Maine Crafts Association

06/04/2026

⚡️ STITCH is TODAY! ⚡️

Join us from 5-9pm at Maine Studio Works (170 Anderson Street, Portland) for an evening celebrating Maine-made style, craft, and community - all while supporting the Maine Crafts Association.

of Seacolors Yarnery will kick off the evening with a keynote speech that you don’t want to miss!

At 7pm, experience a live runway show featuring six Maine designers:

• Marigold in Maine
• Syron
• Lorelyne Design
• Seacolors Yarnery
• Hold Fast Bespoke
• Pritlove

From bespoke tailoring and knitwear to contemporary fashion and wearable art, the runway showcases the incredible range of Maine design. You can learn more about each of the designers by visiting our blog (or previous posts!).

Browse the Style Market featuring 15 vendors offering jewelry, hats, bags, apparel, accessories, and more handcrafted goods.

Enjoy live screenprinting from featuring exclusive MCA designs. Bring your own items to print on: T-shirts, tote bags, bandanas, and button-ups work great!

Have a favorite garment that needs a little extra personality? Bring it to for live chain stitch embroidery.

Every ticket includes a beverage from with cocktails, mocktails, wine, beer, and non-alcoholic options available.

STITCH is four hours of creativity, connection, and handmade wearable craft. Come discover local makers, meet designers, support Maine artists, and celebrate the power of craft in our community.

Cover image: Look by 2025 Runway Designer Kazeem Lawal of

🎟️ Get your ticket and join us tonight!

📍 Maine Studio Works
170 Anderson Street, Portland, Maine
Doors open at 5pm | Runway Show starts at 7pm

06/02/2026

Maine Crafts Association is pleased to welcome Nanne Kennedy of Seacolors Yarnery to STITCH 2026 THIS Thursday, June 4th at Maine Studio Works, participating in three different roles!

You might know Nanne Kennedy as a hand spinner, seawater dyer, shepherd, farm-grown wool innovator, or knitwear designer–in fact, she is all of that and more. At STITCH, Nanne will be a runway designer, Style Market vendor, and our fabulous keynote speaker.

When Nanne thinks about her own work, she sees herself as a nurturer, someone who has developed relationships with the land and soil, with her animals, and with all of the folks who touch the wool on its journey from sheep to sweater. Check out Nanne’s profile to learn more about what makes her Polwarth wool special, her sustainable seawater dying, and the beautiful clothes she’s bringing to the runway. More importantly, come to STITCH so that you can meet Nanne and hear her story in person.

To learn more about Nanne, please visit our blog to continue reading her story: https://mainecrafts.org/stitch-2026-designer-profile-nanne-kennedy-seacolors/

You can find Nanne on Instagram

STITCH: Runway Show + Style Market
- Thursday, June 4
- 5pm - 9pm, Runway @ 7pm
- Maine Studio Works | 170 Anderson Street, Portland
- Purchase tickets: www.mainecrafts.org/programs/stitch/

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Visit our blog to explore more STITCH Runway Designer profiles!

05/29/2026

Maine Crafts Association is pleased to welcome back Sharon Chandler of Marigold in Maine to the STITCH 2026 Runway Show on Thursday, June 4th at Maine Studio Works!

Sharon is a retired art teacher turned quilter, slow fashion designer, and maker. She often gives fabrics and old quilts a second life by sewing them into apparel. Her collection for STITCH is inspired by the year of the horse, transformation, and growth.

Find Sharon at https://www.marigoldroots.com/

STITCH: Runway Show + Style Market
- Thursday, June 4
- 5pm - 9pm, Runway @ 7pm
- Maine Studio Works | 170 Anderson Street, Portland
- Purchase tickets: www.mainecrafts.org/programs/stitch/ (link in bio)

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05/29/2026

Maine Crafts Association is pleased to welcome Viki Christman of Lorelyne Design to the STITCH 2026 Runway Show on Thursday, June 4th at Maine Studio Works!

Viki Christman is an emerging Hungarian-American designer whose sewing hobby has quickly grown into a true vocation. Viki designs vintage-style clothing, primarily for women and children. Currently, she is working on launching her first children’s collection and building a business focused on spreading kindness by choosing cruelty-free materials that don’t harm any living creature.

To learn more about Viki, please visit our blog to continue reading her story: https://mainecrafts.org/stitch-2026-designer-profile-viki-christman-lorelyne/

You can find Viki on Instagram

STITCH: Runway Show + Style Market
- Thursday, June 4
- 5pm - 9pm, Runway @ 7pm
- Maine Studio Works | 170 Anderson Street, Portland
- Purchase tickets: www.mainecrafts.org/programs/stitch/ (link in bio)

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05/29/2026

Maine Crafts Association is pleased to welcome Duane MacLeod to the STITCH 2026 Runway and Style Market, on Thursday, June 4th at Maine Studio Works!

Duane MacLeod could best be described as a serial maker. His career was in healthcare, but he always loved to build things (houses and sailboats being two examples). So, fifteen years ago, when his daughter encouraged him to make his own overcoat out of a Japanese sewing pattern book, he was up for the challenge. “I didn’t know any Japanese, but I wanted to make a winter coat for myself,” he recalls. “If you told me then that I would end up going to tailoring school in the UK, I would never have believed you. But that’s exactly what happened.” Inspired by his coat-making odyssey (he made all the coats in the book, blogging the whole process), he became one of the first foreign students at the Tailoring Academy in Macclesfield, Cheshire, in the textile heartland of the UK. Now Duane runs Hold Fast Bespoke, a tailoring company based in Georgetown, Maine, where he makes fine custom jackets, coats, and waistcoats for clients all over the state.

To learn more about Duane, please visit our blog: https://mainecrafts.org/stitch-2026-designer-profile-duane-macleod-hold-fast-bespoke/

You can find Duane at www.holdfastbespoke.com

STITCH: Runway Show + Style Market
- Thursday, June 4
- 5pm - 9pm, Runway @ 7pm
- Maine Studio Works | 170 Anderson Street, Portland
- Purchase tickets: www.mainecrafts.org/programs/stitch/ (link in bio)

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05/29/2026

Maine Crafts Association is pleased to welcome Eleanor Anne Cox of Pritlove for her debut at the STITCH 2026 Runway and Style Market, on Thursday, June 4th at Maine Studio Works!

Eleanor Anne Cox of Pritlove is a life-long sewist, complete with photographic proof of her early textile adventures. Eleanor comes from a long line of artists and makers, including her great-grandmother Winifred Pritlove, an avid seamstress, and her company’s namesake. After picking up the sewing machine at age 6, Eleanor was working for Maine fashion designer and 2025 STITCH keynote speaker Jill McGowan by age 15, before decamping for the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. After F.IT., Eleanor worked for several start-up brands, made it to Paris fashion week, and worked on costuming for films. Having seen so much of the fashion industry, including its many challenges with sustainability, Eleanor is excited to return to her hometown of Portland and build her slow fashion business in a community of artists and makers.

To learn more about Eleanor, please visit our blog to continue reading her story: https://mainecrafts.org/stitch-2026-designer-profile-eleanor-cox-pritlove/

You can find Eleanor at www.pritlove.com

STITCH: Runway Show + Style Market
- Thursday, June 4
- 5pm - 9pm, Runway @ 7pm
- Maine Studio Works | 170 Anderson Street, Portland
- Purchase tickets: https://mainecrafts.org/programs/stitch/ (link in bio)

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05/29/2026

Maine Crafts Association is pleased to welcome Johnny Syron back to the STITCH 2026 Runway and Style Market, on Thursday, June 4th at Maine Studio Works!

Johnny is a multidisciplinary artist who works in multiple media, including wood, metal, and fabric. Primarily designing in leather, he creates silhouettes that he describes as “everyday art wear”: pieces that can be worn comfortably but that also make a statement. He believes that our clothing has a unique power to transform our society: “When we choose to change our outer appearance, we begin to change the traditional societal models and beliefs that bind our lives.” He envisions a future where, as he puts it, “a non-binary world is free of racism, sexism, and homophobia.”

To learn more about Johnny, please visit our blog to continue reading his story: https://mainecrafts.org/stitch-2026-designer-profile-johnny-syron/

Find more of his work at www.trueselfcouture.com

STITCH: Runway Show + Style Market
- Thursday, June 4
- 5pm - 9pm, Runway @ 7pm
- Maine Studio Works | 170 Anderson Street, Portland
- Purchase tickets: https://mainecrafts.org/programs/stitch/ (link in bio)

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05/26/2026

We’re incredibly grateful to our sponsors for supporting STITCH and helping bring this event to life. Their generosity fuels creativity, strengthens community, and enables artists and craft lovers to connect, learn, and celebrate together. Thank you for believing in the power of craft and for being part of what makes STITCH so special. ✨🧵

Don’t have your ticket yet? Use the link in our bio!

05/22/2026

STITCH is more than a Runway Show! Come for the fashion show featuring six amazing Maine designers, and stay for custom screen printing with Little Chair Printing, live chain stitching by Wet Day Fire, shopping handmade goods at the STITCH Style Market, and cocktails + mocktails from Cocktail Mary. Bring your favorite jacket, tote, or tee to get customized on-site, discover work from local artists and makers, and leave with something one-of-a-kind.

Most of our runway designers will have their work available at the Style Market, and they will be joined by ten more artisans working in jewelry, leather, custom hats, felted apparel, and curated home goods. Every ticket and every purchase helps support Maine’s creative future.

Where: Maine Studio Works | 170 Anderson St, Portland, ME 04101
When: Thursday, June 4
Time: 5pm - 9 pm | Runway starts at 7 pm
What: Maine Crafts Association’s annual fundraiser, celebrating wearable craft by Maine’s slow fashion designers and makers.
Tickets: 🔗 in bio

05/12/2026

Attn Artists: The Center for Cultural Innovation will be offering grants of $1,000–$5,000 to support craft artists in purchasing artistic tools and equipment needed to make object-based work.

This upcoming round is open to craftspeople living in CT, DE, DC, FL, GA, ME, MD, MA, NH, NJ, NY, NC, PA, RI, SC, VT, or VA.

The program will open May 19, 2026. Learn more & apply at the link below:

The Investing in Artists: Tools & Equipment program will award grants of $1,000–$5,000 to individual craft artists to purchase artistic tools and equipment that support their ability to make object-based work. This program is open to individual craft artists, folk and traditional artists, and craf...