Past & Future Craft Exchange

Owner Jo Bell started the business as a program of Common Threads of Maine, a nonprofit professional sewing school. When the nonprofit closed in June of 2024, she decided to keep the store going as an independent business.

Located at 506 Main St in the Stockhouse Station buildling, Past + Future is an L3C - a business structure that is a hybrid between a nonprofit and an LLC. This model means that sustainability and giving back to the community is at the heart of everything they do