{"id":117907,"date":"2018-09-26T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T08:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk?p=117907&preview=true&preview_id=117907"},"modified":"2018-09-26T14:49:21","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T13:49:21","slug":"getting-crafty-with-maggy-woodley-red-ted-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/getting-crafty-with-maggy-woodley-red-ted-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting crafty with Maggy Woodley of Red Ted Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maggy Woodley<\/a> is the creator of popular craft blog, Red Ted Art<\/a>, which was recently ranked number one in the Top 10 UK Craft Blogs<\/a>. Inspiring kids and adults to find their creative side, Red Ted Art has hundreds of craft ideas for any ability. We spoke to Maggy about the importance of crafts in a digital age, the hardest craft and what PRs should never do.<\/strong><\/p>\n

How has your blog changed from when you first started?<\/strong><\/span>
\nIt is much slicker and \u201cneater\u201d than when I started out, but the underlying ethos remains the same: making crafting easy and accessible to all. Using every day materials and empowering parents and kids alike to ENJOY crafting!! But… over the years, I have become much better at photography and understanding what kind of crafts my readers would like to see!<\/p>\n

What’s the craft blogger community like?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>
\nI love it! It is a very supportive community and I am always working on collaborative projects with a variety of different bloggers.<\/p>\n

Do you think crafts are more important in the digital age?<\/span>
\n<\/strong>Absolutely! As kids become more digi-fied they spend less and less time in the \u201creal world\u201d. Crafting is a great way to hone those fine motor skills, develop your imagination and also an opportunity to make gorgeous things for friends and family. Homemade to me, is always more special than anything shop-bought!<\/p>\n

Do you have to be artistic to be good at crafts?<\/strong> <\/span>
\nNo, absolutely not. I often say that I am \u201cnot arty\u201d but \u201cvery crafty\u201d. I would say it is a different skill set all together and that though they complement each other, you can be great at one and not the other.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the easiest craft you\u2019ve made?<\/span>
\n<\/strong>The easiest\u2026 oh that is tricky\u2026 there are so many easy crafts on my website! I would have to send a poll out to my readers. But generally speaking \u2013 the Corner Bookmarks<\/a> are super popular \u2013 as the materials are easy to come by and the designs are easy. Kids love to make them for their friends.<\/p>\n

\"Crochet<\/a>What\u2019s the hardest?<\/span>
\n<\/strong>The hardest are probably some of the crochet patterns I have on the site \u2013 they are all guest posts by expert crocheters. And though I don\u2019t think the patterns are necessarily hard, you DO need to know how to crochet in order to make them! Having said that, the designs are so cute, you simply have to give them a go. Take a look at this adorable Mermaid<\/a>!<\/p>\n

What are the best PR\/brand campaigns you\u2019ve worked on?<\/strong> <\/span>
\nOoh again, I think that is a really hard one to single out. I do LOVE all the Movie related craft campaigns. Ie a new movie comes out and the PR challenges me to come up with a related craft. E.g. these Piggy Cupcakes for the SING movie<\/a> are so easy and so cute!<\/p>\n

What shouldn\u2019t PRs do?<\/strong><\/span>
\nAssume that we work for free!! I know it is stating the obvious but so many PRs to try and get \u201cfreebies\u201d out of us, or give us a free toy or DVD in return for a blog post. The problem is that it takes time and effort to create content and the PRs need to be mindful of the time it takes to create this!<\/p>\n

Do you think bloggers need their own industry association?<\/strong><\/span>
\nThat could be a great thing \u2013 especially to help provide guidelines around best practices (disclosure) and taxes etc.<\/p>\n

What other blogs do you read?<\/strong><\/span>
\nLoads! I am mainly very closely familiar with all the crafty blogs out there, such as Hattifant<\/a>, I Heart Crafty Things<\/a>, Babble Dabble Doo<\/a> and Hello Wonderful<\/a> of course there are many more! But those are great!<\/p>\n

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Maggy Woodley is the creator of popular craft blog,Red Ted Art, which was recently ranked number one in the Top 10 UK Craft Blogs. Inspiring kids and adults to find their creative side, Red Ted Art has hundreds of craft ideas for any ability. We spoke to Maggy about the importance of crafts in a digital age, the hardest craft and what PRs should never do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":323,"featured_media":117909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7365,7272,4038,6980],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117907"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/323"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117907"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117924,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117907\/revisions\/117924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}