Perranuthnoe's buzzing today - this is the place to be!!

What a lovely afternoon after the dull rainy start to the day, the Craft Centre has been buzzing and the shop has been busy. Kevin and I have been flat out all afternoon selling lots of our Cornish Farm Dairy Ice Cream, with flavours such as Almond & Amerena Cherry and Mint Choc Chip from Moomaid and everyone's favourite Clotted Cream Vanilla and Honeycomb from Callestick Farm plus lots of other equally gorgeous flavours, they're all so yummy!

Our wool shop's been busy too and I've been sorting out all the new stock which has arrived during the last week, in between serving! so it's been hectic but really lovely to see all the visitors to Perranuthnoe. It's also been good seeing everyone enjoying the lovely weather this afternoon, lots just sitting outside around the tables enjoying their ice cream cornets.

It is if forecast to continue with the good weather for the next few days, fingers crossed, so often they get it wrong but we can but hope. Anyway come down to Perranuthnoe, come and have an ice cream, visit the shop and perhaps stay for lunch or afternoon tea at the Peppercorn cafe. You can bring the family and the dog and have a lovely walk along the cliffs to Marazion or in the other direction to Prussia Cove and Praa Sands. It's all here - just come and find us!

apologies: just don't have a 'buzzing' picture to show you, there just wasn't time to nip outside and take one (or even inside!)

Natural hand made soap made in Perranuthnoe

Just look at all this lovely hand made, natural soap. No chemicals or parabens just pure oils! Treat yourself to one of our truly special fragranced soaps or you might like to try a tablet of the exfoliator felted soap which works beautifully, the soap comes through as you wash leaving you with just a pad of felt when the soap has all gone.

Fragrance soaps £2.95 per tablet and Exfoliator Felted soap £3.50 per tablet.

Available in the Village Crafts shop or you can telephone your order through on 01736 711288.

Hand dyed silk scarves, silver & gem jewellery and a Noah's Ark!!

Just had a few minutes today to whizz around the shop with my camera and so here are a few shots showing some of the eclectic range of stock we have at Village Crafts. Come and see us soon and if you haven't found us yet then you just must"!!

Come to Village Crafts and try our Cornish Farm Ice Cream

We now have a selection of Cornish Farm scoop ice cream. All made within a 25 mile radius of Perranuthnoe, two new flavours this week are Almond & Amarena Cherry and Lemoncello which are absoloutely scrummy!! Come and try one!


Also new in to our Knitting shop this week is the Sirdar Simply Recycled Cotton DK, five lovely colours to choose from.

Where can you buy your knitting wool and Cornish Farm Ice cream too!!

Worldwide Knitting in Public Day Saturday 11th June - Come and knit with us!

Come and join us on Saturday June 11th at the Village Crafts and Cornish Wools Worldwide Knitting in Public celebration. We will be gathering at 11am and will be knitting until 4pm. Bring your knitting or crochet, a chair, your lunch and some suitable clothing and have a fun day. Take away refreshments are available from Peppercorn Cafe on the site if you prefer. For more details please contact us at 01736 711288 or email at cornishwools@live.co.uk

New! Hand dyed 100% Merino 4ply - Gorgeous!!

Just fresh from the 'Old Piggery' Dyeing workshop in Perranuthnoe six skeins of this fabulously vibrant violet and apricot yarn. A 100% Merino 4 ply knitting wool and absolutely perfect for a lovely fine jacket or cardigan or a simply exotic shawl. Another idea would be some socks or wrist warmers in preparation for Christmas gifts later this year. You have to see it to believe, a hand dyed knitting wool to 'dye' for!

These six skeins will be available for sale on the website and in our Perranuthnoe shop tomorrow. So be quick!!

Joan visits from Minnesota

Here we all are at our regular Wednesday knitting group last week when Joan Wells from Minnesota USA joined whilst she was visiting the area. It was a lovely afternoon with lots of knitting chat, tea and homemade cake.


New into the shop this week are a lovely selection of spring and summer scarves, polka dots, delicate voile with flowers and in a choice of shades and colours. We also have a basket of new summer bangles just right for jazzing up a spring outfit.




Customers coming into the shop this week will see we have had a change around and there's more to come so watch this space. We have decided expand our range of ice creams and will shortly be stocking Callestick Farm tubs in a selection of flavours and in a few weeks time we will also be offering scoop ice cream too!

New In!! King Cole Moorland Aran & Bergere de France Alaska in Eider

Just new in last week a fabulous knitting wool, MOORLAND ARAN FROM KING COLE in four lovely colours. It's a tweedie yarn with soft flecks running through it, really beautiful to knit with. Also new in BERGERE DE FRANCE ALASKA in shade Eider, a lovely cream two tone yarn, very soft and warm.

And before I forget we also had in the stunning KNIT PRO PIN POINTS in the long point and in sizes from 3mm through to 5.5mm. We also have the KNIT PRO NATURAL CORDS in 60cm, 80cm, 100cm and 120cm.



Also new in big crochet hooks for those who are wanting to crochet freeform and big!
In Addi we have 5 - 8mm and in Prym we hav sizes 10mm, 12mm and 15mm

All available to buy from the shop in Perranuthnoe but not yet on line through Cornish Wools. For details contact us on 01736 711808 or 711288 or email on perrancrafts@googlemail.com

Textile workshops during March 2011

'Knitting for Beginners' Monday March 7th
If you would like to learn how to knit we have a 'Knitting for Beginners' workshop with tutor Chris Boulton. Chris will be teaching you all the basics of knitting such as how to cast on and there are different ways even to do this simple task. Also how to cast off when you have finished your project. You will learn how to knit and purl and how to make a rib using these two stitches, how to assess the thickness of the yarn and lots lots more.

'Crochet for Beginners' Monday March 14th
On the Crochet workshop for beginners with tutor Pauline Thomas you will learn the basics of getting 'hooked' you will learn how to hold the crochet hook and yarn, how to make a variety of crochet stitches and how to make circles and squares and how to join these together to make a project item.

'Felting for Beginners' Monday March 21st
Learning how to create felt and the variety of things you can make from it will be a voyage of discovery. Here you start at the beginning with Pauline Thomas, you will learn about the different wet felting techniques and by the end of the day you will have created a wall hanging or mat.

'Hooked Rugs & Proddy Mats' Monday March 28th
Learn the ancient art of rug hooking with Diane Cox. Make a mat, rug or wall hanging from new or recycled materials and just let your imagination flow.

All workshops in March are on Mondays and will run from 10am to 4pm at a cost of £25 per person with a 10% discount for multiple bookings.

To book or for further details please either telephone on 01736 711899 or email on cornishwools@live.co.uk

Welcome to Village Crafts and Cornish Wools - our shop in Perranuthnoe

Welcome to Village Crafts, this picture was taken earlier this week, looking up from our adjoining Cornish Wools knitting wool shop. Here are some really lovely pieces of wooden sculpture from Samvado of the Lizard and a selection of pottery produced by Holly Jackson of Penzance.





















And here is just a small selection of locally hand made jewellery, the necklace and earings are made in Perranuthnoe by Helen Crebo. We have a huge selection of jewellery with lots on display for you to see and try on and perhaps fall in love with.





There are lots and lots of local artist greetings cards for you to choose from and a huge variety of local crafts and gifts ideal for that special birthday or anniversary treat.





Samvado creates some extremely beautiful wood sculptures. He told me, when I visited him recently, that his inspiration comes from the natural form, shape and feel of the piece he intends to work on. I just love this 'One Heart' created from a single piece of Yew wood. Ideal for a wedding or engagement gift!

Different, eclectic, unusual and often the word 'WOW!' are used to describe the Cornish Wools knitting shop. It has an 'arty crafty' look and feel with just the types of yarn that can inspire the textile artist. Here we have some of our Lang knitting wools with baskets and trugs of other exciting yarns such as our Cornish Wools 'Cornish' 4ply sock yarn collection


Here the picture shows some of the items in our Spinning, weaving and felting corner. Hand crafted drop spindles and knitting dollies made in Cornwall by Terry Pearson. Ashford wool carders, pencil rovings and tops, felting needles, gorgeous silk fibres and lots to inspire the textile crafter.

We also stock recycled silk sari ribbon, sari silk, hemp and banana fibre knitting yarns, Ashford traditional spinning wheels, the Ashford Knitters Loom and ideal for beginners the smaller and more straight forward frame looms. So lots to see there too.

Come and visit Perranuthnoe, see our Village Crafts and Cornish Wools shop, have lunch or coffee and a slice of cake in the Peppercorn Cafe or why not bring your dog and boots and take a bracing walk or a leisurely stroll along the cliff path, indulge yourself and just ENJOY!!

Happy New Year - 2011

To all our customers 'New' and 'Old' I would like to wish you all a very Happy, Healthy, Lucky and Successful New Year.

The shop continues as always to be open 7 days a week. We have a lovely selection of local crafts, lots of beautiful jewellery and if you have not discovered it yet and ever growing selection of knitting wools and yarns. Lots of knitting accessories, needles, books and patterns too.