Mollie Makes

If Mollie Makes were a woman she would own “Millie’s”, a quirky organic vegan café. The cafe, her house and her daughter Charlie* would all be decorated in a quirky retro, minimalist style featuring  lots of  polka dots and woodland animals. On Sundays Mollie Makes would dye her severe bob black or  purple, pop on her quirky red-rimmed glasses and cycle with Charlie  to roller derby practice.

The magazine is as worthy as that – heavy on the Scandanavian look, white walls,  foxes, deer, owls, recycled furniture and dots.  The projects are usually at the  easy skill-level.  Of course beauty is in the eye of the needle, but to this crafter the Mollie Makes projects are too often offputtingly err… ugly.  Perhaps I just don’t understand and should hang out at Millie’s for a while.

Not attractive to this crafter…..

molly-makes-7Or just poorly executed…

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Some projects are better… (but note the bluebirds and rabbits which apparently infest England).

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Mollie Makes does differ from most craft magazines in that the  pieces about people are actually interesting and readable.  It also always has a kit attached to the cover – which is a nice extra.

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* Charlie was born a boy but boys don’t wear hair bows and coloured wellingtons, so Charlie is a girl now.  As far as her mother is concerned.

VERDICT  – buy it now and then.

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