Craft by Design

Stranded

Stranded

  Strand yarn was developed in the 1990s by Ruth Mary and Neville Beach in con­sulta­tion with the New Zea­l­and Wool Research Insti­tute as an embroid­ery yarn. They had been […]

Small indugences

Small indugences

Stressed-out con­sumers want to indulge in afford­able lux­ur­ies and seek ways to reward them­selves” — one of the 17 Trends from Faith Popcorn’s Brain­Re­serve. What does this quote and a […]

There’ll be bluebirds over…

There’ll be bluebirds over…

I remem­ber my Dad mak­ing one of those!” “We still have the one that Nana made 40 years ago as good as new!” “I won­der what happened to the flat one we made?” […]