10 Tips For Needle Felting
Needle felting is a fun and rewarding craft. You can make beautiful creations in all shapes and sizes. I have put together a few tips to help you along your journey and to keep it interesting! 1: To Start off a small round shape rub the roving between the palms of...
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Fabric Offers For Mask Makers: Cottons from €6.75/m
We've been busy, busy cutting lots of fabric today for our lovely sewers! We know many of you are making masks for family, friends, and those vulnerable around you - thanks so much for your kindness! In all our orders for fabric, we have been giving away fabric and...
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40% OFF Autentico Furniture Paint
Our Autentico Vintage furniture chalk paint is now on clearance at 40% OFF! If you're in the mood to upcycle some furniture or want to delve into the art of shabby-chic, now is your time! Here are the colours we have in stock. A red dot means we've 100ml pots in...
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Time to Craft
Less Craft, More Admin: Never Enough Time To Get Our Craft On! Our little slice of crafty heaven has recently started selling online. It doesn’t seem that long ago that we opened the doors for the first time in Ballyconnell, Co. Cavan. And here we are opening our...
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Christmas Hampers, Kits and Crafty Gifts
Hampers We have some fabulous hampers for you choose from but if you have a special someone in mind come on in and we can customise a beautiful hamper for all tastes, budgets and crafts! Crafty Kits For kids young and old we have lovely collections of goodies...
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Put a wreath on it!
We love a good wreath here at the craft cabin. Whether it is natural and hessian or shiny and bright. Today I am going to share with you how we made our latest wreath. This combines natural texture with gentle hessian and spark of colour with fabric. This is such an...
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Yarn & Fabric Sale
We're clearing the way for new stock and making space - please help! Pop down to our yarn & fabric sale from Thursday 3rd to Saturday 5th October and pick up lots of great deals! We'll also be selling a limited amount of stock that can be posted out, so if you can't...
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Top 5 Crafts for Arthritis
Being diagnosed with osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, gout, or fibromyalgia can be a very distressing experience, particularly when your enjoyment of life is so tied to your hand and how you use them. Crafting can be such an intrinsic part of our lives that when...
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Top 6 Book Inspired Kids Crafts
Crafting and reading are the perfect combination for a child's imagination and a great way to get kids to read when they are making amazing things like wands and shields! Here are my top 6 book inspired crafts for kids and if you thing their are any I missed feel free...
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Great Craft Challenge – Mini Notice Boards
1: Begin by stamping your fabric. I used normal acrylic paint in "Forest Green" here since this won't be washed but you can use fabric paint. Using a dry brush lightly coat your stamp. Do this every-time you make a new impression. 2: Cut...
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The Great Craft Challenge – Mixed Media Frame
Tip: When cutting foam tape, use a craft knife. It is much easier than scissors and it doesn't gum up the edges. Tip: When measuring the frame, measure the inside or your pieces might be too big and stop the back going on. 1: Paint your...
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The Great Craft Challenge -Mixed Media Heart
Ok, it might not be "great" but it sure was a lot of fun! Taragh rounded up a table of random crafty goodies and some of our fabulous new stock and Taragh, Julie and Kris were sent forth to create. We each had an hour and a half. Here are our results. Taragh: I am so...
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