About this item
Knit, stitch, and paint your way to a more colorful and happy home with color expert and crafter Kristin Nicholas. Learn how to make your home sing through handmade crafts and a bold use of color. Kristin Nicholas, color expert and all-around master crafter, shares her secrets to selecting colors and patterns and explores the variety of crafts and decorating touches that have made her home so unique. Going room by room, Kristin uses her own 1751 farmhouse as a leaping-off point for craft projects perfect for every space. You'll find a range of step-by-step projects to make your home cozy and bright, including knit pillows, embroidered curtains, crocheted blankets, and painted lampshades. Along the way, Kristin also shares DIY techniques on refinishing furniture, faux finishing walls, mural painting, and recycling wool clothes.
About the Author
Kristin Nicholas is an artist, author, potter, and designer who lives on a working sheep farm with her husband and daughter in western Massachusetts. Kristin is known for her innovative use of bright colors and textures. Her artwork spans many disciplines - fabrics, needlework, pottery, interior decoration, and more. Kristin is the author of 12 books on crafting, knitting, embroidery, and interior decoration. She has also illustrated many of her own books.
Crafting a Patterned Home is Kristin's newest book - to be published by Roost Books in April 2018. In this new book, Kristin shares her love of pattern, color and interior decoration. She breaks down pattern design into easy building blocks so the reader can design their very own patterns too. There are over 25 projects included which will inspire the reader to add pattern to their home, their walls, their furniture, textiles and even the outdoors including She Sheds.
Kristin's home has been featured in Country Home, Yankee Magazine, Romantic Homes, Cottages and Bungalows, the Boston Globe, and on the Houzz.com website where it was the "Most Popular Colorful House of the Year" in 2012. Check out a video of Kristin and her family and their colorful farmhouse on Houzz.com:
http://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/4018714/video/my-houzz-an-antique-cape-cod-house-explodes-with-color
Each summer, Kristin hosts retreats on her farm a few times a year where knitters, stitchers, and crafters come to learn about colorwork, design, and living on a working sheep farm. Kristin also teaches on-line knitting and stitching classes on the websites Craftsy, Creativebug, and is the Knitting Expert on PBS' Knit and Crochet Now.
She learned to knit, crochet, embroider and sew as a young girl. For 16 years she was the Creative Director of Classic Elite Yarns in Lowell, MA. She writes the popular farming, knitting and lifestyle blog http://getting-stitched-on-the-farm.blogspot.com/
Kristin and her family own Leyden Glen Farm with a flock of 200 breeding ewes. The sheep are raised for meat with they sell at local Farmers' Markets in western Massachusetts. Their Border Collie Kate, helps herd the sheep and keep everyone in line. Guard dogs Beau and Sadie and guard llama Jeremy try to keep the critters at bay.
Check out her website at www.kristinnicholas.com
