Sarah-Jane Hicks has always enjoyed crochet and crafting in her spare time. She was taught to crochet as a child by her mum and grandmother. Previously she worked as a tax adviser and is now a freelance crochet designer. Her patterns have been published in various popular craft and crochet magazines, and she has over 93K followers on her Instagram account: @flo_and_dot Sarah-Jane has written four books for Search Press, and her first book, Amigurumi Christmas, has sold over 17,500 copies since publication in 2020. Wallace & Gromit: Cracking Crochet, also written by Sarah-Jane, will be published in August 2023. Sarah-Jane lives in Norfolk in the UK. For more information, visit Sarah-Jane's blog: www.floanddot.blogspot.com
Aardman animation fans will not be able to resist this eggs-traordinary collection of Chicken Run characters from the movie sequel Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, coming to Netflix on 15 December. The cast of characters includes Ginger, the leader of the flock, the lone 'free ranger' Rocky, good-hearted Babs and big hen Bunty, along with the mad scientist Dr Fry, villainous Mrs Tweedy and Nick, the nice-but-dim leader of the rats. Published on 2 November -- you can pre-order your copy now. -- Inside Crochet * Issue 162 *