By Jennie Hughes
Christmas is coming - so keep the kids busy with some craft sets from Panduro.
I made angels and elves for my Christmas tree many years ago from some of Panduro’s kits, and they’re still coming out every year to dangle cheerfully from the branches. The kits are good quality and easy to use – just make sure there are English instructions, as some kits are only in Danish.
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Welcome to Shabby Chick's top picks of crafty ideas for this Halloween!
First off, the dark side of Martha Stewart: Brain cupcakes. Boy, they look tasty, don't they?
Or, how about a crochet pumpkin? The (free) instructions are at Crochet Magazine and they are a darn-sight cuddlier than a carved root vegetable.
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Reviewed by Jennie Hughes
The Clothkits doll’s outfit arrived the day after I ordered it on the internet – very speedy service! It was nicely packaged (in two colours of tissue paper and tied with a pretty ribbon) and was good quality cotton drill with generous amounts of thread and bias binding included.
The instructions are very basic, so you’d need to know a bit about sewing before you start. There was no mention of tacking things, just pin and go – even on the slightly tricky bit of attaching the brim to the crown of the hat. Also, there was no mention that you might want to check that patterns were alternating before you stitched the 4 quarters of the hat together. Okay, this was only a dolly’s hat, but if the instructions are similar in the child’s hat kit, it could prove a tad annoying.
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