SPRING SWAPS ANNOUNCED!! Save the Dates!! 🎉🎉🎉

Fall Craft Supply Swap

Livingston, MT

2026 Fall Craft Supply Swap - date and location TBA! - Livingston 💖

See below for Fall 2025 info!

Thank you to all who made the 2025 fall Craft Supply Swap possible!! The Swap is a community event in every sense, especially because this event would not be possible without everyone who jumped in to do so many little and big things!! Thank you especially to: Old Lumberyard, Creative Reuse Montana, LINKS for Learning, Studio Wheelhouse, MSU Park County Extension, Glenn's Shopping Center, Crazy's, Wildflour Bakery and Cafe, Echo Hill Bakery, Emily Yost, and Livingston-Park County Library!!! See more on Facebook and Instagram 💖💖💖

Connecting our community of artists, crafters, and makers with unused supplies.

Do you have stashes of art and craft supplies from past interests that go unused? Have you moved on to a new muse? Here’s your opportunity to try something new and trade materials with a community who will use them!

What is This?! 🧑‍🎨

We will accept almost any art or craft supply. Donated items should be in good, usable condition. Drop them off and then go "shopping" from what others have brought. We will sort and arrange all the materials into a second-hand craft supply extravaganza.

Open to all.
All items are free.
You do not have to bring supplies to participate in the Swap. Swappers do get to shop first.
Please join us in the spirit of this event: to get materials into the hands of people who will use them, saving money and waste - no stashing.
Items not taken by swappers will be donated, saved for the next swap, or recycled! (Request Supplies)
Read more in a recent Park County Community Journal article about us!

How it Works ✅

Early Drop-offs: October 2025

Drop off your new or gently used supplies early or on Swap Day. We have locations around our community so you only need to make one trip to Livingston for the swap. Add your name to a list of swappers when you drop off supplies to get early entry on Swap Day.

Clyde Park - TWO OPTIONS!!
- Glenn's Shopping Center - CLOSED 🎉 Thanks, Glenn's!
- Crazy's - CLOSED 🎉 Thanks, Crazy's!
Big Timber at Carnegie Public Library - CLOSED 🎉 Thanks, Carnegie Public Library!
Emigrant at Wildlfour Bakery - CLOSED 🎉 Thanks, Wildflour!
Gardiner - CLOSED 🎉 Thanks, volunteer!
Livingston at Old Lumberyard - CLOSED - see you SWAP DAY!! 🎉
Bozeman at Studio Wheelhouse - CLOSED 🎉 Thanks, Studio Wheelhouse!

As a courtesy to our drop-off locations other than the Old Lumberyard, please give us a heads up if you are leaving more than 3 boxes. We will pick them up early and keep space open for these awesome locations! 📦📦📦

Swap Day: Saturday, October 25, 2025

Old Lumberyard (122 North F Street, Livingston, MT 59047)

- 11am-12pm - Swap Day drop-offs
- 12-1pm - "shopping" open to swappers
- 1-3:30pm - "shopping" open to all
- 3-4pm - "shopping" open to programs and groups - send your volunteers and staff to "shop" for free supplies for your programs!

Besides craft supplies you will also find:

- a break area with drinks and seating to rest up and get back in there
- opportunities to connect with supplies, tools, classes (you dream it up!)
- Museum of Unfinished Projects ✨ Your unfinished projects are invited to be lovingly cataloged, displayed, and offered to folks who can finish them.

Questions? 💁

Contact craftsupplyswap@gmail.com

Suggested Materials 🎨

This swap is about usable crafting and art making materials and supplies. Bring clean, new or gently used craft supplies donations including:

Fabric & Sewing: fabric (fat quarter+), sewing notions, thread, trim/binding, zippers, buttons, quilting/sewing, machines. Leave your cut up t-shirts, stuffing from your sofa, old pillows, or clothing at home.

Fiber & Needlework: yarn, knitting needles, crochet hooks, stitch counters, thread, patterns, kits, counted cross stitch, embroidery supplies, hoops, floss

Drawing & Paint: inks, pencils, paints, brushes (clean), graphite, pastels, erasers, chalks, charcoals, markers

Canvas & Paper: canvas, watercolor paper, drawing paper, scratch boards, panels, sketchbooks, construction paper, newsprint

Beads & Jewelry: Beads & beading supplies, jewelry making supplies and tools

Crafts & Hobbies: containers of all sorts, artificial flowers, foam, felt, scrapbooking supplies, card-making supplies, rubber stamps, usable ink pads, embossing tools/heat tools, useable children’s crafts (kits or supplies), decorative containers/baskets for floral arrangements, small wood cutouts (unpainted), craft foam sheets or shapes, stencils, leather and leather scraps, bookmaking supplies

Tools (in clean, working order): scissors, glue guns, soldering irons, craft knives, hole punches, easels, photo equipment, pottery tools, rulers

Frames: Picture frames (empty), shadow boxes, framing supplies

Books & Patterns: art/craft instruction books, art/craft magazines, patterns, and store bought crafting kits, instructional craft books and pattern books, clothing, doll clothing, home décor

General Supplies: glue, tape, butcher paper, sandpaper, cotton swabs, toothpicks, popsicle sticks, google eye

Clay: clay, clay tools or equipment

Museum of Unfinished Projects: Your unfinished projects are invited to be lovingly cataloged, displayed, and offered to folks who want to finish them. Leave info with the project if you're okay with being contacted by the person who takes it home and want to see progress.

Prepare Your Donation - Things to Know ⚠️

Please be sure to:

pack sharps in a labeled, hard-sided container
bring items in containers we can keep
organize your items with like items
pack your donation in boxes, totes, or bags that we can keep
extra bonus: measure, fold, and label fabric

Leave these items at home:

items NOT in usable & sanitary condition. Examples: moldy, dirty, or smelly, smoke-damaged, insect-damaged (wool/yarn with visible moth damage), in bad condition, or mothballed 🙂
items that cannot be used immediately and without rehabilitation as a crafting material, supply, or tool).
dirty or broken items
sheets, drapes, fabric samples
fabric with pins (ouch!)
anything that held food, medication, or hazardous material