YC+Sew4Service: Pride in Every Stitch
Youth Challenge partnered with Sew4Service’s Lakewood chapter to create a disability pride quilt for YC’s 50th anniversary. Each color of the disability pride flag represents a different disability: red represents physical disabilities, white represents invisible disabilities, blue represents psychiatric disabilities, and green represents sensory disabilities (blindness or deafness).
Sew4Service designed the quilt, and YC participants and volunteers assembled it. For this project, YC purchased new sewing machines that have features to make sewing more accessible. Two generous YC community members also donated sewing machines as well! Not only that, YC recruited four sewists to assist the participants and volunteers (Jane Salem, Karen Bova, Lori Coticchia, and Linda Lackey).
The participants and volunteers at Sewing Basics made a great start on the quilt, but people from all different parts of the YC community will have opportunities to work on it throughout the year. YC alumni made wheel art for the quilt. Once complete, the quilt will be displayed at the YC office and brought to outreach events. YC would like to thank Sew4Service, our generous donors, and volunteer sewists for making this project possible. The disability pride flag symbolizes unity within the disability community, and we hope this quilt represents our tight-knit YC community well!
