Sewing Crow-Bees & Yarn Bombers

07/10/2025

THANK YOU to those who have been working hard making poppies for us.

The last day to drop off any more will be Friday 24th October. This will then still give us a chance to include them in our displays.

16/09/2025

PLEASE HELP!!

We still need your help to create our display of poppies for Remembrance this year. We are looking for approx another 1000 poppies to be made & time is ticking if we are to achieve our goal.
Reminder that poppies need to be knitted or crocheted using red acrylic yarn please. Size & shape doesn’t matter they will all be combined together

Collection points are at Morrisons (Morrisons Crowborough Community Champion) The Original Factory Shop - Crowborough, Guest's Shoe Services Ltd & Tesco (Tesco Crowborough Community Champion).

Thank you to those who have already made some. L

25/08/2025

Thank you to everyone that visited our stall today. As a result we will be contributing £178.55 to the takings.

03/08/2025

We will be raising funds for our fabulous Crowborough Hospital at their Fete on Bank Holiday Monday! Here's one of the products we will have on our stall. Please do come along and support Friends of Crowborough Hospital on 25th August 2.00-5.00pm.

30/07/2025

This summer we are celebrating some of the amazing groups of volunteers who make our community a better place to live. Big Thank You to you all.

15/07/2025

This year’s Leaver’s Topper for St John's C.E. Primary School

04/07/2025

Following on from our Poppy post.

We can now confirm arrangements for collection points for any finished poppies.

Morrisons
Tescos
The Original Factory Shop
Guest's Shoe Services

Also Zoe craft works ltd has kindly agreed to have a collection point on her stall at the pop up markets from tomorrow

Remember the more poppies we get the bigger the display Lets make it huge

Morrisons Crowborough Community Champion
Tesco Crowborough Community Champion
The Original Factory Shop - Crowborough
Guest's Shoe Services Ltd

18/06/2025

Making a new product for our stall at Friends of Crowborough Hospital fete. All set and ready for a sewing session!

15/06/2025

We'll be there selling our handmade items. Please do pop along to say hello and help us support our wonderful hospital 🤗.

🎪 Summer Fête Countdown is ON! 🎉
Here’s what’s coming up – get involved, spread the word, and let’s make this the biggest and best yet!

📍 Saturday 21st June – Stallholders Meeting, Day Centre at 10am
🧺 Starting Friday 4th July – Weekly donations of bric-a-brac, clothes & books at the Hospital (2–4pm) – every Friday until the big day!
🎟️ Saturday 12th July – Summer Fair at Crowborough Leisure Centre – first sales of our Fête Raffle Tickets and Jigsaw Bonanza!
📍 Saturday 16th August – Final Stallholders Meeting, Day Centre at 10am
🎉 Bank Holiday Monday 25th August – The Fête Itself! Save the date!

📦 Got items to donate? 📚 Want to volunteer or run a stall?
📞 Message us now or come along to a meeting – everyone’s welcome!

Let’s come together and create something special for our community 💛

09/06/2025

Calling all knitters & crocheters of Crowborough. Once again we are asking for your help with a community project. This time it’s poppies.
We’d like as many red poppies made for a special display for Remembrance this year.

Poppies need to be knitted or crocheted using acrylic yarn only. Size doesn’t matter but we do ask for all ends to be sewn in.

Donation points for completed poppies to be confirmed soon.
Any questions please DM us.

05/06/2025

Many thanks to whoever found our missing ‘shopper’ and placed her safely with our other topper by the Post Office. She will be back in her rightful place before the next Pop up Market on Saturday