Craft Rocks

Milward punch needles

Jo Burgess reviews two types of punch needles from Milward. Whether you want traditional wooden or more modern plastic punch needles, we’ve got the information you need!

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Cloth Doll Faces Ray Slater

Cloth Doll Faces by Ray Slater

Ray Slater is an internationally known doll maker, and in this book she generously shares all of her secrets about how to create fabulous faces in cloth. It covers a huge selection of advice to bring your home sewn dolls to life with amazing personalities.

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Craft Rocks Radiohead

Interview with Bad Grandma Stitches

Alex Knoll, AKA Bad Grandma Stitches is the artist featured in this Craft Rocks issue. We see links here between Embroidery and music album clovers. The potential of cross stitch to shade and develop a picture can be clearly observed.

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Romy’s Creations threads

Welcome to another Tooled Up column where we aim to give you reviews of fun products from all over the crafty world. Today we review some Italian hand dyed threads by Romy’s Creations.

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Fun upcycle – from pillow to pencil!

Jo Burgess explains in her column Craft Rocks how we can make a really personal gift for a friend in the form of recycling, using a pillow case in a quilting project. The technique of paper piecing is explored in order to create this great quilting art gift.

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Craft Rocks: Interview with Careless Stitcher

In this issue of Craft Rocks, Jo Burgess gives us the details on Liselot – aka Careless Stitcher. Currently this artist lives in the Netherlands. It was love at first sight as she combines cross stitch brilliance with all things rock. Within this column, read all about her textile art and hobbies.

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PONY black needles

PONY needles

Welcome to another Tooled Up column where we aim to give you reviews of fun products from all over the crafty world. Today we review

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