Boomerang Bags Sewing Workshop
Boomerang bags are free, reusable, & shareable shopping bags, made by community members, for all of the community to use.
The Lake Macquarie Boomerang Bags Sewing Workshops, co-organised by CASNG and The Canopy have the following aims:
The Lake Macquarie Boomerang Bags Sewing Workshops, co-organised by CASNG and The Canopy have the following aims:
- to cut out bag patterns from donated fabric
- to sew this fabric together to make more shopping bags, and fruit & vegie bags
- to encourage neighbours to sew shopping bags at home in their spare time, and
- to provide a safe, friendly, fun & sociable meeting place.
The last Workshop achieved all of those aims, and more,
so The Canopy and CASNG have decided to conduct
Monthly Boomerang Bags Sewing Workshops for the rest of 2018 - at least.
If you would like to help out, you have some spare time, a desire to see Lake Macquarie plastic free, and a willingness to have some fun, then come and join us. If you can sew, bring your sewing machine or overlocker along. If you have a cutting mat and rotary cutter, or a pair of scissors, bring those along.
Or just bring yourself along.
We have the fabric, a warm and friendly space to work in, some tea, coffee and nibbles to keep you going, and a great, friendly place to spend a few hours on a Sunday.
The Workshops will be held on a Sunday - 10am to 2pm
at Cardiff North Public School Library, on the 3rd Sunday of each month;
19th AUGUST
16th SEPTEMBER
21st OCTOBER
18th NOVEMBER
If you can help out at the next Workshop, please register on the form below.
Read the report on our previous Workshops at the bottom of the page.
Monthly Boomerang Bags Sewing Workshops for the rest of 2018 - at least.
If you would like to help out, you have some spare time, a desire to see Lake Macquarie plastic free, and a willingness to have some fun, then come and join us. If you can sew, bring your sewing machine or overlocker along. If you have a cutting mat and rotary cutter, or a pair of scissors, bring those along.
Or just bring yourself along.
We have the fabric, a warm and friendly space to work in, some tea, coffee and nibbles to keep you going, and a great, friendly place to spend a few hours on a Sunday.
The Workshops will be held on a Sunday - 10am to 2pm
at Cardiff North Public School Library, on the 3rd Sunday of each month;
19th AUGUST
16th SEPTEMBER
21st OCTOBER
18th NOVEMBER
If you can help out at the next Workshop, please register on the form below.
Read the report on our previous Workshops at the bottom of the page.
REPORT OF THE JUNE and JULY WORKSHOPS
The spirit of the June Workshop carried over the July Workshop.
The type of person who volunteers to help their community, is resourceful, loves talking to people, loves sharing ideas, wants to have fun no matter what, doesn’t see obstacles but enjoys new ways of doing things, and can sew a straight seam whilst discussing new refinements to a shopping bag design.
And that’s exactly who turned up for these Workshops – they didn’t need a leader – they worked together, they co-operated, they shared ideas, they asked for help, they offered help, they repaired sewing machines, kept working hard the whole time, and seemed to love every minute of helping out.
CASNG and The Canopy would like to sincerely express their appreciation to all of the participants for their hard work on each day, and for their continued efforts to make more bags – they are an inspiring group of people.
On each day about 30 bags were completely finished, with about the same number again cut out from fabric, ready for sewing. Many of the participants were so keen – or should that be – sew keen – that they took patterns or pieces of fabric home to start sewing more bags.
Eventually, any shopping bags produced will be made available to the community to use.
If you would like to help keep the flow of more, reusable, fabric shopping bags happening, just click HERE and let us know if you would like patterns or fabric to get you started at home.
If you would like to help keep the flow of more, reusable, fabric shopping bags happening, just click HERE and let us know if you would like patterns or fabric to get you started at home.
