UCRRA at Repair Cafe (Saugerties)

 Saugerties Repair Cafe

Saturday, February 1st 2025

10:00 AM – 2:00 PM

Frank D. Greco Memorial Senior Citizens Center
207 Market Street Saugerties, NY

Hudson Valley Repair Cafe offers free pop-up events across the County where people can learn how to fix their “broken but beloved” items for FREE, working with expert fixers (repair coaches) who are also your neighbors!  Each Repair Cafe event may have a broad list of items they can troubleshoot and repair, depending on the specialty of the local volunteer Repair Coaches.

Join UCRRA’s Recycling Outreach Team at Repair Cafe, where our booth will focus on helping you to “repair” your recycling habits! Our educators will be on hand to help answer any waste, recycling, or composting questions and distribute free reusable swag for anyone who stops by our booth!

At this Cafe, volunteer repair coaches can help fix the following items:

ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES lamps, toasters, etc.

WOOD/FURNITURE repair/glueing

MECHANICAL: watches, clocks, etc.

COMPUTERS

TEXTILES: sewing, mending,

ZIPPERS

DOLLS: restringing

JEWELRY

SEWING MACHINES

PHOTO scan/restore

Visible Mending Workshop: Max 6 slots available.

From 10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. they will also be holding a Visible Mending Workshop where you can learn to do your own visible textile repairs (aka ‘visible mending’). As one of the goals of Repair Cafes is to teach those who want to learn how to do their own repairs, our sewing volunteer Julia Gloninger will offer a 1 hr. workshop to teach you some simple sewing techniques to create a unique, ornamental, and eye-catching design that will highlight instead of hide the damaged area. To participate in this workshop, please send an email to repaircafesaugerties@gmail.com with your name, email, item to repair (fabric item that needs a small repair, no larger than a 2″x2″ or 3″x 3″ repair area), and if you will be bringing your own supplies or using a set of ours, and any questions to. If you have your own supplies, bring them. If not, we will have all the supplies you may borrow for the workshop. If you want to bring your own, we suggest: needle (pointed embroidery needle for woven fabric, blunt darning needle for knits), pins, embroidery floss in colors of your choice, small scissors or thread snips, fabric for a patch, pencil for marking, spool of thread, thimble, and small embroidery hoop.

Questions? Contact the event organizer to see if a repair coach you need will be there. Contact repaircafesaugerties@gmail.com

Repair is one of UCRRA’s 7R’s to Rethinking Waste! Refurbishing broken items extends the useful life of our goods and materials, which can help divert waste sent to landfills. Repair not only fosters a community culture of waste reduction, but it can also stretch your dollar and teach you new skills along the way!

Accessibility: Accessible parking is available and there are no stairs to enter the Saugerties Senior Center.