Creativity can be applied to everything if you try hard enough and this bright, Whirly Crochet Mandala proves just that! Made from one of our plain 30 cm Lampshade rings, Jenny Conduit, Editor of Crochet Now magazine, used her talent and knowledge for crochet to turn four fun coloured cotton yarns into this sunny crochet wall hanging - great for brightening up a blank wall space! Ideal for beginner or intermediate crocheters, you can download Jenny's FREE Crochet pattern bel

Make these lovely home-dyed napkins using plant and vegetable dye with Mollie Makes! Fantastic way to up-style your ottoman with Sugar and Cloth. Sophie Robinson suggests painting with happy colours on her 10 Ways to create a happy home post. 4. We love this DIY video tutorial by Sea lemon on cement planters you can easily make at home. Share this: Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Ope

How to make a paper flower mobile By Heart Handmade UK Plus 3 kits to giveaway! Why not bring the summer indoors with this fabulous paper flower mobile? Adorn your home with beautiful hand twisted wisteria, thanks to this week’s guest blogger Claire from Heart Handmade UK and her easy steps to make a paper flower mobile. Blogger and DIY craft tutorial extraordinaire Claire, provides high ROI DIY tutorials on her blog, projects you can make quickly and easily. Claire was the p

Exciting news! We have teamed up with Karen from Kettle of Fish Designs to bring you an inspiring post showing you how to make a lampshade and how to paint a lamp base. Knowing how to choose the right lampshade and base is no easy task so why not make the perfect combination for you? Kettle of Fish Designs create wonderfully artistic and stylish handmade lampshades drawing inspiration from museum cabinets, junk shops, urban decay, the beauty of nature, and the unusual and qui

As an Interior Designer, I am always keen to provide my clients with the perfect finishing touches to their scheme.  Whichever room in their home we are working on, ambient lighting can make all the difference to the look and feel.  This is where lamps come in and what better way to personalise them, than to have a bespoke lampshade. As well as being an Interior Designer, I am also a compulsive crafter.  I love making things! There is something particularly therapeutic about

How was yours? Are you full to the brim with festive cuisine, cracker jokes and a little too much sherry? Well I have something delightful for you to whisk you away momentarily into a world of creativity and innovation… On my search for all things ‘lampshade’ I recently found the most lovely invention by a paper artist called Rosalind Freeborn. I was quite blown away by her simple, interactive, arty and truly striking invention. Ros wanted to find a way to make her art availa

We have 30 tickets for Creativeworld, the world’s largest trade fair for craft, hobby and arts and crafts! 28th-31st January 2017 Enter here Be inspired in Frankfurt by over 300 international manufacturers from the creative world. Learn the latest trends and try them out in the workshops! Every year the world’s largest trade fair for hobby, arts and crafts inspires thousands of creatives around the world! This is the place to discover the latest innovations in the hobby and c

Stitched by you Sharing the love from our instagram- Clock kits Today we are bringing you a little instagram love right from our instagram page where our fab customers share their makes with us. The delightful clock above is made by Stitched by you who bought one of our easy clock kits and quickly whipped this beauty up by adding great fabric by Art Gallery Fabrics Art Gallery Fabrics Follow this link to buy your own clock kit and send us your images! http://www.stitchedbyyou

We love hearing from you about your most recent lampshade makes, It makes us soooo happy! These beauties are made by Dena Hellowell and we just love the mix of rich colour and cloth with plumage from feathered friends! Find Dena Hellowell here: Facebook Do you make lampshades? Want to share your makes with us?  Send us your images and we will show as many as we can 🙂 Share this: Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window

21-23 FEBRUARY 2016 Thousands of creative and crafty professionals are preparing to gather at this year’s CHSI Stitches 2016 trade show at Birmingham’s NEC. CHSI or Stitches is Europe’s largest trade show for craft, needlecraft, art and hobby. This is the place to discover new and exciting innovations in the craft industry, watch demonstrations, try new products and have your inspiration ignited by a wealth of creative know-how. We will! If you are a craft business wanting to

Learn how to make this beautiful hand stamped, paper lantern. Yay! It’s a guest blog post by the wonderfully creative and resourceful Kat from Here and Far… Kat runs the shop Here and Far in Tavistock, Devon selling handmade products purchased on a fair trade basis, sourcing her stock either locally or from overseas craftspeople. After spotting Kat’s wonderful handmade skills using a printing block, paper tissue and a Needcraft lantern kit over on Instagram I just had to get

Isn’t this gorgeous? Hand stamped onto tissue paper and made into a lantern- Bingo! Here and Far is a small business run by friends Kat and Natasha. Started as a market stall and online shop in 2011 by Kat, after one too many Christmas markets in 2012 she decided it was time to open a ‘proper shop’. In March 2013 we opened our doors to customers in Paddons Row, Tavistock, Devon. As we outgrew our small shop, we made the decision to move to larger premises in Market Street, Ta

The Lampshade Loft If you would like to learn how to make a lampshade, come along and join a lampshade making workshop – I teach in various venues, or you can come to my home or I can come to yours – and learn all the skills you will need to go on to make many more shades – from contemporary drums to traditional hand sewn lampshades! – no previous experience needed! The Lampshade Making workshops booked for 2016 include: Clothkits – Chichester, West Sussex www.clothkits.co.uk

Our fab new team member Sam Sterken showed the world at large how to use our Needcraft handmade lampshade making kits live on Hochanda TV a few weeks ago! Watch her next on 10th December and read on to find out what the experience was like for her. It’s interesting how something can have an impact on you and if I say that I’m working with Needcraft demonstrating their brilliant lampshades making kits on Hochanda TV, because of the The Great British Bake Off, you’d be right to

Sam Sterkin and Needcraft’s director David Little We are one week in with our wonderful new lampshade crafter and TV presenter Sam Sterken and we’re feeling pretty chuffed! Don’t miss our next live show on 10th December! As most of you will know we recently did a shout-out on our social media looking for an expert crafter and lampshade maker who could be the face of Needcraft on Hochanda TV. We were looking for someone really special to share our lampshade know-how on the new

Handmade Lampshades – Natalia Price-Cabrera This book was launched  in October 2015  and we have grabbed some copies direct from the publisher, available to YOU at cost price! Why? Because this is a great book that will help you make lampshades! Buy from us cost price for £9.99 If you want to take a look inside the book click on the link below and this will take you to the Amazon page where you can look inside. Remember to come back to us for your discounted price! This book

It’s really exciting! Watch Needcraft lampshade tutorials today, live at 12 midday, 4pm & 7pm here and tell us what you think! The wonderful Sam Sterkin, founder of the Ministry of Craft, demonstrates how to use our fantastic Needcraft lampshade kits. #HochandaTV #Needcraft #lampshades #create #creative #Needcraftlampshadekits #Needcraftlampshadetutorials #lampshadedesign #SamSterkin #handmade #craft #lampshade

I just had to share this wonderful lampshade love story with you all! This is the most touching, heart-warming, love story I have ever seen… about a lampshade! It’s a beautifully created video by Lost Wax showing his tender restoration of an abandoned lampshade, restored to steampunk health! I wasn’t planning to change the world that day but I think for one lampshade I did. Lost Wax has created an easy to follow tutorial on how to make his steampunk lampshade: *One Caveat: Re

Introducing colour in lampshades. A brand new idea from Little Peg Lamps. Katie Dixon, the founder of little Peg Lamps has created the perfect solution for insomnia. A bedside lampshade you can while away those sleep deprived hours colouring in!  Katie makes completely unique, hand sewn lampshades and this is her latest inspired creation. I have thoroughly enjoyed creating my ‘colour in’ shade collection and I hope that you will relish and release your creative side by colour

Deryn Relph Do you make beautiful handmade craft and want to take it to the next level? Do you want to start selling your precious handmade goods? Get them into the big wide world of retail and start making an income from your hard work? Selling your wares through established online marketplaces is one of the easiest and cheapest ways to get your product out there, generate sales and increase your profile. You can reach potential customers worldwide without having to worry ab