Join in Frock-Swap
Boomerang Bags is calling owners of all old clothing!
Search the drawers, look under beds, trawl trough the hamper. It’s time to get those old clothes, old ties and cut-offs of old material and turn them into something useful.
Boomerang Bags Katikati is part of a global community project where volunteers get together and sew reusable fabric shopping bags from donated fabric. And it’s time for Boomerang Bags to get busy, because it’s time for amidwinter Frock-Swap!
The Mid-Winter Frock-Swap honours the idea to reduce, reuse and recycle and reclothe old materials and clothing. As well as providing free reusable shopping bags to the community, Boomerang Bags is also diverting huge amounts of donated fabric from landfill.
Boomerang Bags’ aim is to reduce the amount of single use plastic shopping bags that are clogging up the oceans and causing problems in the environment.
Some bags have been made from old jeans, men’s shirts, duvet covers that have seen better days, tablecloths and even some men’s ties have been upcycled for handles. Pillow cases have been cut up and used for bags and pockets.
Organiser Jizzy Green said the Frock-Swap fundraiser is a first for Boomerang Bags.
“We wanted to have a fun event to celebrate all the hard work of our volunteers, who have given so generously of their time to sew well over 1000 bags to date, a year since our project kicked off in Katikati.
“We thought it would be good to also extend our event to the wider community, to spread awareness of what we are doing. Tickets are only $5 payable to the Community Centre.”
Jizzy said Frock-Swap opens the door to recycling no longer needed clothes, shoes or accessories and attendees on the night can swap them for other pre-loved gear.
“People at Frock-Swap get to take home awhole bunch of ‘new’ pre-loved gear. Any gear left over will be taken to a local Opp Shop.”
The Frock-Swapwill raise funds toward the project’s sewing thread, machine needles, labels and even nibbles to keep volunteers fed and watered at Boomerang Bags sewing bees.
Frock-Swap is on Thursday, May
31, 6.30pm-8.30pm at Katikati Community Centre, phone
549-0399.