Youth and Sewing Club - Last touches on the Bunting Flags

On Saturday June 3rd Some of the Youth from Killarney helped to cut more triangles, iron and pin them onto the bias tape. We brought in EartHand's artist Rebecca to help us with the big banner and finish some more bunting flags. Here is a few photos of us hard at work.

On June 7th the Seniors Sewing group helped the project by sewing all the triangles that the children painted from the After School kids club with Kitty. Also they made us more bias tape for the project. All the triangles that we made with the youth also were pinned onto the bias tape they made and they sewed all the strips so that we could hang them in the lobby.

They had 5 sewing machines on the go at once and all the beautiful flags are now ready for hanging.

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Joe Chatsis Cree Hooping Dancer and The Culture Saves Lives Pow Wow Drummers

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