GH ’s Simon Swift takes up a familial hobby — and with it a familiar habit of not finishing what he started…

I REMEMBER the first thing I ever knitted, even if I have no idea where it is now. It was a sew-together hat, made of some lurid, scratchy acrylic yarn with uneven edges and the occasional rogue hole

In the early 1940s, the Royal Mint replaced the familiar image of a portcullis on the threepenny coin with a thrift plant. This was part of the government’s campaign reminding the public of the need f

DOT didn’t mind ironing, not really. It gave her something to do with her hands, and the gentle hiss of steam was company enough on most mornings. The radio sat unplugged on the windowsill. She used t

Sonnaz Nooranvary from ‘The Repair Shop’ invites Charlotte Reather to have a go at the art and craft of upholstery

There’s a time for doing things ‘properly’ and a time for affordable quick fixes, says Emily Henson