Emma Ashley wants your help to make fabric bags for breast cancer surgery patients.
She said she got the idea from Facebook page "The Simple Gift of a Bag".
"A lady in Albion Park had received a pretty fabric bag after her mastectomy, due to breast cancer, to carry her drain around in," Ms Ashley, of Beaumont Hills, said.
"Once she was well enough, she started making bags with her mum and friends and donating them to hospitals; so far they have donated about 800."
Inspired, Ms Ashley posted on her Facebook that she wanted to gather some friends to do the same.
"I truly hope the bags we make will lift the spirits of the recipients when they are feeling low"
"A week later six friends and I got together with some of our kids at my house," Ms Ashley said.
Everyone is invited to her next all-ages drop-in sewing session, in the Rouse Hill Anglican Church hall on Sunday, September 14.
"It doesn't have to be just people who can sew," said Ms Ashley, a self-professed amateur at sewing.
"People can cut fabric, iron the bags flat, make cups of tea . . . people can even donate the fabric."
Finished bags will be donated to The Crown Princess Mary Cancer Centre, Westmead.
"I truly hope the bags we make will lift the spirits of the recipients when they are feeling low," said Ms Ashley who was personally touched by cancer when her mother, Lyn, died from esophageal cancer two years ago.
The next all-ages drop-in sewing session is in the Rouse Hill Anglican Church hall on Sunday, September 14, 1.30pm-5pm.
To be part of the sewing circle, email Emma Ashley at eashley66@gmail.com.