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Sewing Café Lancaster promotes wellbeing and advocates sustainability. Check out our website, join our events or send us a message!

We believe in connecting with people across the community, to share skills, to reuse, repair and reduce. Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuD3QMmPqjsEZkYpRGHz8rA

30/08/2026

Looking for a great start to September? Come along to our monthly Beer & Yarn get-together in Lancaster on Tuesday 1st Sept for convivial company.

Drop by or stay for the evening.
Find out what Sewing Cafe Lancaster has planned for Autumn.
If you wish, bring along a project to work on, share, or ask for advice about.

All welcome: first-timers & familiar faces.
See you there!
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18/08/2026

Ten days ago in the sun: Katrina leading a creative workshop to practice natural plant dyeing together in prep for a workshop we'll be offering in Lancaster on October 3rd.

A mix of pictures:
> painting soy cream patterns on calico as placemats for Danni's wedding;
> making up 4 dyes with local madder, brown onions, avocado stones, avocado skins;
> cooking up alder cones and also crushing raw flowers (dahlia, coreopsis, goldenrod & more) for a whole palette of drawing inks;
> juggling timings, staying observant and sharing ideas.

We'll post pictures of the finished dyed calico and of course booking-in details for the October workshop.
Like us, you'll love this hands-on exploration of natural colour plus kitchen waste & garden chemistry - and appreciate Katrina's brilliant tips, hacks and magic!

11/08/2026

Come along to the free monthly Lancaster Repair-a-Thon, this evening from 6:30-8:30!
Materials, equipment and expertise available (including a sewing machine).

Dig out your mending and come and join us - menders from Sewing Cafe Lancaster will assist you and look forward to seeing you.
Lancaster & Morecambe Repair Cafe will attend as well, for appliance and household mends:)🪡🧵🛠️

Venue is Lancaster & Morecambe Makerspace in Lancaster, directions on their website or socials Lancaster And Morecambe Makers

02/08/2026

Our monthly Beer and Yarn friendly meetup! All invited from 6pm...come along any time you can: pop in to say hi or come for the whole evening.
We'll be at the Stonewell Tap LA1 1NP.
You can bring along a project to carry on with in good company, or to ask for or share advice on making, or of course come along to chat and stay connected with Sewing Café Lancaster.
New friends welcome!

30/07/2026

What a busy month of transition July has been - we've reached the school holidays & we've said goodbye to the World Cup but not to extreme heat. We have a new Prime Minister. Amidst all that and more we haven't posted here: our apologies!

For Sewing Cafe Lancaster, our public sessions were all in the first half of the month.
Three of the regular activities we contribute to or host went really well: Beer & Yarn on 7/7, Marsh Mending on 8/7 and the monthly Repair-a-thon on 14/7 at LAMM

An extra event was the Morecambe Bay Curriculum annual conference at Lancaster University on 3/7. We took along a stand all about involving the community in natural dyeing. What a diverse and fascinating day and we had so many valuable conversations - thanks to the organisers for inviting us. Some photos with this post.

Many of us went to the National Festival of Making in Blackburn on 4/7. Simply wonderfully inspiring!

For the rest of July our WhatsApp group has been active - please get in touch if you would like to join. Plus we've been looking after our natural dye garden at Claver Hill.

We're planning participative SCL sessions for August and into autumn: we'll be sure to give you notice.
All welcome, beginnner or expert!

13/06/2026

That was a very busy and rewarding week - thanks to all who we met when mending or creating new things at the Repair-A-Thon on Monday, at Marsh Mending on Wednesday and at the FoodFutures: North Lancashire Summer Market on Friday.

Plus some other meetings and workshops happened in between, including gardening on the Dye Plants plot at Claver Hill and our always welcoming and enjoyable termly mending and making workshops with students from Lancaster University, organised by LUSU Green.

We'll share one photo from Friday, when a man in armour came to the stands in the Market Place to help celebrate Lancaster's birthday. Thinking back 900 years we guessed that he would certainly be wearing naturally dyed wool or linen garments beneath the armour. We should have asked.

Northern Yarn The Gregson Centre Friends of the Judges' Lodgings, Lancaster LAMM BayShare

09/06/2026

It's a busy June week in Lancaster for the Sewing Cafe!
Please join us for any or all of these 3 events: each is different and all of them are friendly and welcoming! !

Tonight we're joining the free Repair-a-Thon at LAMM in central Lancaster from 6:30 - 8:30
Detailed info at https://tinyurl.com/4ecm2zr3
Sewing Café Lancaster, Sunflower Cycles, Control Alt Delete, Lancaster and Morecambe Repair Cafe and Lancaster and Morecambe Makers invite you to bring your broken things to be repaired.

On Wednesday from 4-6pm it's our monthly free Marsh Mending session which features mending and making with materials, expertise and equipment available. All invited, beginners and experts! Marsh Community Centre, Willow Lane LA1 5PP

Come and meet us at our stand at Lancaster's Midsummer Market on Friday 12th June from 10am-5pm, organised by FoodFutures: North Lancashire. Find us in the shared mending and repair gazebo next to Lancaster Museum on Market St. All the details at https://foodfutures.org.uk/events/midsummer-market-2026/

PS the wonderful free Wild Roots Festival continues all week until 14 June: details at https://wildlifewalk.co.uk/wild-roots-nature-fest/

Sunflower Cycles Control Alt Repeat Simply Repair South Lakes Wildlife Wellbeing Walks CIC Cumbria Clothing Collective The Gregson Centre Global Link BayShare Lancaster & Morecambe Repair Cafe LUSU Green

31/05/2026

Please come and join Beer & Yarn, our monthly Sewing Cafe get together on Tuesday June 2nd.
We'll be at the Stonewell Tap, 8-10 Lower Church St, Lancaster LA1 1NP between 6pm & 10pm.
Bring your project or just come along & enjoy the convivial chat 🧶🍺🪡
Drop in or stay for the evening.
Beginner stitchers and first-timers at this informal meetup are particularly welcome!

12/05/2026

Mending and more at Marsh Community Centre, Wednesday 13 May 4 - 6 pm.
Bring along something you'd like to work on.

All welcome and Marsh Mending is about more than fixing clothes.
It is about slowing down, sharing knowledge, and making things last a little longer.
Join us to mend, create, and connect in a supportive, relaxed event.

10/05/2026

We're very glad to be contributing to the next local monthly Repair-a-thon on Tuesday 12th May from 6:30 to 8:30. All welcome, no need to book.
This will be hosted at Lancaster and Morecambe Makers at Room 2, Floor 4, Harpers Mill, White Cross Business Park LA1 4XT.

Sewing Cafe will be helping with textile repairs and other contributing groups are Lancaster & Morecambe Repair Cafe, Sunflower Cycles, Control Alt Repeat and of course LAMM

Collectively we'll help you fix textiles, clothing, bicycles, ebikes, electricals, electronics, computers, mobile devices and wooden furniture.

Location info within White Cross on the LAMM Event listing at https://www.facebook.com/events/1128504622786367

For wheelchair access, there's a lift which is located outside the building, around the corner from the stepped entrance to Harpers Mill. Please give LAMM a call on 07840 204751 when you arrive and they will send the lift down for you.

BayShare Northern Yarn Simply Repair South Lakes FoodFutures: North Lancashire Good Things Collective LUSU Green Global Link

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Market Square
Lancaster
LA1 1HT

Website

https://sewingcafelancaster.com/

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