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Easy Aida Band Bracelet

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Susan Penny shows you how to make this pretty cross stitched ice cream bracelet with simple chart and instructions, first choose your...
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Take a wander round our blog and check out all our stitching, knitting and craft ideas. You can cross stitch a teddy or knit a cute cup cake. You'll find plenty of home and craft ideas to keep you busy - ideal if you have to stay at home.

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Christmas

Recycled Christmas Crackers

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Susan Penny shows you how to turn some scraps into miniature crackers If your drawers are full of brown paper grocery bags, then this Christmas...
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Christmas

Drumming up a knitted Christmas

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Susan Penny shows you how to make these simple knitted Christmas drum decorations. These delightful knitted drums were inspired by the Christmas rhyme ‘On the...
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Food & Drink

Margarine for the quintessential 60s housewife

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  Susan Penny reflects on her childhood baking experiences My first ever sponge cake was made for a Stork margarine/ MacDougall’s flour baking competition at school....
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Christmas

Editor’s Weekend Tip No 1

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Susan Penny picks up some cones and a bargain With the weather forecast looking good this weekend, now might be a good time to take...
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Christmas

Stitch Papercut Hearts

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When I visited Odense in Denmark a few years ago, I was inspired by the wonderful papercuts by the writer Hans Christian Anderson. It...
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candy canes

Christmas Candy Canes

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Every year, when the first striped, sugary candy canes appear in the shops, I think of Christmases past. Fun filled times spent in New...
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Knitting

Knit for Victory

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  Knit for Victory is a non-competitive vintage knitting challenge, which started on November 4th, and runs through until January 31st, 2014. You can make anything you...
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Newbie Denman tutor Joanna Heptinstall joins Mary Berry, Linda Barker and May Martin at WI HQ

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You know how autumn has that tingling anticipation? New term, new school shoes, new timetable… As October approached, I was ticking off days before...
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