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The Reading Eagle Included Jessie’s Bags in their story about

The Heritage of Green Hills.

Jessie’s Bags - First News Paper Article we cut out this small part of that article & copied it here  for our readers..... Go to the Reading Eagle to read the entire article.....

Thanks Reading Eagle & Heritage Of Green Hills!!!!

Tote bags brighten lives of breast cancer survivors

Thursday November 5, 2015 

 

By Karen Shuey  

 Surrounded by piles of fabric and design sketches, a small group of volunteers who live at The Heritage of Green Hills comes together each week to combine their hearts and talents to bring a smile to breast cancer survivors.

From recycled materials, they make tote bags that are distributed by Jessie's Bags, a Delaware-based  organization that gives away the items to those who have breast cancer and are undergoing treatment at hospitals. Each bag is unique and handmade by volunteers.

Three-time breast cancer survivor Jessie  Moore, 86, started sewing the tote bags nine years ago when she was coping with her own diagnoses. After working in a sewing factory making children's clothing for more than three decades, Moore said she found a purpose by making the tote bags for others who were going through her experience.

"It really builds me up to hear what other people are doing to get through it all," she said during a visit this week to The Heritage. "There's not much I can do at my age to give back but I can still sew."

YEA!!!!!!!!!!

Jessie's Bags on the road to The University Of Delaware

Special thanks to -

Professor Brenda Shaffer Faculty Chair Instructor Director of undergraduate Studies at the University Of Delaware Department Of Fashion.....

Thanks To:
 

 Full time Honors Students Megan Blissick   & Jillian Silverman  who have been assisting Jessie’s Bags with our on line presence......

 They also arranged our evening of Bag making with the campus club 

SEW BABY SEW, and for this we are very grateful. 

They told me they enjoyed the real life hands on experience of applying things they read about or study about. Their participation in our project helps us have an interchange of ideas and skills.

Thanks to the sponsorship of the campus club Sew Baby Sew, A group of 20-30 students joined Jessie in her bag making from 4:30-6:30 on The University of Delaware Campus at Allison Hall Yesterday.

Jessie quickly got to sewing on one of the machines to show the ladies how she makes bags. We had students with no sewing skills and some experts all join our team for a few hours. 

The non-sewers pieced together fabrics & designed pieces to complete bags. Some cut out linings and we now have bags ready to sew. We notice the more volunteers we have the more we accomplish. It also motivates us to keep working. Thanks to all who joined  us.

We are enjoying the partnership with the University Of Delaware and all the students that have been supporting Jessie’s Bags!

Hopefully .... You will see more of these Jessie's Bags  events in the future!!!!

Jessie’s Bags is on the road!