A stitch in time at Northfield
A 'repair café’ has been launched at Northfield Ecocentre
by Tara Craig
10th June 2016
Northfield Ecocentre’s latest project, a ‘repair café’, was launched on 3 June.
The Birmingham-based environmental initiative took its inspiration from the repair cafés popping up all over the world.
Participants at the monthly Textile Repair Café will learn for free how to repair their clothes. Volunteers will teach them about darning, hemming, seaming and other useful stitches.
It is hoped that repairing their clothes will allow participants to continue wearing them for longer, thereby keeping garments out of landfill for as long as possible. Northfield Ecocentre is a Central England Quakers project.
