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The Crafty Kit Company Craft your way to happiness at www.craftykitcompany.co.uk Buy One Give One - for every craft kit we make, we donate! Available to trade and retail.

We design and supply quality and quirky kits for you to knit, sew, and needle felt. Our kits are designed and assembled here in the UK and we use recycled (and recyclable!) packaging to present our products. Our kits make great gifts and they're all ready for you just to pop in the post.

Searches for "analog hobbies" are reportedly up 136% this year. Which is a long way of saying: people really want their ...
31/10/2026

Searches for "analog hobbies" are reportedly up 136% this year. Which is a long way of saying: people really want their thumbs back.

It tracks. Everything else is getting faster and more automated, and the counter-move is small and slow and made of thread.

Here's ours, from the workshop: real people design the kits, real hands thread the machines in Scotland, and every kit gets made, checked and packed by someone you could ring up and thank. No algorithm required.

If you're part of the trend, welcome in. One cross at a time is all it takes.

Follow along for more from the workshop. And if the trend has found you at the right time, the link in bio is where the kits live.

Which analogue hobby has got its hooks into you? (Needle and thread counts. So does Mah-jong, apparently.)

29/10/2026

Never cross stitched before? You can still finish something lovely this week. Here's the whole thing, start to finish. 🪡

Start with a small kit. Everything's in the box: fabric, thread, needle, instructions. Find the centre of the fabric by folding it in half both ways. Thread the needle the easy way (watch the loop trick). Then it's one cross at a time until it's done.

Finish in an evening, not a weekend. A cup of tea helps. Scientifically unproven, emotionally essential.

If you can draw an X, you can do this. Really.

Save this for when you start.

We'll go first, since it's our series. 🧵This basket contains a half-knitted something that's been in progress long enoug...
27/10/2026

We'll go first, since it's our series. 🧵

This basket contains a half-knitted something that's been in progress long enough to earn squatter's rights. Not a kit of ours, we should say. A personal project. Started with real enthusiasm, picked up occasionally, put down mostly.

So: Craft Confessions. A new weekly slot. Every week, one crafty truth, and you tell us yours.

First confession, then. What's the oldest unfinished project in your house, the one you keep meaning to get back to?

One line in the comments is plenty. No photo needed, unless you're feeling brave. Our favourites get featured here next week.

Beginners, lapsed stitchers and serial project-starters all welcome.

These things get passed on quietly, usually over a table, usually without anyone calling it a lesson.Both of my grannies...
27/10/2026

These things get passed on quietly, usually over a table, usually without anyone calling it a lesson.

Both of my grannies had a lot to give. Granny McMartin taught me to knit (and mostly how to remedy mistakes) and Granny Lochhead taught me how to play Mah-jong, which doesn't technically count as a craft but I'm very grateful to have these core memories all the same.

If somebody taught you, you're carrying something on. If you learned it yourself, you're starting something somebody might carry on one day. Both count.

So, which is it for you? What did your granny, grandad, mum, dad or whoever teach you to make? Or what are you the one teaching?

Follow along if you like little craft stories and the odd confession from our workshop. And if you're picking up a new make yourself, you'll find a collection of free cross stitch patterns at the link in bio. 🧶

First dark evening of the season. It's dark at five o'clock now, and the sofa is calling. 🕯️Here's a quiet thought for t...
26/10/2026

First dark evening of the season. It's dark at five o'clock now, and the sofa is calling. 🕯️

Here's a quiet thought for the week ahead: an hour of stitching beats an hour of scrolling. Not because scrolling is bad. Because your brain knows the difference between consuming something and making something. One of them leaves you feeling like you did something.

And the lovely part: you don't need to do a lot. Ten stitches count. Half a leaf counts. Leaving it on the arm of the sofa and picking it up tomorrow counts too.

Permission granted to do a little, not a lot. The evenings are long now; let them be soft.

What's your plan for the long evenings, stitch or scroll?

I’m at Simply Christmas and the stand next to mine is selling art materials. I may or may not have spent some of the cas...
24/10/2026

I’m at Simply Christmas and the stand next to mine is selling art materials. I may or may not have spent some of the cash I made today on my art materials habit. I don’t know why, but I’ve never tried acrylics - and I bloody loved it! I think I may have found my medium. Lots to learn but it feels soooo good! 😊

24/10/2026

Memory keeping is officially a trend again, which we find quietly validating. 🪡

People are holding onto the small things now: tickets, pressed flowers, the photo of the dog. The stuff a phone camera doesn't quite hold.

A tiny stitched design works the same way. A holiday you don't want to forget. A walk you keep retelling. A pet who owns the sofa. One evening, a few stitches, and a small finished piece that stays in its hoop on the shelf.

No experience needed. The thread and hoop are in the box, and the remembering does the rest.

Which moment would you stitch? Tell us in the comments. If you already know, you'll find the kit that matches it on our website (link in bio).



Music: "Fireside Christmas Glow" (CC BY 4.0)

23/10/2026

Cross stitch has been quietly breeding puns while nobody was looking. 👀

Peck off. What the duck. You're a prick. Let's shell-ebrate. Alongside our classic designs, we've been adding a few cheekier ones, and they've found their people.

Gen Z has discovered needle and thread, and they didn't come for 'Home Sweet Home'. Fair enough. The Victorians were stitching sarcastic samplers long before any of us.

Everything you need is in the box, so you can be a complete beginner and still make something funny.

Tag the friend who needs a rude little cross stitch in their life. Which one is theirs?



Music: "Fluffing a Duck" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), CC BY 4.0

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