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ONLINE SHOPPING GUIDE

Website reviews by screen reader users

8th Floor = Arts & Crafts

Contributed to by several TAFN members.

Arts and Crafts.

Sites Reviewed on this Floor (6):

All About Crafts
Cute and Crafty
English Yarns
Fred Aldous Crafts
Laughing Hens
Sew Essential

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Site Review: All About Crafts

Web address: http://www.herrschners.co.uk/

Brief Rating: A good site.

All About Crafts has merged with herrschners to offer customers an even wider, more comprehensive range of crafting products, so if you feel inspired to take up a new hobby in needlework jewellery making, paper crafting, and more, this is the place to go. While away those lighter summer evenings or dark winter nights to produce your own, unique hand-made treasures.

Site reviewed by Sue Pallett.

Site Review: Cute and Crafty

Web address: http://cutencrafty.com/shop/index.php

Brief Rating: A good site.

Crafters among us can browse here for, not only card making and scrapbooking materials but famous name teddy bears too! Who wouldn't love to receive one as a gift, whether its hand-made or chosen for you by that special someone.

Based in Lychfield, Staffordshire, this isn't a huge site so it is easy to navigate and if you can't find what you need, they encourage personal contact by telephone or e-mail.

Site Review: English Yarns

Web Address: http://www.englishyarns.co.uk/

A very good site.

Shoreham Knitting and Needlecraft (English Yarns) specialise in products for the hand knitter and seamstress. , they have been in business for over thirty years. The staff are keen needleworkers themselves so they are well qualified to advise you in what to buy or to help with any new project that you are thinking of undertaking. They specialize in the distribution of many knitting wools and yarns, including Rowan, Jaeger, RYC, Patons and Sirdar. They stock knitting needles and other craft accessories and a vast range of haberdashery. The online store will send to anywhere in the world. I placed an order on a monday, and it was with me two days later.

Recommended by Wendy M!

Site Review: Fred Aldous Crafts.

Web address: http://www.fredaldous.co.uk/trolleyed

Brief Rating: A very good site.

Search for all your craft materials here.

This Company have an extensive range of items and materials for crafts of all types. Although the product information isn't very extensive, the ordering and purchasing process is excellent and the customer service is very good too.

Site Review: Laughing Hens

Web address: http://www.laughinghens.com

Brief Rating: A very good site.

LaughingHens, is, at first sight, a strange name for a company that sells craft products, but, it is based in a small rural village in Sussex, hence the reference to their own hens.

This site was recommended by Audrey Tonge, who has bought from them by phone and confirms that they take customer satisfaction very seriously. Browse through the knitting yarns, patterns, needles and accessories. Choose plain wools and cottons, or mixed yarns with added texture and colour. There are also links to other useful craft sites. If you are lucky enough to live down in Sussex, you can even attend their knitting and crochet classes and partake of their lunches made from local organically grown produce.

Site review: Sew Essential

Web address: http://www.sewessential.co.uk/

Brief Rating: A very good site.

Buy all you need for haberdashery, machine embroidery, cross stitch, dressmaking and tailoring, patchwork and quilting, needle crafts and latch hook kits, knitting, sewing, Embroidery, soft toy making, sewing machines and even the necessary lighting to create your craft with ease, and much much more. Based in Walsall, West Midlands,Sew Essential, aim to deliver your order promptly, you can also place your order, or discuss product availability by telephone.

Visit the TAFN webshop at www.buy.at/tafn where you can buy goods online and raise funds for The Accessible Friends Network (UK registered charity No, 1108043) at the same time!

DISCLAIMER: Neither Sue Pallett or the Accessible Friends Network accept liability for any transaction with any of the companies listed on this page, which is intended as a helpful guide and produced and run on an entirely voluntary basis.

Click here to contact Sue / Click here to contact the TAFN Webmaster

Other Pages on the TAFN website by Sue Pallett:-

Sue's Kitchen, a cookery guide for blind & VI people that featured on BBC in Touch, in 2005!

Also the excellent

Sue's Accessible Container Gardening Page

More Online Shopping recommendations by Blind/VI People are always wanted for this page and can help others!

People from across our network would would love to hear of your online shopping experiences, both good and bad. Is there a particular site YOU recommend or would like to add to this page? Have YOU had problems with online shopping, either with screen reader navigation, or customer service? Or has a particular supplier been especially helpful to you?

If so please email us and let us know, we are happy to accredit website reviewers for their contributions.

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