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How to Restore Classic Car Interiors: Repair * Restoration * Maintenance

Peter Steinfurth · Veloce Publishing
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

Here is the ultimate resource packed with restoration know-how on all kinds of interior fittings in your classic car.Starting with an initial cleaning, this new volume produced in close co-operation with the editors of Europe's largest vintage car magazine OLDTIMER MARKT, provides easy-to-follow...
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Out of the Box

Jemma Westing · DK Children
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover

Twenty-five interactive cardboard model projects that engage kids' creativity and "out of the box" thinking skills through hands-on learning and the application of science-based principles.Kids can bring old cardboard to life and build recycled creations they can play with, sit in, and wear.Supporting...
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Sewing Machine Magic: Make the Most of Your Machine--Demystify Presser Feet and Other Accessories * Tips and Tricks for Smooth Sewing * 10 Easy, Creative Projects

Steffani Lincecum · Creative Publishing int'l
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

With just a little know-how and the right accessories, you can get the most out of your sewing machine and give all your sewing and quilting projects a professional look!In Sewing Machine Magic, author and sewing expert Steffani Lincecum shares 30 years of experience on how to handle a sewing...
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Kitchen Lithography: Hand Printing at Home: From Buttons and Bags to Postcards and Pillowcases

Laura Sofie Hantke · Princeton Architectural Press
Pages: 120
Format: Paperback

When printmakers Laura Sofie Hantke and Lucas Grassmann graduated from university, they found themselves without the luxury of a professional print studio. In their search for an easy technique they could implement in their own home, they came across French artist émilie Aizier-Brouard's...
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The Art of Embroidered Flowers

GILDA BARON · Search Press
Pages: 80
Format: Paperback

Explore nature through a combination of textiles and embroidery in this new, modernised edition of Gilda Baron's inspirational, innovative step-by-step work.Using painted and dyed backgrounds, and hand and machine embroidery, this guide presents a wonderful variety of three-dimensional...
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Know Your Ships 2017: Field Guide to Boats and Boatwatching on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway

Roger Lelievre · Marine Pub Co
Pages: 184
Format: Paperback

Know Your Ships 2017
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Kaffe Fassett's Quilts in Ireland: 20 designs for patchwork and quilting

KAFFE FASSETT · Taunton Press
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

West Ireland, with its streets of colorful painted houses and ancient stone walls, provides the perfect inspiration for the richly varied quilt designs in Kaffe Fassett's Quilts in Ireland. Renowned for his use of color, Kaffe creates color palettes of brilliant hot pinks and reds;...
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How to Make Jewellery: Easy Techniques and Over 25 Great Projects

Mary Helt · Collins & Brown
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

Looking for that perfect piece of jewelry? Create it yourself, with this sparkling collection of projects! With more than 25 custom-made designs, all using beginner-friendly techniques, this is your guide to making beautiful, unique bling. Whether you'd like a vintage bead bracelet...
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Hand Carving Your Own Walking Stick: An Art Form

David Stehly · Fox Chapel Publishing
Pages: 72
Format: Paperback

Learn to carve beautiful wildlife themed walking sticks with this informative and easy-to-follow book. Hand Carving Your Own Walking Stick includes useful information on harvesting and curing wood, plus advice on getting the best finishing results with paints, stains, varnishes, acrylics,...
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Thimbleberries® Quilts with a New Attitude: 23 Tried and true quilt designs made in both traditional and modern fabrics

Lynette Jensen · Landauer Publishing
Pages: 143
Format: Paperback

New Thimbleberries® patterns with a contemporary twist! Best-selling designer Lynette Jensen showcases pairs of projects made with her own classic fabrics and Cotton Steel fabrics the results are stunning! Lynette returns with over 20 new Thimbleberries® patterns and a mission to unite...
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Heirloom Wood: A Modern Guide to Carving Spoons, Bowls, Boards, and other Homewares

Max Bainbridge · Abrams
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover

Heirloom Wood is a love letter to wood's form and function through simple woodworking projects. Combining traditional techniques with contemporary design, Max Bainbridge teaches you how to identify wood types, source timber, and set up a basic toolbox, then offers step-by-step carving and cutting...
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Goldmine's Essential Guide to Record Collecting

DAVE THOMPSON · Krause Publications
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

Your Vinyl AnswerGoldmine's Essential Guide to Record Collecting celebrates some of the finest vinyl ever pressed by music's greatest artists. You'll find the royalty of Rock (Elvis, The Beatles, the Rolling Stones) , the pioneers of Punk (The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Ramones)...
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Brick Beasts: 40 Clever & Creative Ideas to Make from Classic Lego®

KEVIN HALL · Barron's Educational Series
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback

LEGO builders, rejoice! The popular series that includes Brick Animals and Brick Cars and Trucks is back with two new titles that each feature 40 original, ingenious, and unique buildable projects. Anyone with a drawer full of LEGO bricks will be able to build and customize models with...
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Heavy Duty Sewing: Making Backpacks and Other Stuff

ANTON SANDQVIST · Frances Lincoln
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover

From the founder of iconic outdoors brand Sandqvist, this cool craft book is all about using needle and thread, a sewing machine and stiff materials to make your own practical, hardwearing functional objects. From hiking rucksacks to knife holders, vanity bags to aprons, there are projects...
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Create Your Own Improv Quilts: Modern Quilting with No Rules & No Rulers

Rayna Gillman · C&T Publishing
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback

A natural follow-up to the best-selling Create Your Own Free-Form Quilts, this book applies Rayna's no rules, no mistakes, no worries style to modern quilting. Starting with strips and geometric shapes, you'll cut and sew without patterns, required yardage, or complicated diagrams. This...
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