Designer Spotlight- All The Fun At The Fair

Just off Carnaby St in Kingly Court, All the Fun of the Fair is a sweetie shop for knitters and crafters full of yarn, haberdashery, buttons, vintage finds plus lots of quirky hand knitted and hand made items.

Buzz loves finding everyday objects and recreating them as a fantastic knitted piece. Buzz will spend alot of time finding the correct colour wool to make the item very life like.

‘When I decide on what everyday object that I think needs knitting, ie a knitted pumpkin! I then spend an awful lot of time on getting the colour right. It is often in the most humdum of places that the colour might leap out at me, ie a colour of some packaging whilst out shopping.’

Buzz’s creations are quirky, bright and fun.

Waiting For We Make Christmas:
All The Fun Of The Fair will be bringing some of their most popular designs from their Carnaby Street store. Including their more tea vicar tea cozy. Buzz loves to see who buys it and who its for and loves the ironany of her selling it as her husband is a vicar.

All The Fun Of The Fair also have a fun range of knitted tape measures. These will make great Christmas presents.

Can’t Wait For We Make Christmas:
Why not take a look at All The Fun Of The Fairs website www.allthefunofthefair.biz or you could even treat yourself to a trip to their shop Unit 2.8 Kingly Court, just off Carnaby Street.

Designer Spotlight- Creamrose

Nicki loves making accessories, buttons, hairclips, ponytail holders, rings, earrings and brooches. Mixed with her passion for unique Japanese fabrics Nicki’s creations are a perfect way to finish off any outfit.

‘I love accessories, I think they make an outfit and you can create your own unique style, which I find very exciting, I like making little objects that people can take and add to their own individual style. I love colours, flowers, butterflies, fairytales, Japan, I can incorporate all of these loves into my designs and I love it!’

Nicki’s creations can be found in shops and Boutique’s all around the country.

Nicki’s spends alot of time sourcing beautiful and unusual Japanese fabrics. She especially loves the ones influenced by fairytales and folktales. So each of her items represents her passion, hard work and depicts a story.

Waiting For We Make Christmas:
For We Make Christmas Nicki is working on a new clutch bags. Each one will be made from Japanese fabics depicting lots of fairytales. Nicki’s little red riding hood ranges are always great sellers with hair accessories for little girls and buttons and clutches for the adults. A perfect gift for all.

Nicki will also be bringing her buttons, clips, rings and much, much more.

Can’t Wait For We Make Christmas:
If you can’t wait to own some of Nicki’s treasures check out her Etsy shop www.creamrose.etsy.com its is full of fun, cute wearable designs.

Designer Spotlight- Big Blue Bed

Alix loves working with different fabrics and yarns to create stunning purses, bags, buttons and hair accessories.

‘Fabrics and yarn talk to me. I love to hold them and feel it and imagine what it could be. I love colour and texture. So most of my items are colourful. ’

Alix also enjoys knitting. She has a pretty range of scarfs and cuffs. Colour is a big influence in Alix’s designs with bright coloured wools, yarns, fabrics.

Waiting for We Make Christmas?
Alix is currently working on a new and exciting project., Dorset Buttons.

‘These are a traditional button that was made before the Industrial revolution. It is a beautiful button that can be any colour and used to decorate many items or just as a button.’

Alix sells these by themselves, in sets, attached to snap clips and also bobby pins. They take quite a bit of work but Alix loves the tiny stitches that are needed to make them.

Alix is also working on some new matching bags and purses.

Can’t Wait For We Make Christmas?
Check out Alix’s online shops. They are full of colourful, fresh designs. Lots of items that will make perfect gifts. bigbluebed.etsy.com and bigblueknits2tog.etsy.com