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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

The recent Rejig sewing sessions held on Tuesday mornings at Greenfield Community Arts have now come to an end, but it has been a great experience getting to know lots of different stitchers in the Newton Aycliffe area over the last 2 years. As with all the weekly Rejig groups, this one has had lots […]