With her signature style, the bestselling and beloved needlework author Nicky Epstein offers the best guide to felting. Using ten chic garments and more than 150 stunning sample swatches as examples, she covers the top techniques for turning wool yarn into vibrant and dense textures. Before and after shots show how different fabrics react to the process, and there are patterns, stitches, and techniques for lace, mosaics, cables, plaids, checks, and quilting. Create bobbles, appliqués, and ruffles; combine yarns; and use clamps, marbles, cords, braids, and more to form three-dimensional shapes in the felt. Epstein also presents her unique ideas for transforming old clothes and accessories, using one sweater to demonstrate many design possibilities.
Sixth&Spring Books; First Edition edition
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9781933027111
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Hardcover
Strip Your Stash
By Erla, Gudrun
Bust your stash with 12 strip quilts, perfect for those larger pieces of leftover fabric that you aren't sure how to use. Cut, sort, store, and sew 2 1/2? strips. Confidently pair fabric prints, using three no-fail strategies! The popular quilter behind GE Designs shares quick yet impressive patterns to win over both traditional and modern quilters. Complete with helpful charts and illustrations, these beginner-friendly designs each come in two or more sizes.
C&T Publishing
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9781607057406
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Paperback
Making Shadow Puppets
By Watson, Laura
In this Kids Can Do It title, kids discover the secret to creating traditional shadow puppets based on designs from around the world. With instructions for nine beautifully crafted and decorated wooden rod puppets, portable screen set-ups, scenery and script ideas, this book will help them put on plays that are sure to astound their family and friends -- without a shadow of a doubt! Puppet ideas include * a snake * a robot * a flying bird * a monster
Kids Can Press
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9781553370284
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Hardcover
100 Flowers to Knit & Crochet
By Stanfield, Lesley
100 Flowers to Knit & Crochet showcases a lush bouquet of blossoms perfect for embellishing your favorite clothing or accessories. As a finishing touch for all your handmade garments or a great pick-me-up for a vintage find, these lovely blooms are the perfect way to use up scraps of yarn or try out interesting new yarns.Breeze through this gorgeous collection featuring a colorful palette of simple spiraling roses, saucer-sized poppies, delicate lilacs, an assortment of vegetables, and more. All are shown full-size and in scale and is complete with stitched leaves and embroidered stems. Each flower pattern has full instructions, yarn requirements, and a suggested skill level. An additional section serves as a refresher course with basic techniques and provides inspiration for embellishing your finished flowers with beads, buttons, and sequins.
St. Martin's Griffin; Original edition
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9780312538347
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Print book
Eco-Christmas Craft Book, The
By Miall, Marrianne
All you need to do is save up some recyclable or foraged items such as cardboard, newspaper, wine bottle corks, twigs and pine cones. You can choose your own color scheme to match your home and, because the materials are recyclable, you could make new ones every year! Including all the things that make Christmas special, such as tree decorations, advent items, Christmas cards, table decorations, wreaths and many more, there are 30 fabulous projects to make, and ideas for many more. So start collecting and learn how to make gorgeous, professional-looking decorations cheaply, without harming the planet.
Search Press
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9781782219729
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Paperback
Complete Care For Your Aging Dog
By Shojai, Amy
Explaining how to keep an older dog healthy and happy throughout its golden years, a noted pet authority describes the special needs of an aging canine, dietary and nutritional requirements, essential over-the-counter pet medications, exercise, home nursing care, and more. Original.
NAL Trade
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9780451207890
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Paperback
I Can Make Puppets
By Wallace, Mary
Yes! Kids can create puppets that are fun, great-looking, and easy to make. I Can Make Puppets will show you how to make lovable characters that are as much fun to create as to play with. Using common household odds and ends, construction is no fuss, no mess, with no complicated instructions. So open this book, let your imagination and creativity fly, and let's make puppets!
Maple Tree Press
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9781895688207
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Paperback
Contemporary Figures in Watercolour
By Crane, Leo
Dive into figure painting with this fresh take on capturing the human form in watercolour.Painter Leo Crane and art model Roy Joseph Butler explore how to interpret the gestures and movements of the figure through the language of paint. Through a range of exercises, they show how to work with the fluidity and immediacy of watercolour to create lively paintings that are bursting with character and narrative possibility.With experience in both fine art and animation, they share tips on bringing life to the figure, and encourage you to discover a liberating and enjoyable approach to paint. Packed with techniques, exercises and step-by-step demonstrations, the book covers:The Figure: Observing the human figure and working with life models.Watercolour: Materials, tools, techniques and colour theory.
Batsford
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9781849946681
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Hardcover
Artful Halloween
By Wasinger, Susan
These 30+ costume, pumpkin, and home-decorating ideas are not just beautiful--they are scary beautiful. From unique pumpkin decorations to a “blood”-splashed dinner-party centerpiece to a Yard Specter made from two poles, a string of lights, and torn, draped fabric, these creepy but stylish Halloween projects will give your home a spooky, sophisticated look . . . with gothic flair!
Lark Crafts; Original edition
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9781454702474
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Paperback
Make It Yours with Mimi G
By Ford, Mimi
The ultimate collection of basic patterns that can be sewn, modified, and styled to yield more than 100 unique looks. Make It Yours with Mimi G is all about creating a fully functional wardrobe to love. Starting with six base patterns, Mimi G then hacks each pattern to create 26 new designs that will be styled both together and separately for a total of more than 100 looks. But this book isn't just about hacking patterns to give you a complete wardrobe; it's also about showing you how to style each garment and make your DIY wardrobe work for you.. Fashion and style are an integral part of making your own clothing, and this book offers a complete guide to making the perfect wardrobe for each individual. Mimi G's own understanding of fit, her size-inclusive patterns, and ability to make what most would call "basic patterns" into unforgettable looks give this book incredible appeal.
Knitting Never Felt Better
By Epstein, Nicky
With her signature style, the bestselling and beloved needlework author Nicky Epstein offers the best guide to felting. Using ten chic garments and more than 150 stunning sample swatches as examples, she covers the top techniques for turning wool yarn into vibrant and dense textures. Before and after shots show how different fabrics react to the process, and there are patterns, stitches, and techniques for lace, mosaics, cables, plaids, checks, and quilting. Create bobbles, appliqués, and ruffles; combine yarns; and use clamps, marbles, cords, braids, and more to form three-dimensional shapes in the felt. Epstein also presents her unique ideas for transforming old clothes and accessories, using one sweater to demonstrate many design possibilities.
Strip Your Stash
By Erla, Gudrun
Bust your stash with 12 strip quilts, perfect for those larger pieces of leftover fabric that you aren't sure how to use. Cut, sort, store, and sew 2 1/2? strips. Confidently pair fabric prints, using three no-fail strategies! The popular quilter behind GE Designs shares quick yet impressive patterns to win over both traditional and modern quilters. Complete with helpful charts and illustrations, these beginner-friendly designs each come in two or more sizes.
Making Shadow Puppets
By Watson, Laura
In this Kids Can Do It title, kids discover the secret to creating traditional shadow puppets based on designs from around the world. With instructions for nine beautifully crafted and decorated wooden rod puppets, portable screen set-ups, scenery and script ideas, this book will help them put on plays that are sure to astound their family and friends -- without a shadow of a doubt! Puppet ideas include * a snake * a robot * a flying bird * a monster
100 Flowers to Knit & Crochet
By Stanfield, Lesley
100 Flowers to Knit & Crochet showcases a lush bouquet of blossoms perfect for embellishing your favorite clothing or accessories. As a finishing touch for all your handmade garments or a great pick-me-up for a vintage find, these lovely blooms are the perfect way to use up scraps of yarn or try out interesting new yarns.Breeze through this gorgeous collection featuring a colorful palette of simple spiraling roses, saucer-sized poppies, delicate lilacs, an assortment of vegetables, and more. All are shown full-size and in scale and is complete with stitched leaves and embroidered stems. Each flower pattern has full instructions, yarn requirements, and a suggested skill level. An additional section serves as a refresher course with basic techniques and provides inspiration for embellishing your finished flowers with beads, buttons, and sequins.
Eco-Christmas Craft Book, The
By Miall, Marrianne
All you need to do is save up some recyclable or foraged items such as cardboard, newspaper, wine bottle corks, twigs and pine cones. You can choose your own color scheme to match your home and, because the materials are recyclable, you could make new ones every year! Including all the things that make Christmas special, such as tree decorations, advent items, Christmas cards, table decorations, wreaths and many more, there are 30 fabulous projects to make, and ideas for many more. So start collecting and learn how to make gorgeous, professional-looking decorations cheaply, without harming the planet.
Complete Care For Your Aging Dog
By Shojai, Amy
Explaining how to keep an older dog healthy and happy throughout its golden years, a noted pet authority describes the special needs of an aging canine, dietary and nutritional requirements, essential over-the-counter pet medications, exercise, home nursing care, and more. Original.
I Can Make Puppets
By Wallace, Mary
Yes! Kids can create puppets that are fun, great-looking, and easy to make. I Can Make Puppets will show you how to make lovable characters that are as much fun to create as to play with. Using common household odds and ends, construction is no fuss, no mess, with no complicated instructions. So open this book, let your imagination and creativity fly, and let's make puppets!
Contemporary Figures in Watercolour
By Crane, Leo
Dive into figure painting with this fresh take on capturing the human form in watercolour.Painter Leo Crane and art model Roy Joseph Butler explore how to interpret the gestures and movements of the figure through the language of paint. Through a range of exercises, they show how to work with the fluidity and immediacy of watercolour to create lively paintings that are bursting with character and narrative possibility.With experience in both fine art and animation, they share tips on bringing life to the figure, and encourage you to discover a liberating and enjoyable approach to paint. Packed with techniques, exercises and step-by-step demonstrations, the book covers:The Figure: Observing the human figure and working with life models.Watercolour: Materials, tools, techniques and colour theory.
Artful Halloween
By Wasinger, Susan
These 30+ costume, pumpkin, and home-decorating ideas are not just beautiful--they are scary beautiful. From unique pumpkin decorations to a “blood”-splashed dinner-party centerpiece to a Yard Specter made from two poles, a string of lights, and torn, draped fabric, these creepy but stylish Halloween projects will give your home a spooky, sophisticated look . . . with gothic flair!
Make It Yours with Mimi G
By Ford, Mimi
The ultimate collection of basic patterns that can be sewn, modified, and styled to yield more than 100 unique looks. Make It Yours with Mimi G is all about creating a fully functional wardrobe to love. Starting with six base patterns, Mimi G then hacks each pattern to create 26 new designs that will be styled both together and separately for a total of more than 100 looks. But this book isn't just about hacking patterns to give you a complete wardrobe; it's also about showing you how to style each garment and make your DIY wardrobe work for you.. Fashion and style are an integral part of making your own clothing, and this book offers a complete guide to making the perfect wardrobe for each individual. Mimi G's own understanding of fit, her size-inclusive patterns, and ability to make what most would call "basic patterns" into unforgettable looks give this book incredible appeal.