Light UP ALife

CHALLENGE USA

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Ido not think there is any reader of CE who has not been touched by cancer in some way, whether personally, a family member or friend. My dear mother died of cancer five years ago and more recently I have had

two close friends both surviving cancer with courage and dignity. So we are dedicating this challenge to all these heroes.

We are asking readers of CE and their
friends to take a peek in their closets. We
know every one of us has a jacket that we

no longer wear that is just too good to part with. So to what better use could we put these discarded treasures than to revitalise them by taking up the Light up a Life Challenge, by using our love of machine embroidery and embellishment to give new life to a discarded, once treasured jacket.

Use the Embroidered Découpage technique (See Behind the Seams page 64) to add embroidery to enhance a jacket and a purchased suitable hat or make a bandanna (see pattern sheet enclosed) and then enter the two in our Light up a Life Challenge. This will give you the chance to not only Light up a Life, but also make a donation to the breast cancer charity of your choice and win some fabulous prizes.

What better way to Light up a Life of a fellow ‘sister’ to lift her spirits than with the gift of a matching jacket and hat/bandanna to brighten her day and encourage her to

continue to Soar with the eagles.

This is very personal to Simon, Robbie and me, so with this in mind we are donating a complete set of our design CDs as part of the first prize. We then approached our good friends from RNK in the US and asked for their support, which they gladly gave in the form of product prizes and cash donations. As all the competitions so far in CE have been for Australian residents only, this time we wanted to give our ‘sisters’ from the

US a chance to participate. However if Australians would like to be part of this challenge you too can participate by sending your garments to the US address.

So to start the ball rolling and to give you some ideas, Robbie and I have had some fun giving new life to two jackets from our closets and taking the ‘plain’ out of a bandanna and embellishing a much-loved beret.