The Fent Shop Macclesfield

07/08/2026

How do you like the skirt with hidden shorts Grace has made from the Grape Bamboo Jersey?

03/08/2026

Will you be watching GBSB tomorrow?

Episode 4 is Mexican Week! 🇲🇽🧵✂️🪡🇲🇽

Esme & Patrick are joined by a special guest judge, renowned fashion designer Erika Alvirez! 🇲🇽👗👖👕

For the Pattern Challenge, the sewers are asked to create a Mexican folkloric top using fabrics created by indigenous communities in Mexico’s Oaxaca region 🇲🇽👕🪡✂️🧵

Next up its the Transformation Challenge & the contestants are given manteles de hule, a traditional Mexican tablecloth. Using the stiffness of the fabric, they are asked to create a garment with an eye-catching structure!

Finally, in the Made-to-Measure, the sewers have to design an outfit inspired by one of the many Mexican festivals found across the country 🇲🇽🎪🎵🧵✂️🇲🇽

21/07/2026

Tonight’s episode is all about prints & colours! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🩷

First up is the Pattern Challenge, where the sewers have to construct a pattern-matched shell top with adaptive elements, including invisible zips and a high-low hem.

In the Transformation Challenge, they are given second-hand clothes in purple and brown (the judges’ least-favourite colours) and have to create garments that will convince them to change their minds! 💜🤎💜🤎

Finally, in the Made to Measure, the sewers must create an eye-catching outfit in just one colour! 🪡✂️🧵🪡✂️🧵

15/07/2026

If anyone has requested a copy of the drain bag pattern by email, please bear with us! I’m currently on holiday in Oban and have limited access to email so we will send it out as soon as possible

13/07/2026

We now have the amended pattern for the drain bags our lovely customers are making for The Christie in Macclesfield. Please email on [email protected] if you want us to send you the revised instructions! If you’ve already made some up to the old measurements, they can still be used. Thank you for your support!

08/07/2026

Thank you to our amazing customers!!

A huge heartfelt THANK YOU 💚 to the fabulous customers and staff at The Fent Shop Macclesfield for making drainage bags for patients at East Cheshire NHS Trust undergoing surgery for breast cancer. The breast care nurses alerted us to low availability so an appeal was put out to Rachel and Kate at The Fent Shop in Macclesfield. Their customers responded positively and we took delivery of the first batch from Shirley. Pictured here are Claire with Shirley. We are so grateful for this local support.

Drain bags (often called drain dollies) hold and conceal surgical fluid drains after breast procedures like mastectomies or reconstruction. These soft, lightweight pouches feature long straps to be worn cross-body or around the waist, keeping heavy tubes secure to prevent accidental pulling.These bags are widely used during the initial 1-2 weeks of recovery to make mobility and daily tasks easier.

💚💚THANK YOU 💚💚

08/07/2026

We had a super exciting delivery - a whole new range of beautifully soft and drapey bamboo jerseys! They are 150cm wide, £10.75 per metre.

01/07/2026

One of our customers just came in and cheered us up on this dreary day with this amazing appliqué waistcoat she made out of black needlecord and lots of bits of other material! Isn’t it absolutely beautiful!

01/07/2026

We’ve had an overwhelming response to our shout out for drain bags for the Christie in Macclesfield! Thank you to our lovely customers! A few bags have already been dropped at the Fent Shop for us to pass on. Feel free to drop your completed bags here at the shop or directly at the Christie in Macclesfield. We also had a few questions if there is a deadline - there is none!