• We made Birds Nests and Marsupial Pouches, and donated them the ARC Guild.

• We organised our first and very successful Fabric and Haberdashery Market as a major fundraising event.

• We organised our annual craft and sewing workshop with Lenterna/United care’s Asylum Seeker Project.

• Our group members sew items to sell at markets (such as Heidelberg Market and the Malahang Festival and Newlands Craft Market).

• In June 2019 we organised an end of financial year fundraiser.

• The sewing group organised a bulb fundraiser with Tesselaar Bulbs.

Past Activities

• We made dog bandanas together with Enable (a social enterprise tackling disadvantage in inner-northern Melbourne).

• We provided an after-school sewing and skills program for Brunswick English Language Centre and Moreland Youth Services.

• Our group members sew items to sell at the Pepper Tree Place.

• We organised school holiday projects for kids.

• Faith, Food and Fabric Fun at Pepper Tree Place (Kildonan Coburg Kitchen Garden) for a Muslim Eid Celebration, created as one of a series of interfaith events by the Multicultural Women's Sewing Group and the Pepper Tree Place.

• Private group sewing classes.

• After school sewing classes with English language students.

• We teamed up with the Moreland City Council for International Women's Day and made a beautiful quilt that we donated to the Oz Comfort Quilts appeal.

• We helped the Australian Somali Women's Healthcare Community Foundation.

• From 2012 the Multicultural Women's Sewing Group is happy to be supporting a Somali women's beginner sewing class.

• Annet from the Pascoe Vale Spinners & Weavers joined us at the sewing group for show and tell.

• The sewing group decorated three trees outside the Coburg Library to help celebrate the Coburg Carnival.

• We worked with the after-school group on a quilt for youth day.

• Ivanhoe Grammar students came to volunteer with us. Did a bake sale and sorted fabric, playing with the children.

• We organised bulb fundraising with Tesselaar bulbs.

• The group participated on the Sydney Road Festival.