Stuck inside? Crafty ways to keep boredom at bay
When it’s cold and wet outside, it’s the perfect time to get making and crafting. We’ve got some excellent projects to keep all you creative types busy over the winter months.
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Winter is coming: are you prepared?
Well the weather’s been a real mixed bag of late – balmy sun one day, freezing rain the next – it’s jolly hard to know how to dress to meet the day at this time of year! Don’t worry though, we’ve got you covered
Knitting for Blokes, with Mike Dickison
Knitting for Blokes, 7pm, Thursdays from 3 October, Christchurch
Christchurch men, your chance to master knitting is here! Man knitter, ukulele player and bird expert, the deftly dexterous Mike Dickison is in town and running knitting classes just for guys at The Make Café in Riccarton. Learn to wrangle needles and yarn, and maybe even qualify for a place in the League of Knitting Gentlemen! Knit a dishcloth, hats, scarves, a iPhone sock, and also learn the secret of making cable needles out of No. 8 wire.
Featured seller: Honeycakes
Lisa Craig, the talented brains behind Honeycakes original knitting patterns, has had a passion for yarn right from her childhood. “Ever since I was a child I have knitted. I grew up playing with buttons, trims, ribbons and yarn. Once I started knitting I never stopped making and creating…”
Colour me knitty
Colour me knitty: Felt takes a look at the spin doctors…
Future’s so bright I gotta wear shades…
When it comes to colour fashion, New Zealand is in an odd position – that position being, well, the southern hemisphere. What’s odd about living on the flip side, you say? Well, it has to do with the mysterious art of colour forecasting – and living neither in the future nor in the past…