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!