Stitches n Sews 330

09/08/2026

I will be bringing some fall favorites with me to The Kent Flea this weekend. Cozies! Keep your food warm, while your hands stay cool!
Scroll through for a parking map for Saturday.
The Kent Flea: This Saturday, September 12, 10-4, Rockton Lodge at 409 W Main St, Kent Ohio

09/03/2026

My next show is in a little over a week at The Kent Flea and I'm bringing some spooky and festive fall goodies!!
Which spooky cozy is your favorite?
It's hard to decide, but I think I have to choose "a pinch of hokus pokus".

09/01/2026

Hoist the cone! Special order hat for a Pirate's fan. I have some family in Western PA so I have made a few of these now. Candy corn hats in the future??

08/27/2026

If you spend a little time looking up videos of Northside Marketplace on insta and tok, you can see how much this place meant to the vendors and community. The move in videos kill me. Now we must rebuild somewhere else.
Small but relentless 🐦‍🔥

The marketplace’s former owner agreed to repay vendors, but with no timeline, some business owners have given up hope.

08/25/2026

🎉Big news!!📣 Stitches n Sews 330 bowl cozies have received the highest honor possible!! We are thrilled to announce that our bowl cozies have been given the Fishankenstein squeal of approval. You can use your Stitches n Sews bowl cozies knowing that they are of the highest quality and craftsmanship, as evidenced by the Fishankenstein squeal of approval. We are honored.

08/17/2026

What a great day I had at Highland Square PorchRokr Festival in Akron yesterday!! You could tell everyone else was having a great time as well. The music was amazing, and the crowd was there for it! Akron really came out in numbers to support local music, food, and artists!
Thank you to everyone who came to visit! I loved seeing all of you! Special thanks to the porch rokr committee for putting in all the hours of hard work to make the festival one of the best. Thank you to the highland square neighborhoods and neighbors for donating your streets, yards, and porches to your community for the whole Saturday! Thank you to the porch rokr volunteers, Wesley of Akron Honey and my fellow vendor neighbors for helping with setup the day of. Thank you to all the local businesses and organizations that donated to the festival as well.

08/15/2026

Come to Jefferson in highland square, get a blimp hat, listen to some amazing music, grab an ice cream from henry's, and some food from merriman pizza. It's a great day to be in Akron.
I'm right across from Akron Honey headquarters.

08/13/2026

I will be at Highland Square PorchRokr Festival this Saturday! Do you have all the information you need for this epic day of music, food, and local art? Check out the PORCHROKR fb page or go to www.highlandsquareakron.org to see the interactive map, or download a chill PDF version.

08/06/2026

Help a fellow Northside vendor out and spread the word. We all lost money before the closure, and we all have retail PTSD. A lot of us are seriously considering never returning to stores.

🌳 The Warm Fuzzy Tree Is Looking for a New Home

Many of you have noticed that I have not posted about Warm Fuzzies since leaving the Northside Marketplace in January.
After being part of the Marketplace since it opened nearly ten years ago, I quietly chose not to renew my lease. Almost $5,000 from my product sales remain unpaid to me. I hoped the situation would eventually be resolved, but it has not been. Northside Marketplace has since announced that it will permanently close.

This is not the ending I imagined for Warm Fuzzies, but it does leave me with one very special question:

Where should the Warm Fuzzy Tree grow next?

The silver tree with light-up clouds was designed and created as the centerpiece of the Warm Fuzzies display. It held my handmade, adoptable Warm Fuzzies and became a little world of its own - t was their origin story. I invested an enormous amount of time, care, and money into creating it, with a conservative replacement value of approximately $3,000.
Because I do not plan to return to public retail, I am now inviting serious offers for the complete display.

The Warm Fuzzy Tree could become:
✨ A magical installation in the children’s section of a library, school, therapy center, hospital, family attraction, or community space�
✨ A whimsical feature for a boutique, event venue, photography studio, or creative business�
✨ An unforgettable centerpiece for a private playroom or imaginative home�
✨ A new home for the remaining Warm Fuzzies, which may also be included as part of an arrangement

This is a substantial, one-of-a-kind installation, so relocation, setup, included pieces, and other details would need to be discussed with the buyer.

Please send me a private message if you are seriously interested, represent an organization that may be a good fit, or know someone who might give the Warm Fuzzy Tree a wonderful second chapter.

Sharing this post could help it find exactly the right home. 💛