The Animal Welfare League (AWL) is a national non-profit organisation caring for companion animals across Australia.

AWL works with local councils, state government, rescue groups and the community to improve the outcomes of stray and surrendered pets. They are nationally recognised for their unique and innovative programs, initiatives and re-homing strategies.

In this month’s sewalong we are asking you to stitch, embroider or design your most creative dog or cat bandana, which the AWL can give away with new adopted pets or sell in their stores to raise money for much-needed supplies.

Sewalong Brief

• Download the A3 Pet Bandanna pattern (PDF, 0.4MB)
• Download the A4 Pet Bandanna pattern (PDF, 0.4MB)

Get creative by embroidering, appliqueing or decorating your dog or cat bandannas with sewing trims like the one below.

Sewing Instructions

Download the Pet Bandanna instructions (PDF, 640kb) to learn how to sew your pet bandanna. These bandannas fit over your pet collar so make sure to have that handy!

Bad to the Bone design

This is a great chance for you to add something unique to your bandanna. To make things easy we have supplied you with a free 4″ x 4″ (10cm x 10cm) Bad to the Bone embroidery design (ZIP, 0.2MB).

AWL embroidery designs

You can also embroider the Animal Welfare League logo on your bandana and when each dog or cat is adopted they can wear this to raise awareness for The Animal Welfare League Australia. Please note, there are different logos for each individual state and territory.

• Download AWL QLD Embroidery Logo (ZIP, 0.2MB)
• Download AWL NSW Embroidery Logo (ZIP, 0.5MB)
• Download AWL VIC Embroidery Logo (ZIP, 0.4MB)
• Download AWL WA Embroidery Logo (ZIP, 0.3MB)
• Download AWL TAS Embroidery Logo (ZIP, 0.4MB)
• Download AWL SA Embroidery Logo (ZIP, 0.3MB)

Please do a test of these embroidery designs before you embroider on your dog coat fabric. These designs are suitable for a 4″ x 4″ (10cm x 10cm) embroidery hoop or larger.

Sending in your donations

You can send in your donation to the Animal Welfare League as follows:

• Drop it off to any of the four Echidna stores
• Drop it to any of the Animal Welfare League locations listed below.

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Western Australia
There are a few locations in Western Australia:

HOW LONG DO I HAVE TO CREATE THE PROJECT?

The Animal Welfare League sewalong will run from 1–31 July 2018.

Prizes

We’ll be giving away a number of prizes throughout in the year. To enter simply take a photo of your finished project this month and post it to our Echidna Sewing facebook community!

Things to remember

Sewalongs are a great way to get inspired by what everyone creates, while giving to a worthy cause. If you’re new to sewing and embroidery this is a great chance to get involved and have fun no matter what the outcome. Any excuse to put your sewing and embroidery machines to good use is a great one.

Sewalong Badges

If you have your own sewing/embroidery blog you can save the following badges and post it on your blog entry, linking back to this page.

More information

• Echidna Sewing facebook community – get inspired and share your creation with our online community.
• Past charity sewalongs – Try your hand at some of our past projects.
• Suggest a charity –  Tell us about a charity you’d like to see in our monthly sewalong.