HS.Hannah Stothard | Web Designer & Front End Web Developer

i love arty crafty things, making websites, interiors, travelling & growing my own veg.

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Renegade Craft Fair, London 2011

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This weekend I went to the Renegade Craft Fair on Brick Lane. It was their first ever London event and it was brilliant. Its one of the best craft fairs I have been to in a long time. Every single stool was full of really nice handmade things. All the crafts were modern and really reasonably priced. I had to hold back the temptation to spend lots of money.


Chalk signpost for the fair



Stools

There was a free felt making class courtsey of The Make Lounge. The Make Lounge do a variety of evening classes that I have always fancied doing. Hopefully one day I will get round to doing a real one :) It was my first attempt at felting and I quite enjoyed it although the little fox I made must have taken an hour in total. Felting involves jabbing a needle repeatedly into hair like material until it starts to matt together. You shape your creation by turning the matted felt and making some areas denser than others.

Stitch and Craft Show

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This weekend I visited the Stitch and Craft show at Olympia. I was hoping to find some wool for a throw and cushion I intend on making for my bedroom but the show seemed to be heavily dominated by cross stitching stools and there wasn’t a very wide selection of wools to pick from. It was worth attending and I quite liked the decopage stool pictured above,  but I would have liked to see more stools like this.