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The News section took a hiatus in 2025 but it was such a jam packed year it deserves an update. Here are some of the things that happened in 2025 at the Yack Women's Shed, but I have probably left a few things out!: Folk Festival Fun We got into the Folk Festival spirit, with some of our members and Men's Shed members turning blue for the parade, and riding the roller coaster. Mosaics madness Our mosaics group has gone from strength to strength during 2025 producing some amaz

Our very own Penny Wright will be presenting at The Yackandandah LIbrary on International Women's Day, Tuesday 3 March at 10:00am. The event is free but registrations are needed for catering purposes. Register here

In 2026 we enter a new chapter for our Women's Shed. We are co-locating some of our activities with the Men's Shed at the Yack Shack, 24 Isaacs Ave, Yackandandah. This is part of our ongoing cooperation with the Men's Shed and will provide us with opportunities to work together, particularly having them help us to develop our woodworking and construction skills. Our regular Tuesdays at the Shed become Tuesdays at the Shack, and our Mindful Doodling, Textiles Tribe and members

If you happen to visit the Hyphen in Wodonga then make sure you take the time to visit the Needle and Thread exhibition by the Albury Wodonga chapter of the Victorian Embroiders Guild. In particular take a close look at this masterpiece of embroidery art by our very own Julia Vaughan. Congratulations Julie - this is exquisite work.

We had a lovely gathering with Women's Shed members to acknowledge International Women's Day in March. It was nice to catch up generally...

It's interesting and rewarding to see members of the Women's Shed working cooperatively on a range of projects with other groups as a...

It started out as our final Member's Meeting for the year, but things took a turn when Chrissie, Marian, Robyn and Janet took out their...

Another wonderful team effort from our members on the 10th December, co-hosting the Morello cherry-picking event with Rex Little, owner...

Each year for the last three years the Women's Shed has organised the Yackandandah Community CHristmas Fair, which features local...

Yack Women's Shed hosted an important information seminar run by the CFA on Emergency Preparedness. Maureen and April from our local CFA...

The most anticipated workshop we've run so far kicked off on 30 September after a short delay. Eight members were introduced to the...

At our member's meeting on 5 September we launched our new Yackandandah Women's Shed banner. We had to replace our original sandwich...

Fourteen Women's Shed members hopped in their cars and took a roadtrip to nearby Bright for the day. The main reason for the road trip...

It seems to have become a bit of a tradition (can we say tradition yet?) that the Women's Shed is asked to cater an afternoon tea for the...

Our mosaics group was invited to work with students of Dederang Primary School master the art. Five members of the mosaic group assisted...

Thought it was time to show some photos of the amazing creativity on display at our various workshops and interest groups that are...

How do you get 10 wicking beds built? Organise a wicking bed workshop for the Women's Shed and get the members to build them and learn...

Occasionally the Women's Shed sees benefit in engaging the wider community in its activities. Some of our members suggested we organise...

The Women's Shed has been successful in securing a small grant from the YCC Community Grants program to fund the purchase of storage for...

The Yack Women's Shed is extending its reach to the airways! Once a month a couple of members of the Women's Shed will host a show on...