{"id":670495,"date":"2026-01-03T05:15:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T05:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/670495\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T05:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T05:15:11","slug":"repair-cafes-pre-loved-items-getting-new-lease-of-life-in-northern-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/670495\/","title":{"rendered":"Repair cafes: Pre-loved items getting new lease of life in Northern Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There is also a social aspect to the meet-ups, as the community gathers for hot drinks and baked goods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Seamstresses Alison Kirk and Roz Bashford met at a Repair Cafe a few years ago and now frequently combine their skills to take on Antrim and Newtownabbey&#8217;s fabric needs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You meet people that you didn&#8217;t know before, but they&#8217;re like minded and that&#8217;s the joy,&#8221; Alison said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Having learnt to mend fabric at a young age, the women said clothing should not be viewed as disposable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I have done somebody&#8217;s jumper that was so threadbare, but they absolutely loved it, so we fixed round the cuffs and they were just delighted&#8221;, Roz said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On the schedule for that day was a kilt, dressing gowns and a sparkly dress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As we left them, a puppet in need of re-stringing arrived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is also a social aspect to the meet-ups, as the community gathers for hot drinks and baked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[51,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-670495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115829468330275802","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}