Well, what a busy weekend we had! After all the hard work planning and preparing for it, the Rejig sewing workshop at the Maker Faire in the Life Science Centre in the centre of Newcastle was a complete knockout. The volunteer team worked their socks off both days, the keen stitchers and would-be stitchers of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

As part of our commitment to community recycling projects this year, Rejig has registered as a Morsbag Pod! As we often have more recycled fabric than we can use, our regular stitchers have been making some Morsbags to pass on to local shoppers, family members, and friends. Morsbags is a fab international project which encourages [...]

Oxfam Darlington now run a regular Wednesday evening sewing and recycling session, with support from REJIG. The evening is open to everybody, with the aim of producing saleable goods from unused donations of fabric and clothing. You’re also free to make your own projects, for a small donation to Oxfam funds. These evenings grew out of [...]