This year's Showcase expo at the RDS was full of top-quality design-led Irish crafts, says Lucinda O'Sullivan NOT for the first time on visiting Showcase – Ireland's creative expo, held annually in ...

Hundreds of crafters are passing the time during the coronavirus lockdown by following a mystery knitting pattern. Each week Suzy Cowper is sending out part of a free pattern for a tea cosy to ...

Surrounded by bushland and birdsong, 70-year-old Robyn Lauder relaxes on her back deck, knitting needles in hand. She's creating a bright, old-fashioned tea-cosy and says it's a calming process. "I ...