Sewing & Craft Stalls
Our Sewing & Craft group meets at Dapto Showground every Friday in the pavilion (entry is via the Mulda Street entrance) from 9.00am to 12.00pm. You can purchase anything you see, and at the same time take a look at what our ladies get up to in our sewing group. Everyone is welcome and we also take eftpos and cash at every stall we have.
If you happen to be doing a destash of your cottons, wools, craft or haberdashery items, and would like to donate them to our group, then please drop off one Friday morning, where our ladies will happily accept your donations. If you are unable to drop off your items, then please contact Narelle on 0414 280 127 as she will be able to make an arrangement with you to collect them.
The “silly season” is fast approaching and we have oodles of stalls around the Illawarra over the next couple of months:
25 October – Bunnings Kembla Grange
28 October – Corrimal Plaza (outside Coles)
29 October – Dapto Mall
31 October – Bunnings Kembla Grange
7 November – Bunnings Bellambi
18 November – Albion Park Shopping Village (just waiting for confirmation)
19 November – Wollongong Hospital
25 November – Corrimal Plaza (outside Coles)
27 November – Warrigal Shell Cove
3 December – Illawarra Women’s Health Centre Warilla (just waiting for confirmation)
6 December – Shellharbour Stadium Christmas Market
9 December – Albion Park Shopping Village (just waiting for confirmation)
11 December – ICC Christmas Market Dapto Showground Pavilion
13 December – Bunnings Bellambi
14 December – Parkside Retirement Village Wollongong
17 December – Wollongong Hospital
20 December – Bunnings Kembla Grange
On top of all these stalls, we will also be Christmas Gift Wrapping, generally from 10.00am to 4.00pm (for a gold coin donation for each gift wrapped) at Dapto Mall (16-24 December), Figtree Grove (18-24 December) and Warrawong Plaza (18-24 December). At each of these gift wrapping stations we will also have a small selection of our handmade items for sale. If you would like to help out at Dapto or Warrawong, then give Narelle a call on 0414 280 127 and she can put your name on the roster. If Figtree is your option, then give Sonia a call on 0414 921 149.
Thanks to Sonia, our sewing and craft ladies have started a new project, and have begun knitting or crocheting Memory Hearts, and you can get on board and help make some too. One lady has completed 301 of these amazing hearts – we are so appreciative of her support and also of the other ladies who have contributed.
These hearts are often called “Compassion” or “Memory” hearts. They provide comfort to patients and their families in Palliative Care. The heart is held in the hands of the patient and loved one, symbolising connection. It usually goes home with the loved one.
You can access the patterns here:
We have also been asked by the Ronald McDonald Family Room at Wollongong Hospital to make some more Trauma Teddies or Banana in Pyjamas. Our first lot went down like a treat and the supplies have now been depleted, so if you would like to make some to add to our collection, then they would be very much appreciated.
You can access the patterns here:
Trauma Teddies and Banana in Pyjamas Patterns
These links provide both the crochet pattern and the knitting patterns for the Hearts, Trauma Teddies and Bananas in Pyjamas, which you can then download. If you do not have access to a computer or printer, please contact Vera on 0413 548 983 and a copy will be mailed directly to you.
Thank you to everyone who continues to support our group. Monies raised from these stalls goes towards helping cancer patients right here in the Illawarra.