The long summer holidays are an ideal time to teach children a new skill.  There are lots of ideas online and I am sure there are some kits in this shop - I saw something like a sort of French knitting kit there - and there are lots of threads and wools.  Do you remember winding wool around an old cotton reel with nails in the top to make multi coloured snakes of knitting? I am horrified by the number of young pwople who don't even seem to be able to sew a button on nowadays.  My father-in-law who was in the army during the war had to do all his own mending - because you had to.  I once knew an office manager who used to throw away his shirts when he lost a button such was the affluence and lack of appreciation of anything past me-me-me at the time.  Now we need think much more about the costs of not just the shirt (even if it costs less to buy) but of the conditions of the labour and energy and resources used in making it. There is lots of help online now and Ealing has a Repair Cafe where you can get advice.  There are also some good repairers to be found at dry cleaning shops.

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Topic	Date Posted	Posted By
Haberdashery at Daniels, West Ealing	19/07/24 16:44:00	Philippa Bond
Re:Haberdashery at Daniels, West Ealing	25/07/24 15:01:00	Lara Callaghan
Re:Re:Haberdashery at Daniels, West Ealing	25/07/24 15:45:00	N V Brooks
Re:Re:Re:Haberdashery at Daniels, West Ealing	25/07/24 21:29:00	Beryl Bashford
Re:Re:Re:Re:Haberdashery at Daniels, West Ealing	30/07/24 12:51:00	Philippa Bond
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Haberdashery at Daniels, West Ealing	30/07/24 16:19:00	N V Brooks
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Haberdashery at Daniels, West Ealing	30/07/24 16:21:00	N V Brooks
Re:Haberdashery at Daniels, West Ealing	01/08/24 20:45:00	Margaret Mason
Re:Re:Haberdashery at Daniels, West Ealing	02/08/24 11:53:00	N V Brooks
Re:Re:Re:Haberdashery at Daniels, West Ealing	06/08/24 14:43:00	Philippa Bond

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