancer research as part of Team Knitty for the past four years. Team Knitty, founded by Knitty.com magazine editor Amy R. Singer, participates in the annual CIBC Run for the Cure in Toronto, where Knitty is based. Last year, Team Knitty raised over $13,000 for the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation.
To encourage participation in both events, Stitch Cleveland is raffling off two large specialty gift baskets designed to appeal to sewers and knitters, including several hundred dollars’ worth of class gift certificates, craft materials and other items. Raffle entries can be earned with financial donations to Team Knitty via the link above and by volunteer hours at both Stitch Cleveland events. Stay tuned for other opportunities to earn raffle entries, too.
We’d like to encourage local HR managers who want to combine a team-building exercise with a worthy cause to contact the shop to set up times for their employees to participate. (See here for more information on these kinds of activities at Stitch Cleveland).
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Heidi Massingill is an experienced dressmaker and fiber artist, her design studio specialized in special occasion wear and fine tailoring. Her resume includes The Phantom of the Opera, The Cleveland Ballet, Peter’s Store for Women in Chagrin Falls, Margaret’s Fine Tailoring for Women in Rocky River, The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus and more. She also designs and creates a line of children’s knitwear, Chikadee Handknits, and holds Knitting and Crochet Instructor certification with New York’s 
Megan Engelmann is a Cleveland-based fashion designer and graduate of Kent State University’s Shannon Rodgers and Jerry Silverman School of Fashion Design and Merchandising. She has been sewing for nearly twenty years and specializes in women’s clothing design and illustration. As a working fashion and accessories designer for a large Ohio-based company, Megan keeps her skills as sharp as her scissors! She has been teaching sewing, illustration, and design for six years.
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