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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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The Making Zen VIP Pass is available until Friday.

If you’ve been enjoying the retreat and wish you could revisit the workshops, move at your own pace, or go deeper, this is for you.

✨ Lifetime access to all sessions
✨ Exclusive artist gifts

An option if you’d like to continue your creative journey beyond this week.

💙 Learn more: www.makingzen.com/eb

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🧵 We begin today. 🧵

Making Zen: May 2026 is officially here.

Today, we open the doors to a week of creativity, calm, and connection, a space to slow down and create in your own way.

Whether you’re joining for one workshop or many, there’s no right way to be here.

✨ Just begin
✨ Just explore
✨ Just take one stitch at a time

💙 We’re so glad you’re here.

👉 Join us: www.makingzen.com

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✨ We begin tomorrow. ✨

Tomorrow, our 10th Making Zen (and 5th year anniversary!) begins, and today is your last chance to join with early bird VIP pricing.

If you’ve been thinking about joining, this is your moment.

The VIP Pass gives you:
🌿 Lifetime access to all workshops
🌿 Early access to content
🌿 Exclusive artist gifts

A beautiful way to move at your own pace and revisit your favourite sessions anytime.

Check out some of the amazing work our community has been savoring over the past few days, thanks to early VIP early access!

Or join for free and experience the retreat live.

📅 May 4–8, 2026

👉 Join here: www.makingzen.com

#zenstitching #makingzen #slowstitching #crafts #onlineevent #artists #sashiko #textilearts

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✨ Just 2 days to go… ✨

Our 10th Making Zen is almost here! And, we're "sew" excited!

In just a couple of days, we’ll begin gathering from around the world to slow down, create, and reconnect with our hands.

For five days, you’ll be invited into a gentle rhythm of making:

🧵 learning from 40+ textile artists
🌿 exploring new techniques
🤍 creating alongside a global community

No pressure.
No expectations.
Just a space to begin again.

💙 We can’t wait to stitch with you.

👉 Save your seat: www.makingzen.com

#zenstitching #makingzen #slowstitching #crafts #onlineevent #artists #sashiko #textilearts

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🧵 You’re Invited: Making Zen Launch Party 🧵

Before we begin our week together, we’d love to gather for a gentle launch party.

This is a relaxed space to:
✨ Say hello
✨ Get a feel for the retreat
✨ Ask any questions
✨ Set your intentions for the days ahead

No pressure, just a warm, welcoming way to begin.

📅 Friday, May 1 (in 2 days!0
🕠 5:30 pm Eastern / 6:30 pm Atlantic

We hope you can join us; it’s a lovely way to ease into the experience and connect before we begin stitching together. 💙

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Your creative space doesn’t have to be perfect.

It doesn’t need to be a full studio.
It doesn’t need to be organized or styled.

It can be a corner of a table.
A basket beside your chair.
A few materials you return to again and again.

What matters is how it feels, not how it looks.

I'd love to know, where do you like to stitch?

#ZenStitching #MindfulMaking #SustainableCraft #SlowStitching #TextileArt

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In a world that often encourages replacing what’s worn, stitching invites us to pause… and care.

To mend instead of discard.
To reinforce instead of replace.
To see beauty in what has been used, loved, and lived in.

Each small repair becomes more than a fix; it’s a choice.
A quiet act of respect for the materials we use and the life they’ve already lived.

Sashiko began as a way to extend the life of garments, layering, strengthening, and preserving what people already had. Today, that same practice reminds us that sustainability doesn’t have to be complicated.

It can be as simple as:
🪡 repairing a tear
🪡 reinforcing a seam
🪡 choosing to keep something a little longer

Small stitches.
Lasting impact.

Have you mended something recently?

#EarthDay #VisibleMending #MendDontReplace #SlowFashion #ZenStitching

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🪡 A small Sashiko tip that makes a big difference.

Try to keep a soft, even tension as you pull your thread through.

Too tight, and the fabric puckers.
Too loose, and the stitches lose their rhythm.

Think of it as a gentle balance, not pulling, but guiding.

Over time, your hands will find that natural tension on their own.

✨ Soft hands, steady stitches.

What helped your stitching feel more natural?

#ZenStitching #SlowStitching #MindfulMaking #Sashiko #SashikoStitching

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🧵 Mending changes how we see things.

Instead of replacing, we repair.
Instead of hiding wear, we honour it.

Each stitch becomes a small act of care for our clothing, and for ourselves.

There’s something powerful about choosing to mend.

🌿 Have you mended something recently?

#VisibleMending #MendDontReplace #SlowFashionMovement #SustainableCraft #RepairAndReuse

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