Challenge completed!!!
A gallery of completed craft projects from the Happy Barnet Craft Challenge 2022.

The Happy Barnet Craft Challenge is back for 2022. Read our new craft ideas and prompts. Each month we’ll focus on one for fun and inspiration and another to encourage you to try new crafts and techniques. Wishing you all a crafty and happy year!

Part 5 of my lockdown project, crocheting events and themes from 2020, the coronavirus and the lockdown.

Part 5 of my lockdown project, crocheting events and themes from 2020, the coronavirus and the lockdown.

Part 4 of my lockdown project, crocheting events and themes from 2020, the coronavirus and the lockdown.

The Happy Barnet Craft Challenge is back for 2021. Read our new craft ideas and prompts on our two challenge lists, one for fun and inspiration and another to encourage you to try new crafts and techniques. Wishing you all a crafty and happy year!

Part 3 of my lockdown project, crocheting events and themes from 2020, the coronavirus and the lockdown.

Part 2 of my lockdown project, crocheting events and themes from 2020, the coronavirus and the lockdown.

Part 1 of my lockdown project, crocheting events and themes from 2020, the coronavirus and the lockdown.

The Happy Barnet Craft Challenge is back for 2020. Read our new craft ideas and prompts on our two challenge lists, one for fun and inspiration and another to encourage you to try new crafts and techniques.

For the MAKE TO DONATE challenge in this year’s Happy Barnet Craft Challenge. I decided to crochet blankets and butterflies for SiMBA. Here’s a little bit more about what I made and the patterns I used.

As many of the Happy Barnet Craft Challenges include trying new crafts or new techniques, we thought we'd share some tips and useful info about our favourite crafts to help you get started.

Here’s our beginners guide to melt and pour soap making!

I love crocheting this pineapple blanket pattern and hope you do too! It creates a lovely light and pretty piece that can be made to any size with any weight of yarn. Step by step instructions available in this free crochet pattern.

Join our Facebook group to watch our Facebook Live Show and Tell with Jackie Cameron who will be telling us all about Corner to Corner Crochet aka c2c crochet

It’s fun to learn about the many different types of traditional crafts from other countries and regions. Have a look at what our crafters have been trying out!

Find out more about the Pantone colour of the year for 2019, Living Coral and see some of the projects our crafters made.

Plastic free, zero waste, it’s all about reducing, reusing and recycling so this craft challenge is about upcycling.

A great way to learn new crafts or techniques is to go along to a craft workshop.

Here’s some of the brilliant projects made at workshops by the Happy Barnet Craft Challengers.

Join our Facebook group to watch our Facebook Live Show and Tell with Liam Berge who will be showing us how some of his amazing leatherwork!

Meet Brandon Farris, the world’s most enthusiastic, carefree, confident, joyful and hilarious crafting newbie ….and my new crafting hero #bemorebrandon