Entries by Rachel

Introducing new sewing tutor Kelly from ButterflystudioUK

Introducing our new sewing tutor Kelly. Kelly is joining Millie Moon in 2022 with Sunday sewing sessions. Hi I’m Kelly, I am a forty something crafter who actually started out scared of pins!! I know, utter madness, but I have overcome my fear to develop a love of sewing and other crafty endeavours. I learnt […]

Festive Linocut at Millie Moon

Festive Linocut at Millie Moon   This autumnal Sunday took me to Millie Moon, Frome to teach some very talented ladies the art of linocut. For those of you who have tried their hand at carving and printing lino, you know all too well how time can run away from you and it does not […]

Kids Craft Club is back!

  Its back! We are very excited to have new tutor Claire and her daughter Ammie  joining the Millie Moon team teaching our kids sewing club. Claire is a local teacher, author, beach cleaner and self confessed crafty mess maker! The sessions will be held on 2nd MONDAY of every month The kids will learn hand […]

Fiver Fest

  Fiver Fest is back! For the third consecutive year, Fiver Fest is set to return to Frome’s streets on 22nd-24th October. Part of the national Totally Locally campaign, Fiver Fest celebrates local businesses, often run by families or individuals, making a real contribution to our unique town. 2021 has continued to be a hugely challenging […]

The Great Global Nurdle Hunt

  The Great Global Nurdle Hunt You may have seen the ‘nurdley awesome’ new window display drawn by the incredibly talented Jo Joof, with a wave, a big Blue Whale and a scattering of little colourful Nurdle characters.  Jo is the illustrator of Nurdle, the children’s book  written by local teacher Claire Vowell.  But why […]

Patchwork and Quilting at Millie Moon

Its that time of year when we start looking for that winter project. The one to do whilst we hibernate away until spring. Now, not sure if this will be the same this year, as we have all been in a forced hibernation for too long, but if you are looking for the winter project, […]

The Great BIG GREEN week in Frome 18th-26th September 2021

Great Big Green Week is a nationwide event celebrating how communities across the country are taking action to tackle climate change and protect green spaces. Frome has a fantastic range of events lined up from art exhibitions and guided walks to performance poetry and foodie events.  Everyday there are activities taking place around the town. […]

Festival season is here! … isn’t it?

It’s that time of year when we would be packing up our tents and heading to Glastonbury festival! We’ve have been festivaling at Glasto since 1992. We bought tickets from the little record shop in Bath corridor, no hours of internet queues then, there was no internet!  Becki had just passed her driving test and […]

Local Teacher and Beach cleaner Claire talks Nurdles!

My name is Claire and I am a teacher, mum, beachcleaner and crafty mess maker! I shared my Nurdle discovery 2 years ago with my class and with the help of my little Nurdle character we talked about ways we could tackle the problem. I realised that children will be the solution to the problems […]

Workshops are back !

Well hello everyone! What a year we have all had. We hope you are all doing ok, and managed to keep sewing over the last year. Thank you to everyone for your support. The website sales, click and collect from the shop and all the social media mentions and shares were wonderful. It was so […]