Soup & Thread

Soup & Thread is a monthly series of sewing bees at community spaces around town that will sew "the history of Soup & Bread* into the world’s largest soup-themed tablecloth"!   All materials will be provided, along with a light snack of soup and bread.

*Soup & Bread is a community meal project and a fun, grassroots way to raise money for hunger-relief organizations and other good causes that has been based at the Hideout, a bar and music club in Chicago, for over 14 years.    Soup & Bread instigators Martha Bayne and Sheila Sachs and multimedia artist Andrea Jablonski are expanding into textiles with the launch of Soup & Thread, a monthly series of sewing bees at community spaces around town.   "Many hands make light work, and we are going to need all the help we can get as we embark on this audacious quest."

All materials will be provided,…