Interesting Links

Textile & craft magazines

• Craft:
• Selvedge
• Embroidery from Embroiders Guild

Blogs

• Angry Chicken
• Molly Chicken
• Purl Bee
• Whip Up
• Madeleine Shepherd

Craft websites

• Oh my stars Craft
• Subversive Cross Stitch
• Free Banksy cross stitch designs
• Mixing Fibres

Artists

• Amy Butler
• Lauren Child
• Donna Wilson
• Jenny Hart embroidery
• Tilleke Schwarz
• Carl Larsson
• Janette Sendler
• Barbara Ridland
• Deirdre Nelson
• Sunlight On Closed Lids

Crafty Books

• Making stuff: an alternative craft book
• Crafters Companion
• Amy Butler’s In Stitches
• Sublime Stitching
• Ready Made: How to make (almost) everything

Online craft supply shops

• Laughing Hens
• Twist Fiber Craft
• Country House Antique Textiles

Shops

• Cath Kidston
• Colour Mart for Cashmere yarns
• Kind Hearts Clothing
• Hume Sweet Hume
• Dutch by Design
• Pronx Style
• Queen Bea
• Margin
• annelousie

Books that everyone should read whatever their interests:

• How to be free (Tom Hodgkinson)
• Love is letting go of fear (Gerald Jampolsky)
• The Island (Aldous Huxley)