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Crochet is an exciting craft you can use to make coasters, fashionable handbags, a place mat or trendy belt! At Homecrafts we love exploring crochet and developing traditional skills, letting our imagination run wild!
Over the last few years knitting has seen a huge rise in popularity with everyone from celebrities to underground commuters having a go. More recently though knitting has taken an exciting new direction in the form of ‘yarnstorming’ or ‘guerilla knitting’ – where passionate knitters decorate public places with woolly wonders. The intention of such [...]
On Sunday the 25th of March I visited Sock – ‘A celebration of quality Artists and Makers. An arts and crafts purchase and commission fair’. I had a fab time exploring the array of different stalls and trying to convince myself not to purchase everything in sight! The great thing about craft fairs is that you [...]
Everyone at Homecrafts has been saddened and outraged by the acts of mindless violence and thuggery in the streets of Britain this week. Kaja Marie Lereng Kvernbakken has created a heart pattern for London and they are available for free to all budding knitters on the Ravelry (a free website for knitters, crocheters and other [...]
