Support sewing for Indigenous Youth

Dear Quilt Guild,

Are you looking for an innovative and fun activity to directly support Indigenous youth within your province or in Nunavut? Would you care to upcycle your unused fabrics?

We are expanding our Sewcase program to help ease the work of sewing teachers in our labs, to supply our rapidly growing number of labs, to improve our environmental impact, to better support local economies and to get more Canadians actively involved!

Whether with friends, colleagues, classmates or on your own, here’s how you can help:

  1. By supporting a Janome dealership in your province to help us supply our sewing labs with needed sewing accessories.
  2. By cutting unused fabrics into basic shapes we can use them to build sewing project kits for our students; you can even include a personal note to students with your donation!

Find out more and watch our Sew Shapes campaign video here. 

Soaring Circle is a National non-profit (please see one pager to learn more).  Feel free to reach out if you have any questions or would like to be added to our quarterly newsletter! 

Jenny Ambrose
Sewcase Program Coordinator
Soaring Circle (formerly ILFP)
sewcase@soaringcircle.ca
819.486.1011
SoaringCircle.ca 

Soaring Circle is located on the traditional unceded, unsurrendered territory of the Anishinàbe Algonquin People. We show our respect and gratitude to the Algonquin People who have inhabited and cared for these lands and carried out trade and exchange since time immemorial. Our work spans the many territories and treaty lands of the First Peoples who have walked before us and continue to protect the land today. 

We acknowledge the harms done to Indigenous peoples learning from the past; as a member of the Good4.Global community, we commit to maintaining sustainable and inclusive business practices, and to move forward in partnership with the Algonquin Nations, First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples in a spirit of reconciliation through meaningful and demonstrable actions that support the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Calls to Action. 

Our work aims to advance the United Nations’ SDGs #3 (Good Health & Wellbeing), #4 (Quality Education), #8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth), #10 (Reduced Inequalities) and #17 (Partnerships for the Goals).