Where to buy hobbies Pays De La Loire

Hands that create are hands that think... and Sophie Fraudin's hands have been creating for a long time, for as long as she can remember, with this passion for sewing and the beautiful way of doing things buried inside her. So, after years spent in a pharmaceutical laboratory as an executive, she decided to create this project that was so dear to her heart: to transmit her passion and her know-how of sewing. Today, it is done with this workshop where everyone, at their own pace and under Sophie's guidance, can learn to sew: by yearly or quarterly subscription, a la carte, during vacations... to rediscover the pleasure of doing it yourself and to leave with your creation.

Located in Saint-Georges-Buttavent, Toiles de Mayenne is a home furnishings and decoration store specializing in the design and manufacture of fabrics for the home. They offer a range of ready-to-install curtains as well as made-to-measure confections. Toiles de Mayenne showcases its French know-how, which dates back to 1806, through its products and stores. They also offer made-to-measure curtain services and work with decorating professionals.

This store is for needle lovers. Mille Patch is a hymn to patchwork and point counting. Entire walls are full of fabrics to sew on top of each other (€3.25 for 25 cm) using kilometres of thread (€9.90 for 460 metres). Muriel Varnier will welcome you with a smile, she knows everything about patchwork and will be able to advise you on your embroidery projects. For children, there is something fun to do: during school holidays, there are sewing workshops. It is also possible to follow courses on patchwork, which requires patience and precision: thus, three sessions of 3 hours each are offered at 90€. A lot to learn from!

Coming from a traditional fabric store, with more than 30 years of experience, La Mercerine is located in the shopping mall of the Leclerc Paridis supermarket and in the Pôle Sud of Basse Goulaine. In this bright and well organized store, you will find everything you need for your sewing, embroidery, darning activities... Here, we have everything to make beautiful DIY (Do It Yourself) from fabrics and many other beautiful printed materials to get beautiful from head to toe and redecorate our home with new and pretty patterns. There are plenty of original fabrics to choose from to sew unique garments: waxes, arty fabrics from Clarke & Clarke, velvets, suedes, jacquards, imitation leather, English embroideries, printed jerseys, bamboo sponges, printed cottons, outdoor fabrics, children's cottons.... But also buttons, ribbons and elastics in a thousand shapes and colors, needles, scissors, handbag handles, zippers, darning eggs, beads, rulers, iron-on patterns for darning trouser knees, and many other haberdashery items. A literature corner is set up in the "book box" concerning sewing, model making... And if you don't know how to sew yet or if you want to improve your technique, workshops will give you the basics and the tips to make whatever you want. Courses for adults and children, it is a real accompaniment of projects by authentic enthusiasts.

This pretty concept-store offers a wide choice of interior design objects... to assemble yourself! Objects are made from wood, paper or cardboard, many of them made in France, and without any plastic in the interests of eco-responsibility. Here you'll find a wide choice of "paper trophies" (a kind of origami, only more complex) for both youngsters (animal heads) and adults (a superb cardboard Einstein head!), as well as delightful Diorama (model reconstructions of places), painted wooden models, wooden puzzles...

It's been 4 years now that Martine Maudet, graduate in art embroidery and from the famous school Pivaut in Nantes, has invested this small room in the rue Bressigny to exhibit and sell her creations, but also (alternately, and more and more frequently) to give art embroidery classes (of course!), but also painting, pastel, drawing and even tapestry. A multidisciplinary artist, whose gallery-workshop-boutique is constantly reinvented according to her creations (superb clay sculptures and female portraits in oil or acrylic) but also according to her desire to exhibit the works of other artists. A singular, intimate and endearing place.