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Sew N So’s Sewing Club Celebrates 50th, Honors
Jeannette Bradley
Sojourner’s Truth Staff
On December 10 at the
Garden Lake Hall, the members of the Sew N So’s Sewing Club
celebrated the club’s 50th anniversary and also
honored the remaining charter member, Jeannette Bradley.
Sew N So’s was established
in 1966 by the late Louise Parks who was a home economics
teacher with Toledo Public Schools. The club is a
non-professional organization comprised of women who
exchange ideas and techniques in sewing, crafts and home
arts. Members meet monthly, except during the summer. During
their meetings they show their latest creations and and
exchange various techniques. Carline Willis is the current
president.
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Seated - Pres. Carline Willis, Hattie Jackson, Jeanette
Bradley, Charter Member
Standing - Marie Bush, co-chair and Audrey Madyun, VP |
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Since the club’s
inceptions, many Toledo women have used member ship in the
organization as a means of expressing their creative outlet
thorugh sewing and crafts. The club has also contributed to
the Toledo community be making pillows for Hospice of
Northwest Ohio, children’s pillowcases and lap quilts for
for Toledo Children’s Hospital, lap quilts and wheelchair
bags for the former Lake Park Rehabilitation Center,
blankets for the Veteran Home in Sandusky, “angel Layettes”
for local hospitals, pillowcase dresss for Little Girls from
Africa.
Bradley, this year’s
honoree, helped establish Sew N So’s in 1966 and has been an
active member ever since. Known throughout Toledo for her
baking, centerpieces and custom baskets, Bradley is a behind
the scenes person who has always worked hard to accomplish
things.
Bradley taught
kindergarten in the TPS district for 40 years, ending her
career as a teacher at Kaiser Elementary. She is a member of
the Study Hour Group, Warren AME Church, Delta Sigma Theta
Sorority, Inc. and Christ Child of Toledo, a non-profit
organization united in serving at-risk children in need. She
is also an active volunteer ambassador for the Toledo Museum
of Art.
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