SewGreen News, Oct 27, 2008 www.sew-green.org SewGreen is a not-for-profit community program that encourages sustainability and reuse in sewing and fashion, through education and a fabric reuse project.
CONTENTS ~ Classes & Workshops ~ Sunday Open Sews ~ Teen Sewing Club ~ Hospicare Sewing Day ~ Still Time to Apply for ReCraft Fair ~ Support SewGreen at Alternative Gift Fair ~ Even the Queen Recycles Fashion ~ Sewing Machines for Sale ~ Words of Thanks ******************** CLASSES & WORKSHOPS All classes and events are held at the Women's Community Building, 100 W Seneca Street, downtown Ithaca. Contact is Wendy at [EMAIL PROTECTED], 607-277-7611. ~ RUG-A-RAMA, Nov 1 Don't miss this opportunity to share skills and learn about making rag, braided, and woven rugs from re-used materials. Bring your finished rugs to show and explain, or just come to learn. Saturday Nov 1, noon to 3pm. Free. Pre-registration is requested. ~ HOW TO SEW USING A PATTERN, Starts Nov 6 Learn the essentials of reading, laying out, and sewing from a simple pattern. This three-session intermediate class meets on Thursday, Nov 6, 13, and 20 from 6 to 8pm. For teens and adults. $45. Scholarships available. Pre-registration is required. ~ BEGINNING MACHINE SEWING, Nov 12 Learn to use a sewing machine and complete a simple project. Thursday, Nov 12, from 6 to 8pm. For teens and adults. $15. Scholarships available. Pre-registration is required. ~ FELTING WORKSHOP, Nov 15 Learn how to use felted wool, a beautiful material made from shrunken wool sweaters or other garments. Presented by artful artisans Lynn Leopold and Valorie Rockney, 2 to 4pm, Saturday Nov 15. Free. Pre-registration requested. ~ MAKE A GIFT ON "GREEN" FRIDAY, Nov 28 Come to a free workshop on Nov 28, the day after Thanksgiving. Make a gift, reusable gift bag, fabric holiday card, or other project with all reused materials. A relaxing antidote to the holiday shopping craze, the workshop is offered for kids from 10am to noon, and for teens and adults from 1 to 3 pm. All materials supplied. Free. Pre-registration is requested. ******************** SUNDAY OPEN SEWS SewGreen's *Sunday Sews* are open to all. Bring a project you're working on, or make something for SewGreen. You may use one of our machines or bring your own, and we have materials you may choose from. This is not a class; some sewing experience is expected, but participants tend to share knowledge and learn from each other in a comfortable social setting. Free, but donations are welcome. Noon to 4pm, every other Sunday. Three more this year: Nov 9, Nov 23, and Dec 7. ******************** TEEN SEWING CLUB OPEN TO ALL "Fashion UFOs" meets Friday nights from 6 - 9 pm, at the Women's Community Building. Open to all teens, of both genders, UFOs offers a time to work on your own projects, learn from each other, meet new friends, and have a great time refashioning and doing creative reuse sewing. Sewing machines and materials provided. Free, but donations are welcome. Contact club supervisor Katie Sullivan for more information, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ******************** HOSPICARE SEWING DAY, NOV 22 If you can sew, even a little, you're invited to help SewGreen make needed items for Hospicare and Palliative Care Services. SewGreen has adopted Hospicare as its "charity sewing client." On Saturday, Nov 22, from 11am to 4pm, we will be at the SewGreen classroom making tote bags, placemats, napkins, and coasters from all reused materials. The goal is to have items to deliver in time for Thanksgiving. Bring your own sewing machine or use one of ours. All materials supplied, or bring something from your stash (nothing purchased new, please). You are also invited to make items at home. See the SewGreen website, www.sew-green.org, for ideas. Hospicare (www.hospicare.org) works to enhance the quality of life for those dealing with serious illness and provides support following the death of a loved one. ******************** RECRAFT FAIR APPLICATION DEADLINE IS OCT 30 A few places remain for artisans of earth-friendly arts, crafts, apparel, homewares, gifts etc. at the ReCraft Fair, Dec 13 at the Women's Community Building. Vendors who have registered so far are offering creative products of a very high quality. As a counter-action to conventional holiday craft fairs, where (often) non-eco materials are turned into non-eco products, SewGreen is sponsoring this green alternative. Local and regional reuse and redesign artisans who work with earth-friendly and reused materials are invited to participate. A 10 x 10-foot booth is $35, which covers a full day of sales, as well as publicity and promotion. Contact Wendy to reserve your space, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 607-277-7611. Last day to register is Oct 30. ******************** SUPPORT SEWGREEN AT ALTERNATIVE GIFT FAIR, DEC 6 The Ithaca Alternative Gift Fair returns for a fifth year on Saturday Dec 6, 10am to 4pm, at the First Presbyterian Church, 315 N Cayuga St, downtown Ithaca. The Fair offers holiday shoppers a way to buy gifts that don't add to the mounting pile of "stuff" that's usually exchanged. Instead, shoppers buy gifts of donations for specific charitable purposes. Each gift is accompanied with a card and an insert that explains what the gift will provide. Gifts are priced $5 and up, and are offered by 30 local non-profit organizations. SewGreen is offering $5, $10, and $15 scholarships for sewing classes, as well as an open-ended gift for general support. Visit the Fair's site www.ithacaaltgiftfair.org/ for a complete list of organizations and gifts. ******************** EVEN THE QUEEN RECYCLES FASHION CNN called it "credit crunch couture," and several other news agencies reported that Queen Elizabeth's wardrobe for a recent trip to Slovenia included a dress made from existing fabric. Instead of buying a new gown, Britain's queen asked the royal tailor to dig into the royal fabric stash. Her couturiers used a 20-year-old bolt of brocade to make a gown worthy of a state dinner. The Queen also wore a daytime dress she had worn on another trip six months ago. ******************** SEWING MACHINES FOR SALE SewGreen has several clean, restored, and ready-to-sew classic machines for sale. Please contact Dianne, [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more information. ******************** WORDS OF THANKS The season for expressions of gratitude is approaching. SewGreen volunteer Rebecca Rich Goldweber offers this thanks to SewGreen, which in turn thanks her and all our volunteers, contributors, and supporters. "SewGreen speaks to people at such a deep level, bringing together a community to share and learn and explore ideas that look both to our future -- in developing our skills to become more self-sufficient and ecologically minded -- and to our past -- encouraging us to remember our grandmothers and aunts, mothers, fathers, and uncles, and the knowledge they held and how it shaped their lives. Thank you for creating a space, a forum, for us to meet and reach one another across socio-economic, town/gown, and cultural barriers." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To be added to or removed from the SewGreen News distribution list, contact Wendy Skinner, SewGreen Coordinator, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 607-277-7611 _______________________________________________ For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
