 Calling all crafters. We need helpers to hit our target of 250 bags for the upcoming Weavers Hui. If you have a spare hour or two to come along and put the finishing touches on our handmade bags we would greatly appreciate the help. From cutting, to sewing, to pinning or just for the company, we would love to see you there.
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The Christchurch Weavers Hui is coming up quickly and we are still in need of any able hands to come in and help make the last few of the bags needed for the upcoming conference. Stitch-O-Mat is being given koha for every bag made for the weavers hui and all proceeds will go towards keeping Stitch-O-Mat stocked with supplies and doors open. So if you have a spare hour come on down during our open hours to help stich up some bags.  We will be sewing the bags for the weavers conference. So anyone who wants to help us, please drop into Stitch-O-Mat during our drop in times. We need 250! They are easy to sew and a great way to support Stitch-O-Mat and events that will support local people.
 Join us in supporting this community project from Dunedin's Stitch Kitchen. Stitch Kitchen are this years recipients of Dunedin City Council’s Te Ao Tūroa Environment Envoy Commission. Presenting a new community project: 4KT Elephants to transform some of the city’s textile and clothing scraps into 4,000 cute soft toy elephants. Each elephant representing a tonne of textiles received by our local landfill in the last year, which contributes significantly to our city's CO2 emissions, as well as the environmental hazards associated with waste collection. http://www.stitchkitchen.nz/4kt-elephants-project.html We have been set the task of making 100 of these wee elephants. The pattern, fabric and stuffing is all ready to go, we just need the hands to do the making. So far 27 have been made, only 73 to go! If you find you don't know what sewing project to work on, start with one of these. Its for a great cause. Even our younger Stitch-O-Mat visitors are giving it a go.
Join millions of people reducing their plastic waste.Plastic Free July is a global movement that helps millions of people be part of the solution to plastic pollution – so we can have cleaner streets, oceans, and beautiful communities. Will you be part of Plastic Free July by choosing to refuse single-use plastics? /www.plasticfreejuly.org/ Stitch-O-Mat offers a bunch of creative ideas to support your transition to a world without single use plastics. Beeswax wraps, sandwich bags, reusable shopping bags and produce bags. Any one of these projects helps to reduce waste. We have two more even dates available to come along to: TONIGHT 16th July 7.30pm and Tuesday 30th July 7.30pm We'd love to see you, so come on down and say hi! We were honoured to host Maungarongo TeKawa (Ron) at Stitch-O-Mat during June for a workshop where we created whakapapa quilts. Ron was in Christchurch to receive his ACE award for his contribution to adult education with the whakapapa and healing quilts. Paula Rigby organised 18 wonderful people who over the course of two intensive weekend sessions, gathered to work with the aid of Ron and his expertise. The workshop was incredibly rewarding where skills were gained that may not have been present before, and time was given to pause and reflect throughout the process. Who made my clothes.We no longer know who makes our clothes and we don’t know the true cost of the things we buy. We believe transparency is the first step to transform the industry. And it starts with one simple question: Who made my clothes? We believe this simple question gets people thinking differently about what they wear. We need to know that as consumers, our questions, our voices, our shopping habits can have the power to help change things for the better. This market lets you meet the maker first hand and purchase directly from them or meet and buy from businesses who work directly with the makers to ensue ethical standards are being met. Once you are done you can stick around for a wine or beer and enjoy Level Ones Open Mic Night. Stitch-O-Mat is closed from the 19th of December until the 7th of January.
Our Sunday hours have also changed to 1-4pm. Merry Christmas to you all! See you in 2019. After winter comes spring . During the month of September we will Re store by Elaborate, embroider colour, expand on, exaggerate, dress up, touch up, gild and catastrophize. We want to decorate, adorn, ornament, dress up, furnish, beatuify, enhance, enrich, add grace trim festoon furbelow, bedizen and bejewel. Bring in your mending and use our resources to bring your clothes back to life. Increase your sewing skills while be part of the slow fashion movement. September 2018 marks the 125th anniversary of women's suffrage in New Zealand. On 19 September 1893 the Electoral Act 1893 was passed, giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote. Our White Camellia Workshop, marking felt flowers will be a time of remembrance.  At stitch o mat we wanted to join the movement of plastic free July as a way to support people to rethink the way they use plastics and offer ‘plastic free’ solution. The easiest way to make change is what we use to transport food in. Daily lunch boxes are a great focus. Stitch-o- Mat ran simple workshops on making sandwiches bags and beeswax wraps. This spend into the local school. South New Brighton School term topic was on sustainability, they asked us to run sewing workshops with the students as part of this. We started sewing sandwich bags and making beeswax wraps with 50 students from 7-8 year group. This was then followed by the 3-4 year group sewing for 2 days during the last week of the school term. During the holiday we were touched by kids from South Brighton School bringing their parents into Stitch o mat to make more sandwiches, some sewing sewing at home. 🌻 School hols... asked my boys what they wanted to do. Make sandwich bags was their reply. Fun and sustainable. Proud of them and their drive to use less plastics. 🌻 We were then blown away by a message from Lynley Duffull who works at Morningside Kids care in whangarei. “I would like to thank you for your sandwich bag tutorial. I have now made 97 of these for the kids that attend my Before and After School care programme to celebrate Plastic Free July.” The Tuesday night workshops at Stitch-o- mat have been choker. People travelling from around Christchurch city to make produce bags, sandwich bags and experience the process of making beeswax wrap. We also run electric sewing for the Christchurch City Council Kids Fest. Working in other artist from Te Kura Tawhito, The Old School we participated in the Mata Riki community workshops for the More FM Mata Riki lantern parade. We created Iganga ( whitebait ) inspired wands. Using conductive thread we were able to get the kids to sew a circuit board onto their felt cut-out to the shape of a whitebait. This Conductive thread leads to a LED light. This was a nice thing to share with the kids that they can make and create their own lanterns and not need to buy cheap plastic ones. It was lovely to watch the Iganga take on their own colors schemes and patterns which reflected the child who made them. |
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