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  While the rest of us at the Makery were whipping up quick creations for holiday gift giving, Micheline pushed out the boat making beautiful handmade pieces for the whole family.   Working in the Altered studio until late in the evening just a few days before Christmas, Micheline crafted three very sturdy duffle-style overnight bags to put under her tree.  She made good use of our trusty industrial machine to sew through the six layers of fabric at the seams. Made with cotton canvas, warm and natural cotton batting and lined with Cotton + Steel coordinates these totes will...

Us ladies at the Makery are an industrious type with lives full of making in our off-makery hours.  We are lucky enough to make some of our favourite projects at work, but often we take that inspiration home. We're compiling a few of our favourite staff makes of the year.  Some you may recognize as variations from workshops while other ideas may be making their way into the Makery line up in the near future.   Having only joined the Makery in May, Rita was not short on inspiration this year, churning out one great sew after another. We're all in...

Late this past August a flurry of holiday crafting descended on the Makery and we've been keeping our crafts under our hats since then.  We're happy now to announce that we are contributing crafters to Eco Parent magazine and are selling it in store.   The newest edition is The Winter Wonderland Issue, so we put together three fun and easy holiday craft how-tos: cute embroidered Pocket Mitten Ornaments, Button Holiday Trees and oh-so-easy String Felt Wreaths. This coming Saturday we'll be putting these crafts to work as we launch our Handmade Holiday workshop series with a drop-in Holiday Craft Party.  We'll...

Every year we try to do something special in honour of Remembrance Day for our window.  For the past few years we've played with felt poppies and wreaths so this year we decided to try something completely different, a quilt panel.  It has been a little while (three years?) since I tackled a quilting project.  It requires me to access the part of my brain that can figure out math equations and pay attention to grainlines.  Needless to say, it doesn't happen often. I sketched out a few ideas, taking some inspiration from the British Poppy pin, but in the end...