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So a few weeks ago a customer came to see us at our West Hampstead shop to pick up some yarn for a project while she was visiting London. This happens a lot, and we LOVE it. Sometimes people see us because they know us from insta or get a recommendation from a friend and sometimes they just google for the closest fabric/yarn/craft shop and find us. But it always feels like a gift when you take time out of your holiday to pop into our shop.

ANYWAY, this customer loved the shop and promised to leave a ...

We are super excited to be sharing the details of our Nursery-themed vignette with you! We used the Cold Comfort collection by Dear Stella as the main theme running throughout the vignette paired with pretty shot cotton.

Our mum is wearing the I AM Patterns Jain top in shot cotton in Grapemist. The fabric has a lovely drape which is perfect for this style. I love how easy this top was to make, perfect for all levels of dressmaker.

It has a cool casual fit and a feminine slit from neckline with raglen-like batwing sleeves with a diagonal cutout. There ...

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Last chance to get your Easter crafts supplies and gifts!

We have everything you need to get your Easter craft on…! Order as early as possible today to get your shipment in time, or pop in to our West Hampstead shop. You can find our Easter weekend opening hours here.

For America’s favourite Easter tradition, we are so excited to have ...

A quick update today with the opening hours for our West Hampstead shop on Easter weekend. It’s coming up so soon because Easter is crazy early this year!

Friday, 30 March – 11am – 5pm
Saturday, 31 March – 10am – 6pm
Sunday, 1 April – CLOSED FOR EASTER
Monday, 2 April – 11am – 5pm

We’ll be doing some free crafts for kids on Friday and Saturday so please stay tuned for that. In the meantime, have you seen our Easter crafts and gifts section? So excited about it!

We are so excited that our first Children’s Art Show is now installed in our lobby at West Hampstead Square. We have a small but very talented group of kids who submitted artwork. They are so creative, using all sorts of materials to make art based on the theme Spring.

I know not all of you will be able to come in to see it in real life, so we have some photos to share!

Antonia, age 5 and Susana, age 4

Erin, age 9 and Eleanor, age 8

Jasmine, age 12

Nadia, age 5

Zain, age 5

Harvey ...

We are so excited to announce that we’re organising a children’s art show for our lobby at West Hampstead Square! If you’ve visited our shop you know we’re working hard to bring some colour and character to the space with our rainbow wall. I thought that creating a gallery wall of artwork by local kids would fill the (rather boring) stairwell with creativity and life as you climb the stairs to our shop!

If you have a creative kid and want to get involved, read on! We’re moving fast on this and the submission deadline ...

Can you believe it’s been a year since we opened our beautiful West Hampstead Square shop? We have a huge day planned for you on Saturday, full of offers, giveaways, bubbly and more. We can’t wait to see you!

But first, take a trip down memory lane with us…

Here is the state of the shop when we started our fit out on 6 December 2016. Yikes!

After the fit out (which you can see in progress on Instagram at #tvhatwhs if you scroll back) the shop looked like this on 13 January. At this point, we were ...

February might be the shortest month of the year, but it’s jam packed with exciting classes and workshops! Come and join us this February in our bright and airy studio space in our West Hampstead shop! We have something to suit every level, interest and schedule!

Read on to find out what we have planned for the next few weeks or browse all of our classes here. Plus, don’t forget about our weekly events, including our Crafty Mamas Coffee Morning on Thursday mornings at 10:30am and our fun, free drop in Knit Night every Thursday from 6pm ...

It’s Christmas!!!

Kym here and I am so excited to share the details of our third Christmas display this year! We have gone all traditional with red, green, gold and blue colours. Our two children are dressed in their Christmas pyjamas on Christmas Morning with their stockings by the Christmas tree.

Our littlest is wearing her ‘Knitted by Nana’ Christmas Jumper! Nana has stitched it up in Rico Essentials Merino DK yarn in Red and natural. Isn’t it adorable!

The pattern is a vintage find from etsy.com (you can find it here). I just love the snowflake ...

Hi Guys! Here is a quick reminder of those essential Christmas dates for you…

First up, our shop schedule. Everything is normal, except:

Saturday, 23 December – Closing at 2pm
Sunday, 24 December – Friday, 29 December – Closed
Monday, 1 January – 11am – 5pm (Sunday hours)

Post schedule:

We are using Royal Mail’s published schedule as our guide. You can find it, along with detailed international shipping dates here.

*UK orders placed by 1pm on Tuesday, 19 December, will be sent using our normal Royal Mail First Class service and are expected to arrive by Christmas.

*Orders placed up to 1pm on ...

Welcome to the second post in our series of Christmas Gift Guides! Today we are sharing some ideas for gifts for all the knitters, sewists, felters, weavers and makers out there! Use it as a guide for giving to the makers in your life…or just go ahead and send a link to this post to your friends and family to make sure you get something you’ll love!

Anyone who works with yarn or fabrics will love to receive some Soak modern laundry care products this Christmas! Soak Flatter is a starch-free smoothing spray that relaxes wrinkles and freshens ...

It’s getting closer folks! We are into December and Christmas party season is here! Exciting times! We had lots of fun putting this vignette together in store and it really makes me smile every time I see it. The red, mint and pink colour schemes has worked better that we had imagined. We really hope you’ll pop in to our London shop see it in person!

The star of the party is most certainly our Rag rug wreath centre piece. The lovely Elspeth from Ragged Life made this masterpiece especially for us. Isn’t it amazing?! She used ...

Welcome to the first post in our series of Christmas Gift Guides! First up we have some ideas for presents for kids!

The perfect beginner sets for kids to get them into Knitting, Crochet and Sewing. These kits by Buttonbag contain all the tools, supplies and step by step guides they will need to get them started with a new hobby! For our knitting and crochet kits click here, and find the sewing ones here.

These felt animal kits also by Buttonbag are also perfect for little hands to get sewing. The Stegosaurus is perfect for younger ages too as ...

This Saturday (25 November) we’ll be hosting a special event to celebrate two beautiful new books from the V&A! At 2pm, we’ll be toasting the first two volumes in the V&A Maker’s Guide series, Patchwork and Quilting and Embroidery, with an afternoon of show and tell by some of our favourite contributors to the series.

Many of the projects from the books will be on display and you’ll be able to see them up close, hear from the designers and get your book signed. It’s going to be so much fun! This quilt ...

Christmas is approaching and our first seasonal shop display is up! We decided to go for a Winter Wonderland / Narnia theme for our first this year and we love it!

When searching for a winter quilt pattern I (Kym) came across the Quilting in Black and White book and this amazing pattern! Just perfect for our Narnia forest scene.

The Michael Miller Woodland Winter collection was the obvious fabric choice here, it is so pretty! The trees are in Trees and Birds in Winter Grey,  Winter Birds and Berries in Snowdrop Grey, and Flurry – Black Spot (by Susan Driscoll for ...

Don’t forget to join us in our West Hampstead shop this Saturday 4th November as we kick off our Christmas season with our Christmas Crafts Party!

We’ll have a craft table full of mini make and takes including gift tags, felt ornaments, Christmas cards and more. We’ll also be serving up mulled wine, mince pies and chocolates to really get you in the festive spirit!

Plus shop our fun selection of Christmas craft supplies and kits, cards and gift wrap. We can’t wait to inspire your Christmas crafting this year!

Here are the quick facts for ...

Yes folks, it is nearly that time of year again! Time to drink mulled wine…to listen to Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas on repeat…time to update your Christmas card list…and time to party!

Christmas at The Village Haberdashery officially starts on Saturday 4th November and we are kicking things off with a Christmas Crafts day! We’ll have a craft table full of mini make and takes including gift tags, felt ornaments, Christmas cards and more.

Plus we’ll be serving up mulled wine, mince pies and chocolates to get you in the festive ...

When the super talented and lovely Anna Maria Horner joined us in our West Hampstead shop to teach back in August, her truly stunning Floral Retrospective quilt was pinned up on our display wall and we just fell in love with it! We were totally inspired to create a vignette with her fabrics.

Read on for full details, more pics and links plus check out our Facebook page for a live tour!

Her fabrics have such amazing striking colour and her Color Dive quilt pattern is the perfect choice to show them off!

I (Kym) have used fabrics from the ...

We are super excited that the lovely and extremely talented Karen Lewis is coming to our West Hampstead shop where she’ll be teaching some awesome classes!

Karen has a passion for all things beautiful and handmade. She designs textiles for her own brand, Karen Lewis Textiles, and for Robert Kaufman and is the author of the book Screen Printing at Home. Her Instagram @karenlewistextiles is full of great inspiration!

Join us for one of these special classes or book them both for 10% off!

Lino Printing

Saturday, 9 December, 10am – 4pm (£75)

In this full-day introduction to lino printing ...

On the 30 September we participated in the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning to raise funds for Macmillan at our West Hampstead shop! Our coffee ‘morning’ turned into an all day event as so many people donated lots of amazing cakes!

Maria from Bake with Maria made this amazing Banana Toffee Cake with dark chocolate ganache.

Jenny from The Kitchen Table made her famous Brownies.

This Millionares Shortbread made by the lovely @crafty_alibobs was the bake of the day!

Our friends from M&S downstairs and Gail’s Bakery donated even more cake…

and I (Kym) did a little baking ...