Hand-Made Christmas gifts

SATURDAY Time Expert Talk 10:00am Kirstie meets prolific crochet and lifestyle blogger Lucy of Attic 24. In this Q&A session, Kirstie and Lucy will talk about how to make your passion your livelihood and increase your social network. 11:00am To guarantee her Christmas guests are squealing for more, Kirstie has invited Richard to show her how to master the all important festive essential, pigs in blankets, followed by a cheeky stuffing bomb. 12:00pm Mollie Makes Mash Up - Ellie Jarvis vs Lisa Comfort Join popular creative lifestyle magazine Mollie Makes in finding our Mash-Up stars! Ellie Jarvis of Clovelly Silk will take on ! Then the decision on who’s craftier than who is firmly in your hands as you’ll get to vote on your favourite. Come along, learn new, quick techniques each day and listen to top advice from our crafters, with sewing, recycling and vintage styling fun firmly on the agenda. 1:00pm Fancy yourself as a bit of a cake decorating diva? Let us be the judge of that. Joined by Richard Hunt – the man behind the giant gingerbread house – Kirstie will judge a live Christmas cake decorating competition. Conditions apply – some of which may involve wearing a blindfold. Express your interest when you book your seat to be in with a chance of taking part. 2:00pm Ministry of Upholstery, the UK's leading upholstery school, will be showing you how to upholster a beautiful footstool using a hand dyed piece of fabric from Annie Sloan. With their skills, tips and clever tricks you'll be turning tired old chairs into gorgeous reupholstered items as gifts or for your home. 3:00pm Kirstie and Anglo-Indian food entrepreneaur Arun Kapil are ready to spice up your festive season with a no fat mincemeat demonstration and tantalising guide to spice and how to use it in your cooking. 4:00pm It's not for nothing that the world's most exclusive brands make a major deal of wrapping. The way a gift looks is just as important as the gift itself, so Kirstie and wrapping queen Jane Means are taking to the main stage in a wrapping 101 to show you perfectly put together gifts that'll look a million dollars.

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