Social distancing doesn’t mean you don’t have to stop donating to women in need.
By Katrina Hertzer
While practicing social distancing at home, you’ve probably been looking for things to do with yourself with all this new free time in your schedule.
Sewing reusable totes for the Women’s Centre of Calgary is a simple activity you can do to help others and be creative. We have used a simple guide pattern from a grassroots organization called the Green Bag Lady, to make our donation totes.
The Green Bag Lady, an organization founded by Teresa VanHatten-Granath, has been making reusable shopping bags out of donated fabric since 2008. To date, that’s over 130,248 bags worldwide! Her organization has created a very simple pattern on her blog: Green Bag Lady, as well as a DIY video for step by step assembly below:
Sew one or sew a few! Reusable shopping bags are a great way to curb our use of plastics and paper, and making them is a great way to do good while keeping yourself occupied (and safe).
References
Green Bag Lady Blog. (2020, April 6). Home page. http://greenbaglady.blogspot.com
Teresa Granath. (n.d.). NEW how to make. green bag lady bag [YouTube Channel]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7nN36oIBqY
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