Do your socks look like this?

If so, you might like to go and see Michael Swaine, who is going door to door fixing peoples clothes and talking to them about sewing. Most of us could make things last a little longer and throw away a little less if we bothered to learn the basics. In this clip Swaine explains that the project has just as much to do with the community as the clothes:

Find out more about Door to Door darning in London here and here

I went to see this film yesterday.
That, and the fact I’m moving house (again) has got me feeling quite Wombleish about the things that everyday folk leave behind. I mean, there’s just so much of it.

When you’re faced with packing up all your stuff you really realise how much stuff you consume, collect and waste.

So I thought that Greetje van Helmond’s sugar jewellery was pretty cool. Beautiful, temporary and sustainable – a bit of great design.

Image from Greetje van Helmond.