Get crafty this Christmas

PreFab Clothing is welcoming young and old for some festive fun with a difference this Christmas

PreFab Clothing in Roath is a charity shop with a difference

You can make your own stocking the sustainable way, with PreFab Clothing’s Winter Workshop.

Parents and children can go along to the shop on Albany Road in Roath on Saturday December 17 and make a stocking from pre-loved materials.

Project Manager Sian Rogers believes the workshops are helping to contribute to the recent resurgence in popularity of arts and crafts, and the ‘make do and mend’ mentality.

PreFab’s sells secondhand and up-cycled goods with a 1950’s twist, and its proceeds go wholly to Cardiff’s YMCA Housing Association. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg recently visited the shop’s recycling centre.

Manager Simon Turner said the workshops are integral, “It’s about raising awareness; we have to think about the activities we can set up so we can use the materials we receive from donations.”

Sense of community

The Winter Workshop will begin at 12 o’clock and continue for the rest of the day. Children can take away their own stocking for £3.50, with all money donated to Cardiff’s YMCA Housing Association.

The workshop is the latest in a series of similar events held by Prefab, which have included a Fascinator workshop as part of the annual Made in Roath Festival and a Halloween workshop where children make their own pumpkins.

Shop assistant David Morris commented that when the workshops began staff weren’t sure of their success, but David and others were delighted by how the events were embraced.

“The sense of community was brilliant; children were spending two or three hours in the shop. At one point, you couldn’t get from one end of the store to the other.”

You can find PreFab Clothing on Facebook and Twitter for updates on new stock and future workshops.