#henry pratt

[sturdy-nerdy-stitchery]

I finally went out and delivered these two each of the crosses... There's only one that didn't get delivered because thanks to a friend of mine I was able to get a personal address for Clayton parks and I was able to put it in the mail and I hope it arrives soon!

the rest of them have included one stamp in each bag so that should they need to get these to the proper home then they have stamp to get it there

There's one last one that I need to get delivered and that's the family of Gary Martin... But I might try to find a way to email the company and see if I can get a hold of a receptionist that way or go in the evening I don't have my child because there's just a little too much anxiety talking to people I don't know

But I hope that these can get to the right homes!I met email the company and see if they can give me an email address to the front desk receptionist so I can let her know that I put these there and that I would like to try to find a way to get these to their families

[sturdy-nerdy-stitchery]

So this is the latest update! They're not completed yet as I still need to cut out some felt to put on the backs, do a whip Stitch around the edges to neaten it up, and then attach a length of ribbon...

once they are all completed and assembled that I'm going to go over to the building and either place them on the memorial crosses if they are still there or I'm going to going to the building and see if there's a receptionist that I can talk to who can point me in the right direction and at the very least I know that one of the victims had a nice who was on a Facebook group that I'm apart of and I know I could reach out and see if she can at least get me one of the crosses

I am so glad that I'm doing something to pay it forward... And when I finally hold the cut up crosses in my hands... When I look at them and I look at the names on them my heart starts to feel heavy and I start to cry because I think about the families who lost someone important to them... I think about wife lost a husband and their six-month-old boy who will never know his father except through his mother and her stories and photographs... I think about the intern who went to college just 45 minutes from here it was set to graduate this spring so that he could start his life...

I think about all the could-have-beens but it fills my heart with sadness. I think about all the stories that go untold... With enough unfulfilled potential to feed the god of Akhaten for several lifetimes...

Then I think about how this happened so close to my home and I think about the ramifications... I think about how often this happens in our country how it'll probably continue to happen in our country because no politician wants to do anything because the NRA is so deep in their pockets..

and I think about a future where one day I'm going to have to send my child to school and I'm not going to know if she's going to make it home safe or that I'm going to get a phone call one day saying that I'm not allowed to pick up my child because the school is on lockdown...

I wish to God that we lived in a country where parents don't have to send their kids to school and have anxiety doing so... no parent should ever have to receive an email or a text or a phone call that makes their stomach drop 20 feet...

And as I compose this post... There are real tears streaming down my face at everything that I just said...

[sturdy-nerdy-stitchery]

This is eventually what it's going to look like once they're all done... What you are looking at is the front of the tag and what it says on the back of the tag... And then I'm going to stick the tag in the bag. I may include one stamp in the bag if in the event that the only way to get these to their proper home is to put them in an envelope.

But I should be finished with these later today and I can put some floss or clear fishing line through the top so that they can be hung. Then I can walk over and place these on the memorial crosses...

I will be sure to take photos later

[sturdy-nerdy-stitchery]

I progress photo! The top ones are finished and I have one left! Despite the injury on my thumb hurting like a mofo... I'm pushing through so I can get these done today

And then once they're all stitched up all I have left to do is put them in some little bags and assemble them and then I can deliver them

[sturdy-nerdy-stitchery]

I finally finished cross and I like how it looks and it took me 2 hours and 45 minutes give or take 5 minutes...

The last thing I have to do on this cross is back stitch the name on it so I'm assuming from start to finish it takes me 3 hours to make one cross

Then I need to factor in things like backing it with felt and adding ribbon...so I guess all in all it could possibly take me four to five hours to make one of these small little things or I can just leave it as is and cut it out and just tie it with a string

[sturdy-nerdy-stitchery]

one down four more to go! I'm hoping that since it takes two hours and 52 minutes to get to this point that I can stitch to a day or I can get lucky and Stitch three a day so that by the end of the week I can have these ready to go... I could technically have for stitched in a day if I could have a babysitter for my toddler LOL

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