Popular craft classes

Wellington Sewing Centre’s very popular evening and weekend classes are at their peak in the July to September term, with 27 classes on offer in a wide range of crafts.

Held at the 40 Coutts Street shop and its classroom, the classes will include machine sewing, overlocking, knitting, crochet, pattern drafting, dress fitting, embroidery – and more.

Creating a new fish passage in the Glenside Reserve stream. Photo: Supplied.

with advisors on how to deal with the concrete ford obstruction.

It will be Wellington City Council’s responsibility to care for the fish passages and maintain them.

The iconic Wellington Sewing Centre is on the market.

Located at 40 Coutts Street, Kilbirnie, the shop is renowned for supplying sewing machines, overlockers and overseamers as well as quality supplies for all yarn and fabric-based crafts.

It also runs very popular evening and weekend classes that cover a wide range of crafts for people who are new to the crafts through to those with significant experience.

Wellington Sewing Centre opened in 1988 as a sewing machine retail and repair service. It has since grown significantly to become a well-known supplier of everything related to yarn and fabric products and learning about them.

The shop’s current owner, Jo Morris, thoroughly enjoys her enterprise. She took over ownership in 2016, and is now looking to retire.

People who are interested or who would like more information can contact Jo by telephoning 387 4505 or emailing jo@ sewingdirect.co.nz.

More information about the Wellington Sewing Centre is available on the shop’s website, https://sewingdirect.co.nz/.

They will cater for people with a wide range of experience in the various crafts – from beginners through to those ready to learn advanced techniques.

“We take everyone from zero to hero,” says Wellington Sewing Centre’s owner Jo Morris.

Although Wellington Sewing Centre has run classes for children in past years, the shop will be running only adult classes this year.

The machine sewing and related classes are held in a classroom behind the shop while the yarn-based and hand stitching classes are held in the shop itself.

Theentrance to the shop’s carpark is off Onepu Road, between the Westpac Bank and the funeral home.People are welcome topark there but need to avoid the two spaces against the fence labelled “KIP”.

More information about the classes, including a list of the upcoming classes, is on Wellington Sewing Centre’s website, https:// sewingdirect.co.nz/classes/adults-classes/. Bookings for classes can be made on the website or in the shop.

As well as classes, Wellington Sewing Centre offers a free 30 minute lesson on any new Ph sewing machine, overlocker or coverseamer bought from the shop. They also have free videos online that show some simple tips and tricks for both sewing and knitting projects. For more information email classes@sewingdirect.co.nz.

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In the 29 June 2023 issue of the “Independent Herald” Pastor Nigel Woodley explains that Palestinians “are a part of the larger Arab peoples of the Middle East and North Africa. The 22

Dear Editor, I’d like to congratulate the Herald on the great cover story last week about the Lets Get Wellington Moving report on the proposed cycleways and the shameful way they tried to bury the community response.

I hope copies went to the Council offices and to every Councillor. The Herald is important for highlight-

Arab nations occupy a land area of 13,486,861 km²” (that’s an area larger than Canada but smaller than Russia).

One inference is that Palestinians should be able to acknowl- ing local issues. It was thanks to the Herald publishing my letter and photo in 2015 on housing and infill issues that my neighbours and I finally got some action from the Council. edge “legitimate Jewish claims to the same land”’ because they have other homelands to go to.

The fact that it was an election year probably helped. I had four Mayoral candidates visit my property, plus several Council candidates.

But Palestinians also have “legitimate claims” and are entitled, like Israelis, to make their homes

We didn’t succeed in stopping the construction next door, but the publicity helped and I’ve continued to campaign on the issue. Keep up the good work. The local community articles are interesting and the occasional big issue gets publicity that is needed.

Leith Wallace

and pursue self-determination where 6.4 million of them live, between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. That they share that 27, 500 square kilometres (a bit smaller than Otago, or Belgium) with more than 7.6 million Jewish Israelis makes the task challenging but not impossible.

Malcolm McKinnon

The Karori Community Centre celebrated all the various people who give selflessly of their time and energy for the community in Karori culminating in an afternoon tea during National Volunteer Week.

Attendees were treated to talks from Manjit Grewel of Ekta and David Kristicevic from Meals on Wheels, who spoke about the need for volunteers and giving back to the community.

David and Richard (who delivers for Meals on Wheels on his bicycle) ran a very fun game of Heads or Tails that saw Julia from the Repair Cafe win a block of chocolate. They also got everyone talking to each other about why they volunteer and what drives them.

Karori Community Centre Board Chair Heather Baldwin also spoke about the value of volunteers to the community and thanked them for their generosity.

Brenda Crooks, the office administrator at the community centre, told those gathered that it was hard to stop volunteers from wanting to help out putting on the event.

Small gifts were handed out and lovely afternoon tea was served.

The community centre is the hub for many volunteers, charities, recycling initiatives and volunteer groups.