[Greensanctuary] green sanctuary project

[Carolyn Hildebrandt]

CLOTH NAPKIN MAKING WORKSHOP

Jan Gallagher and I want to do a sewing project for Family Choir, The 
Needlers,* and any other group that wants to join us. It's a Cloth 
Napkin-Making Workshop. We'd like to do it sometime in November so that 
people can make napkins for themselves or for holiday gifts.  We would 
provide the materials and equipment and would charge something like 50 
cents a napkin.  People who wanted to bring their own fabric could do so 
at a reduced cost. There would be a cutting station, an ironing station, 
and a sewing station with multiple sewing machines, as we did with the 
fleece hat making workshop a few years ago.

I have done straight-line sewing with children as young as kindergarten 
and first grade, so children (accompanied by a parent or other adult) 
would be welcome to participate. We would ask people sign up in shifts 
so that we would have enough room for everybody to work and enough 
experts on hand to help out with the sewing machines and other equipment.

My family uses cloth napkins almost exclusively. Each person has his/her 
own napkin ring and decides when his/her napkin needs to go into the 
wash. I have about eights sets of cloth napkins. The majority of the 
sets are over 12 years old and still look pretty good!

Please let us know if you think this would work as a Green Sanctuary 
Project for the church.

Carolyn

* The Needlers is a group that Jan is interested in starting as a 
Wednesday evening activity.