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​On the mend

20/3/2025

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By Jillian Adams
 
HAVE the moths been at your favourite jumper? Don’t throw it away. Bring it to the Wonthaggi Fixit Café, where a mending team is ready to help.
 
The Mending Team at Fixit Café can help out with textiles needing small mending repairs, including clothes, toys, blankets and woollens.
 
We usually have a sewing machine onsite. Other mending techniques include hand sewing and needle felting. Needle felting can be used to repair small holes in woollen items, excepting socks and merino clothing.

Bookings for repairs can be made via Mitchell House on 5672 3731 during business hours.
 
While the weather is good, the mending team is hosting a mending circle on the verandah during Fixit Café. Everyone is welcome to bring along their own mending project and join others to chat while you sew, There’s no need to book for this.
So come and mend with us.
 
The Fixit Cafe is at the Wonthaggi Men's Shed, located at the Wonthaggi Community Garden, on the third Sunday of the month from 10am to 12 midday. Enter through the Big W carpark and park by the Goods Shed.
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Christine Grayden
29/3/2025 09:51:41 am

As a social historian I know full well the invaluable contribution sewing circles have made to the lives of women in many communities over the centuries. As a 72 year old who lived much of my childhood in industrial Richmond, Melbourne, I well recall my maternal grandmother taking me along to several sessions of her local sewing circle: a great place for a growing girl to learn about the lives of Struggletown families - and a bit about sewing as well! I don't think my grandmother ever threw out a single item of clothing. She had all sorts of tricks to repair all manner of damage, and also to evolve spent clothing into new incarnations. (The clothing was better quality back then though. Sigh)

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Jillian Adams link
31/3/2025 04:28:08 pm

Because Easter is the 3rd Sunday, the April fixit cafe is going to be on April 27th.

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