Hobbycraft, the UK’s largest arts and crafts retailer, celebrated the opening of its new store in Plough Lane Retail Park, Wimbledon on Saturday with a host of crafting activities, product offers and goody bags for the first 100 customers who walked through the doors.
The store officially opened on Monday 29th November, ahead of schedule, whilst the grand store opening event took place on Saturday 4th December at 9.00am, attended by the Mayor of Merton, Councillor Michael Brunt.
The new Hobbycraft colleagues were on hand to provide their expertise and encourage locals to master a new craft or refine a long-time favourite. The store opening created 17 new jobs in the local area for crafting experts, with some of the team including:
Andrew Morgan – Store Manager
Chloe – Knitting Expert
Carole – Crochet Expert
Karina – Papercraft Expert
Kasia – School Project Expert
Jacqui – Baking Expert
Katherine – Sewing Expert
Layla – Art Expert
James – Model Making Expert
Ellie – Sketching Expert
Sharon – Jewellery Making Expert
As well as the amazing offers and wide array of products available in celebration of the store opening, customers were also able to enjoy The Haberdashery and Custom Crafting areas that Wimbledon has to offer. The Haberdashery is a dedicated sewing area where customers can try out different sewing machines, whilst Custom Crafting is an area where customers can learn about personalisation with the digital cutting machine, Cricut.
The store will also offer up an array of Christmas crafting workshops, which are designed by Hobbycraft Artisans (craft experts from Hobbycraft stores across the UK) that will focus on showstopping Christmas gift making, wreath making and advent calendars personalising classes, to name a few.
The workshops are suitable for the whole family with specific kids’ sessions also available and prices for each session vary between £5 – £45. Crafters in the Wimbledon area are able to book an in-store workshop via Hobbycraft ClassBento.
