Craftydermy: the new taxidermy, obvs.

Knit a fox stole, crochet a sheep head and paper mache some antlers. Why? Why the hell not.

This wonderful book is published by Cicada, and available to buy now.

Your next craft book.

Another cracking book from Quadrille Craft.

There’s more over at Hannah’s new website, girlsnightinbook.com.

Look what book I have in my hands…

THIS is your next craft book.

You Are Awesome: 21 crafts to make you happy, by Abbey Hendrickson (Circada Books)

I like being happy.

I like craft.

Ergo, I love this book.

You wanna be in a book?

You TOTALLY can. Support Sarah Corbett, the super-awesome craftivist, with just $15 and your name could be in the back of her first book, The Little Book of Craftivism. A perfect Christmas present, right? Visit Indigogo.com for deets.

ps. Please do ignore the static image of me in the video on the site. NOT A GOOD LOOK.

XXL cross stitch.

Because cross stitch is great, but sometimes it’s SO frickin’ slow to do.

Luckily, this book by Jacqui Pearce (the lady behind Pearl and Earl and a shed load of other things) is published tomorrow.

 

Just Sew Stories, by Katie Allen (aka your next craft book)

Buy this. Katie is AWESOME.

Glitter, glitter everywhere.

You’d expect nothing less from Momtaz, author of the Craft Cafe blog, founder of the Hackney Make Escape and now author of 101+ Things To Do With Glitter.

It was her book launch last night, and there were many glitter-based things to be made (including a frame for this lovely snap if me and fellow Knit The City crew member, Deadly Knitshade). Here are the snaps…

122 is the magic number.

And it’s the number of people quoted in one form or another in my forthcoming craft book, Material World.

I think I’ve surprised myself at how many that is.

Look what landed on my desk this morning …