We're so excited to be teaming up with Solace Women's Aid for another Big Selfless Sew this year, making gifts for women and children who have to spend the festive season in a refuge to escape domestic abuse.
We'd love you to get involved by making something like our Drawstring Bag or Toiletries Bag and sending them to us at the SOI headquarters. We will then fill your handmade bags with useful gifts for the women and children supported by Solace Women's Aid, as a thoughtful gift to brighten a dark time for them.
These bags are quick and easy sewing projects that can be made in very little time and they're perfect to use up some fabric scraps from your stash. They'll make a really lovely gift for someone who is going through a rough time, and we'll make sure they're filled with lots of useful and nice toiletries for the women, and fun things like colouring pens and stickers for the children.
The dimensions for the bags are:
Drawstring bag - 2x 35x35cm squares for the main body of the bag - 2x 35x4cm rectangles for the drawstring casing (you can make this wider if you're using a wider cord/ribbon in the bag)
Toiletries bag - 2x 35x30cm rectangles for the main body of the bag plus 1x 25cm cm zip
If you'd like to help, send your bag(s) to the address below and please note that we will need to have received them by Friday 29th November 2024.
Please send your bags to:
The Big Selfless Sew
C/o Sew Over It
310 Cocoa Studios
The Biscuit Factory
London, SE16 4DG
If you need some help making the bags, check out our Sewalong on YouTube and sew them up with Lisa!