When asked to describe herself in a sentence, blogger Clare Albans knew just what to say: “I’m a proud Northerner, tea drinker – and lover of colour charts!” We’d add Love Embroidery fave to the list, too.
Clare set up her blog, Hello! Hooray! – a digital space in which crafters can connect with, and learn from, one another – in the hopes that it would provide her with some much needed respite from a challenging 9 to 5. “I was desperate to leave my teaching day job,” shares Clare: “I dreamed of being able to make a living from something crafty, but I wasn’t sure