Every term we will invite a well-known maker or celebrity crafter to select their favourite Craft Club image from the gallery. Each winning snap will feature on our website for the duration of the half-term, next to a Q and A with the maker about their choice.
Lauren O’Farrell, a.k.a Deadly Knitshade is an Author, traveller, artist, graffiti knitting pioneer, photographer and giant squid wrestler and we are delighted to have her as our next celebrity maker judge!
Beginning her plans for world domination through a weaving of words and wool during a rather nasty three-year battle with cancer (Hodgkin’s Lymphoma to be exact, an evil cancer of the lymph system), Lauren emerged from treatment victorious, slightly radioactive and unsettlingly ambitious.
She is the founder of the UK’s largest craft community - Stitch London (formerly Stitch and Bitch London) - a free, friendly yet feisty stitching group based in London, and the UK’s largest knitting group with over 10,000 members in over 50 countries globally. She is also a pioneer in the world of graffiti knitting, and a published author.
Read more about Lauren and her projects here:
Stitch London www.stitchLDN.com
Lauren's website www.whodunnknit.com
Knit the City www.knitthecity.com
This is an example of one of the fantastic prizes your club could win if you upload images of your craft club online.
One of our previous winners said, "So amazing the effect an exciting box of goodies has in getting everyones imaginations going!" Helen Pillot de Chenecey
April
Yarn Bombing as featured in BBC The One Show
Mister Maker
Mister Maker is the ultimate children's arts and crafts show which teaches and entertains in fun and imaginative ways. After having great fun learning to finger knit with Mister Maker at the recent Start Imagining ‘From Tip to Ship’ competition launch (which you can read more about here), we thought it only natural to ask him to come and help with our next Craft Club website competition!
If you haven’t already heard of Mister Maker, he is a real life character who gets inspiration to make art from everything around him. Whether in his own fantasy art room that he has created or off around the country meeting mini makers in his super-cool hand crafted Maker mobile, prepare to expect the unexpected as pictures, objects and things that he has made come to life.
Mister Maker explains step-by-step art techniques and makes fantastic things your kids will want to keep. For more information on Mister Maker, please visit the website here or check out the Mister Maker page on facebook.
Check out the previous winners of the Craft Club competition
Ribston Hall High School
Chosen by Amy Twigger-Holroyd
Term 4 Knitting Graffiti
Chosen by Donna Wilson
Felted Landscape
Chosen by Kaffe Fassett
Scargill School Craft Club
Chosen by Rachael Matthews
Spring 2010
Chosen by Erika Knight
Lindens Primary (Launch) Album 3
Chosen by Celia Pym
