Greek life on college campuses can be a wonderful experience. The costs vary according to school and fraternity, but the cost of the on-going gift giving can have an unexpected impact on the budget.
With back-to-school just around the corner and rush set to begin in a few weeks, it seems timely to offer these gift and garment ideas in the hope that it might be useful to those of you with co-eds packing for university.
Fortunately, my daughter’s sorority experience commenced after the machine embroidery explosion hit the sewing world.  The following text is taken from an article I wrote for Creative Needle some time ago. The photos are all taken from the magazine itself.
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“It’s All Greek to Me”
On college campuses throughout the country, co-eds proudly wear Greek “letters” proclaiming their affiliation with a social sorority or service club. Students use surprisingly large portions of their budgets buying shirts, caps and other “lettered” items from the specialty stores found in every college town. Continue reading
