Ealing Repair Café, a group of volunteers based in Ealing have been awarded The King’s Award for Voluntary Service for 2025. This is the highest award a local voluntary group can receive in the UK and is equivalent to an MBE. Ealing Repair Café’s primary focus is to encourage and facilitate clothes and textiles mendingContinue reading “Ealing Repair Cafe receives The King’s Award for Voluntary Service”
Tag Archives: clothes
How to Extend the Life of School Uniforms
Children’s school uniform and sports kits are a necessary (but sometimes costly) family expense. So we have put together some tips on how to keep your children wearing and using their school uniform for longer. “The Wrong Blazer 2020” report shows that parents spend an average of £337 per year on uniforms for secondary school children andContinue reading “How to Extend the Life of School Uniforms”
DIY Simple Purse: Easy Sewing Project
A simple purse that is simple to make. You can experiment with decorating them and use different styles stitching to practice your sewing skills. This purse is a great way to use up scraps of heavy fabrics like upholstery or denim from jeans. It has so many uses, for example a coin or credit cardContinue reading “DIY Simple Purse: Easy Sewing Project”
Help develop a toolkit for clothes repair this January 2024
Looking for people who are interested in repairing clothes as part of being a sustainable consumer. Ealing Repair cafe in partnership with the RCA (Royal College of Art) to take part of clothes repair research project on Wednesday 24 January to evaluate the effectiveness of a repair toolkit and you are invited too, find outContinue reading “Help develop a toolkit for clothes repair this January 2024”
How to sew on name labels to school uniform
Our guide on to help you get those sew on name labels and badges attached to school uniform for the start of term.
Sustainable Clothing Material Guide
Good on you have done the detective work for us and written the ultimate clothing material guide to the vast selection of fabrics found in clothes that you can find on shop shelves, in your wardrobe and fabric shops.
Setting up a Clothes Repair Group
Our guide to set up your own clothes repair cafe, giving you suggestions on what you need and how to go about setting up sessions.
Upcycling t-shirts into yarn
Did you know that in the UK around 336,000 tonnes of our unwanted clothing gets thrown away every year? The good news is we have come up with simple upcycling projects to keep clothing in use, and out of the bin. In a few simple steps t-shirts can be made into t-shirt yarn. You can also useContinue reading “Upcycling t-shirts into yarn”
Sewing Kit Basics
Do you know your seam ripper from a needle threader? Ealing Repair café Sewing Kit basics is what you need in a basic sewing kit to start clothes repairing. If you can gather these items together, it will be easy for you to patch and darn your clothes. Take a look at our sewing mendingContinue reading “Sewing Kit Basics”
Christmas Jumpers
Love or hate them Christmas Jumpers are promoted at this time of year. Fundraisers, Christmas work parties and with a limited time to wear them it’s always good to repurpose or buy second hand. However, with two out of five Christmas jumpers only being worn once over the festive period says Hubbub, it’s a primeContinue reading “Christmas Jumpers”
Books on repairing and alterations
These are a selection of mending books along to our Ealing Repair Cafe sessions. Each has a review of what the book covers.
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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