20 HRS AGO - My solutions aren’t exactly kosher, but I don’t care a jotMending is back in fashion. As more of us wake up to the 1.2bn tonnes of carbon produced by the global fashion industry annually, the impact of our wardrobes on the environment is getting harder to ignore. Harder than hiding, on the back hangers, that ugly but expensive top you wore a single time.I messed about during home economics and textiles lessons at school. I messed about in most lessons, in fairness, but particularly when it came to learning to use a sewing machine. Put one in front of me and it might as well be the Enigma machine. Related: ‘Have you ever been handcuffed?’ – why nothing beats an ‘overheard’ | Hannah Jane Parkinson Continue reading... Collapse

2 DAYS AGO - The official Craft Business Magazine website - all the latest news and product reviews from the crafts sector, plus interviews with key industry figures Collapse

3 DAYS AGO - The official Craft Business Magazine website - all the latest news and product reviews from the crafts sector, plus interviews with key industry figures Collapse

4 DAYS AGO - The official Craft Business Magazine website - all the latest news and product reviews from the crafts sector, plus interviews with key industry figures Collapse

7 DAYS AGO - Rachel Healy, Marketing and Communications Manager at Share Community (who run the Share Community Garden and Nurseries in Tooting) is feeling festive as they’re now offering wreaths and table decorations! Share Nurseries, our social enterprise providing plants and garden creations, is now selling a selection of wreaths, table decorations, and winter flowering plants. Our horticulture students have been busy getting into the creative festive spirit. They’ve been ..... Collapse

04/12/2019 - The official Craft Business Magazine website - all the latest news and product reviews from the crafts sector, plus interviews with key industry figures Collapse

03/12/2019 - The official Craft Business Magazine website - all the latest news and product reviews from the crafts sector, plus interviews with key industry figures Collapse

26/11/2019 - The official Craft Business Magazine website - all the latest news and product reviews from the crafts sector, plus interviews with key industry figures Collapse

24/11/2019 - Guilty about wheelie bins full of wrapping paper and drawers of unwanted gifts, many families are ditching frenzied shopping for more sustainable celebrationsEveryone used to call Helen Tandy “the Grinch” at Christmas. She would get odd looks and long sighs from friends and family when she tried to explain that she didn’t want gifts and wouldn’t be buying any either. Christmas crackers – “a horrible waste: a bang, some tat and then it’s all chucked away” – were banned at her home. Shiny wrapping paper (which can’t be recycled) made way years ago for plain brown or newspaper, then, last December, she tried furoshiki – the Japanese art of fabric wrapping. Tandy’s artificial tree will next month be wheeled out for its 31st Christmas, and will be decorated from a carefully stored box of decorations handmade or collected, one by one, over the years.“I didn’t want to get to the end of Christmas Day and look around and feel like we’d made a week’s worth of waste in just a few hours,” says Collapse