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Peter Cronin is back with his brand new book in the best-selling Absolute Beginner series, Sketching for the Absolute Beginner which is a must-have book for anybody who is eager to take their sketching skills to the next level. Peter's...

We caught up with Linda Seward to chat about her top quilting tips, as well as to discuss the revised and expanded release of her classic quilting book, The Complete Book of Patchwork and Appliqué, considered by many to be the 'quilter's bible'!Hi...

Mending is magical. Really. I’ve been mending for over three decades, and I’m still convinced there’s an element of magic involved. Every time I mend something, even I am surprised by the final result. And every time I mend in public...

Last year we heard from Eddie Armer, who volunteers at West Kent Mind and is the author of two books for Search Press, about his thoughts on creativity and mental health. This year we hear a little about Eddie’s other creative love, music. Eddie...

During the Covid-19 lockdown I have spent a lot of time in my studio developing a sketchbook based on flowers. I particularly love daisies: I have lovely memories of making daisy chains with my late mum as a child and singing ‘Daisy, Daisy, give...

It’s perhaps misleading of us to present ‘a day in the life’ of the Editorial Department: no two days are identical – even during lockdown, when the days spill, Dali-like, into each other. So I’m not going to try. Editorial...

Embark on your embroidery journey this New Year with these new large format editions of the popular and best-selling Royal School of Needlework’s Essential Stitch Guides series!The Royal School of Needlework teaches hand embroidery to the highest...

Debbie Shore, best-selling author and host of the Half Yard Sewing Club, will be live on Facebook on Christmas Day (25th December) at 11am and over on YouTube at 2pm.2020 has been a hard year for everyone and we in the crafting community have managed to...

Save the date! Three days of festive fun from Friday 20th – Sunday 22nd November 2020! It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas... and at Search Press we're hosting a free virtual art and craft festival to get everyone into the Christmas...