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Online shopping fix: NickersAnne

Growing up with an avid sewer for a mother, Nicole Pollock was crafting from a very early age. Yet it wasn’t until her thirties, after going back to university to study interior design, that she began to appreciate her skills.

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Purchasing a beginner’s loom, Nicole fell in love with the act of weaving, leading her to delve back into the memory bank and pull out her long forgotten macramé skills. Now a year later she creates full-time, making one of a kind wall hangings, usually woven or knotted (macramé), for her fibre art line, NikersAnne.

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Loving texture and colour, Nicole also dabbles in dying her own yarn, designing wall hangings that are both traditional and modern.

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All hand-knotted or hand-woven, they can be shipped worldwide. Shop online.

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Interiors Addict

3 gorgeous Christmas styling ideas for your home

kikki.K recently asked its customers to submit Christmas styling ideas via Instagram, for them to bring to life in a special festive photo shoot and these are the beautiful results.

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Click on the links to find out how to give each of these surprisingly easy creations a go for yourself.

DIY paper wreath:

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Calling all crafters and quilters!

Textile designer extraordinaire Julie Paterson of cloth fabric is selling last season’s fabrics at a bargain price and is even providing the creative inspiration for what to do with them!

“Lately we’ve been getting some lovely surprise parcels in the mail. It’s because we’ve been updating our swatch books and our retailers have been kindly sending our old fabric samples back. Forgotten designs, discontinued colours, early prints, are all flowing back into the shop, much to our delight,” she says.

Julie’s bundled them all up according to colour and they’re available for sale on her online shop. If you’re craftily-inclined, check them out before they all get snapped up!

And look what clever Julie has already whipped up herself! This funky shoulder bag is called a ‘Swatchel’. Love it! Why don’t you try making one of your own?

A bundle of premium fabric goodness! Think of the possibilities! I’m thinking cushions and patchwork quilts!