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Build A CAT THING modular cat cave

14/06/2018 by Ali Clifford

Time to build A CAT THING modular cat cave You may have already heard – we got a KITTEN! And now he is seven months’ old and looking for new challenges. Cats like to climb (you may have noticed if you have one) – they like to get up as high as possible (if you …

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Morning chums - I thought you might enjoy this sho

Morning chums - I thought you might enjoy this short film: how I get your @incredibusy Salvaged Speed Looms into your caring 🧶🪡 darning hands. I spent a day with Liz my Woodturner (and an excellent woodturning tutor if you’d like to spend a day in her woodshed too) 🪵

Sooooo this was meant to be posted Tuesday evening however what with one thing and another yesterday, the #TurningToolTuesday hashtag has morphed into #WoodturningWednesday* for one week only 🥹

Ask Liz @love_heartwood all the questions about her buffer @chestnutproducts and the Buffing Wheel Kit but I LOVE using it - so satisfying and your darning “yo-yos” are so SHINY (and so are my fingernails).

Important small business information:
Liz’s woodturning workshops make a great Christmas gift idea
And I have two tickets 🎟️ remaining for the last visible mending workshop in London before Christmas next Tuesday 3rd Dec with @renee_materials.

Oh and if you’d like to purchase a loom for a gift please allow a working week, my last posting date is Wednesday 18 December 2nd Class Signed For.

That’s the admin out of the way

Love you lots
Ali x

#MendingMatters #TurningToolTuesday #sgiew_repair #visiblemending #WomenWhoTurn #FemaleWoodturner @sogoodineveryway #FindAMakerWeek @find.amaker :)

(*might be on to something there!)
And thank you @katepowertherapeuticcoach for your lovely darning hands x

Sleeve Cuff Repairs - Thank you @thesallyross here

Sleeve Cuff Repairs - Thank you @thesallyross here’s the cuff repair :)
Hopefully this is helpful, wasn’t fully expecting to make a “tutorial” so it’s a bit of a shoddy video but my three Ali Clifford “takeaways” from this project are:
(a) Use two lengths of wool for strength at the edges of the cuff, as using just one is destined to break as you are wrapping the warp thread around it mid darn 😳🪡🪡🧶
(b) Use an overhead 🔦 lamp or head torch for this detail (especially if using black yarn)
(c) search @ebay_uk for tapestry yarn for interesting colours like this blue vintage thread

Happy repairing
Ali x

Snips from @looplondonloves from my son @c9_ronnie last Christmas
Lamp @nativelightinguk from a previous collaboration

#MendingMatters #sgiew_repair #LovedClothesLast

Evening. So back in June, I didn’t feel like sha

Evening. So back in June, I didn’t feel like sharing this repair on Instagram, as I was a little “crushed” by the mean old social media trolls on the ‘other’ ⏱️ platform, however, I saw the owner of this @mulberryengland sweater at the weekend and he’s still very happy with his new zip-pull and elbow and cuff repairs :-)

So I guess that’s all that matters, and diverts another item of clothing from landfill and creates colourful conversations about waste? Maybe. 🧶😳

Big love on this rainy evening
Ali x

and shout out to @fix_its for the reusable material. If you don’t like it, just dunk it in a cup of boiling water, and remould it.

#mendingmatters
#circularfashion #sgiew_repair

Evening, how are we all? I wanted to give you a li

Evening, how are we all? I wanted to give you a little tour of Renée Materials hub in the basement of the beautiful Shoreditch Town Hall - I popped in to see Frieda on Friday and we made a little impromtu “trailer” for a workshop we are doing together in December and I’d love for you to come along too.

A Visible Mending Workshop with a difference - this collaboration session will introduce you to repairing small holes and tears, in your favourite garment (or sock) using the incredibusy salvaged speed loom, a beautiful and mindful mending practice.

📅 Tue 03.12.2024
🕰️ 6-8pm
📍Renee’s Shoreditch Hub (380 Old St, EC1V 9LT)

During this calming and inspiring workshop, you’ll explore the history of darning and learn the essential techniques for using the small darning loom. You’ll practise repairing your knitwear with small weaving patterns on knit or fabric swatches provided by Renée Materials or bring something of your own to repair.

What’s included:

Tools, the incredibusy salvaged speed loom kit, scissors, and practice samples.
A variety of darning yarns and refreshments throughout the session.

Feel free to bring along a well-worn item (knits, socks, cotton, or linen) you’d like to repair and personalise.

No prior darning or sewing experience required, just bring your creativity (and a holey sock).

As a friend of Renee Materials, the incredibusy salvaged speed loom will be available to purchase on the night at 20% off the usual retail price.

Big reusable love
Ali & Frieda
x

♻️♻️♻️☂️ #MendingMatters #sgiew_repair #LovedClothesLast @renee_materials @shoreditchth and thank you Betty for the filming x #Shoreditch #OldStreet #London_by_incredibusy

Let’s mend. 🧶🪡 Today’s scheduled post i

Let’s mend. 🧶🪡

Today’s scheduled post is about winter workshops, in collaboration with @palavacraft at the @palavafolk London HQ. You are invited to join me Ali Clifford, to learn to create beautiful woven repair patches and using the @incredibusy darning repair looms.

I’ll be providing all the materials and refreshments you need.

Therapeutic and enjoyable workshops focused on wellbeing, and salvaging your precious bits & bobs; 🧶🪡 a perfect cosy evening activity.

Fancy it? Bring a friend x
Details are in our bio.

Big positive love
Ali and the Palava team x

#london_by_incredibusy #sgiew_repair #mendingmatters #sustainablematerials #lovedclotheslast

Laundry chat....💬 How many washloads do you do

Laundry chat....💬 How many washloads do you do a week? 🧼
By hand? Or machine... 🧺🧼👕
Catching up with the edits this week, here’s another from last month’s inspirational Blue Earth Summit.

I discovered The Washing Machine Project a couple of months ago, so I was delighted to bump into their founder Nav, and grab him for a quick chat (please do watch/share the video here, and I’ve added more about Nav and links on my blog post, link it bio etc.)

Woah... a staggering 60% of the world still hand-wash clothes (and I’m only taking a wild guess that most of these laundry-hand-washers are women and girls am I right Dot?). This is such a time-suck as you might imagine.

With the WASHING MACHINE PROJECT, the world’s 1st flat-packable manual washing machine, in a half hour session, you can clean a load of washing with just six minutes of handle-spinning-activity. Compare that to the typical two hours it takes to wash a basket of laundry by hand... Add to that, the Washing Machine Project machine uses up to 50% less water than hand washing too. 🚰

Makes you think right?
Ali x
Big love and soap suds 🫧

@blueearthsummit #BlueEarthForum
#ImpactInvesting #Sustainability #ClimateAction
@thewashingmachineproject #humanitarian #laundry #sustainability #innovation #socialimpact #london_by_incredibusy @woolwichworks

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