Selfless Sew for Solace Women’s Aid ❤️

We’re so excited to be teaming up with Solace Women’s Aid for another 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 sewing a drawstring 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, to make the end of the year a little brighter for them.

These kinds of 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 this December, and we’ll make sure they’re filled with lots of useful and nice toiletries for the women, and colourful craft supplies for the children.

You can use any patterns you like or have a look at our Drawstring Bag, Toiletries Bag and Boxy Toiletries Bag PDF sewing patterns.

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 receive them by Friday 8th December 2023.

Please send your bags to:
Sew Over It
Solace Selfless Sew
606 Lock Studios
7 Corsican Square
E3 3YD

If you need some help making the Drawstring Bag or Toiletries Bag, check out our Sewalong on YouTube and sew them up with Lisa!