Not only has she been putting together the woolly welcome for the upcoming addition to the Royal family with the pattern for Knit Your Own Royal Baby (available as a free download from the Ivy site) but our chief knitter Fiona Goble has also [...]
Category Archives: Crafts & Hobbies
May 03, 2013
Whittling by Steve Tomashek in Living Woods Magazine
“The prospect of learning by carving in the bath with a bar of soap is very appealing, and there’s a lot of sense in giving a child a carrot and a potato peeler to produce a rabbit.” Living Woods Magazine Author and carver Steve Tomashek [...]
Nov 15, 2012
Happy Halloween! Knitting project from Knit Your Own Zombie
Some of you committed knitting fans out there may have seen the new Fiona Goble sensation Knit Your Own Zombie out and about in a few knitting magazines recently. The book has proved really popular, with everyone wanting to knit the 8 gruesome characters [...]
Oct 30, 2012
Midsummer Midges and Beaded Bugs
It’s Midsummer’s Day and, predictably, there is nothing remotely summery about today’s weather in Lewes. But, luckily for the Scandinavians, their weather is much better today. And so it should be because today their midsummer celebrations get in to full swing. The tradition [...]
Jun 21, 2012
Lovely Jubilee – Knit Your Own Royal Family!
Nice to see that members of the WI have been busy knitting away to mark the occasion of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and good to know that Knit Your Own Royal Wedding has come in handy for the task! The ladies of the [...]
Jun 01, 2012
Love London? Love Paper?
As Jubilee and Olympic fever hits the country, what better way to celebrate than by building your own miniature version of the city at the centre of it all! You can build everything from Big Ben to the iconic red Telephone Box. As an [...]
May 29, 2012
Steampunk Art at Brighton’s Fringe
The Artists Open Houses is perhaps the most colourful and entertaining (it’s fun to peek at other people’s houses) display of local art, taking place during Brighton’s Fringe Festival. Artists of all ages, experience and medium, open their houses to the public and exhibit [...]
May 16, 2012
Talking Steampunk Accessories at Brighton’s Steampunk Hidden Market
Its only a few months to go now until the publication of Steampunk Accessories but Ive been looking forward to it since I went along to the photoshoot way back in November. Whilst Im not what you could call a steampunk enthusiast I was [...]
Feb 23, 2012
Seeing stars? – Check out these cute zodiac inspired felties…
Zodiac Felties landed on our desks in the office recently and charmed us all. So much so, that a member of our intrepid foreign rights sales team (she’s in snowy Milan at this very moment) tried her hand at several of the projects. They turned [...]
Feb 07, 2012
Projects from Sweat Shop The Book in Popular Crafts Magazine
Ivy Press team up with Popular Crafts magazine to bring you spring sewing inspiration with project patterns from The Sweat Shop Book. The Sweat Shop Book embodies the ‘less buying – more trying!’ spirit of the original Sweat Shop Sewing Cafe in Paris, with an an eclectic [...]
Jan 31, 2012
Knitivity at Liberty
If you’re near London’s Regent Street tomorrow, you may see our knitting queen, Fiona Goble, who will be in Liberty’s Christmas Shop from noon-3.00pm to chat, knit and sign copies of ‘Twas The Knits Before Christmas as well as her other seasonal knitting titles. [...]
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