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Hilltown 24-Hour Bagshare Sewing Marathon this Spring!
Sewing Marathon: Sew Bags for the Ten Bagshare Locations in the Valley, Hilltowns and Berkshire County
Leni Fried of Cummington, MA writes:
24-Hour Bagshare Sewing Marathon begins Saturday, April 16th at 7:30am. Sign up to participate or organize a marathon in your area!
The Hilltown 24-hour sewing marathon will be at The Village Church and Hilltown Sewing Center on Main Street in Cummington, MA on April 16th—17th from 7:30am to 7:30am the following day. There will be six 4-hour shifts with at least one experienced bag sewer to head up each shift. Please let me know if you can head up a shift.
The idea is to sew as many strong and quality bags as possible in the time allotted. • No rules. • Sew tags on existing bags. • Make kits ahead of time. • Just use scrap fabric is the main thing. • Sign up for a shift. • You don’t have to stay for the whole shift. • No sewing experience is necessary.
Here are the shifts:
- 7:30am—11:30am
- 11:30am—3:30pm
- 3:30pm—7:30pm
- 7:30pm—11:30pm
- 11:30pm—3:30am
- 3:30am—7:30am (Insomniac shift! This is a very popular shift. Barbara and I are already signed up for it. Bring your jammies! The Creamery will be supplying Rattlesnake Brew coffee to keep the sewers going.)
The Creamery will open early for breakfast at 7:30 a.m. on Sunday, April 17th to feed the bag sewers!
ORGANIZE YOUR OWN MARATHON
We invite you to organize your own marathon in any increment so people travel shorter distances to participate. The marathon can be organized as a 4-, 8-, 12-, 16-, or 24-hour marathon. We encourage ride sharing, car filling, carpooling, bike driven and human power to get to the marathon!
For now e-mail me to sign up and let me know if you are organizing a marathon in your area. Remember yours can be any amount of time you want. I hope that they all can be on the Saturday/Sunday before Earth Day so the bags can re-supply the 10 locations as an Earth Day action.
Let me know your thoughts. This is a FUN thing!
Photo credit: (ccl) Leia Barker
Once more: I wish the Hilltowns (and their fun activities) were 30 mins. away, instead of 4 hours and 30 mins. The Bagshare project is simply awesome!!!