Early December is the expected time of the year that Black Mountain hosts their Annual Deck the Trees Event for the benefit of the Swannanoa Valley Christian Ministries Fuel Relief fund. This year the requests for heating assistance is expected to be greater than in years past and because of the Corona Virus Pandemic, the […]

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It may have been on Facebook, I’m not sure, but a challenge to wear a pearl on Election Day, 2020 in honor of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sent out to our citizens. This is what I’ll be wearing in her honor November 3, 2020: I don’t remember where I got the pattern […]

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Its with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to Leigh Jones who passed away June 12, 2020. Leigh was the oldest person I have ever known personally who was a tatter. I met her about 10 years ago when she came to our first Thread Bears group meeting. She was 85 then and had […]

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In the several months since we sent the tatted collar to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, we have become assured that while we have heard nothing from the Justice, we have also not received the package back. So we are sure that the Justice has received it. Understanding that she is a very busy lady, we […]

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Over the past years, we as a group have undertaken a number of projects. The Deck the Trees annual event at the Monte Vista Hotel in Black Mountain has been the biggest one over all. There have been several articles about this event that can be found here from 2018, and here for 2019. But […]

Tags: Collar, Completed projects, group participation, Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Filed under: 2019, December, Designing, General Posts, Projects

As a group, we have been involved in 2 projects over the past several months. I’m only going to address one of them at this time because it’s time for the Monte Vista Hotel’s benefit to the Swannanoa Valley Christian Ministries known as “Deck the Trees.” The Thread Bears have been a part of this […]

Tags: Christmas, Deck the Trees, event, tatting
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