Our Story
Craftucation was created by Nikki Small in Llandudno in February 2017 as a weekly class for home educated children. The aim was to learn about a variety of topics through crafts.
The classes were a huge success, as was Ewe Felty Thing, the independent craft shop which grew out of it. We started teaching lots of art and craft courses through the shop to help budding artisans learn new skills or expand on existing ones. We loved sharing techniques in felting, knitting, spinning and crochet.
When the pandemic struck in 2020 and we were no longer able to provide courses in-person, we started thinking about how we could move them online. We realised that many tutors were in the same position and that so many artists and crafters were wanting to learn skills but didn’t have access to anyone to teach them.
Nikki decided that what was needed was a brand new platform designed to connect tutors and students. Where quality, in-depth courses are standard, and students have access not only to tutor support but also to peer support and to join a crafting community. All the things that we usually enjoy so much during in-person courses and make the creative world such a wonderful place to be.
We are working our way through this journey and we’re really excited to take you along with us as we work to create our new collaborative crafting community.
