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Free gun sense craftivism embroidery by Pretty Strange Design

Contents:

  • Downloadable digital PDF pattern
  • 1 skein of DMC 666 cotton embroidery floss
  • 1 size 5 crewel embroidery needle (nickel-free or high-polish)
  • Optional: 1 piece Kona cotton quilting fabric 9 x 9 in./23cm
  • Optional: transfer tool
  • Optional: tracing stylus (for use with transfer paper)
  • Optional: 4-inch embroidery hoop
  • Optional: embroidery scissors or snips

Description

Created by Maydel partner artist Ciara LeRoy, these patterns are free to download and use for your craftivism purposes. In 2019, following a mass shooting in her hometown of Dayton, OH, Ciara began a practice of sending small hand-stitched embroideries along with her mailed letters to Congress about the issue of gun violence.

All profits from the sale of supplies are donated to non-profits fighting gun violence.

  • Losing Our Children: This pattern features the words of RaCarol Woodard, Regional Organizing Director at Equity Alliance (quoted following a mass shooting at Covenant School in Nashville, TN on March 27, 2023).
  • Learning Their ABCs: This pattern features the words of Kris Brown, president of Brady: United Against Gun Violence (quoted following a mass shooting at Covenant School in Nashville, TN on March 27, 2023).
  • Mass Shooting Generation: This pattern features the words of Asha Denny, a student at Michigan State University, where a mass shooting took place on Februrary 13, 2023.
  • Violence in America: This pattern features the words of Ramiro Guzman, brother of Sonia Guzman, who was killed in a mass shooting in Cleveland, TX on April 28, 2023.