Friends of Pine Ridge Reservation

Lending a helping hand to our neighbors on Pine Ridge Reservation

Sewing Group

First Families Now works with children/adults/elders in the community who sew, quilt, knit, crochet, do needlework, craft and bead. They make quilts, clothing, home items and dance regalia, and some teach children how to do so.

Please help us provide them with the tools and supplies they need for their many projects!

They can use any of the following supplies:

  • Batting
  • Beading needles, long and short, in sizes 10 and 11
  • Beading thread, size D
  • Bias tape
  • Blanket binding
  • Bobbins, any size
  • Bodkins
  • Bugle beads, any color
  • Buttons
  • Cone thread
  • Cone thread adapter
  • Cording
  • Crochet hooks
  • Cutting mats
  • Earring wires
  • Elastic
  • Embroidery floss
  • Embroidery hoops
  • Fabric markers with washout or disappearing ink
  • Fabric of any color and any type: cotton, fleece, etc.
  • Felt
  • Folders for storing patterns
  • Fringe, 18″ long for fancy dance shawls
  • Fusible web (Stitch Witchery)
  • Gabardine fabric, in 2 yard lengths
  • Glue guns and glue sticks
  • Glue, white
  • Heavy duty extension cords
  • Hooks and eyes
  • Instructional books
  • Interfacing, sew in or fusible
  • Ironing boards
  • Irons
  • Jingle cones
  • Knitting needles
  • Lace
  • Lining
  • Magnets (to pick up pins)
  • Marking pencils or pens
  • Measuring tapes, fabric and metal roll up
  • Needle threaders
  • Needlepoint canvas
  • Needles
  • Needlework supplies
  • New twin, full or queen size flat sheets
  • Pillow forms
  • Pillow stuffing (fiberfill)
  • Pin cushions
  • Pins
  • Plastic bins/storage containers
  • Plastic canvas
  • Pony beads
  • Pressing ham
  • Quilt backing
  • Quilting needles of all sizes
  • Quilting thread
  • Ribbon, all sizes, all colors
  • Rotary cutters
  • Rulers
  • Safety pins, all sizes
  • Scissors – fabric, paper, embroidery
  • Seam binding
  • Seam rippers
  • Seed beads, any color in sizes 9, 10, 11
  • Sewing baskets
  • Sewing books
  • Sewing gauge
  • Sewing machine needles, any size
  • Sewing machines [new only please]
  • Sewing patterns of all types
  • Sleeve board
  • Snaps
  • Soft leather scraps
  • Surge protectors
  • Tailor’s chalk
  • Thimbles
  • Thread, any color
  • Trim, ric rack, bias tape
  • Velcro (hook and loop)
  • Yardsticks
  • Yarn
  • Zip Loc bags, large and small for storing patterns and notions
  • Zippers

Please ship your donations via

UPS/FedEx:

Alice Phelps, Director
First Families Now
2900 BIA 27
Porcupine, SD 57772

U.S. Mail:

Alice Phelps, Director
First Families Now
2900 BIA 27
Porcupine, SD 57772

Please do not use Styrofoam packing material. New, large-size trash bags or flattened rolls of toilet paper serve well as padding and are usable.

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