Kate Middleton's mum gesture for Prince George that ended in disaster

Princess Kate has long been known for tapping into her creative side, taking part in art projects while on royal engagements and often flexing her talent for photography with portraits of her family . And while the Princess of Wales is seemingly good at everything she attempts, she once admitted that there is one craft she couldn’t wrap her head around when she tried it several years ago - knitting. Kate revealed that she first tried her hand at knitting in 2013 when she was pregnant with her eldest child Prince George , and attempted to hone the skill to make her new baby some hand-knitted clothes. According to Hello! , she told a group of royal fans while visiting Glasgow: "I've been trying to knit and I'm really bad. I should be asking for tips!" Years later in 2020, during a trip to Bradford, Kate visited Older Yet Wiser - an organisation that supports grandparents - and met with some grandmothers who were showing off their impressive crocheting skills. It was at this wholesome meeting that Kate revealed she had tried and failed to make Prince George a hand-knitted jumper, telling the group: "I tried knitting when I first had George. I tried to knit him a very special jumper, but I got halfway down and it splattered. It's such an amazing skill." The Princess of Wales has often got in touch with her creative side while on royal outings, most recently being when she joined a group of children for messy play when she visited a children’s hospice. She joked "the messier it is, the better the fun" when she joined children playing with clouds of flour. The princess helped them make imaginary cakes with plasticine and flour, and chatted to mothers about her own children. The princess spoke to sisters Mariam Namakula, 30, and Sumayya Nabatanzi, 28, from Oxford, as their combined five children ran around having fun. When one of the children injected Kate with a toy syringe, the princess was left with flour on the jacket of her trouser suit and she asked another child “what are you making, are you making a cake? Delicious”. In September, Kate also tried her hand at fabric printing while on a trip to Marina Mill in Cuxton, Kent. The princess donned an apron and looked excited to get involved, as she was shown how the fabric is dried and then transferred, before she got her hands dirty to print her own fabric.