Category: Repair

8 March, 2013

Repair Cafe at Brighton University

Clothing, Community, Darning, Jewellery, Repair, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, Textiles

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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28 February, 2013

Next Cafe to be held at Brighton University’s Green Week Event

Clothing, Community, Repair, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, Sustainability, Textiles

We will be taking part in Brighton University’s Green Week by holding a repair cafe at the Grand Parade Campus cafe from 12-4pm… Exciting! Students and staff please bring along clothing and textiles to repair there will be sewing machines availbale. Or pop along to have a chat about future repair cafe sessions. → read on

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26 February, 2013

First (official-un-official) Repair Cafe

Clothing, Community, Darning, Learning, Repair, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, Sustainability, Textiles

What a great repair session! Last Saturday’s theme was textiles and clothing with a particular focus on darning. The talented Tom of Holland came bearing darning mushrooms, wool and needles and showed us how to use visible mending to repair our holey (not holy) clothes. Socks were brought and… → read on

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20 February, 2013

Darn it!

Clothing, Learning, Repair, Sharing, Skills, Social, Textiles

Breaking news… This Saturday we will have Tom of Holland (one of our repair expert volunteers) joining us to share his knitwear darning expertise: If you have socks with holes in, jumpers with worn out elbows or clothes that moths have been munching bring them along and learn how to darn them better. We will have some needles, threads and… → read on

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9 February, 2013

Repair Cafe – Pilot Part Deux

Clothing, Community, Jewellery, Learning, Repair, Resources, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Sustainability, Textiles

Our second trial Repair Cafe was held in Bom-Bane’s again. With new people coming to mend a mixture of things. As it was 1st December old wool was turned into Christmas pom-poms. Broken necklaces were remade into bracelets and new necklaces. Jasmin learnt how to make a bracelet. …And plans were made for the new… → read on

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4 February, 2013

Our first pilot Repair Cafe

Clothing, Community, Learning, Repair, Resources, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Sustainability, Textiles, Things

Our first Repair Cafe took place on 17th November 2012 at the fantastically quirky Bom-Bane’s (http://bom-banes.com/) The theme was sewing and textile repairs and a good crowd turned up and got busy repairing and chatting. We were pleased to have Cat Fletcher from Freegle (http://www.ilovefreegle.org/) join us for the session. Qingyun learnt to use a… → read on

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Category: Repair

Repair Cafe at Brighton University

Next Cafe to be held at Brighton University’s Green Week Event

First (official-un-official) Repair Cafe

Darn it!

Repair Cafe – Pilot Part Deux

Our first pilot Repair Cafe