This week I attended a Stitch and Bitch session at Oxfam Boutique on St Mary’s Street. This get together, which takes place every Thursday evening from 6-8pm, and is open to any-one, offers a great opportunity to socialise and use donated textiles and fabrics to make new items which can be sold in the shop or used to decorate it.
This week we made Valentine’s Day bunting, to be displayed in the shop window, by cutting up old fabrics into heart shapes and sewing them together on string. Future projects include making fascinators out of donated combs and knitting.
For those who haven’t yet been, Oxfam Boutique is very different to many other charity shops as it is selective in what it sells, offering and displaying high quality clothes in an attractive boutique style in their up-market premises. It also has an impressive vintage section and a great variety of jewellery as well as being tastefully decorated, with all the clothes displayed in colour co-ordinated sections.
The Boutique has joined up with design students at local college Coleg Morgannwg who are up-cycling old clothes, originally unsuitable for sale in the shop, to create new garments. These up-styled clothes will be unveiled at a fashion show in the shop on Friday 9th March from 7pm and will then be available to purchase.
The fashion show will be part of a wider event, hosted by the shop, celebrating International Women’s Day and there will be other entertainment as well as a raffle and food.
So, if you are interested in attending a lovely evening and helping charity, come to Bitch and Stitch next Thursday where we will be making more bunting; this time as decoration for the fashion show, which also promises to be a fun-filled interesting event!
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