This book chapter draws on research from two projects: Making with My Mother: a qualitative research study, and S4S: Designing a Sensibility for Sustainable Clothing, where participants work with textiles in creative, collaborative ways. Looking through the lens of feminism, material culture and affect, reveals how these experiential making processes locate care rather than competition at the centre of social relations as participants attune to others and alternative agencies, values, and ways of being-in-the-world.