Retro Handcrafts

12/06/2026

Friends, coffee and knitting....what more could you want in life!

🌟Happy International Knit In Public Day, everyone 🌟🧶🧵🪡🧶

04/06/2026

📣 July School Holidays, creative fun, needle felting workshop!

Retro Handcrafts is holding a needle felting workshop at Upper Hutt Spinners and Weavers rooms in Trentham.

Book in for my needle felting workshop and make your own fairy⭐️🧚⭐️

You will be shown the basic techniques of needle felting. Your registration includes all the fibres needed to make your own Fairy 🧚

🗓️ Wednesday 15th July 2026

⏰ 10 am to 1:30 pm, with a 1/2 break for lunch, there is a full kitchen at venue.

*** suitable children 8+ years.

💰Cost is $30.00 p/p, for this you will get to take your own Fairy ✨🧚 home and enjoy learning a new skill and meeting new creative people.

Extra kits available to purchase on the day with a 20% discount to class attendees, these will have all you need to begin your needle felting journey at home and will make up another 4 or more Fairies. Eftpos available.

Spaces are limited, so get in quick 😊 pm for more details

04/06/2026

Hello Wool Lovers❣️

Did you know Saturday 13th June 26, is International knit in public day?

What a wonderful way to spread the woolly love and encourage others to engage it this relaxing craft 🧶🪡

Are you part of a group who meet for a regular 'knit n chat' catch up, or like me knit anywhere, anytime kind of knitter?

I would love to see what you're crafting at the moment, maybe some of that amazing yarn from last month's Capital Fibre Fest is itching to get on you're needles, or you're sewing up and adding finishing touches to a garment.

*Photos are of me crafting. Socks on the go whilst having a coffee catch up and myself spinning in public.

02/06/2026

A productive rainy day for me 😀

I grabbed these awesome 'Retro' suitcases on a recent visit to Nelson.

Just painted the insides, now dry they are fill with super soft skeins of handspun wool for this weekends up coming 'The Wonderful Woodville Market', Sunday 7th June, 10am - 2pm, Ross St, Woodville. Just off SH3.

Hope to see you there.

10/05/2026

Loved being apart of this event 😍 Can't wait for next year!

With another Capital Fibre Fest under our hats, the Fibre Fest committee would like to say a huge ⭐️ thank you ⭐️ to all of our awesome traders. Without you, we wouldn't be heading into our 10th year!

📣📣📣 A special shout out to all of you wool lovers 🧶🐑🐏🦙, who have supported this event, making Capital Fibre Fest the success it is today 🤩

Planning is already under way for our 10th anniversary.
Mark down the date 🗓 you wont want to miss it!

21/04/2026

Excited to be a part if this event. I have been busy dying sheep locks and will have needle felting kits for sale + registrations for needle felting classes in Upper Hutt.
Hope to see you there.

What you need to know: Free entry (Location) Spot prizes during the day. Plenty of free parking, 2 mins walk to train and bus station, onsite cafe and coffee shop. Short walk to Upper Hutt town centre for more cafes and shops. Loads of stallholders selling a range of wool, fibre, yarns and related

23/09/2025

📣 Ever wanted to try needle felting but don't know where to start?

Book in for my needle felting workshop and make your own fairy⭐️🧚⭐️

Retro Handcrafts is holding a needle felting workshop at Whirinaki Whare Taonga

You will be shown the basic techniques of needle felting.

Your registration includes all the fibre needed to make your own Fairy 🧚

🗓️Saturday 11th October 2025 - now open for registrations

⏰ 1pm to 4pm

🗺️ Whirinaki Whare Toanga, 836 Fergusson Drive, Upper Hutt

💰Cost is $30.00 + booking fee, for this you will you will get to take your own Fairy ✨🧚 home and enjoy learning a new skill and meeting new creative people.

Extra kits available to purchase on the day with a 20% discount to class attendees, ( Eftpos available on the day ) these will have all you need to begin your needle felting journey at home and will make up another 4 or more Fairies.

For more info or to book click the Well Made tab on the website:

https://www.whirinakiarts.org.nz/events/current-events/well-made-craft-festival-2025/felt-fairy-workshop/

Spaces are limited, so get in quick 😊

29/06/2025

📣 Calling all crafters!

Retro Handcrafts is going to be at The Wonderful Woodville Market this coming Sunday 6th July 10am - 2pm. 64 Ross Street, Woodville.

I will have needle felting kits and accessories for sale, just perfect for school holiday fun.

🐝I am also a bee keeper and will have bees wax for sale, perfect for making your own candles, balms, furnature polish etc. 🐝

+ a selection of my other crafts for sale.

Hope to see you there 😃

Eftpos available.

08/06/2025

Hey everyone, I now have a shop on Felt.co.nz 💥💯🫶

My wee baby socks are featured today, better get loading more on 😉 and more under way on my needles.

Will be loading lots of other goodies over the coming weeks. So check back for more cool knit wear, coins, wax wraps, skeins of handspun wool etc.

https://retrocrafts.felt.co.nz

02/05/2025

Time to get your wool on 😀 🐏 🪡🧵

1 week till Capital FibreFest!