This website encapsulates a creative, wholehearted leadership journey by me,  Jane Milburn, with no set destination except to demonstrate a more sustainable approach to the way we engage with what we wear.

Family and friends are supporting me to unhitch from the ‘office job’, immerse in slow fashion and use simple home-sewing techniques to model creative ways of re-using instead of re-buying.

It is affirming to know that my efforts are not in vain and the Sew it Again project is considered worthy of being archived for posterity. 

The State Library of Queensland has selected Sew it Again for regular archiving in the National Library of Australia’s web archive, PANDORA and I’ve enabled that to happen.  Exciting. 

In social media dispatches today, I see The Story of Stuff campaigner Annie Leonard has been appointed to lead Greenpeace in the United States. Leonard says about her long-ago first visit to a New York City dump: “I was absolutely stunned to look out at this mass of waste and as far as I could see in every direction there was food and furniture and appliances and shoes and books and I was so flabbergasted that our economy was set up in such a way to turn resources into waste at this scale, and that it was so hidden.”

In this Huffington Post article, Leonard talks about leading with values and coming up with solutions. Roger that, all on track.

Sew 140 is a simple upcycle, just take up the hem of a long dress you no longer wear, turn it into a short dress and use the off-cut to soften the plain neckline. This is not rocket science, it take a little time, but it means you can shop your wardrobe and come up with something different to wear instead of gathering more stuff.