As part of the Great Exhibition of the North in summer 2018, Rejig ran some sewing workshops for the Family Expo week at St James Park, Newcastle. We were working alongside the youth work team from the Tyneside JUICE Festival and had a lot of fun making some amazing northern creatures from our large collection [...]

Well it’s September and the weekly Rejig sessions have started again after a short break in August, so we always like to have a new creative project every year to try out different skills. This year, we are doing some Victorian crazy patchwork samples using lots of delicious scraps of velvet, silk, satin and lace […]

Here at Rejig Towers we had a very busy summer taking part in some of the Family Expo events at St. James Park, Newcastle as part of the Great Exhibition of the North. The events were really well attended - over 6,000 people over the main weekend - and everyone on the Rejig stand worked [...]

Rejig ran a Morsbag sewing workshop at this year's Community Get-Together in the South Park, as part of the Darlington annual celebration for the life of MP Jo Cox. As well as hosting a free drop-in session with both the electric and the vintage hand sewing machines, Rejig stitchers were busy volunteering all of Sunday [...]

One of our Rejig projects this year is to use some of our extensive stash of recycled fabrics, zips, ribbons, and interesting button tins to create a series of Fidget Quilts for the local Alzheimer's Society. We also have two Duke of Edinburgh Award students doing a placement at one of our weekly sessions, so [...]

This April we'll be taking our Rejig vintage hand-sewing machines on the road once again, to take part in Maker Faire UK! This exciting event runs across the weekend of 28th-29th April, in the Life Science Centre, Newcastle. It promises to be a fun- and fact-filled event, chock to the brim with making, crafting, coding, [...]