community clothes swap

Our annual Community Clothes Swap is our celebration of National Recycling Week, and it's now our 14th year 💚

Everyone's welcome to come and join in. The event will be held at the Boonah Cultural Centre on Saturday 1 November between 9am and 1pm. If you're coming to the Long Sunset Festival, please pop in. 

Bring along some clothes, shoes or accessories (men's, women's and children's) and it's free to swap, or it will cost just a gold coin donation to buy.

Quality over quantity please. 

Upcycled bags will be available to purchase, as well as our eco dish cloths, and there'll be innovative displays and demonstrations on different ways to mend and upcycle textiles, as well as a fabric destash spot to supplement your supplies.

We'll have a sit and stitch table where you can make a beautiful fabric brooch or your own name tag. 

It's also the perfect place to ask questions about recycling, and bring along items for recycling like blister packs, disposable masks, coffee bags, water and air filters, corks (natural and synthetic), pens and markers, old plastic store cards - use our guitar pick punch to punch a pick from yours, sturdy fabric, old sheets and curtains, and bras and swimmers for collaborative recycling initiatives.



Many new recycling initiatives have been added to our recycling register, and info on these will be available, or check online for our recycling register which continues to be updated.

Right next door to the Cultural Foundation's Book Fest, another great recycling week event with thousands of low cost books.


With thanks always to the support of the Scenic Rim Regional Council.

october share + repair pop up - weaving wonders

we're very excited for our third share + repair pop up. october's theme is 'weaving wonders'.

we'll have examples of different kinds of weaving using discarded textiles and natural vines.

we’d love to have you join us in sharing your knowledge, skills and handiwork with others, downstairs at scenic wandering foods, any time between 10am and 1pm, and it's not limited to weaving. we're always happy to share our mending and darning skills, and learn from you. 

 

september share + repair pop up: fix your knits

we welcome everyone to join us at our september share + repair pop up with the theme fix your knits.

we welcome all ideas, resources, and demonstration projects that people would like to share to make the day a success.

we'll have examples of mended knits, upcycled and jazzed up knits, and our handmade darning mushrooms available for purchase for $5.

so, bring along your holey jumpers and socks, and we'll show you how to mend them and spice them up with colour.

a small library of books will be available to peruse and get inspiration from, and we’ll also have our BOSS bags and dish cloths there for sale.

we’d love to have you join us in sharing your skills and knowledge with others on the day, downstairs at scenic wandering foods 💗

 

share & repair monthly pop-ups

we are starting monthly Share + Repair pop ups @ Wandering Foods, and the first is on Saturday 2 August from 10am - 1pm. in keeping with it being World Embroidery Day a few days before, the theme of our first pop up is 'Re:doing Denim'.

we welcome everyone to join us on the day for whatever times suit them, and we welcome all ideas, resources, and demonstration projects that people would like to share to make the day a success.

we'll have examples of upcycled denim items from our members, and some deconstructed denim patches to show people how to use visible mending to give denim items a longer life.

a small library of books will be available for people to peruse and get inspiration from, and we’ll also have our BOSS bags and dish cloths there for sale.

we’d love to have you join us in sharing your skills and knowledge with others on the day, downstairs at Wandering Foods in Railway Street. 

world embroidery day

 

it’s world embroidery day on 30 july, so we’re gathering again to stitch in public!

we’ll be sitting in the council forecourt on high street, where we'll get lots of sun this time.

bring some embroidery, maybe a chair and join us. embroidery is a great way to embellish and mend fabric!

we can help guide you with embroidery stitches, and how to use them in mending 💖

mending in public day

 

as part of fashion revolution week, we'll again be mending in public on saturday 26 april between 9am and noon. 

bring some mending, maybe a chair, and join us outside IGA as we take to the streets and stitch in protest against disposable fashion. 

standing as a beacon of change in a world inundated with fashion waste, come and be part of a global creative action resisting the cycle of excess through repair and reuse. 

we're always up for a chat, especially about mending :) 

community clothes swap

Our annual Community Clothes Swap is our celebration of National Recycling Week, and it's now our 13th year 💚

Everyone's welcome to come and join in. The event will be held at the Boonah Cultural Centre on Saturday 2 November between 9am and 1pm.

Bring along some clothes, shoes or accessories (men's, women's and children's) and it's free to swap, or it will cost just a gold coin donation to buy.

Upcycled bags will be available to purchase, as well as our eco dish cloths and produce bags, and there'll be innovative displays and demonstrations on different ways to mend and upcycle textiles, as well as a fabric destash spot to supplement your supplies.

We'll have a sit and stitch table where you can make a beautiful fabric brooch. 

It's also the perfect place to ask questions about recycling, and bring along items for recycling like blister packs, disposable masks, coffee bags, water and air filters, corks (natural and synthetic), pens and markers, old plastic store cards - use our guitar pick punch to punch a pick from yours, sturdy fabric, old sheets and curtains, and bras and swimmers for collaborative recycling initiatives.



Many new recycling initiatives have been added to our recycling register, and info on these will be available, or check online for our recycling register which continues to be updated.

Right next door to the Cultural Foundation's Book Fest, another great recycling week event with thousands of low cost books.


With thanks always to the support of the Scenic Rim Regional Council.