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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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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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Electrical repairs at this Saturday’s Repair Cafe…
Clothing, Community, electrical, Jewellery, Learning, Repair, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, Sustainability, TextilesGood news fellow fixers!!! We have a new volunteer for Saturday… Mattia Cobianchi who in his own words “ain’t no McGuivor” but is going to be on hand to help with electrical repairs. If you have something you would like help fixing please post a photo up on the facebook group with a description of… → 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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Next Cafe to be held at Brighton University’s Green Week Event
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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First (official-un-official) Repair Cafe
Clothing, Community, Darning, Learning, Repair, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, Sustainability, TextilesWhat 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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Darn it!
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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