05 Mar 7 Popular Craft Trends To Watch for in 2025
Are you ready to discover the most popular craft trends for 2025? Stitchcraft Marketing is back with an insightful overview of the hottest crafting trends inspiring makers and artists this year.
We like to remind readers that while you might not see your favorite trend on this list, that doesn’t mean it’s gone away. Crafts like punch needling and tufting, terrazzo and resin, embroidered and/or quilted clothing, and granny square crochet projects continue to attract crafters. You can check out our 2024-2025 Craft Trends Report for Craft Marketers, 7 Hot Crafting Trends in 2024, and 7 Hot Crafting Trends in 2023 for inspiration and insight into trends that remain popular.
This year’s trends include a few holdovers from recent years that we have included because they show no signs of loosening their grip on crafters’ imaginations. Of note, reigning trends like visible mending and personalized crafts and kits return to our list for 2025. Consider the possibilities for your business with recurring trends. Their steadfast popularity points to products with fail-safe potential!
The first 3 of our featured trends inhabit one overall craft trend that businesses shouldn’t ignore: eco-friendly crafting.
Upcycled Sewing
Clockwise starting top left: @recycledsewingstudio, @peek.made, @sewing.rachel, @_kellydempsey_, @selina_sanders
The upcycled sewing trend exemplifies crafters’ desires to engage in sustainability and mindful crafting with the use of recycled materials. It also points to a growing consumer trend amid rising costs and a stagnating economy: thriftiness. Sewists are turning to second-hand shops and thrift stores to source materials they can repurpose into garments and accessories.
From turning silk scarves into a jacket (@recycledsewingstudio) to repurposing a thrifted cotton duvet cover into a set of pajamas (@sewing.rachel) to coordinating antique tea towels for a sewn shacket (@selina_sanders), the upcycled sewing trend relies on sewist’s imaginations and willingness to reenvision gently used materials as new garments and accessories.
Quilt and sewing retailers should consider how they can participate in the trend with classes and community events. Rather than focus on selling new fabric, invest in classes that teach sewists how to repurpose common thrift store items into new garments, like turning a tablecloth into a vest (@peek.made).
Decorative Mending – Across All Crafts
(Clockwise starting top left: @metastruycken, Ani Kasten, @visible_creative_mending, @alexonver)
Visible mending has trended for several years now, but its popularity was mostly relegated to the realm of knitting, sewing, and embroidery. It remains popular in those spaces, and continues the focus on sustainability, with crafters opting to mend worn items rather than toss them out.
However, we’re now seeing visible mending creep into other craft spaces. Artistic pursuits like kintsugi, the Japanese art of mending cracked pottery and ceramics with lacquer and gold dust, join the visible mending trend. Pottery studios are now beginning to include kintsugi classes to teach ceramicists how to repair broken pottery with the technique.
It isn’t even right to call it visible mending anymore. The trend has evolved into decorative mending, a focused practice for transforming well-loved items into uniquely beautiful pieces.
The month of March celebrates the art of visible mending. According to @visiblemend on Instagram, #MendMarch25 is “a party where we all mend to the word of the day and share.” The event includes all crafters, whether you knit, crochet, weave, quilt, sew, or make pottery or ceramics.
Maximizing Scraps
(Clockwise starting top left: @laurispringer, @amyyounggunderson, @bluebellhillcrafts, @launshae, Arrika Wright)
The maximizing scraps trend rounds out our eco-friendly crafting focus. Knitters, crocheters, sewists, and quilters are all opting to make use of their scraps rather than let them languish in their stash.
With this trend, quilters and sewists are using the tiniest pieces of fabric in a technique called “crumb quilting,” which sews scraps together to create a single fabric with greater yardage. @launshae turned her stash of fabrics into a single fabric that she then sewed into a top. @laurispringer saves almost all of her scraps; when she has enough, she quilts them into items like scrap quilts and bags, and saves the smallest pieces for coasters (shown above). Knitwear designers like Amy Gunderson are turning sock scraps into multicolor striped cardigans (shown above). Crochet designer Arrika Wright released a blanket pattern that features scrap yarns of all gauges.
This trend offers businesses another opportunity to create educational offerings or communal experiences around scrap use. Our quilt shop client Thimbles just offered a class on Improvisational Piecing that leans into the trend.
Watercolor painting
(Clockwise starting top left: @lil.and.e, @februaryrosedesigns, @liziphoenix, @artandkristin, spicingcolours, @andrea.nelson.art)
Watercolor painting has exploded on TikTok. The technique is beginner-friendly, which might be one reason why Gen Z and Gen Y makers are pushing this trend. Watercolor paints are also fast-drying, inexpensive, and portable (they dry quickly in the pan and reactivate with water).
The fluidity of the watercolor medium invites experimentation. Watercolor designs don’t need to be as exact, so the technique doesn’t just hide imperfections, it upholds them. Many of the most popular watercolor videos on TikTok feature floral or geometric designs. This is another TikTok trend that leans into the communal paint party trend, as we saw with candle painting in 2024.
Colorwork & Textured Knits
(Clockwise starting top left: Pom Pom Winter/Spring 2025, Andrea Mowry, Inside Crochet, Crochet Foundry Magazine, Melanie Berg)
Right now in the knit and crochet worlds, colorwork and textured knits reign supreme. Pom Pom Publication’s Winter/Spring 2025 issue is awash in all-over colorwork designs and colorwork yoke sweaters. Cables, lace, ribbing, and embroidered details can also be found throughout the colorful, heavily textured collection. The featured yarn was made for highlighting texture, composed of a tubular cotton containing blown alpaca fibers.
Texture is everywhere this season, and it’s often seen alongside multiple colors. Knitwear designers like Andrea Mowry and Melanie Berg have used multiple colors to highlight textural stitch patterns. In her Moon Mint Pullover, Mowry utilizes a slip stitch pattern and two colors to create a faux plaid; Berg’s Accidentally in Love Shawl features 3 red hues and slip stitches to create a honeycomb pattern effect. Of the 18 patterns in the January issue of Inside Crochet, a whopping 15 feature colorwork! Crochet Foundry Magazine’s February issue included the Chained Love Pullover, with a radiating textured design, as well as several textured shawls and accessories. Crochet Foundry’s January issue was all about color blocking and bright pops of color, leaning into the colorwork trend.
As a yarn shop, consider whether you can create a community event around a knit along or crochet along featuring some of the new textured, colorwork designs currently trending (we have a great post about How to Host a Make Along if you need help!). The colorwork aspect should make it easy to create unique, customized kits, which brings us to our next trend…
Craft Kits
(Clockwise from top left: Kiriki Press, Little Red Mitten, Hawthorne Handmade, Brown Sheep Company, The Woobles)
We said it last year and we’re saying it again: craft kits are in! If you haven’t created kits for your retail business, now is the time. You can engage with small businesses that already offer kits or create unique kits that feature your products and patterns.
We’re living in the age of the multicraftual crafter. Embroiderers want to learn how to felt; knitters want to learn how to quilt, quilters want to learn how to crochet. Kits provide approachable entry points for creatives to try other crafts. Most craft kits contain everything a crafter needs to make a single item, and many focus on the beginner audience. It’s incredibly easy for even the most intimidated crafter to pick up an unfamiliar craft via a unique kit and feel comfortable launching a new hobby. Consider craft kits as another way to create new crafters!
The Woobles started in 2020 with $20 and have grown into a crochet kit business worth hundreds of millions of dollars. They’re now in the top 20 on the Inc. 5000 list, having enjoyed a three-year growth rate of 10,400 percent. The Woobles only sells kits. Need we say more?
Glass Painting & Stained Glass
Clockwise from top left: @foxgloveandpoppy (IG), @nhonsworld (TT), @marley.makes.things (TT), @rbygarbear (TT)
It seems TikTokers really love painting! Our other hot TikTok trend is glass painting. Whether it’s a drinking glass, vase, or plane of glass, glass painting is very in right now.
There are two different but related types of this trend. Some crafters are using acrylic glass paint to paint plain drinking glasses, mugs, vases, and other glass containers. This could technically be seen as another upcycling trend as crafters often turn to vintage glass pieces found in thrift shops.
The other glass painting trend attempts to duplicate the effect of stained glass. Using black Sharpies or black gallery glass liquid leading paint to create the bold outlines, crafters place a simple design under panes of glass and trace the outlines, then fill them in with color. Because of the ability to trace any design, the results are often highly sophisticated, regardless of the crafters’ experience. Most of the designs we’ve seen on TikTok are focused on anime characters, with some floral designs sprinkled throughout.
Do you need help incorporating 2025’s hot crafting trends into your marketing strategy? Stitchcraft Marketing is a marketing agency of crafting experts. We customize every program to showcase your brand, engage your customer base, and generate sales in a way that is nothing less than magical. If you’d like to work with us, contact us today to get started!
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