SewGreen News, May 2013 www.sewgreen.org
CONTENTS Summer Camps Gallery Night Celebration Summer Jobs for Teens SewGreen Yard Sale How to Buy an Older Sewing Machine Going Bagless Want List SUMMER SEWING & FASHION CAMPS SewGreen is offering six weeks of fabulous sewing and fashion design camps for kids (age 8 to 12), tweens (age 11 to 14), and a special fashion camp for teens 14 and up. Campers who love to sew will learn or improve skills using a sewing machine and make a variety of creative projects. Fashion-focused tweens will explore the design and sewing process from inspiration to creating original fashions on half-scale mannekins. The welcoming small group setting of our camps makes it easy for kids from diverse backgrounds to meet new friends and have fun. For listings and registration, go to http://www.sewgreen.org/classes/. OPEN HOUSE & YOUTH SHOWCASE Join us on “Gallery Night” in downtown Ithaca, Friday, June 7, 6 to 8:30 pm, for an open house of SewGreen’s store, classroom, and youth design studio. Teens who have worked all semester in the Youth Apprenticeship program will be showing off their accomplishments in sewing and design. Learn more about our fabric reuse program, our beautiful store, and our classes and summer camps. SUMMER JOBS FOR TEENS SewGreen has job openings for teens as camp counselors. The jobs run from July 8 through August 23 and include 2 weeks of paid training. For more information, contact Wendy, [email protected]. SEWGREEN YARD SALE & SILENT AUCTION Our youth jobs program needs a funding boost, and we are having a yard sale and silent auction on Saturday and Sunday June 15 and 16 to earn some money to pay teens. We also need to replenish the fund we use to help SewGreen teens who are transitioning from foster care to independent living. HOW YOU CAN HELP: Donate clean, good-quality usable items such as books, CDs, household goods, tools, toys, electronics, jewelry, baskets, fashion accessories, or small furniture. No clothes, shoes, sofas, or heavy, giant things. We will be accepting items at SewGreen the week of June 9 to 14. The sale will run from 9 am to 3 pm on both days. Thank you! For inquiries and information, contact Wendy [email protected] . BUYING AN OLDER SEWING MACHINE Summer is a great season for finding good buys on older sewing machines. Yard sales, antique stores, thrift and reuse stores often have a few machines for sale. Look for all-metal housings (a metal base and plastic top is okay), no exterior corrosion or cracks, and intact wiring. Make sure the machine has all its knobs, levers, and plates. The hand wheel should turn freely. If it turns stiffly, the machine probably just needs to be cleaned and oiled. If it is an electric machine, the motor should run without excess noise or vibration. Don’t worry too much about a missing spool post, presser foot, bobbin case, or worn belt. They can all be replaced. SewGreen’s tune-up service is available for assessments, advice, and of course tune-ups of older machines. Good Hunting! GOING BAGLESS Our store does not provide bags for purchases unless absolutely necessary. We have found that about 8 out of 10 customers either bring their own bag, or are fine with us bundling up their purchase with a strip of pretty fabric. The other 2 in 10 need a bag. We now sell reusable cloth tote bags that we make here, avoiding the myriad of environmental impacts associated with bags from chain stores and super markets. We want to make an even simpler and affordable reusable tote from empty pet food bags. Please donate: 1. Sturdy paper or plastic shopping bags (not filmy plastic) we can reuse; 2. Reusable grocery bags you no longer need; 3. Plastic pet food and chick chow bags for conversion to a green tote. Thanks! WANT LIST SewGreen reuses and resells unwanted sewing and knitting supplies. We are in need of donations of good-quality fabric of any type and size that is clean and folded; yarn of any type and quantity, working sewing machine; and anything else to do with sewing and needlecrafts – such as thread, buttons, zippers, trims, knitting needles, polyfill, scissors etc. SewGreen’s reuse/resale program meets our mission of landfill diversion (we keep about 20 tons of stuff out of the landfill annually), as well as our mission to teach and mentor youth. Proceeds after expenses go to support our free youth programming. Again, thanks! SewGreen 112 N Cayuga St, Ithaca NY 14850 607-319-4106; www.sewgreen.org STORE HOURS: 10 am to 6 pm weekdays; 10 am to 5 pm Saturday; noon to 5 pm Sunday CLOSED MEMORIAL DAY, JULY 4, LABOR DAY ~ ~ ~ To be added or subtracted from this email list, contact [email protected] For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ If you have questions about this list please contact the list manager, Tom Shelley, at [email protected].
