Emmeline is currently employed by All Craft Media as editor of Simply Beautiful and Handmade Fashion. She has worked in the craft publishing industry since 2005 and has been with All Craft Media for 12 months. Emmeline says “After working as a magazine editor for many years, I’m very much looking forward to taking on my new role as Publisher at such an exciting time of growth for All Craft Media – I can’t wait to get started!”

Emmeline will be responsible for all of the titles in All Craft Media’s current portfolio including Modern Quilting, Sew Hip, KNIT, Inside Crochet, Handmade Living, Simply Beautiful, Handmade Fashion and their range of bookazines. This promotion comes as the company move into new offices, also on 1st March.

To contact Emmeline please use the following details

01279 879038
emmeline@allcraftmedia.co.uk

Taking place at the Business Design Centre in London between 21st and 25th of March, it heralds the start of the spring and looks forward to the sunny days of summer and all the associated activities like picnics and sporting occasions. In addition to the 400 exhibitors presenting a host of ideas for Easter you are unlikely to find on the high street, there are demonstrations and hands-on craft workshops. The food hall celebrates the UK’s finest food producers and their regional specialities, with opportunities for tasting too. The beautiful spring garden provides green fingered visitors with lots of inspiration for planning and planting, with experts only a trowel-tip away for advice. There’s lots of scope for personal pampering too, with clothing for every occasion from a sports day to a picnic; jewellery and silversmithing designs influenced by nature and sensuous handmade soaps and perfumes. With so much to see and do, a visit to the Country Living Magazine Spring Fair is a day to remember. 

To be in with a chance of winning – just leave a comment about your favourite craft by Friday 24th February and we’ll pick  the winner’s names out of the hat!  Good luck!

Lovely spring goodies from the fair

There will be thousands of Vintage, handmade, and mother of pearl buttons for sale, plus vintage textiles & trims, a Huge choice of new fabrics, ribbons and haberdashery from Barrington Patchwork.

Buttonfest will take place 10am – 3pm and there is free parking and entry.

For more information, see the Muddy Dog Company website, www.muddydogs.com

What better way to spend the weekend than learning a new skill. Keep an eye out for their projects in Handmade Living – there’s a fab one coming up in issue 11

Surely they are the perfect thing to eat as you read the special Nordic issue of Knit magazine that’s out on the 29th January? You can read more about that on the KNIT blog.

As well as the usual great mix of home and craft shopping, gardening and cookery, Issue 10 features some great makes, including a screenprinting tutorial, tapemeasure brooch, a sewn market bag and more.

We also talk to some fantastic crafters including Chungie Lee, and see how craft is helping inmates at prisons around the country to turn their lives around.

Find it in supermarkets and stationers around the UK and on YUDU on 29th January, or call 01279 879038 to purchase copies and subscriptions directly!

Kiva enables individuals or companies to lend as little as $25 (about £16) to small businesses around the globe. It doesn’t sound like much, but “micro-loans” can be vital in getting a business up and running, especially in countries where £16 goes a lot further than the UK, and can have a lasting impact on peoples lives. And, it’s a loan, not charity donation – so you get the money back at the end of it, which you can then direct towards another worthy business venture!

What do you think?

As you know, we at Handmade Living love handmade quilts, and this handmade chenille baby blanket from Annaleise over at Aesthetic Nest is no exception. There’s a tutorial for it, too, so you can make your own – how fab is that?!

(Photo from Aesthetic Nest)