Did you know that around 30% of clothing in UK wardrobes has not been worn for at least a year, most commonly because the clothes no longer fit? Extending the average life of clothes by just three months of active use would lead to a 5-10% reduction in each of the carbon, water and waste footprints made by clothing! Learning to alter and repair your own clothes is a vital skill that will allow you to bring new life to your clothes and cut down on waste.
Towards that end CCF organised a sewing workshop on 13th April focusing on both machine sewing and hand sewing. The workshop was led by expert sewers and clothing upcyclers Lesley Guebert and Fiona Riggall. The photo above features some of the participants with the new tote bags they just sewed, using reused fabric and ribbon found in charity shops.