Knitting lace patterns is both wonderful and can be difficult. Over the years I have gone from being scared of it, to being able to do it, to actually really enjoying to do it. And the difference is really in the tips I learned for how to make it easier and how to fix mistakes …
Making Tiny Unicorns
When I first started looking into making charms from Fimo, I admit the size of those tiny little things was a bit daunting. But making tiny unicorns – well who doesn’t want to do that?! I just had to try, and if it was too fiddly well at least I would have tried once in …
Decoupage
One of my favourite ways of bringing new life to an object is decoupage. A bit of glue and some carefully selected paper and you’ve got a brand new look! There are two kinds of decoupage, one called simply ‘decoupage’ (or découpage, if you’re feeling fancy) and the other ‘3D decoupage’. Both involve building up …
Stamped Sugar Cookies
The Craft Room had their stall at the Expat Expo, Basel – Did you visit us? If you passed us, hopefully you were able to grab one of Helen’s home made sugar cookies! The beauty of sugar cookies is that you can stamp them with images and they keep their shape once they’re baked. You …
Bullet journals
Bullet journals have been all over Pinterest for a while now and frankly I’ve never really thought much about them. I mean, it’s just writing lists right? I’ve always had notebooks and written lists. Lots of them – otherwise I would forget more things than I remember! Years ago when scrapbooking became an adult past-time …
Paper marbling
What with our pinterest party coming up on 18th February it was time to try out a few of those techniques we’ve been coveting on pinterest! Our aim here was to find out what kind of paper to use and what kind of printing methods are easiest and produce great results. Shaving Foam First up …
Photo transfer
The other day I was out shopping for some yarn for some project or other and – as you do when you wander aimlessly along the craft aisle, it just so happened I came across a pot of “Foto transfer potch”! This is something I’ve always wanted to try – I’ve seen those pieces of …
Vegetable Printing
When I was a child, one of my favourite activities was potato printing. I’m sure we’ve all done it – draw a design onto a potato, have a responsible adult carve it out and get messy with the poster paints! Now, I am the responsible (heh!) adult, printing is still an interest of mine and …
Buying Yarn
If you’re buying yarn for one of our classes, or just for yourself for a project, here’s everything you need to know about getting the right yarn. Yarn comes in many different colours, thicknesses and materials. If you have a specific project or pattern in mind it’s important to get something that matches the instructions, …
Sock Knitting
Sock knitting is widely thought of as the holy grail of knitting. Whenever I tell people that I can knit, the next question is very often “can you knit socks”? Definitely once you have socks under your belt then you can consider yourself an accomplished knitter. But is it really that hard? Well, not really …