You might remember being a child and trying out marbling, dripping brightly coloured ink to float in a dish of water before gently lowering your paper onto the surface… the moment of peeling back the slightly soggy paper to reveal your masterpiece! However, now it appears that marbling has been elevated to haute couture with the likes of [...]
Fashion & Textiles
Fashion & Textile crafts is a diverse and wonderful hobby to enjoy. From hat making and sewing, to fabric screen printing and painting, the opportunities are endless. Feed your creativity with inspiration from the Homecrafts team.
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 [...]
Summer is on the way, so bring a little life to the walls with some fresh summery tones. I really enjoyed creating these simple dinosaur wall hangings. I used two different techniques framed within the embroidery hoops, three cross stitched and three screen printed. Although all of the designs are relatively simplistic, [...]
Traditionally Kanzashi were hair ornaments which were used in Japanese hairstyles. Nowadays the term “kanzashi” is applied to flowers made of folded cloth or to the technique to make these flowers. The Kanzashi Flower Maker contains a little plastic template and full instructions on how to make these delicate cloth flowers. Along with the template [...]
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 [...]
