BELFAST—The retro hobbies of knitting and sewing came roaring back during the pandemic for many people new to the craft, but Julz Larrabee, a sewist in Stockton Springs, has steadily stitching along all of the years, regardless of what’s going on outside her doors.
Her small shop, Julz Makes LLC, recently moved into the former “Maker’s Space” of Belfast Fiber Arts’s expanded retail showroom. Her shop is fittingly the previous site of where the Belfast Repair Café was held, which offers periodic free mending of fabric items, along with electrical and other small repairs. Now it is her studio, where she’s got her sewing machines set up, her grid lined mat, and racks of color-coded spools on the walls.
Larrabee’s interest in this once prolific—now-rare trade —extends back to her childhood. “I learned to crochet and hand-sew first and my mom is very crafty, so I…
