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Q&A with Sally Muir and Joanna Osborne

Knitwear designers Sally Muir and Joanna Osborne have worked together for many years under the brand Muir & Osborne. Several pieces of their knitwear are in the permanent collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, including their red sheep jumper as worn by Princess Diana. Following on from… Read More

Celebrating World Egg Day with these three delicious recipes

The below recipes all feature in our brilliant  autumn cookbook list – all available to order now.   CAPONATA FRITTATA SERVES 4 30 mins INGREDIENTS 1 red onion 2 aubergines (eggplants) 100 g (¾ cup) pine nuts 250 g (9 oz) cherry tomatoes fresh parsley pitted green olives capers… Read More

Q&A with Indigo authors Kerstin Neumüller and Douglas Luhanko

Kerstin and Douglas met when Kerstin was looking for someone to dye indigo with and, by chance, stepped into Douglas’ shop on the very day he had ordered a kit for natural indigo dyeing. Since then, they have explored indigo’s possibilities and limitations together and written the book Indigo:… Read More

Make a cardboard-roll zoo with your minis

This fun make from designer-maker Lisa Stickley’s book Makes For Mini Folk is a perfect school holiday activity to do with the kids. A combo of cardboard rolls is great for this project, to give a variety of sizes. You’ll need to help younger children to… Read More

Meet Honey & Co At Home

With their new book, At Home, award-winning chefs Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich invite you to try the recipes they cook for themselves and for their friends and family, the recipes that they enjoy eating themselves and which mean the most to them. Filled with simple and delicious Middle… Read More

Avocado chocolate cupcakes with cherry icing

This delicious recipe is extracted from Kate Hackworthy’s Veggie Desserts + Cakes. I know – avocado is a fruit. So, what’s it doing in a vegetable desserts book? Well, since, like the tomato, it’s mostly used in savoury dishes, I think it’s earned its place here. Avocado makes a wonderful… Read More

Pressed flower wallpaper

Give your doll’s house walls a new leaf of life with Sam McKechnie’s pressed flower wallpaper. Its a great way of making the most of the season’s flowers and will make your doll’s house is the most stylish in town. by Sam McKechnie One of the most useful items from… Read More

Make the season’s flowers last with these dried flower panes

These flower panes from Hannah Read-Baldrey’s Flowerbomb! are a wonderful way to display your dried flowers preserved in resin. They look truly magical when hung in a window with sunlight reflecting the beautiful colours of the flowers throughout the room. Alternatively, display as a collection on a wall. YOU… Read More

Meet Lisa Stickley, author of Makes For Mini Folk

Lisa Stickley is a designer and illustrator who has produced work for clients such as Paul Smith and the Designers Guild. Her new book Makes For Mini Folk features 25 stylish projects to make for children, but she is also the author of several children’s picture books. Read More