Craft Meets Lifestyle

The Times picks up on the craft trend on the web and in the bars of London:

For every blog about somebody’s sex life there are six blogs about homemaking or crafts, which is quite an uplifting thought.) These domestic websites are the tip of a hefty iceberg. Making things has never been so fashionable: every girl about town worth her salt has a little sideline selling home-made furnishings, clothes or accessories online. Fashionable shops such as Liberty in London host knitting evenings, where young women sit making knitwear and chatting. (One of these knitting groups also meets over double vodkas at the Good Mixer pub in Camden, once the hip home of the Britpop revolution; similarly unchintzy knit-meet venues exist all over the country.)

Sites they recommend checking out: www.knitty.com, www.kiddley.com, www.funwithyarn.com, www.twinkiechan.com, www.stitchnbitch.co.uk, www.retro-housewife.com & www.stitchymcyarnpants.com.

Times Online