Amble Pin Cushion

20/06/2026

Improver and Beginner Crocheters Granny Stitch workshop!
Jackie will be teaching this class on Thursday morning 25.06.26. Choose your colour palette for your blanket or cushion. We are hoping to encourage entries into the novice crochet category at Warkworth Show.
Book instore or online: https://amblepincushion.co.uk/shop/crochet-cushion-or-blanket-workshop/

19/06/2026

Free Craft Friday brings you 3 crafting ideas for a unique gift for Sunday's Father's Day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlMx9lGnzJQ
We have 3D frames, hot glue guns, cards, felt pens etc at Amble Pin Cushion.
Check out our Father's Day Gift Guide here: https://amblepincushion.co.uk/product-category/fathers-day-gift-guide/
We also have gift vouchers for any amount, and a selection of cards to put it in (or bring your own)!

18/06/2026

It's Craft and Chatter today in our upstairs craft room. All details on poster or online: https://amblepincushion.co.uk/shop/craft-and-chatter/

17/06/2026

Would you like to learn to knit toys and mascots?

Join Liz on 07.08.26 for a workshop where Improver Knitters can learn the basic techniques for shaping components, sewing them up and joining them together, plus attaching eyes and decorations, whilst making this super cute Unicorn. £30 including materials, 10% off in the shop and at Gracy's Coffee Lounge.

This would be a perfect item to enter at the Warkworth Show. Check out the handicraft classes on pages 7 and 8 in the show schedule preview here: https://tinyurl.com/32hzypcx

Book instore or online: https://amblepincushion.co.uk/product-category/workshops/

16/06/2026

Quick Tip Tuesday is about our Garment Fitting Service.

If you haven't already made your fitting appointment for your wedding or prom this summer, don't delay!

If you are attending a fitting for a ladies' formal outfit or a bridal fitting, please always have the underwear and shoes (or shoes of the same height), which you intend to wear on the day. Don't underestimate how details like this can affect your balance and posture! It is also useful to have your item/s in a hanging suit or gown bag, sufficiently long to allow it to hang full length. We do stock these.
More information about what to expect at a bridal or fitting here: https://amblepincushion.co.uk/bridalprom/services-for-the-ladies/

When gentlemen are attending a fitting for a suit jacket, please wear a long sleeved shirt, have a suit bag, and the shoes you will be wearing.

16/06/2026

Interested in finding out about the history of lace?

The next meeting of Acklington WI is on Tuesday 9th June 7.15pm in the Guyzance room at Acklington Village Hall.

Susan Clarke will be talking about "The History of Lace".

There will be an opportunity to try your hand at making pillow lace by throwing bobbins, should you wish.

Entrance fee £4 which includes refreshments.

15/06/2026

The Berwick Tablecloth is a two-day, drop-in, participatory embroidery workshop led by artist Cath Campbell, and inspired by the historic Mons Tablecloth held in The King’s Own Scottish Borderers Museum archives.https://www.maltingsberwick.co.uk/whats-on/the-berwick-tablecloth/?dm_i=1UYU,98LUC,4MV7KV,12S2N5,1,0,0,0

15/06/2026

Me Made Monday is Helen's bag decorated with some of our amazing trim. We sell a minimum of 25cm of any items sold in meterage form.

14/06/2026

During our polymer clay button workshop, one participant told us about "pin money," which I thought would make an interesting Sunday Read:

"Pin money" originated in 16th-century England, when straight pins were scarce, handcrafted, and expensive. Husbands and fathers provided women with a specific allowance—literally called pin money—to purchase these costly necessities for their clothing and households.As pins became cheaper and mass-produced, the term evolved. By the late 1600s, it referred to a wife's private annual allowance for personal fancies, clothing, and incidentals outside the general household budget.Here is how the expression transformed over time:
16th Century: Refers to the literal purchase of expensive and essential brass pins used in dressmaking. Early records include a 1542 English will detailing a father's provision for his daughter "to by her pynnes withal".
17th Century: Formalized in law. The first explicit use of the phrase appeared in English courts (circa 1674) to describe a legal allowance a husband settled on his wife for personal expenses in case of a separation.
19th & 20th Centuries: Evolved to describe supplementary income. It was later used in a belittling way to dismiss the earnings of working women as merely trivial or for "incidentals."
More info here: https://trc-leiden.nl/trc-needles/osterteppich/texts-films-customs-and-events/customs-and-traditions/pin-money