Wonderwool Wales 2023

and intricate petals of the alstroemeria and on to the fantastical displays of the dahlia. Accompanied by stunning floral photography, readers will also find pages of handy tips and tricks, sewing up instructions and guides for tension, basic stitches and much more.

TOFT is a British craft company based in the rural Warwickshire village of the same name, which is home of the Edward's Menagerie and Alexandra's Garden collections of crochet animals and flowers by Kerry.

Bringing traditional crafts and contemporary designs together using luxury materials, the business specialises in beginner knit and crochet kits and has a wide range of pattern books and British wool. Everything is sold online at https://www.toftuk.com/ to customers worldwide.

TOFT was launched at Kerry’s parents’ alpaca stud farm in 2006, originally to produce alpaca yarns. Today, the company sells both alpaca and premium sheep wool yarns and has a global following.

All of TOFT's yarn - whether alpaca or premium wool - is spun in the UK by the best mills in England. The wool itself is of the highest quality, both in terms of the raw fibre the company uses and the workmanship that goes into creating the yarns.

Animal welfare is extremely important to TOFT as well. All wool yarns are museling free and all of the alpaca yarn is from the fleeces of company’s own herd.

In addition to the development of TOFT yarns, Kerry has written a series of best-selling books, including ‘Edward's Menagerie’. During the last weeks of her pregnancy with her son Edward in 2012, she taught herself to crochet and made a toy elephant for her new baby.

This began the collection of amigurumi animals - there are now more than 200 -which is now a phenomenon in the global craft industry. Edward's Menagerie began as an ebook that was exclusive to TOFT until 2014 when it was turned into a book and appeared on the shelves of bookshops all around the world.

Since then Kerry has designed hundreds more crochet patterns and written more books.

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