The Making Cottage Sewing Planner: The Story behind

For a long time I had scraps of ideas for sewing projects everywhere.

Fabric notes on random papers, measurements hidden inside old notebooks, screenshots saved on my phone, sewing plans I would completely forget about a week later...

At some point I realised I wanted one place to keep everything together. Not just organised, but beautiful too. Something that would actually make me want to sit down slowly with a coffee and plan my ideas properly.

That’s how The Making Cottage started.

The Making Cottage is a sewing planner inspired by the feeling of an old English cottage filled with soft colours, vintage sewing machines, floral fabrics, ribbons, tiny handmade details and small creative corners.

I designed it as a sewing companion filled with little spaces for project ideas, patchwork plans, measurements, fabric notes, sewing supplies, seasonal inspiration and all the tiny details that little by little become part of a handmade journey.

It also became part of something bigger I’m proud of: my little Cottage Trilogy.

The Making Cottage is the creative sewing world.

The Posting Cottage is where I organise social media ideas and content planning.

And The Selling Cottage is focused on small business life, handmade selling and creative organisation.

I think maybe all of them were created because my mind is always full of ideas and I needed somewhere to collect them all.

Now I have this small ritual in mind for myself too:

taking the notebook with me to a coffee shop somewhere in Athens, sitting quietly for an hour and slowly filling in the projects, plans and little creative things from the week.

Honestly, I wanted this journal to feel less like “productivity” and more like keeping memories of my creative life.

The planner is now available as a hardcover edition in my Etsy shop  and also as a paperback edition on AMAZON for anyone who loves sewing, journaling and collecting handmade ideas in one little place.

I truly hope it becomes a small creative companion for other makers too.

A little cottage for ideas to live in 🏠.

XXX

Tatiana ❤️