Category: Resources
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Merry May Mending
Clothing, Community, Darning, electrical, Repair, repair event, Resources, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, TextilesSam (who co-organises Brighton Repair Café) turned her making skills to use, showing Sarah how to replace the disintegrated rubber seal on a coffee maker with a new one. Fiona of The Lost Mitten Project talked Stacey through how to repair the ladders in a favourite top, suggesting that after darning the holes that she could… → read on
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February’s Repair Café
Clothing, Community, Darning, electrical, Jewellery, Learning, Repair, repair event, Resources, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, Sustainability, Textiles, Thingsbrought some new faces who were shown how to darn and patch to make links in order to fix jewellery We had a visit from a lady who is knitting a map of Brighton & Dan fashioned a nifty bike basket rack out of coat hangers! → read on
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Roll Up for the Bridge Circus
Clothing, Community, Darning, festival, Jewellery, Learning, Repair, repair event, Research, Resources, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, Sustainability, Textiles, ThingsThis Monday & Tuesday we will be holding a mendathon a Brighton University as part of the Bridge Circus Symposium to see how many things we can fix in two days, whilst challenging people to actively occupy their objects rather than passively consume and dispose of them. Volunteers will be on hand with a range of skills… → read on
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Repair stories from Magpie’s Eco-Festival
Community, electrical, festival, Repair, repair event, Resources, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, TextilesWe were invited to hold an outdoor repair café at Magpie’s Eco Festival. The event was held at Magpie’s fantastic Shabitat warehouse where they sell second hand goods from clothes to furniture. Set in Saunders Park, the festival was a fun mix of great local music, food, drink and eco-projects and craftspeople. We held our café… → read on
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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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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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Street Mendathon
Clothing, Community, electrical, Jewellery, Repair, Resources, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, Sustainability, TextilesThink street party but everyone is repairing something! We are taking our next Repair Café out into the streets of Hanover (Brighton) on the 2nd June from 1-5pm. We’re encouraging Hanover residents to take their tables & chairs outside their houses and to do those repair jobs that have been put off for another time.… → read on
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