Makeshift Crafts

10/13/2026

10/10/2026

🍂🧵 NOVEMBER AT MAKESHIFT IS HERE!!! 🥧✨

We’re entering our cozy, crafty, handmade holiday era and I am SO EXCITED about this calendar!!

This month is packed with handmade gifts, cozy crafts, a little holiday nostalgia, and plenty of our usual Makeshift weirdness. 😂

🏡 Framed felt house portraits, custom advent calendars, and handmade ornaments!

🧵 Embroidery, crochet, punch needle, bargello, beading, and more!

🍿 Gilmore Girls, Schitt’s Creek, Elf movie night, and Taylor Swift!

✨ Emo Embroidery, sparkly felt pickles, and International Button Day!

🌕 Our first ever Punch Needle Craft-a-Long making a wall tapestry of the moon!! 🌙

🗺️ Plus we are running Round 2 of our Fantasy Cartography class! This one sold out fast 💨 so if you want in, now’s the time! We won’t do this class again until February!

🛍️ PLUS, our Black Friday Mystery Craft Bags are BACK, and we’re celebrating Small Biz Saturday with even more crafty fun!

And of course, all your favorite weekly crafty hangouts are here too. ❤️

🚨 NOVEMBER WORKSHOPS OPEN FOR BOOKING SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11TH AT 10AM! ⏰

So grab your crafty besties, start planning your handmade holiday era, and tell us which workshop you’re most excited about!!

🍁 makeshiftcrafts.com

10/09/2026

If you’ve noticed I’ve been a little quieter around here lately, there’s a reason for that. I haven’t been showing up on social media quite like I normally do, and honestly, it’s because I’ve been having a hard time showing up for myself.

I’ve always believed in being transparent about what it’s really like to build a business. Not just the exciting milestones, the sold-out workshops, and the moments worth celebrating, but the messy, uncomfortable, sometimes really fu***ng hard parts, too.

The last few months have been a lot. And while I haven’t quite felt like myself, I’ve been reminded of something really important.

The community we’ve built at Makeshift isn’t just something I get to create for other people. It’s something I get to be a part of, too.

So I wrote you a letter. By hand, because sometimes the things that matter most deserve a little extra intention. (And also 🖕 AI lol)

Thank you for showing up for me, for caring about the person behind the business, and for reminding me that I don’t have to have it all figured out to be worthy of that care.

I’m still figuring some things out. But I’m starting to feel like myself again.

And that feels really, really good. 💛

Onwards and upwards, always.

09/25/2026

We had the BEST time hosting the Craft Crawl this past weekend!

📚 These book-related crafts featured bead soup from Makeshift Crafts, a mini book library from Planks and Paint, and an embroidered and fabric-adorned tote bag here at The Quilt Store.

Participants hopped to each store for an entire day of crafting and had so much fun, as did we! Keep your eye out for future crawls, we hope to host another one soon!

09/25/2026

🚗🍂 MAKESHIFT IS GOING ON THE ROAD!!! 🍂🚗

Fort Collins, WE’RE COMING FOR YOU. 🫶

For our first Makeshift On The Road adventure, we’re heading north to celebrate the very best (and tragically shortest 😭) season in Colorado:
💛 YELLOW LEAF SEASON. 💛
Join us with our friends Fort Collins Pints & Purls Saturday, October 18th at Konstruct Brewing for a special mixed-media workshop inspired by Colorado fall leaf peeping! 🏔️🍂

We’re combining watercolor + embroidery on paper to create one beautiful handmade notecard featuring our favorite golden Colorado landscape.
🎨 Paint your fall landscape.
🪡 Stitch details directly into the paper.
🍺 Drink a b**r about it.

No watercolor experience? Perfect.
Never embroidered before? Also perfect.
We’ll teach you everything you need to know and provide all the supplies!

AND because we’re officially ON THE ROAD, your ticket also gets you:
🍺 10% off your entire Konstruct tab for food + drinks
🚗 A special-edition Makeshift On The Road: FoCo sticker & exclusive collectible pin.

🍂 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18
⏰ Choose 12 PM or 4 PM
📍 Konstruct Brewing 3027 E Harmony Rd, Suite 2 Fort Collins, CO 80528

Come paint some aspens. Stitch some leaves. Have a b**r. Meet some crafty people. And help us bring a little piece of Makeshift to our friends in Fort Collins.

💛 FoCo friends: TAG THE PERSON YOU’RE BRINGING WITH YOU! 👇
🎟️ Grab your seat through the link in our bio!

09/16/2026

The last couple weeks have been pretty dark for me. It’s really easy, when you’re building something you love, to slowly become the business along the way. It’s easy to allow the things that weigh heavy on your soul to drag your spirit down with it.

At first, you’re just pouring yourself into this thing you believe in.

And then somewhere along the way, every idea becomes an idea for the business. Every creative impulse becomes something you could sell or teach. Every free afternoon becomes an opportunity to catch up. Every hobby starts to feel suspiciously like work. Every business speed bump feels like the castle is crumbling.

And because you love it, it doesn’t always feel like you’re losing pieces of yourself.

Until you realize you can’t quite remember the last time you made something simply because you wanted to.

So I’m trying to find that line again.

To remember that I existed before Makeshift, and I’m allowed to exist outside of it, too. Including the good and bad.

To have hobbies that don’t become workshops.
To make things that don’t need to be content.
To have ideas I don’t monetize.
To deal with the things the universe throws at me without letting it consume me.
To spend an afternoon doing something that benefits absolutely no one except me.

Like crocheting myself a sweater just because I really want a new sweater.

I don’t want to love my business any less. I don’t think that’s even possible!!

I just want to make sure I don’t lose the person who built it along the way. ❤️

So here’s your reminder (and mine) to keep something for yourself.

If you are a small, creative business owner, share what you have done for yourself lately in the comments for accountability and affirmation! 🤍🤍🤍

09/11/2026

OCTOBER AT MAKESHIFT HAS ARRIVED. 👻🧶🎃

And apparently our October programming philosophy is: what if we simply did everything?

Spooky crafts? Obviously.
Tiny felt dragons? Yes.
Ghosts made out of lace? Absolutely.
Pierogi crafts ON International Pierogi Day?! 🥟
Learning to play D&D? 🎲
A Swiftie night? 💜
Bingo AND karaoke?
Samhain? 🌙
An actual midnight book release party?!?!

HELL YEAH

We’re bringing you Creepy Cross Stitched Canvas, Spooky Bargello, Lace Ghost Appliqué, Crocheted Cauldron Coasters, Halloween Sugar Cookie Punch Needle, Hocus Pocus Cross Stitch, Cross Stitched Runes, Felt Dragon Familiars, Make Your Own Felt Patches and SO MUCH MORE.

Plus, we’re continuing our journey around the Wheel of the Year with our Samhain Altar Talisman + Tarot Reading, celebrating another Swiftie Monthly Cross Stitch, leveling up our Sashiko skills, making the cutest knotted gemstone necklaces, and introducing a brand-new Embroidered Hand Lettering class just in time to start making handmade holiday gifts.

And because Makeshift is about a whole lot more than taking classes, October is PACKED with reasons to just come hang out: WIP Wednesdays, BYO Craft Hours, Sunday Service, Craft-A-Long Meet Ups, Sippin’ & Stitchin’, Bingo Night, Karaoke Night, Freestyle Felt Bar, Freestyle Junk Journaling and more.

AND THEN THERE’S OCTOBER 26. 🪩📚✨

The Dreamers Gala: our ACOTAR Book 6 ACTUAL Midnight Release Party.
We are partying all night and putting that book in your hands at midnight. Just like the good ol’ days!

October ends exactly how it should: celebrating Samhain + Halloween weekend and squeezing in a few more crafts before we close early on Halloween. 🎃

Basically, if your ideal October involves ghosts, witches, yarn, books, crafts, friendship bracelets, tarot, D&D, pierogies, emo music and an unreasonable number of tiny handmade objects...

we made this calendar for you.

🗓️ OCTOBER WORKSHOPS + EVENTS OPEN FOR BOOKING SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 AT 10AM!

Set your alarms. Send this to your craft buddy. Start making your list.

👻 See you for spooky season at Makeshift.

09/11/2026

OCTOBER AT MAKESHIFT HAS ARRIVED. 👻🧶🎃

And apparently our October programming philosophy is: what if we simply did everything?

Spooky crafts? Obviously.
Tiny felt dragons? Yes.
Ghosts made out of lace? Absolutely.
Pierogi crafts ON International Pierogi Day?! 🥟
Learning to play D&D? 🎲
A Swiftie night? 💜
Bingo AND karaoke?
Samhain? 🌙
An ACTUAL midnight book release party?!?!

HELL YEAH

We’re bringing you Creepy Cross Stitched Canvas, Spooky Bargello, Lace Ghost Appliqué, Crocheted Cauldron Coasters, Halloween Sugar Cookie Punch Needle, Hocus Pocus Cross Stitch, Cross Stitched Runes, Felt Dragon Familiars, Make Your Own Felt Patches and SO MUCH MORE.

Plus, we’re continuing our journey around the Wheel of the Year with our Samhain Altar Talisman + Tarot Reading, celebrating another Swiftie Monthly Cross Stitch, taking our Sashiko skills to the next level, making the cutest knotted gemstone necklaces, and introducing a brand-new Embroidered Hand Lettering class just in time to start making handmade holiday gifts.

And because Makeshift is about a whole lot more than taking classes, October is PACKED with reasons to just come hang out: WIP Wednesdays, BYO Craft Hours, Sunday Service, Craft-A-Long Meet Ups, Sippin’ & Stitchin’, Bingo Night, Karaoke Night, Freestyle Felt Bar, Freestyle Junk Journaling and more.

AND THEN THERE’S OCTOBER 26. 🪩📚✨

The Dreamers Gala: our ACOTAR Book 6 ACTUAL Midnight Release Party.
We are partying all night and putting that book in your hands at midnight. Just like the good ol’ days!

October ends exactly how it should: celebrating Samhain + Halloween weekend and squeezing in a few more crafts before we close early on Halloween. 🎃

Basically, if your ideal October involves ghosts, witches, yarn, books, crafts, friendship bracelets, tarot, D&D, pierogies, emo music and an unreasonable number of tiny handmade objects...

we made this calendar for you.

🗓️ OCTOBER WORKSHOPS + EVENTS OPEN FOR BOOKING SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 AT 10AM!

Set your alarms. Send this to your craft buddy. Start making your list.

👻 See you for spooky season at Makeshift.