Category: Sewing

April 1, 2014

February’s Repair Café

Clothing, Community, Darning, electrical, Jewellery, Learning, Repair, repair event, Resources, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, Sustainability, Textiles, Things

brought 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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March 13, 2014

What a lovely evening!!!

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

More photos to follow! Thanks to everyone who gave their time and effort to make it happen. We’re now busy getting ready for this Saturday’s repair cafe at St George’s Church from 11am-2pm. We’ll have volunteers and tools on hand to help repairs of bikes, electrical goods, clothing, textiles and anything that needs darning. So… → read on

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January 23, 2014

All the fun at the Bridge Circus

Clothing, electrical, Jewellery, Learning, Repair, repair event, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Textiles, Things

We were delighted to be invited to be part of Brighton Universities Bridge Circus in December. The event launched The True Value of Materials exhibition in the Grand Parade Gallery and brought together some amazing designers, innovators, businesses and academics. We held a two day repair cafe in the university and enlisted a group of furniture, product… → read on

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January 20, 2014

Bike Tastic!

Clothing, Community, electrical, Learning, Repair, repair event, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social

Thanks to our lovely new volunteers Dan and Roberto we were able to offer bike repairs at the November repair café. Several bikes were adjusted, tyres fixed, baskets and lights attached and diagnosis for further repair was conducted. Dan demonstrated his versatility by getting stuck in with other repairs… fixing among other things this old… → read on

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January 2, 2014

Happy New Year!

Clothing, Community, Repair, repair event, Sewing, Textiles

The Brighton Repair Café gang would like to wish you all a Happy New Year! If you are busy making resolutions for the year ahead why not make one of them a promise to yourself that you will repair one of your possessions rather than throw it away… Come and escape the January blues and… → read on

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December 5, 2013

Roll Up for the Bridge Circus

Clothing, Community, Darning, festival, Jewellery, Learning, Repair, repair event, Research, Resources, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, Sustainability, Textiles, Things

This 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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November 9, 2013

Repair stories from Magpie’s Eco-Festival

Community, electrical, festival, Repair, repair event, Resources, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, Textiles

We 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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October 17, 2013

Our new home…

Clothing, Darning, electrical, Jewellery, Learning, Repair, Resources, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, Textiles, Things

is 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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October 2, 2013

This Saturday…

Clothing, Community, electrical, Jewellery, Repair, Sewing

We will be holding a Repair Cafe as part of Magpie’s Eco-Festival at Shabitat on the Lewes Road in Brighton… What fun! Bring clothes & textiles, jewellery and electrical goods that need fixing and learn how to repair them yourself with the help of our volunteers, share your skills or use… → read on

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September 21, 2013

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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Category: Sewing

February’s Repair Café

What a lovely evening!!!

All the fun at the Bridge Circus

Bike Tastic!

Happy New Year!

Roll Up for the Bridge Circus

Repair stories from Magpie’s Eco-Festival

Our new home…

This Saturday…

We are back