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Craft Books

Art, Craft, Activity and Educational Books. Learn a new craft, start your own business.

Art, Craft, Activity and Educational Books. Learn a new craft, start your own business.

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Children's Craft Kits

Children's Craft Kits, wide range of crafts and hobbies for children of all ages. Wholesale also available

Children's Craft Kits, wide range of crafts and hobbies for children of all ages. Wholesale also available

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About me

Hello, I am Margaret and I live on the beautiful Moray Coast in the North East of Scotland, just a stones throw from the Highlands.

I enjoy various types of needlecraft and am always creating something. I was fortunate to have a mum that taught me to knit when I was 7 and continued to teach me sewing, patchwork, appliqué, quilting, cross-stitch, embroidery as I grew up. She did a City and Guilds course in the 70s and I benefited greatly from her experience. She still advises me when I need it. My grandmother also played a part. She knitted and crocheted and whenever I visited she would sit me on the settee and give me the current crochet blanket to add a few rounds to.

I started my own business in 2006 and it has taken a few different turns since the beginning but this is the nature of crafting. Always new ideas and improvements to be made.

 I am always open to discussion about the possibility of custom work if you see an idea in my shop but would like it made in a different colour, size, whatever. I enjoy the fact that what I make is individual and not mass produced.

Knockie bears are one of the turns that I mentioned above. I didn’t start out to make bears but my love of them somehow got mixed up in the creating thing. It took a while to develop bear shapes that I like and was happy with but I think I am pretty much there. I make one bear at a time and somehow they all seem to develop a different personality once the limbs start going on and the features are put in place. Some of them give me a much harder time than the others. I don’t name my bears as I leave that privilege to their new 'Mum's' or 'Dad's'. All I ask is that they are given a loving home!

All my toys conform to safety standards and where possible I source my materials from local producers e.g. tartan.

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Please mention this web site when you contact me - Thank you.

Margaret Hamilton

Slack Villa
23 King Edward Terrace
Portknockie
Moray
AB56 4NX

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Telephone: +44 (0)1542 840551

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Auricles of Leslie

Custom Intarsia, Scroll Saw Pictures, Wooden Novelties and Gifts.

Custom Intarsia, Scroll Saw Pictures, Wooden Novelties and Gifts. Hand Crafted Wooden Gifts by Peter Leigh

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Pretty Things

Exquisite Jewellery made to your exact requirements. Repairs, Alterations and lots, lots more!

Exquisite Jewellery made to your exact requirements. Repairs, Alterations and lots, lots more!

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Wicker Man Masks

Hand Made Masks for Adults and Children. Ideal for theatre, pantomime's, Halloween, festivals and parties

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Slackstitches, hand made textile gifts made in Scotland by Margaret Hamilton. Appliquéd t-shirts, Robert the Bruce, Celtic Cross, Knockie the Tartan Teddy bears, personalised using your own choice of Scottish Tartan, Golliwogs, soft toys. Scottish Crafts