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How to Make Clothes with Striped Fabrics

Once you're deep down in the rabbit hole of clothes making and garment sewing, you'll inevitably come across a variety of road blocks. These normally take the form of intricate patterns and challenging designs that most would rather avoid to remain in a permanent

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How To Make Your Own Curtains - Part 2

Making your own curtains is a great crafting exercise, one that can take your little hobby up to the level of a practical skill-set. Able to provide an inexhaustible supply of gift ideas and new opportunities to explore different techniques, once you know

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How To Make Your Own Curtains - Part 1

Few feelings of accomplishment match the emotional high of completing a crafting project. That feeling is even better preserved however when the outcome of your hardwork is a practical keepsake that brings new life to a room or your home as a whole. In

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10 Pinterest Accounts To Follow If You Love Crafts

Though it's the internet's depository of great images for literally anything, the users of Pinterest have a particular affinity for crafting that we can't seem to get enough of. A place to share your works in progress, free patterns and those all important

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Sewing Baskets, Tools & Accessory Sets at Ajanta Studios

At Ajanta Studios, our aim has always been not only to inspire the creative sides in everyone, but also to supply those already well and truly into their crafting with the very best accessories. Over the past few months we’ve been stocking up on products

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Oil Painting Tips For Beginners

From the clarity of Raphael to the impressionism popularised by Monet, oil painting has been one of our culture's most renowned visual art methods for many centuries. Whilst the new Timonty Spall biopic Mr. Turner may paint a picture of oil painting as something

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