Sewing Class
Thuy-my’ s creativity won awards at the Royal Melbourne Show. Her decoration of the bike took out first prize in the knitting competition.
Donated material has reappeared as dresses, cushion covers and cloth bags.
Thuy-my and Lesley
There has been a very satisfactory number of both ladies and gentlemen attending our sewing classes. Most weeks we have about ten sewers undertaking many different projects. Some weeks our numbers reach twelve. Our clients have a mixture of abilities, some coming for several years, some returning after a break and many new faces.
We were fortunate and very grateful to be given large quantities of quality material as donations. The biggest donor was Queen Clothing in Smith St, Fitzroy. Lots of donated material has reappeared as dresses, cushion covers and cloth bags.
We are grateful to have been able to purchase a new sewing machine. We have also had one of the overlockers serviced. This has been invaluable, as sometimes participants have experienced a certain amount of frustration waiting for machines and having to re-thread and wind bobbins with different coloured thread to match their projects.
A big thank you to Elyse and Nadia. Elyse manages to fit in at least an hour every week despite a busy schedule – a very big thank you for her support and creative sewing expertise. Unfortunately, she will be leaving us in 2012. We have also recently welcomed Annabel as a very valuable and friendly regular volunteer. More volunteers would make for more flexibility and less pressure on our regulars to come every week. Another competent sewer would also be great for those weeks when an overlocker is giving us a hard time!
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