Trainers & Shoe Darns
For Great Big Green Week, Ealing Repair Cafe was invited to the St Stephens Big Green Fair. It was lovely to meet lots of keen people want to do their bit for the environment. I took along with me, examples of my mends, our darning and patching leaflets and lots of equipment to help peopleContinue reading “Trainers & Shoe Darns”
Mending pile: All about knees
My son is constantly wearing holes in his trousers. These are school PE trousers so kept the visible mend understated so he can still wear them for school. I used the visible mending technique called Boro stitch. Firstly find a patch suitable for the area. For this one, I used an old t-shirt as itContinue reading “Mending pile: All about knees”
Sustainable wins: Fabric Wrapping
Sustainable living wins: what do you do at birthdays and celebrations things do you do to make it sustainable? Every family birthday these wraps come out. Its reduced dramatically the amount of packaging waste left over after a birthday. I love fabric wrapping. It’s another birthday in the house and I have got our reusableContinue reading “Sustainable wins: Fabric Wrapping”
Laundry washing products: Green Washing or Greenwashing?
I have been thinking I should change from my supermarket non bio which although comes in a cardboard box may not have the best ingredients. I discovered this brilliant analysis on laundry powders as weighs up ingredients from various brands out there. When referring to Ethical Consumer magazine, we noticed that some of the ‘NewContinue reading “Laundry washing products: Green Washing or Greenwashing?”
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