triona – Tog Hackerspace

18/10/2026

Repair Club: Bra repair with Lovelace Space

A blackboard notice about Repair Club for Bras on Nov 5th at 7pm with a drawing of a bra

Repair Club is back, and so are our friends from Lovelace Space. Repair Club is an ongoing series where you learn to repair household items, and for this edition we’re learning to repair bras. They can fail in a number of ways, from broken wires to failing hooks, and rather than sending them to landfill, let’s bring them back to ilfe.

A pile of bras surrounded by underwires and sewing notions.

From 7pm on Thursday 5th November, we’ll look at how to keep wires in their place, how to replace them, how to swap out the hooks and eyes, and other ways bras can be repaired. Parts will be provided apart from replacement wires (but we’ll organise ordering a batch of them to be collected at a later date after making sure we’re ordering the right size).

The hooks from the back of a bra, they're trying to escape their housing and are in need of replacement

If you’ve never touched a sewing machine, this is not the class to start, but if you’ve wielded a zigzag stitch before, then sign right up! Grab that stash of bras you’ve been meaning to figure out how to fix, and join us!

A broken wire and an unbroken wire on a cutting mat

Tickets are €10 plus fees and can be found here:

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/repair-club-bra-repair-with-lovelace-space-tickets-2003561078119?aff=oddtdtcreator

This event is a collaboration with Lovelace Space; you can learn more on their website.

A tesselated graphic of ada lovelace with lovelace space written beneath

17/10/202619/10/2026

Bringing back the craft mailing list

Let’s be honest, in these days of fractured social media, it’s hard to beat email. So as well as posting to socials, we’ll be adding a craft mailing list for all your crafting needs. Get reminders about craft night and hear about upcoming classes or workshops with a crafting angle.

A screenshot of a googlegroups screen with a box highlighting the "Ask to join group" button

If you’d don’t have a google account, you can ask to join the list sending an email to craft+subscribe(at)lists.tog.ie ( with an @). You’ll get an email asking you to confirm your subscription request but you do not need a google account if you reply to the email instead of clicking the button.

You’ll need to wait for a moderator to approve your request (might a day or two depending).

There’s still the broadcasts list for general Tog topics and you can also email to subscribe with the same format broadcasts+subscribe (at) lists.tog.ie (for those without google accounts) and then replying to the email.

13/10/202613/10/2026

Learn Turtlestitch with our friends CESI

A screenshot of a turtlestitch program for generating a Sierpinski triangle with the generated output

Our friends at CESI will be hosting a Turtlestitch workshop on Saturday 21st of November from 2pm to 5pm. Turtlestitch is a way to code up embroidery patterns using code blocks. It’s often used as a teaching tool for coding, but also a fun way to generate embroidery patterns.

Whether you’re new to coding or new to embroidery, there’ll be plenty to learn. This workshop is aimed at adults interested in embroidery or teaching coding. It will be led by Mags Amond with support from John Hegarty and Helen O’Kelly. You’ll find out about the history of Turtlestitch, learn how to create embroidery designs, and stitch them out on our industrial machine and some of the smaller domestic machines that will be brought on the day.

Mags and John in their Turtlestitch embroidered apron and labcoat.

An embroidered postcard from Turtlestitch on a fridge.

The workshop will cost €10 and includes materials. Tickets can be bought with this link..

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/learn-turtlestitch-with-cesi-at-tog-tickets-2003335570620?aff=oddtdtcreator

A triskelion embroidred in variegated thread

We’ll be holding our usual open social from 7pm, so stick around if you like homemade pizza from homemade pizza ovens and talking to nerds.

If you don’t know CESI, they’re a group of educators with an interest using information technology in education.

01/10/202601/10/2026

Seditious pockets (part 1) with our friends Lovelace Space

A hand holds open a pocket in the seam of a garment

In conjunction with our friends at Lovelace Space, we want to help you add pockets where you want and need them. Everyone loves a pocket, you can fill it with goodies or surprises, or maybe some pamphlets… but not all clothing comes with pockets off the rack. Or maybe it does come with pockets but you want MORE!

On October 14th, from 7pm to 9pm, we’re hosting a workshop on adding in-seam pockets and patch pockets to existing items of clothing. You do not need to have sewing experience to join, you just have to want more pockets. Hosts Tríona and Maria will help you add pockets using both handsewing and machine sewing techniques (and a little bit of ironing for some). Bring a laundered item of clothing and your imagination. We’ll provide materials and guidance. We will have some sewing machines in the space but you’re more than welcome to bring your own.

And, as it’s Climate Action Week, we are conscious that helping you repair clothes is good for the planet AND we’ll be making sure to reuse materials for your shiny new pockets by sourcing them from our friends at Change Clothes.

A pair of jeans with its pocket turned out to reveal colourful fabric. The pocket enlarges the original jeans pocket.

A patch pocket is a pocket that’s added to the surface. You can add it anywhere, and it can be (almost) any shape. First you make the edges of the pocket neat and then you’ll attach it.

A grey patch pocket attached to the inside of a grey coat. A battery pack and wire are poking out of the pocket.

An in-seam pocket goes in a seam (it’s in the name). You’ll cut your pocket pieces, gently rip open some of the seam, and then attach the pocket pieces and sew it up while reenforcing the seams near the pocket.

The class costs €5 and tickets can be found here.

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/seditious-pockets-tickets-2002719183991?aff=oddtdtcreator

The cost will cover materials and a small donation towards Tog’s running costs. See you there!

Find out more about Lovelace Space at their website: lovelacespace.com

19/09/202620/09/2026

Embroidery machine workshop – monograms

Three towels with the word Tog embroidered in various fonts

The first in a series of workshops with our new embroidery machine will be about learning the lettering tool in Ink/Stitch to make monograms.

A monogram is a short one to three letter embellishment. You’ll find them on towels, napkins, fancy dressing gowns and so on. They can be a person or company’s initials, though for Tog we figured we’d just put all three letters on.

At the workshop, you’ll learn how ink/stitch’s Lettering Tool works and create your own monogram. You’ll learn how to set up a basting box around a design in case it’s needed. Then you’ll learn how to hoop up items like towels and napkins, align your pattern, and then stitch out your monogram! All embroidery supplies will be provided along with a towel each.

A close up of the embroidery machine adding a pink letter T to a towel.

For the workshop, bring your laptop with inkscape already installed and think about which one to three letters you want to embroider. Towels will be provided, but if you want to bring additional items like a napkin or handkerchief, we can see if there’s time after the class to embroider those with your design.

A finished monogram in the hoop. IT's a grey towel with Tog in orange and yellow letters in a purple circle.

The class costs €15 for non-Tog members and €10 for members. Book your ticket here. Keep an eye on the events page or our meetup.com page to be notified of future workshops (there will be many!).

Sunday 27th September 1530-1730

16/09/202616/09/2026

New toy! An industrial embroidery machine!

A tog member stands in front of the embroidery machine, showing off a piece of embroidery in a hoop

If you’ve been in the space recently, you might have see our newest ~~toy~~ tool, a 12 colour, industrial, embroidery machine! Many of our members are very excited about it, so we started showing members how to use it and will be opening it up to a wider audience in the coming weeks with workshops on how to design for embroidery machines.

The machine is a secondhand ZSK Sprint 5, made in Germany in 2012. It’s passed through a few hands before coming to us, but it’s in great condition, and we’re going to get many years of use out of it yet! It’s able to embroider areas up to 30 by 30 cm and can automatically change colours and cut the threads. We also have a cap attachment for it, but let’s start with flatter surfaces first.

A grey hoop with grey fabric mounted in it. the numbers 1 to 12 are stitched out in different colours. Apart from 8 which appears to be mangled.

As it’s a 90 kg beast, one of our members built a table to handle the weight. We’ve put the machine in the small room with the laser cutter as it’s quite noisy, but it tends to move a lot, so we couldn’t put it upstairs by the 3D printers or they’d be very sad.

A metal legged table with a box top made from OSB and a nice bit of ply

Of course, as a hackerspace, we’re not out buying the manufacturer’s closed software but we are delighted to be able to use a variety of open source software with it. The machine takes .dst files, which are an industry standard supported by many open source tools. The main workhorse software is Inkscape with the plugin Ink/Stitch. It has a bit of a learning curve, but it’s extremely flexible. There’s also the option to use PEmbroider with Processing, and we can’t forget TurtleStitch for those interested in machine embroidery as an educational tool as well as for art. Expect some design workshops to pop up over the coming months!

If you simply want to gaze at its majesty, drop in on any of our open evenings. On craft night, you’re most likely to find the machine embroidery nerds, so pack a craft project and stick around after getting to know our newest toy and its biggest fans.