Thursday, 27 October 2011

Handmade Britain

Image courtesy of Channel 4


Last night after a tiring day at work I settled down on the sofa with a cup of tea and watched Kirstie's Handmade Britain on Channel 4. And I was in heaven. All I can say is that it's wonderful that we are starting to embrace creativity and show programmes on television that encourage us to have a go. And not only that, but the show explores crafts that we may not have thought of trying before, or even known existed.

So there I was sketchbook in hand, doodling ideas for Christmas cards whilst sipping tea and eyeing up birds made of newspaper, cards with paper stitched on and a really funky ring made from an old book.

This is episode 2 out of 8 and I can't wait for the rest. Well done Channel 4 for bringing us such a fab programme.

3 comments:

Rona Gregory said...

Thanks for sharing Helen...I have bookmarked your link so I hopefully can watch too from Canada! If not at least I can check out some of their links for "how to's" xx

Helen said...

You're welcome Rona. Channel 4's on demand service (4OD) will have the show online so you should be able to watch it in Canada. I hope you enjoy it !

claire said...

Hear, hear...but she's gotta stop being so earnest and flinging her hands around!