Our Story

I'm a Mum and Grandma who has always been a creative and enterprising person and started sewing as a child on a singer hand crank machine! I have always enjoyed unique fabric designs and quality fabrics I especially love Liberty prints and I have been making Liberty handkerchiefs for over 20 years, I often have scraps of fabric which I try to make into new items. I have also been making soft furnishings for clients for many years. In 2024 I rediscovered dressmaking and found it an outlet for my creative brain and it helped me to cope with some challenging times. I am lucky enough to have a sewing studio set up in my home, and it was when Mabel's Mum spotted the Cameras fabric and asked me to make a sweatshirt for Mabel, that my interest in making children's clothing started. I found it to be so enjoyable that I started making sweatshirts for friends and family, including making them for all my great nieces and great nephews for a family reunion. Every child I made them for was so thrilled with them that they wanted to wear them all the time(!) and friends and family started to ask if I was going to sell my creations, hence the seed was sewn for my Etsy shop. The Mara in the name comes from my first Grandchild who I am extremely excited to make clothes for. I choose beautiful natural fabrics from other British entrepreneurs and craft them into unique and varied items. If you have a specific design or item in mind I can likely create it. Please do get in touch!