About

A SHORT HISTORY OF f&b SO FAR…

Hi, I'm Sarah and I’m the owner, designer and maker at fripperies & bibelots. My main background is in silversmithing and jewellery, making wedding rings, tiaras and bridal jewellery in which I had a small business for a while but found hard to run alongside my other job as a full-time teacher. I'm a huge knitting and crochet  fan and general arts and crafts lover.

 After I got my silversmithing and jewellery degree I took a PGCE in Art and Design but ended up teaching happily in the primary education sector for seven years before having my first baby boy in 2004.  I enjoyed being able to spend time at home bringing up baby and began knitting again.

I opened the shop on Etsy at the end of July 2009. It started slowly, then about nine months later I started a group on Ravelry and paid for some advertising with them, a Twitter account and Facebook group for f&b and I started to get a following and lots of lovely loyal customers.  I ran Mystery Stitch Marker clubs and I started making my popular ringOs in January 2011 and they are, by far, my best seller and I love making them. I then started selling my goodies wholesale to knitting shops.  I have a core line of dangly type stitch markers and other knitting accessories such as my Stitch Safe mini crochet hooks and Simple Solid Rings and I run  a very popular mystery Club ringO every few months.

Fast forward to 2017. I decided to leave Etsy and open my own new web shop.  Etsy made some forced changes to their shop system and I decided it would be a good opportunity to take the leap and venture out on my own, so here I am, enjoy browsing and do keep up to date either via my MailChimp newsletter, Facebook, instagram or Ravelry.