Today is Day 5 of the Making Zen Online Retreat, and while we’re not quite ready for it to be over, there is still a whole day of creativity waiting for us.
Over the past five days, we’ve explored new techniques, experimented with different materials, learned from incredible artists, and watched this community fill with projects, questions, encouragement and inspiration from makers all around the world.
If there are workshops you haven’t reached yet, that’s okay. If your project is only half finished, that’s okay too.
Making Zen was never about racing through 30+ workshops or finishing everything before the week ends. It’s about discovering what sparks something in you, a technique you want to explore further, an artist whose work inspires you, or simply a reminder of how good it feels to make time for creativity.
So soak up this final day. Try something new. Revisit a favourite technique. Share what you’ve been making. And enjoy being part of this wonderfully creative community for one more day. 🧵 And to every artist, sponsor, maker and member of our community who has made this week what it is, thank you.
The wait is over, Day One of the Making Zen Online Retreat is HERE! 🧵 Today, makers from around the world are coming together to learn, experiment, slow down and follow their creativity alongside an incredible group of artists and teachers.
And if you’re seeing this thinking, “Oh no, I forgot to sign up!” you can still join us!
Making Zen runs from September 28–October 2, with 30+ workshops exploring textile projects, mixed media, mindful and intuitive making, new techniques and so much more. Come for one workshop that catches your eye. Explore something completely outside your usual creative practice. Discover a new artist. Or settle in and spend the week soaking up as much inspiration as you can.
There’s no pressure to do it all, Making Zen is about following your curiosity and enjoying the process.
🧵 Completely online: join us from anywhere 🧵 FREE to attend 🧵 30+ artists & creative teachers 📅 September 28–October 2 It’s not too late. Come make with us! Join the retreat at MakingZen.com
TOMORROW WE MAKE! 🧵 After months of planning, conversations with artists, workshop preparations and lots happening behind the scenes, we can finally say it: Making Zen begins TOMORROW! 🥳
For five days, we’re pressing pause on the pressure to make things perfectly and making room instead for curiosity, experimentation and connection. 30+ artists and creative teachers. 30+ workshops. Textiles. Mixed media. Mindfulness. New techniques. Creative play. And ideas you probably haven't even thought of trying yet. You can watch. You can stitch along. You can try one workshop or dive into as many as you can.
You get to make Making Zen your own.
If you haven't registered yet, there's still time to join us and the retreat is completely FREE to attend.
📅 September 28–October 2, 2026 🌎 Completely online 🎟️ Register at MakingZen.com ONE MORE SLEEP! Who’s ready?! 🙋♀️
In just TWO DAYS, makers from around the world will begin gathering online for the 2026 Making Zen Online Retreat.
Your fabric can still be in the cupboard. Your threads can still be tangled. Your creative space definitely does not need to be Instagram-ready. All you need to bring is a little time and a willingness to explore.
For five days, we’ll learn from 30+ incredible artists and creative teachers, discover new techniques and materials, and celebrate the simple joy of making something with our hands.
And you can join us completely FREE. 📅 September 28–October 2 🌎 Join from anywhere 🎟️ Free registration at MakingZen.com
TWO DAYS TO GO!
Tell us in the comments: Where in the world will you be joining us from? 🌎
Five days. 30+ artists. 30+ workshops. And one wonderfully creative community getting ready to make together from all around the world.
The Making Zen Online Retreat begins September 28, and whether this is your very first Making Zen or you’ve been joining us for years, we hope you’ll come into this retreat with one thing: Curiosity.
Try something unfamiliar. Meet an artist whose work you’ve never encountered before. Use the materials already sitting in your stash. Make something imperfect. Change your mind halfway through. Or simply watch, learn and tuck an idea away for another day. There’s no right way to experience Making Zen.
Only THREE DAYS to go! 💛 🎟️ Join the five-day retreat for FREE at MakingZen.com
Have you started thinking about what you might want to explore first? Maybe you’ll be drawn to a textile project. Perhaps mixed media will send you down an entirely new creative rabbit hole. Maybe you want to learn a particular technique, work more intuitively, or simply spend a little time making with your hands.
In FOUR DAYS, Making Zen begins and there are 30+ workshops waiting for you. Our favourite advice? Don’t try to do everything!
Look through the workshops. Notice what catches your attention. Follow the artists and techniques that make you want to know more.
Making Zen isn’t about how much you can accomplish in five days. It’s about what you might discover along the way.
📅 September 28–October 2 🎟️ FREE to attend 🌎 Completely online 4 DAYS to go! 🥳 Are you joining us? Register at MakingZen.com
Five days until we begin five days of creativity, curiosity, connection and making together. The Making Zen Online Retreat is almost here!
From September 28–October 2, more than 30 artists and creative teachers from around the world will be sharing workshops filled with textile art, mixed media, mindful making, new techniques and plenty of opportunities to follow your curiosity.
You don’t need to do every workshop. You don’t need to know exactly what you want to make. You don’t even need to consider yourself an artist. Just come curious.
There are so many wonderful things waiting for you inside this year’s retreat, and we cannot wait to finally begin sharing them. 5 DAYS TO GO! 🥳
🎟️ Making Zen is FREE to attend 🌎 Completely online — join us from anywhere 📅 September 28–October 2 Register at MakingZen.com
As if five days of creativity, learning and making together weren’t exciting enough… we have some pretty incredible prizes up for grabs during Making Zen 2026!
A huge thank you to our generous Giveaway Sponsors for helping us add a little extra fun to this year’s retreat.
✂️ Shokunin Store is giving away a pair of their rare Black Masamune Tailor’s Shears (24cm), forged from premium Aogami Blue Steel and designed to beautifully cut everything from larger pieces of fabric to delicate silk, georgette and lace.
🧵 Aurifil is sharing FOUR gorgeous thread collections featuring collaborations with Carolyn Forster, Patty Basemi, Brandon Mably and Sandy Saengsuk: with floss, cotton, wool and multiple thread weights represented.
🎨 Artistic Artifacts is giving away five $100 gift cards! Just imagine the creative possibilities.
🧲 And SewTites is giving away a Midi Mix and Magnetic Pin Holder to make your next project a little easier.
We are so grateful to each of these businesses for supporting Making Zen and our creative community.
And to everyone joining us… sharing your progress, and participating are great ways to get a chance to win 🎉
🧵 Making Zen Online Retreat 📅 September 28–October 2, 2026 🎟️ FREE to attend MakingZen.com
Five days. 30+ artists. 30+ workshops. And one wonderfully creative community getting ready to make together from all around the world.
The Making Zen Online Retreat begins September 28, and whether this is your very first Making Zen or you’ve been joining us for years, we hope you’ll come into this retreat with one thing: Curiosity.
Try something unfamiliar. Meet an artist whose work you’ve never encountered before. Use the materials already sitting in your stash. Make something imperfect. Change your mind halfway through. Or simply watch, learn and tuck an idea away for another day. There’s no right way to experience Making Zen.
Only THREE DAYS to go! 💛 🎟️ Join the five-day retreat for FREE at MakingZen.com
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How did we get here already?
Today is Day 5 of the Making Zen Online Retreat, and while we’re not quite ready for it to be over, there is still a whole day of creativity waiting for us.
Over the past five days, we’ve explored new techniques, experimented with different materials, learned from incredible artists, and watched this community fill with projects, questions, encouragement and inspiration from makers all around the world.
If there are workshops you haven’t reached yet, that’s okay.
If your project is only half finished, that’s okay too.
Making Zen was never about racing through 30+ workshops or finishing everything before the week ends. It’s about discovering what sparks something in you, a technique you want to explore further, an artist whose work inspires you, or simply a reminder of how good it feels to make time for creativity.
So soak up this final day. Try something new. Revisit a favourite technique. Share what you’ve been making. And enjoy being part of this wonderfully creative community for one more day. 🧵
And to every artist, sponsor, maker and member of our community who has made this week what it is, thank you.
💙 Happy Day 5, Making Zen!
www.makingzen.com/
#MakingZen #MakingZen2026 #MakingZenOnlineRetreat #CreativeCommunity #TextileArt #SlowStitching #MindfulMaking #CreativePractice
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We’d love to hear from you…
If you’ve been joining us for Making Zen this week, what has been your favourite part so far?
A workshop that surprised you
A moment of calm
A new technique
A shift in how you see your creativity
Every experience is different, and sharing yours might inspire someone else.
Tell us below ⬇️
Want to join the fun?
Learn more: www.makingzen.com
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🎉 MAKING ZEN STARTS TODAY!
The wait is over, Day One of the Making Zen Online Retreat is HERE! 🧵
Today, makers from around the world are coming together to learn, experiment, slow down and follow their creativity alongside an incredible group of artists and teachers.
And if you’re seeing this thinking, “Oh no, I forgot to sign up!” you can still join us!
Making Zen runs from September 28–October 2, with 30+ workshops exploring textile projects, mixed media, mindful and intuitive making, new techniques and so much more.
Come for one workshop that catches your eye. Explore something completely outside your usual creative practice. Discover a new artist. Or settle in and spend the week soaking up as much inspiration as you can.
There’s no pressure to do it all, Making Zen is about following your curiosity and enjoying the process.
🧵 Completely online: join us from anywhere
🧵 FREE to attend
🧵 30+ artists & creative teachers
📅 September 28–October 2
It’s not too late. Come make with us!
Join the retreat at MakingZen.com
#MakingZen #MakingZen2026 #MakingZenOnlineRetreat #TextileArt #SlowStitching #MindfulMaking #CreativeCommunity #CreativeRetreat
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TOMORROW WE MAKE! 🧵
After months of planning, conversations with artists, workshop preparations and lots happening behind the scenes, we can finally say it:
Making Zen begins TOMORROW! 🥳
For five days, we’re pressing pause on the pressure to make things perfectly and making room instead for curiosity, experimentation and connection.
30+ artists and creative teachers.
30+ workshops.
Textiles. Mixed media. Mindfulness. New techniques. Creative play. And ideas you probably haven't even thought of trying yet.
You can watch.
You can stitch along.
You can try one workshop or dive into as many as you can.
You get to make Making Zen your own.
If you haven't registered yet, there's still time to join us and the retreat is completely FREE to attend.
📅 September 28–October 2, 2026
🌎 Completely online
🎟️ Register at MakingZen.com
ONE MORE SLEEP! Who’s ready?! 🙋♀️
#MakingZen #MakingZen2026 #MakingZenOnlineRetreat #TextileArt #CreativeRetreat #SlowStitching #MindfulMaking #CreativeCommunity
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Okay… now we’re getting REALLY close!
In just TWO DAYS, makers from around the world will begin gathering online for the 2026 Making Zen Online Retreat.
Your fabric can still be in the cupboard.
Your threads can still be tangled.
Your creative space definitely does not need to be Instagram-ready.
All you need to bring is a little time and a willingness to explore.
For five days, we’ll learn from 30+ incredible artists and creative teachers, discover new techniques and materials, and celebrate the simple joy of making something with our hands.
And you can join us completely FREE.
📅 September 28–October 2
🌎 Join from anywhere
🎟️ Free registration at MakingZen.com
TWO DAYS TO GO!
Tell us in the comments: Where in the world will you be joining us from? 🌎
#MakingZen #MakingZen2026 #OnlineCreativeRetreat #TextileArt #SlowStitching #CreativeCommunity #MindfulMaking
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Five days.
30+ artists.
30+ workshops.
And one wonderfully creative community getting ready to make together from all around the world.
The Making Zen Online Retreat begins September 28, and whether this is your very first Making Zen or you’ve been joining us for years, we hope you’ll come into this retreat with one thing: Curiosity.
Try something unfamiliar.
Meet an artist whose work you’ve never encountered before.
Use the materials already sitting in your stash.
Make something imperfect.
Change your mind halfway through.
Or simply watch, learn and tuck an idea away for another day.
There’s no right way to experience Making Zen.
Only THREE DAYS to go! 💛
🎟️ Join the five-day retreat for FREE at MakingZen.com
#MakingZen #MakingZen2026 #TextileArt #SlowStitching #MindfulMaking #CreativeCommunity #OnlineRetreat
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Have you started thinking about what you might want to explore first?
Maybe you’ll be drawn to a textile project. Perhaps mixed media will send you down an entirely new creative rabbit hole. Maybe you want to learn a particular technique, work more intuitively, or simply spend a little time making with your hands.
In FOUR DAYS, Making Zen begins and there are 30+ workshops waiting for you.
Our favourite advice?
Don’t try to do everything!
Look through the workshops. Notice what catches your attention. Follow the artists and techniques that make you want to know more.
Making Zen isn’t about how much you can accomplish in five days. It’s about what you might discover along the way.
📅 September 28–October 2
🎟️ FREE to attend
🌎 Completely online
4 DAYS to go! 🥳 Are you joining us?
Register at MakingZen.com
#MakingZen #MakingZen2026 #CreativeRetreat #TextileArt #CreativePractice #MindfulMaking #SlowCraft
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Zen Stitching
Five days until we begin five days of creativity, curiosity, connection and making together.
The Making Zen Online Retreat is almost here!
From September 28–October 2, more than 30 artists and creative teachers from around the world will be sharing workshops filled with textile art, mixed media, mindful making, new techniques and plenty of opportunities to follow your curiosity.
You don’t need to do every workshop.
You don’t need to know exactly what you want to make.
You don’t even need to consider yourself an artist.
Just come curious.
There are so many wonderful things waiting for you inside this year’s retreat, and we cannot wait to finally begin sharing them.
5 DAYS TO GO! 🥳
🎟️ Making Zen is FREE to attend
🌎 Completely online — join us from anywhere
📅 September 28–October 2
Register at MakingZen.com
#MakingZen #MakingZen2026 #OnlineRetreat #TextileArt #SlowStitching #MindfulMaking #CreativeCommunity
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As if five days of creativity, learning and making together weren’t exciting enough… we have some pretty incredible prizes up for grabs during Making Zen 2026!
A huge thank you to our generous Giveaway Sponsors for helping us add a little extra fun to this year’s retreat.
✂️ Shokunin Store is giving away a pair of their rare Black Masamune Tailor’s Shears (24cm), forged from premium Aogami Blue Steel and designed to beautifully cut everything from larger pieces of fabric to delicate silk, georgette and lace.
🧵 Aurifil is sharing FOUR gorgeous thread collections featuring collaborations with Carolyn Forster, Patty Basemi, Brandon Mably and Sandy Saengsuk: with floss, cotton, wool and multiple thread weights represented.
🎨 Artistic Artifacts is giving away five $100 gift cards! Just imagine the creative possibilities.
🧲 And SewTites is giving away a Midi Mix and Magnetic Pin Holder to make your next project a little easier.
We are so grateful to each of these businesses for supporting Making Zen and our creative community.
And to everyone joining us… sharing your progress, and participating are great ways to get a chance to win 🎉
🧵 Making Zen Online Retreat
📅 September 28–October 2, 2026
🎟️ FREE to attend
MakingZen.com
#MakingZen #MakingZen2026 #MakingZenGiveaway #TextileArt #FiberArt #SlowStitching #CreativeCommunity #MindfulMaking
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Five days.
30+ artists.
30+ workshops.
And one wonderfully creative community getting ready to make together from all around the world.
The Making Zen Online Retreat begins September 28, and whether this is your very first Making Zen or you’ve been joining us for years, we hope you’ll come into this retreat with one thing: Curiosity.
Try something unfamiliar.
Meet an artist whose work you’ve never encountered before.
Use the materials already sitting in your stash.
Make something imperfect.
Change your mind halfway through.
Or simply watch, learn and tuck an idea away for another day.
There’s no right way to experience Making Zen.
Only THREE DAYS to go! 💛
🎟️ Join the five-day retreat for FREE at MakingZen.com
#MakingZen #MakingZen2026 #TextileArt #SlowStitching #MindfulMaking #CreativeCommunity #OnlineRetreat
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