Craft Focus - Oct/Nov (Issue 63)

KNITTED NOVELTIES King Cole is a leading brand for all things knitted and crochet, and the company has a fabulous range of patterns including jumpers and hats to nativity scenes, Santas, elves and toys – there’s something for everyone. Tinsel Chunky is definitely the ‘go to’ yarn for knitters looking for that extra special gift for their loved ones. This year, King Cole is particularly excited about two new books – Christmas Knits Book 5 and Christmas Crochet Book 3. Each book brings contains more than 18 projects to create one-of-a-kind gifts for every member of the family to enjoy. King Cole +44 (0)1756 703 670 sales@kingcole.co.uk kingcole.com FIRST-EVER FESTIVE THEMED RANGE Little Town by Amy Sinibaldi for Art Gallery Fabrics is the first-ever festive themed range from AGF. Nestled deep within a forest of pines, Little Town artwork evokes the joy and peace of winter, painted in soft shades of grey, pale rose, and teal for a different colour palette for the festive season. Art Gallery fabrics are distributed by Hantex +44 (0)1754 820 800 sales@hantex.co.uk hantex.co.uk FESTIVE FEATHERS Heritage Crafts has a wonderful selection of needlework designs featuring festive birds including the latest robin designs painted by Karen Carter for its 2017 Christmas collection. There are two designs to stitch. Round Robin shows a rather portly robin sitting on a branch where he’s hoping that both his Christmas stockings will be filled with presents, and Christmas Kiss which features two robins taking advantage of the mistletoe to steal a Christmas kiss. The designs are part of the Simply Heritage range and contain whole stitches only, available on 14ct Aida fabric. They retail at £13.40 each. Ollie Owl, and Ollie and Ivy are gorgeous little owl designs. Ollie Owl is all wrapped up against the cold winter weather in his warm hat and scarf, while in Ollie and Ivy, he’s changed his hat to match Ivy’s, and are both ready to join in the Christmas festivities. Both kits retail at £16.25 and are available on 27-count Evenweave fabric and 14-count Aida. Heritage Crafts +44 (0)1889 575 56 sales@hcrafts.com hcrafts.com MERRY MOTIFS AND FUN FLOSS Sublime Stitching has come up with some fun items for seasonal stitchers. The Christmas Tree Thread includes an exclusive line of Sublime Floss colour packs. Every palette has 7 x 8m (8.75 yd) skeins of the finest quality, 100 per cotton six-stranded floss, which are smooth, shiny and colourfast (note that metallics are polyester). The company has also created two packs of holiday motifs for stitching – Winterland Transfer and Christmas Time. These are brilliant for adding your own personalised design to clothes, bags and accessories. Sublime Stitching products are distributed by Hantex +44 (0)1754 820 800 sales@hantex.co.uk hantex.co.uk 54 craft focus festive cheer