News winner

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So, this proved to be a bit more difficult to assess than I thought as we had a lot of ‘dubious’ comments. Having checked the IP addresses for the comments we’ve only counted one comment per IP address. This is not foolproof but it’s the best way we could manage the process and to make sure we didn’t get multiple ‘votes’ from the same person. We need to get a better way to manage these comps! Any ideas?

Anyway, the winner of the Robson and Mason Haberdashery voucher is … well actually it’s a tie between Daisie’s boob and
NiftyKnits’ Clanger:


NiftyKnits’ Clanger, a homage to Oliver Postgate, creator of many of the greatest childrens TV shows, who died last month.



Dasie’s breast or ‘boob’, which was inspired by news of Facebook taking down images of women breastfeeding


Nifty’s Morris Dancer was third and Lupin’s sampler fourth. Thank you all so much for taking part. Hope you enjoyed it. Was it good? Shall we do it again?

Folksy will round up the vouchers to

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Vote for the news…

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We had thirteen entries for the craft as news competition. We’ve enjoyed going through them and seeing what news story inspired the pieces – and there are a range of influences and interpretations making this all-the-more interesting as a project. Huge thankyous for those that took part.

Laura from Robson and Mason (store :: blog) will be picking her favourite piece(s) to receive the books. You will be deciding who wins the

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