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👋 Say hello to Helen Hickman. Naturally dyeing and hand spinning yarn, @nellieandeve is based on a mountain somewhere here in West Wales and makes things by hand from her garden studio. 🍂 The products she makes reflect her love of a homespun lifestyle. 🐑 Coming from a long line of creative women, seamstresses, embroiderers and home makers, ‘nellie and eve’ is named after her grandmothers. 💛 We’ve got some delicious workshops in the calendar with Helen for 2020! Weave a Welsh wool rug / sitting mat or knit a chunky infinity scarf in February. 🔥 • • • #nellieandeve #weavingworkshop #frameloom #learnanewskill #create #makingisgoodforyou #plantdyedyarn #naturallydyed #slowliving #rurallife #teaching #weaving #aseasonalshift #weaveandbehappy #pegloom #alwayslearning #artistsofinstagram #artforall #artofinstagram #artoftheday #art #creative #creativeminds #artforall #exploretocreate #creativemindset #artinthehome #textiles #knitting #contemporarycraft

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@ericafrancesgeorge is a self-taught, make it up as she goes along kinda girl! 🙌 She grew up in rural Devon making things. Did a science degree. Got disillusioned. Got married. Went travelling, in wagon, pulled by a horse (for 5 years). Made things, wrote. Joined an eco-community (8 years). Became a parent. Had part time jobs. Made more things. Got divorced. Got remarried...💍 10 years later she's still making, still writing, still showing up, still questioning the way we look at things. Making things is the one thing Erica can’t not do. 🧡 In the process of crafting, (a papercut, a print, a poem, even a pair of socks), she finds kinder and gentler ways to see and be herself in this world, to find ways to cut the crap and get on with living the best life she can. In that creative space she can find simplicity in the complex and discard the noise. 🕊️ Erica likes to think that life is a conversation with the universe and all we can do is show up, ready to listen and ready to talk. The rest is just a case of joining the dots. 🌙 So here she is, putting it out there in the hope that you might feel encouraged to question your view too. 🧠 We love Erica and everything she does! 😊 She's come up with a super lovely 'Slow Blooms' workshop for us and it's buy one, get one half price as part of our festive promotion! 🎁 ...In this workshop you will create a (very) small, hand stitched bloom. Choose from a wide selection of pre-loved fabrics and outcomes; a brooch, a pendant or a hair slide. 💐 The repetition of small, simple stitches is the ideal respite from a world that spins too fast. Here, you can go slow and put your attention where you really want it…🌱 • • • #alwayslearning #artistsofinstagram #artforall #artofinstagram #artoftheday #art #creative #creativeminds #artforall #imaginationarts #imagination #artforallages #creativethinking #exploretocreate #creativemindset #artinthehome #christmascraft #Christmas #craft #contemporarycraft #christmascraftnights #MakerMonday #slowstitch #sewing #textiles #papercutartist #printmaking #botanicalart

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How beautiful and handy looking is this leather tote?! 😍 You can learn to make your very own with Nia next week at @stiwdio3cafe ☕️ ...Craft an unlined vegetable tanned leather tote bag in this two day workshop. (Tuesday 19th 10-5 and Friday 22nd 10-1). 💫 You will have the option to personalise your leather bag by embossing your name or initial on the front. The lovely leather will be durable and improve with age as it develops is own unique patina! 🥰 @studio_nd_shoemaking • • • #alwayslearning #artistsofinstagram #artforall #artofinstagram #artoftheday #art #creative #creativeminds #artforall #imaginationarts #imagination #artforallages #creativethinking #exploretocreate #creativemindset #artinthehome #christmascraft #Christmas #craft #contemporarycraft #christmascraftnights #MakerMonday #leather #totebag

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What a gorgeous day so far?! Crisp and cold but the sun is shining in Cardigan 🥶🌞 We’re getting a bit excited about Christmas now! 🌲 We’ve got a great line up of festive workshops in the diary. 📖 There are lots of lovely things you could make with us including a dried flower wreath like this one with @emmapowellflowers 💐 Oh, and they’re all buy one, get one half price! 💫 • • • #alwayslearning #artistsofinstagram #artforall #artofinstagram #artoftheday #art #creative #creativeminds #artforall #imaginationarts #imagination #artforallages #creativethinking #exploretocreate #creativemindset #artinthehome #christmascraft #Christmas #craft #contemporarycraft #christmascraftnights #MakerMonday #handlettering #screenprinting #felting #linocutting #wreath

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3 Days ☀️ 7 workshops ✂️ 7 tutors 😍 70 participants 👧👨‍🦰 #papercutting #needlefelting #dogcollarmaking #freemotionembroidery #yarnwrapping #bookbinding #silverringmaking thanks to @craftfestival for another amazing few days. (Pics from our workshops). A great event. Friends met, friends made.... all that fabulous work on show. Talented, clever artists and makers. Truly inspiring 😍

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Spend a weekend making your own beautiful and robust showerproof oilskin jacket with Angela Pitcher Dowdell @apitchthecloth ! 💫 November 23rd & 24th at @stiwdio3cafe 💥 We’ll be using gorgeous @merchantandmills fabrics so you can choose from an array of stunning colours. 🌈 • • • #dressmaking #coatmaking #patterncutting #sewing #whomademyclothes #workshop #craft #merchantandmills #textiles #slowstitch #sustainablefashion #makersgonnamake #handmade #cloth #oilskin #barbour #sustainable #madeinwales #makeitinwales #sustainabledesign #sustainablebusiness #wales #cardiganwales #ideasfactory

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Meet Nia 👋 She’s a super smiley sandal maker, leather lover and talented tutor based in Cardiff. She ran an espadrille making workshop with us at @stiwdio3cafe earlier this year and it was amazing!! ⭐️ She’s back in a couple of weeks for another shoe making workshop on the 18th of November and also a new tote bag making workshop on the 19th. 🤩 We can’t wait. Who fancies joining us? Shoes or bag or both? 😉 • • • #celebrate_handmade #thehandmadeparade #celebratinghandmade #madetocreate #makersgonnamake #doitfortheprocess #livethelittlethings #wearethemakers #calledtobecreative #handsandhustle #campaignshopsmall #ourcreativeisle #shopindependent #supportthemakers #buyfolk #stylingmycreativity #capturemycraft #makersmovement #waketomake #handmadewithlove #dreamjobmakers #toolsofthetrade #craftsposure #makersworkshop #creativelifehappylife #createmakeshare #shoppingwithsoul #independentshop @studio_nd_shoemaking 😊

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We can’t wait to be back at City Hall in Cardiff for @craftfestival next week! 🤩Doesn’t seem like five minutes since the last one but hey ho! 😅 There’s so much to see and do there. Well worth a visit if you ask us! 😎 We’ll be running 6 workshops as usual and still have a few spaces left on Llio’s yarn wrap workshop and Ruth’s needle felt a cat brooch! 🐱 Maybe see you there 🙂⭐️ • • • #alwayslearning #artistsofinstagram #artforall #artofinstagram #artoftheday #art #creative #creativeminds #artforall #imaginationarts #imagination #artforallages #creativethinking #exploretocreate #creativemindset #artinthehome #christmascraft #Christmas #craft #contemporarycraft #craftfestival #madebyhand #Cardiff #cityhallCardiff #MakerMonday #yarn #felting #catbrooch #cat

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Hooray! 🥳 All of our festive workshops are now online. What a great mix we’ve got for you this year. 🙌 ...and (drum roll please) 🥁 they’re buy one, get one half price! 💴 All held at @stiwdio3cafe where you can enjoy a mulled wine and mince pie whilst you’re crafting, chilling and chatting! 🍷 🥧 We can’t wait to get snug and get started! 🧣⭐️ • • • #alwayslearning #artistsofinstagram #artforall #artofinstagram #artoftheday #art #creative #creativeminds #artforall #imaginationarts #imagination #artforallages #creativethinking #exploretocreate #creativemindset #artinthehome #christmascraft #Christmas #craft #contemporarycraft #christmascraftnights #MakerMonday #handlettering #screenprinting #felting #linocutting #wreath

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Ok, you might know this already but we are absolutely obsessed with @ruthelizabethpackham’s felted quirky birds 🐦😍 Did you know that you can design and make your own with us here at Stiwdio 3 next Friday 18th? We’ll be using @cambrian_wool mmm 🧶🐑 Totally unique little fellas made from lovely high quality local materials 👌⭐️ • • • #birdart #feltart #feltmaker #feltmaking #fibreart #quirkyart #wool #cambrianwool #wetfelting #needlefelting #wales #Borth #textileart #homedecor #softsculpture #britishwool #woolsculpture #workshop #doityourself #learnanewskill #creativity #craft #makingisgoodforyou #Cardiganwales #ceredigion #craftworkshop #colour #treatyourself #makersgonnamake

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This is Ray! 👋 He weaves all the gorgeous Welsh flannels at our local woollen mill Melin Teifi. 🐑 We use these sumptuous fabrics for our traditional Welsh quilting weekend workshop with lovely Lesley. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 You can opt for the classic black and reds or if you fancy something a little different we’ve got new colour-way options too 💚💗 We use high quality and locally sourced materials wherever possible on our workshops so that you leave us with a beautiful item with a story that will last for years to come 💫 • • • #welshweaving #sustainable #wool #flannel #sheep #woollenmill #woveninwales #welshwoollenmill #melinteifi #quilting #traditional #keeptraditionalive #sustainabledesign #sustainablebusiness #wales #cardiganwales #ideasfactory @stiwdio3cafe

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We try our best to be sustainable at Make it in Wales and are always looking for ways to re-use what might otherwise be thrown away! 🗑 We’ve got a fab new course lined up where with assistance from @jolettelerouxdesign and @suzistitch you can salvage and transform selvedge offcuts from @melintregwynt into a ‘seatskin’! 💚 ...Enjoy creating a practical, beautiful, cozy and easy to care for addition to your indoor and outdoor life. 🙌 So excited for this one 😊 Find out more and book online and don’t hesitate to get in touch with any questions 👋 • • • #welshweaving #sustainable #wool #upcycling #sheepskin #woveninwales #welshwoollenmill #melintregwynt #loom #warp #selvedge #selvedgesunday #weave #weft #keeptraditionsalive #sustainabledesign #sustainablebusiness #wales #cardiganwales #ideasfactory @stiwdio3cafe

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Weekend sewing activities in our making space. Contrasting sewing classes. Making memories with textile story flags with @nialewistextiles and intermediate sewing techniques with @apitchthecloth Some great outcomes, and so many new processes to learn and see develop in both classes. 🧵✂️🌸💪#sewing #textileart #makingmemories #fashion #sewingmachine #freestitchembroidery #makeitinwales #stiwdio3 #stiwdio3art

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Can you believe another month has just about passed us by?! There's a fab new group exhibition in the gallery here at Stiwdio 3, a yummy Autumn menu in the cafe and some gorgeous new handmade items in the shop. Not forgetting the workshops we've got coming up in October! 🍁 There's a proper mix of things lined up and even more workshops yet to be announced for children over half term. 😎 We’ve got bookbinding, jewellery making, paper marbling, felting, embroidery, coat making, writing, bunting making, stained glass, printmaking and upcycling! ⭐️ • • • #printmaking #jewellery #makersgonnamake #craft #craftworkshop #felting #bookbinding #ceredigion #artist #embroidery #sewing #stainedglass #upcycling #bunting #sustainable

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Carve a silver ring with @maggie__cross 💫 Tomorrow evening 6-8pm at @stiwdio3cafe🍷 A two hour workshop carving a ring from jewellers wax to be cast into solid silver. Learn from jeweller Maggie Cross we she guides you through wax carving techniques for lost wax casting. 💍 • • • #craftwales #visitwales #cardiganwales #makeitinwales #design #stiwdio3 #welshcrafts #rings #showmeyourrings #silversmith #lostwax #casting #lostwaxcasting #jeweller #imperfect #organic #welshjewellery #roughluxe #wax #cast #oneofakind


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Make it in Wales
Stiwdio 3
3 High Street
Cardigan
SA43 1HJ

01239 758088

hello@makeitinwales.co.uk

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