Northfield Mask Making Instructions

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More Boomerang Bags ready at the library

we had a successful fabric drive and Book Bee. The completed bags went out as fast as we made them! There are kits to take & sew.

Join us at our first ever Boomerang Bag Beer Bee!

Thanks to our friends and supporters at Imminent Brewing we’ll have fabric, supplies and sewing machines to sew as many bags as possible. We be set up and ready to go at 4pm on Thursday, July 11th. Stop by and help for a little bit or a lot. Sewing experience isn’t required.
Let’s work to eliminate the need for plastic bags and reduce the amount of fabric going to landfills.
Donations of clean, durable fabric can be brought to Immediate that day.
Cheers!

Mark your calendars!

We will be at the Saturday, June 8th Riverwalk Market Fair!Come by and sign up to stop using single use plastic bags. Regular Boomerang Bags will be available plus some “souped” up bags!

More kits on the way!

We turned the donated fabric into @75 “take-n-sew” kits. Thanks FiftyNorth for hosting.

More kits and bags in the works thanks to The Clothes Closet and The Used A Bit Shop!

Carleton's Repair FAIR

I'll be there accepting fabric donations to be made in to "Take-n-Sew" Kits during the afternoon.  No sewing skills needed.  We will prepare kits to be placed around Northfield for people to take and sew into reusable fabric bags. 

Look at the bag that inspired the cartoon!

A learn to sew event!

Take-n-Sew" kits at the Northfield Public Library

We now have "take-n-sew" kits available at the library.  They are on the HOLD shelf right by the self-checkouts on the main floor.

The library always needs more Boomerang Bags!
Our volunteers are SUPER!

415,000 is a big number!

FUN FACTS TO KNOW AND TELL

Northfield volunteers have sewn @4,000 Boomerang Bags made from donated fabric.
Translated into numbers is looks like this:

If each bag is used to haul books or groceries 1 time a week (and most of the bags can hold a lot of stuff) thus using 2 fewer single use plastic bags that equals 8,000 less bags used each week.
52 weeks in a year 415,000 less bags in a year.   And that’s just using it once a week- how many times a week do you use a Boomerang Bag?
Plus we have taken many, many pounds of unused fabric out of the garbage stream too!

Donated labels!!

Thanks to Larson's Printing in 

downtown Northfield donation 

our newly sewn bags sport lovely, clear labels! 

The library needs more Boomerang Bags- and will use LESS PLASTIC!

From curtains to Boomerang Bags!

It's library fabric collection time!  

Now through Saturday, June 30th drop of any clean, durable fabric and we will make it into "take-n-sew" kits on Sat. June 30th from 10 am-2 pm.

Join the fun in making up the kits or come and take some kits to sew up some bags!  Directions included in the packets.

The library needs more fabric!

Now thru Feb. 3rd you can drop off your clean, durable fabric donations at the Northfield Public Library!  The fabric will be made into "Take-n-Sew" kits to be sewn into Boomerang Bags for the library.  We have @1,200 bags circulating around the library and we have reduced the need to purchase so many plastic bags. 

The project at the Northfield Senior Center was AMAZING!

We had such a great response at the senior center - over 400 new Boomerang Bags will be created with the donated fabric. You can now pick up "Take-n-Sew" kits up there and the Used A Bit Shoppe.
The bags are lovely, to help eliminate one use plastic bags everyone is invited to take and use a bag!

Coming t the Senior Center!

Check out our new website!

Meet UPcycleMN

Northfield Senior Center is getting involved!

We are joining forces with the

Northfield Senior Center!

August1st: Fabric collection begins!  Fabric must be clean, prints or solids, sheets to light upholstery fabric at least 1 yard. Bring fabric to NSC or the Used-a-Bit Shoppe.  

 10 am to 2 pm Thursday, August 31st and Friday, September 1st: Volunteers create “Take-n-sew” kits for  people to sew at home and return finished bags to NSC.  NSC room TBA.

 The bags will be available (at no charge) for Northfield residents to use over and

over again and will be available at the Northfield Senior Center and the Used-a-Bit Shoppe.

Help us remove the need for so many plastic bags in Northfield!

Another fabric collection set at the library!

There are around 400 Boomerang Bags in circulation at the library.  And we need more!  The library normally goes thru @100 plastic bags a month, so we have made a dent but need more!  Fabric collection begins Monday, June 26th you can drop off clean fabric from crisp sheets to light upholstery fabric at least 1 yard long.
We will need volunteers for the "take-n-sew" kit creation date is Saturday, July 8th from 10-2 in the library's meeting room. No sewing skills required to help make up kits with bag, handles and pockets.
 We will set out the kits for people to take and sew.  And repeat this all in the fall.

Thank you very much!!

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