Category: Things

June 11, 2013

Stories from the Street (Mendathon)

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

We 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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February 4, 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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