Free vintage knitting patterns

I am learning to knit and love the patterns I found on the
Free Vintage Knitting website.

I think it will be a while untill I can master these lovely designs but they are on my wish list!

Todays project

Today we made pot holders as part of our holiday program using a simple and quick quilting technique! 

Don't they look great!

Sewing fun!

Here at the sewing group we run classes with a group of English students from a local school. They are great fun and love having their picture taken with their finished projects! 

We are always looking for some extra hands to help out so if you are free Wednesdays from 3:30 to 5:30 we would love to have you! Give us a call for more info.

Holiday program for this Autumn

Our classes are usually a “work on your own project” setup with the ladies doing everything from mending, making curtains, kids clothes to lovely dresses but when it's school holiday time we have small fun projects that can be completed in one class!

A perfect way to learn the basics of sewing for those who are beginners and the more advanced sewers get to add a new project to their list!

This is what we have planned for April’s holidays!

Come along and join us, or just say hello!

Talk to us if you think you might be able to help out. Helpers are ace!

Harmony sewn up

Congratulations go out to Jennifer (our fearless leader here at the sewing group) for winning the Honouring Women in Moreland Award!

Here is the article the Leader wrote about her!

Harmony sewn up 

21 Mar 2011, Moreland Leader, Madeline Healey

Doctor revitalises multicultural women’s craft group

ALL it takes is a dozen sewing machines, a little knowledge and a lot of determination to help stitch together cultural cohesion. Coburg GP Jennifer Mok grasped the premise and won the major prize at this year’s Honouring Women in Moreland Awards for her work regenerating Brunswick’s Multicultural Women’s Sewing Group.

The sewing group had been running for more than a decade at Brunswick Baptist Church when Dr Mok and Minister Ann Lock decided it needed a boost.

‘‘She and I were just puzzling out why the numbers were so low,’’ she said.

‘‘ We thought there probably was a need and we had a bunch of sewing machines and a bit of know-how and we tried different things to reach the people who would need it.’’

Numbers grew, a sewing teacher was hired and a childcare worker was employed for children brought along.Dr Mok said the group, which meets on Wednesday from 12.30-3pm and Saturdays from 2.30-4.30pm, attracted women of various backgrounds, including those who had recently arrived in Australia and didn’t speak much English.

‘‘A lot of the women have kids and if you’re newly arrived and you’ve got children, it can be hard to access things,’’ she said. ‘‘They might have worries and it gives them a chance to off-load some of their worries and not think about them for a couple of hours.’’

She said women who attended meetings were always grateful for the opportunity. ‘‘One woman was having a hard time. She said that when she came to sewing group, it felt like life was worth living,’’ Dr Mok said. ‘‘Another sold enough things she had sewn at our stall that she was able to buy a little bike for her daughter. She was so happy.’’

Dr Mok said she hoped the publicity surrounding her award would help attract more volunteers to help run the group. ‘‘You don’t have to be a good sewer to volunteer . . . if we had more volunteers it would take the pressure of financially.’’

Other winners at the March 10 awards were Helena Kilminster, Mary Lamb and June Woodall, from the PepperTree Community Nursery, Kathryn Jones, from the Brunswick Netball Club and the women’s open-age team at Brunswick Zebras Football Club.

Picture: MATT MURPHY N39CO509 Jennifer Mok won an Honouring Women in Moreland award.