I’ve recently discovered a great craft magazine, Mollie Makes.   Reading it induces the same kind of pleasure gained from drooling over recipes in food magazines, I’m mostly thinking Jamie’s magazine here.

Mollie Makes is full of sumptuous photographs of crafts that often, like the felt biscuits,  look good enough to eat! Having watched the magazine episode of the Apprentice I’m keenly aware that these magazines are purely created to target a demographic of interest to advertisers, but jeez – they do have such lovely shiny pictures.

Needless to say, this new magazine has inspired me to make my most recent project; strawberry pincushions. The method is super easy – just cut your fabric out in a circle the size of a CD, fill it with sand and some stuffing, and stitch some ric rac around the top.

There is a similar method on the guardian or else you can find it in the second issue of the magazine. It can get a bit fiddly but they are a nice little project to do. My poor pricked fingers would recommend using a thimble.