Sassy Scrubs Donates Hand Made Baby Blankets, Quilts, Cloth Dolls and More to Children of Chinese Orphanage

Sassy Scrubs, SassyScrubs.com, a web-based manufacturing company of hospital and veterinary uniforms located in Penn Yan, NY has been working hard on making a large impact on small children on the other side of the world in China. This spring and summer, a group of women from the business have taken on the task of creating baby blankets, bibs, pillowcases from the excess flannel and fabric scraps from their custom scrubs business. They find the most gratifying projects, however, are the baby quilts, constructed from fabric scraps, and the cloth dolls.

Penn Yan, NY (PRWEB) September 2, 2005 -- Sassy Scrubs, www.SassyScrubs.com, a web-based manufacturing company of hospital and veterinary uniforms located in Penn Yan, NY has been working hard on making a large impact on small children on the other side of the world in China. This spring and summer, a group of women from the business have taken on the task of creating baby blankets, bibs, pillowcases from the excess flannel and fabric scraps from their custom scrubs business. They find the most gratifying projects, however, are the baby quilts, constructed from fabric scraps, and the cloth dolls.

It all began on a slow week in early spring 2005 when the president of www.SassyScrubs.com, Karen Bradley decided to ask her seamstresses to sew up some baby blankets from some excess flannel fabric she had on hand. Bradley was thrilled with the results! Since she is the adoptive mom to two beautiful young daughters who were born in China, she immediately contacted the adoption agency she had worked with through that process, Chinese Children Adoption International to find out about the possibility of helping out an orphanage in China.

All the ladies in our shop have such big hearts," said Bradley. I knew we had the resources and the motivation to create needed items for these babies; all we needed were the details to make it happen."

Chinese Children Adoption International, (CCAI), based in Colorado, suggested that they could provide the name of an orphanage in northern China who could benefit from Bradleys generous offer and explained that this particular orphanage was in a rural area in China and not easily accessible to receive shipped goods. The 300 babies and children cared for by this orphanage had only rough wool blankets which were too hot in the summer and itchy in the winter. The receipt of soft, flannel blankets would be very welcome. Through further conversations between the orphanage, CCAI and Sassy Scrubs, it was also determined that the children could also use bibs and pillowcases.

This was all Bradley and the Sassy Scrubs crew needed to hear! Using the excess flannel and fabric scraps from their custom scrubs business at www.SassyScrubs.com, they got right to work. The seamstresses hurried through their regular work each day to get the chance to work on the baby blankets, bibs and pillowcases before it was time to leave. The most gratifying projects, however, were the baby quilts, constructed from fabric scraps, and the cloth dolls.

For the dolls, the Sassy Scrub crew cut out doll bodies and dresses from the excess fabric pieces, but finding a way to add a face for each doll in a safe way for the children posed a problem. Buttons for eyes could pop off and be dangerous for the young children and embroidery could be picked off the face of the doll by a bored child. Karen decided to enlist the help of her oldest daughters Chinese Language class.

Karen purchased fabric paint pens and drew an outline of the doll face on white fabric and took the bundle to class. The girls there were excited to have such a fun project to work on and used their creativity to draw faces, hair and even spectacles on the fabric which was then cut out and sewn onto the doll bodies. This proved to be a very meaningful project for this group of young ladies, all of whom had been born in China and adopted into loving homes.

Once the doll bodies had been matched with their faces and their dresses attached by the ladies at Sassy Scrubs, it was back to class for the dolls! The girls spent another class period stuffing the dolls with fiberfill. Excited voices filled the air as the fiberfill flew and each girl scrambled to find the dolls with the faces she had drawn. What fun for them to realize the dolls they were working on so hard, would soon be hugged and loved by another little girl, far away.

Next, it was time to pack up the items into sturdy boxes to be shipped off to China! In this shipment, this group of ladies and girls produced 26 bibs, 40 pillowcases, 14 quilts, 91 stuffed dolls and 142 baby blankets! Four large boxes soon made their way to the opposite side of the globe to be distributed to the babies and young children waiting in a large rural orphanage.

After the items were distributed to the children, the orphanage director sent back digital photos of the boxes being received and opened, and of the thrilled faces of the little girls receiving their new gifts! CCAI explained that some of the babies are allowed to live outside this orphanage in local foster homes. The families and babies report to the orphanage each month and on this particular month, they were met with new blankets, pillowcases and dolls! For most, these are the only possessions these little ones have to call their own.

Our customers work in medical, dental and veterinary fields helping others, everyday," stated Bradley. We are committed to doing our part as well. Since we cant send warm hugs in person to these needy children, at least we can help them stay warm at night and put a smile on their faces. That small pleasure has given us enormous satisfaction."

Bradley and the crew of Sassy Scrubs have been so gratified by this project that they already have a stack of baby blankets ready for the next shipment. It has been such a successful program here in this small shop that the employees still hurry through their work to get a few minutes at the end of the day to sew up blankets and other soft surprises, made with love, for the babies on the other side of the world.

For more information, visit the Sassy Scrubs website at www.SassyScrubs.com. To contact Karen Bradley, email her at info@sassyscrubs.com. To contact CCAI, visit them at www.chinesechildren.org.

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