Women form an assembly line of pillowcases to help the community
The Regina group donates pillowcases to women's shelters
About twice a year, a group of enthusiastic sewers make use of leftover, donated fabric. Members sew pillowcases and give them to women's shelters.
"They need bedding," said Marlene Smith-Collins, a member of the Connecting Thread sewing group. "We do pillowcases mainly because often moms show up at the shelters, and they don't have anything. They have the clothes on their back, they don't have their toys, they don't have anything depending on how they left their home. If they're given a pillowcase, that means they have something that belongs to them, and they can keep these."
The group of volunteers forms one long assembly line, and makes as many pillowcases as they can in three hours.
"This is called a ten minute pillowcase, and we can probably do them in three with our assembly line," Smith-Collins said. This year the group made 158 pillowcases in five hours.
The women involved with Connecting Thread sew other donation items including quilts for the hospital.
The pillowcases will end up at Kate's Place, Isabel Johnson Shelter, Regina Transition House, WISH Safe House.