Craft Focus - Jun/Jul (Issue 67)

56 craft focus little extras little extras Boost your profits with these lower-cost ideas, retailing at £15 or less Mini Makes New from Pavilion Books, Makes for Mini Folk is a stylish craft guide that invites parents, grandparents or friends to make a host of gorgeous gifts for small children. Projects include easy clothes, dressing-up essentials, toys and playtime ideas. There’s a gorgeous mobile and a practical bib for babies, while toddlers and children will love the baggy trousers and overalls. Other items include a lunch bag, hobby horse, tepee and even a pop-up shop. The focus is on simple sewing techniques, but there’s also some cardboard makes too, and Lisa Stickley’s signature style ensures that each item is quirky and original. Lisa has previously produced work for Paul Smith and Designers Guild. The book retails at £14.99. +44 (0)20 7462 1500 pavilionbooks.com Pins & needles Part of the natural world range by The Fei Collection, these needlepoint pincushion kits include plain interlock canvas, English Appletons wool, a tapestry needle, chart, full instructions, backing material and stuffing. Available as a bumblebee, ladybird or tortoiseshell butterfly, each design can be made up into a pincushion or framed as a pretty picture. Kits are priced at £14.50 each. +44 (0)1594 516 771 feicollection.co.uk Simple stitches Mouseloft has recently added four exciting on-trend designs to its Stitchlets range of small counted cross stitch kits. The complete sets retail at just £2.39, making them an ideal pick-up purchase. Aimed at teenagers, the new kits feature a unicorn, donkey, tractor and mermaid, each of which fits into a three-fold aperture card or a 2.5 inch woodgrain flexihoop, also produced by Mouseloft. There are 85 images in all, including penguins, owls, sheep, bees, donkeys, teddies, cars and campervans. Point of sale display boxes are also available. +44 (0)1477 533 566 mouseloft.co.uk