🌟Designer Maker of Etsy best selling draft excluders, doorstops, door wedges and now PDF sewing tutorials
🌟8k sales + 1.4k 5* Reviews on Etsy
🌟Doorstops featured in Ideal Home, July 24 I'm Katy and I work full-time from my home studio in Hertfordshire designing and sewing homeware products including draft excluders, fabric door stops and wheat bags. After a long spell living overseas and raising children we returned to the UK in 2017 and I struggled to find any employers willing to even consider me for a job. It was dispiriting to say the least! June 2019
I was shopping for a new table runner but couldn’t find any I liked online or in the shops. It struck me that it would be easy enough to buy fabric I liked and make one myself. There was just one problem... I didn't own a sewing machine and hadn't used one since my high school days! Beginner sewing machines are amazing value for money, but to justify the purchase I needed to make other items so I decided to try cushion making too. Over the next few months I got stuck into YouTube videos and caught the sewing bug! December 2019
Happy with my Christmas table runner, I decided to take the brave step (for me!) of making a few more to sell at my kids' school Christmas fairs. They sold really well and excited by this, I decided to set up an Etsy shop in December 2019. Early Days on Etsy
My first few months on Etsy coincided with the beginning of the pandemic so I turned my hand to face masks and spent most of 2020 sewing and selling those. This enabled me to build my reputation and launch a full table runner range for Christmas 2020 before branching out into draught excluders (now my best selling product), fabric doorstops and much more. I have now made well over 4,800 sales on Etsy and have received over 800 5 Star reviews. Each and every item is sewn as if it's my first. I'm a perfectionist and will reject anything I don't consider to be of excellent quality. Thanks for stopping by, I hope you find something that catches your eye! Please don't hesitate to contact me with any questions, I'd love to help.
