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| Wallaby joey pouches |
For years, I've thought that out of the slew of issues I care about, climate change was at the top of my list. However, like so many other people, I also hoped we had more time before we would start seeing the impact. But the increase in severe weather-related events all over the world combined with a torrent of discouraging news from climate scientists have made me feel very pessimistic. In recent horrible events, it appears that climate change has at the least contributed to the severity of Australia's bush fires with high temperatures and prolonged droughts.
There has been a good deal of media coverage of the suffering caused by these fires, including the toll on Australia's wild animals. So when I received an email from Mood Fabrics describing a project to make pouches for rescued kangaroo and wallaby joeys, I decided to contribute. You can read about it here; I decided to use Piccolo Studio's free tutorial and downloadable pattern. As anyone who sews can attest, it is not uncommon to have a healthy stash of perfectly nice fabric that is languishing for any number of reasons, often because the pieces are too small to make a garment out of but too large to throw away. In the spirit of sustainability (and decluttering my home) I used some of these fabrics, and feel that they were put to very good use.
To keep things relatively simple and to squeeze out more pouches from my selection of fabrics, I opted to make the smaller wallaby joey pouches instead of the kangaroo ones. All five pouches I made are lined in flannel. The blue one in the picture that doesn't have a scooped front is intended to be a night pouch that will be harder for the joey to peek out of while he/she is sleeping.
I'll send these off today to the person who is collecting them to send to Australia. I hope they'll be useful. And I fervently hope that we can all collectively take action to rein in these changes in our climate that are contributing to so much misery.
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