Category: Darning
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Our new home…
Clothing, Darning, electrical, Jewellery, Learning, Repair, Resources, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, Textiles, Thingsis at the all new Seven Bees Café in St George’s Church, St George’s Road, Kemp Town, Brighton BN2 1ED. Where we aim to hold a repair cafe on the last Saturday of every month (except December). At our first event there we had a few new people join us to darn… sew and staple! Isaac… → read on
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We are back
Clothing, Community, Darning, electrical, Jewellery, Learning, Repair, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social… and we are raring to get repairing! If like me you have dysfunctional electrical goods you’ve set aside (I seem to have many broken lamps) and a pile of clothes waiting to be repaired bring them along on Saturday 28th September from 11am-3pm. We will be holding the next repair café at the brand spankingly… → read on
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Super repairing…
Clothing, Community, Darning, electrical, Jewellery, Learning, Repair, Resources, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, Textiles, Thingsat Super + Super! Mattia helps our youngest repairer to fix his headphones… Susanne fixes her games console… Qingyun turns a broken umbrella into a poncho! → read on
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Super fun fixing at Super + Super
Clothing, Community, Darning, electrical, Jewellery, Learning, Repair, Resources, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, Textiles, ThingsA great evening was spent at Super + Super fixing electrical goods, necklaces, sunglasses, gloves & elbows on a cardigan as well as adapting trousers and lightbulbs to make them more useable. We can’t wait for the next session at Super + Super on Friday 12th July from 6.30-8.30pm. There will be opportunities to mend… → read on
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Friday night fixing!
Clothing, Community, Darning, electrical, Jewellery, Learning, Repair, Resources, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, Sustainability, Textiles, ThingsTonight we will be holding a repair café at the fabulous Super + Super – A creative hub in the centre of Brighton which shares our mission to learn and share creatively. Come along from 6.30-9pm. Bring clothes, textiles, jewellery, ceramics & electrical goods to repair with help from our volunteers and other repairers. Feel welcome to… → read on
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Stories from the Street (Mendathon)
Clothing, Community, Darning, electrical, Jewellery, Learning, Repair, Resources, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, Sustainability, Textiles, ThingsWe were really fortunate to have a gloriously sunny day when we took our tables, chairs and tools out into the streets of Hanover for the Street Mendathon. The First thing to be repaired (or at least assessed for which parts were missing) was my old Singer sewing machine. As Tom worked out how it… → read on
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High Voltage
Clothing, Darning, electrical, Jewellery, Learning, Repair, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, Sustainability, TextilesWe were so pleased to have a new volunteer on board for the last repair café… Mattia who has just arrived from Italy with lots of electrical repair skills and brought with him a great kit to help us repair our electrical goods. Mattia got to work straight away helping to fix my… → read on
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Next Repair Café postponed
Clothing, Community, Darning, Jewellery, Learning, Repair, Resources, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, Sustainability, TextilesDue to a wedding and an exhibition taking up all the organisers time we are having to postpone the next repair café. It will now take place on Saturday 27th April in the basement of Bom-banes The theme will be textiles, clothing and jewellery. Please contact us if you would like to come along or… → read on
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Saturday’s Repair Cafe
Clothing, Community, Darning, Jewellery, Learning, Publicity, Repair, Resources, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, Sustainability, TextilesLast Saturday’s Repair Cafe was great fun. We met lots of new faces some of whom came along having seen this in The Argus: Izzie our jewellery expert showed people how to fix their necklaces and bracelets Helping Hannah add new beads in with the remains of a necklace which had exploded to create a… → read on
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Repair Cafe at Brighton University
Yesterday we held a Repair Café at Brighton University as part of #greenweek2013. We set up at the back of the canteen at the Grand Parade campus and were joined for a chat by students and staff. Jewellery tools, darning and stitching were used to repair clothing and accessories and an accidental colour theme emerged! The Swiss… → read on
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Brighton Repair Café 