Royal wedding: Kate Middleton cross-stitch pattern — theguardian.com

The craft world loves a good excuse to break its needles out. Be it a general election, a presidential inauguration or the rise of a certain vampire trilogy, whenever something big happens you'll find someone, somewhere, has crafted something relevant. The royal wedding has certainly been no exception – I'd even say it's been one of the most popular crafting events of the last few years. Everyone seems to have jumped on the handmade bandwagon. There's been the infamous Knit Your Own Royal Wedding book (so popular it's on its zillionth reprint), those fetching Will and Kate knitted gloves (complete with knitted sapphire ring, of course) while, back in February, Piccadilly Circus got it's own knitted tribute to the wedding in the form of a yarnstorm on the Eros statue. Marketplace for handmade goods Etsy has an entire category dedicated to the big day (Kate and Will earrings anyone?) and Hannah Read-Baldrey, co-author of soon-to-be-published craft book Everything Alice, has written step-by-step instructions on how to have the perfectly crafted street party.

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