Crafters and Makers

26/07/2026

We raised £342 at the fabric sale yesterday.
All for clairehouse
Thank you everyone for your generosity and for taking fabric
Enjoy making x

22/07/2026

We have zips, buttons, ribbons, all types of fabrics from stretch, silks and linings, faux fur, sparkle, retro and more
All available in our charity sale on Saturday 25th July.

https://craftersandmakers.com/events/fabric-sale-swap/

Raising money for Claire house children’s hospice.

Come along between 10-2 and see what you can find

15/07/2026

Oooh what a great event

👕 Got spare T-shirts or tote bags gathering dust?

We’ve got lots of exciting craft projects coming up and are looking for donations of unused T-shirts, tote bags and similar items from across our network.

Boxes of branded or logoed items are absolutely welcome too! We’ll be giving them a creative new purpose! ♻️✨

Send us a DM if you have anything you may be able to donate.

15/07/2026

I was fortunate enough to be accepted to join the Make and Share issue 20.

I was able to choose one of the patterns to try out. I picked ‘Madeleine’ designed by Juliana Bendandi because it featured an interesting method for cutting out the fabric on the bias. I like to try out new techniques and I can say, this is brilliant. Juliana was inspired by to use this method.
It’s hard to explain but in short, you work out how much fabric to use by first laying out your pattern pieces, then measuring the space they take up, doing a clever bit of maths to tell you how much fabric you need and cut a rectangle. You turn the rectangle of fabric into a tube after cutting and re-positioning a triangular piece. You then flatten the tube and as if by magic, your pattern pieces fit perfectly. It’s really clever and I would highly recommend trying it out, I learned a lot.

So with my dog on the beach, my lovely husband took these pics which I happy to share with you.

The release is 15th July and has many other patterns to try.

12/06/2026

05/06/2026

We have 2 new classes run by Angela coming up this month. A 2 session beginners crochet course and also a new beginners knitting.
Saturdays 20th and 27th June
Find out more at https://craftersandmakers.com/classes/

19/05/2026

As I volunteer at Claire House in Liverpool and wirral, I see up close the INCREDIBLE work that happens there by an amazing team.
Please share and help Claire house to make the Liverpool site into something spectacular

13/05/2026

Only 2 spaces left on our popular beginners crochet class run by on Saturday 23rd May 2026.
https://craftersandmakers.com/class/beginners-crochet/

13/05/2026

Another Me-Made for . Living by the sea, I am often battling against the wind and today is a gusty one!!
I have many of these headbands and scarves that I have made in different fabrics. Probably one of my most worn me-made as I like to keep my ears warm and feel snuggly out there in the bracing wind.
This is a pattern I designed myself to be made as a zero waste pattern. It is simple because the pattern pieces are all rectangles. The pattern shows you how to make a scarf, snuggly close neck/ear-warmer and a headband all from exactly 65 cm of stretch fabric or an infinity scarf from 75cm of non-stretch fabric
https://janegordon.uk/shop/

10/05/2026

Mia, who comes to our after school club, saw a top in a shop that she really liked so she decided to re-create it for herself. She spent a lot of time draping fabric on the stand before working out how to make an amazing finished piece to wear.