Craft & Sewing
Independent businesses for people who make things, selling yarn, fabric, patterns, kits, charms, stitch markers and haberdashery, plus alterations, repairs and mending. Gifts & Handmade is for the finished article. Most post throughout the UK.
Molly Felicity Designs is Sarah Smith in Whitwell, on the Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire border, selling handmade project bags and pouches alongside fabric, yarn and haberdashery. She teaches sewing, knitting and crochet locally, one to one and in workshops, and does Make ME! kits and sewing patterns for people too far away to come in person. Posted throughout the UK.
Based Whitwell, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom
Available Nationwide
Amandas Treasures is Amanda Caven in Coalville, Leicestershire, restoring and transforming furniture and teaching other people to do it. Hands-on classes, online workshops and a membership, for anyone from a beginner reviving one chair to somebody building a business out of it. Nearly thirty years at it, and her eldest son has just joined her as an apprentice.
Based Coalville, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
Available Nationwide
My Handmade Wardrobe is Sarah Laws in Leicester, teaching women to make clothes that actually fit them. She is a professional pattern maker, so it is as much about fitting and adapting patterns as sewing technique, through lessons, quick sew patterns and her Weekend Sewing Club. Working online with people anywhere.
Based Leicester, United Kingdom
Available Worldwide
Mary Jane Creations is Mary Steed in Basingstoke, making charmed gifts, clips of charms, zipper pulls and stitch markers, one at a time. She also knits and embroiders hugs to send to somebody who needs comforting. Twenty years of crafting behind it, and posted throughout the UK.
Based Basingstoke, Hampshire, England
Available Nationwide
Fox & Squirrel Yarns is a mother and daughter team in Paignton who hand dye yarn and fibre in bright, variegated colourways. Everything is dyed in small batches, so a colourway is one of a kind and only a handful of people will ever own it. For knitting, crochet, weaving, spinning and felting, sold online and posted out.
Based Paignton, Devon, United Kingdom
Available Online only
Mrs I Crafts is Sharon Iannuzzi's shop in Felixstowe, selling handmade pieces from twenty local crafters alongside craft supplies, with workshops and homemade cake. She has demonstrated on craft shopping TV, runs weekly Facebook lives, and posts throughout the UK.
Based Felixstowe, Suffolk, England
Available Nationwide
Browse another area
Own a small business?
Listings are included free with any of my memberships.