Craft Community
- Ravelry – A knit and crochet community
- Stitch London – Taking on the world one stitch at a time
- Knit The City – Your friendly neighbourhood yarnstormers (London)
- Yarnbombing – Improving the urban landscape one stitch at a time
- Cut Out and Keep - Make and share step by step craft tutorials
Where to learn crafts:
- Tea and Crafting – London craft workshops (where I learnt amigurumi)
- Sew Over It – Sewing Cafe in Clapham North
- The Make Lounge – Meet people, make stuff
- The Papered Parlour – Creative paradise
- The Ochre Print Studio – Open print studio in Guildford, Surrey
- City Lit – London Centre for Adult Education
Where to buy handmade:
- Wonder Hill Market – Craft Fair where I sell my creations
- Etsy – your place to buy and sell all things handmade
- Folksy – UK showcase for selling and buying handmade goods
- Not on the high street – Unique gift ideas
- Stitch and Craft Show – Annual London Olympia March 2011
- We Make London – Annual London show showcasing talents of UK designers
Free amigurumi patterns
- Lion brand Yarn – Thousands for free crochet and knitting patterns
- Ravelry – A knit and crochet community
Embroidery
- Sublime Stitching – this aint your gramma’s embroidery
- Mr X Stitch – contemporary embroidery and needlecraft blog
- Feeling Stitchy – embroidery blog
- Urban Threads - Fresh, new, alternative designs for machine embroidery and hand embroidery
Wellbeing
- Art Matters – Making recovery reality
- Rethink – Mental illness
Other awesome blogs and websites
- Peter Main – Design
- Rhubarb and Rose – Adventures in baking
- Rock and Roll bride - Your big day the rock and roll way
- Dude Craft – fresh handmade content
- Rocket and Fairy Dust – Funky interiors for children’s rooms
- Sean TW Cartoons – To make you giggle
- Organic Bump – Johnson and Johnson make another Johnson
- I want your tshirt – Web design for all
- Carb Free Creativity – The best ideas happen before lunch
- Adele Wagstaff – Drawings Paintings Etchings
- Alexa Wright – Photographer
- Lush – Fresh Handmade Cosmetics
- Why would you knit that?
- Esoteric Sips – Literature blog
- Tracey Adkins
