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.