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"Blend a love of collage with a love of quilting, and you get beautifully collaged quilts dedicated to preserving a moment of time in your life. Use your memories, photos, or other images to create captivating pieces of art that you can hang on a wall, wear, or give as a gift. Internationally known author Jane Haworth guides you through the process in a very straightforward and approachable way and includes a beautiful gallery of not only her own...
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The Christmas season is a time to celebrate the birth of Jesus. CHRISTIAN CRAFTS FOR CHRISTMASTIME is a collection of hands-on projects that tell the story of Jesus' birth and reflect the love and joy that are the true spirit of Christmas. While working on these easy-to-make decorative objects, tree ornaments, and handmade gifts, children will focus on the real meaning of the holiday – and at the same time create some items that family and friends...
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It's the essential guide for chicks with sticks-because knit happens.
From the tools of the trade to the knitty-gritty of techniques and patterns, all with easy-to-follow step-by-step illustrated techniques. Stockinette stitch, rib stitch, seed stitch. Increasing and decreasing. All the bells and whistles: fringes, tassels, cables, intarsia, crab stitch, and Fair Isle. Plus the stitch doctor's own special bag of tricks and how to hook up with other...
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Enjoy the ease of wool-felt applique with palm-sized projects. These classic patterns can be stitched up in alternate colors to be suitable all year-round. Festive projects, from all-new felt ornaments to cheerful stockings, make treasured gifts for family and friends.
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"Fat quarters aren't just for quilters! All sewers love these inexpensive pieces of fabric and this book shows you how to create 50 fabulous projects from your stash. This unique collection of 50 quick-and-easy sewing patterns includes contemporary ideas for DIY home decor, accessories, gifts and more--all made using fat quarters. Projects range from instant fixes like coin purses needing just one fat quarter, to quilts and wall hangings that need...
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Fiber artists are experimenting with and combining techniques like never before, and this book gives detailed instructions on the rediscovered techniques of folding, shirring, gathering, bundling, quilling, and more. These techniques can be used to create rugs, wall hangings, clothing, bags, and even jewelry. The techniques are explained and illustrated, and patterns and instructions are given for 7 projects.
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Observe Purim with a handmade megillah or a hamentash. Create models of the four sons for Passover, and fashion a scroll for Simchat Torah. This clearly diagrammed manual provides simple directions for creating these and fifteen other origami projects to help observe Jewish holidays, both festive and solemn. Clearly detailed illustrations and captions explain all the steps for an entire year's worth of holiday projects--from Chanukah dreidels and...
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Want to bake the most-awesome-ever cupcakes? Or surprise your family with breakfast tacos on Sunday morning? Looking for a quick snack after school? Or maybe something special for a sleepover? It's all here. Learn to cook like a pro-it's easier than you think.
70) Kaffe Fassett quilts: shots and stripes : 24 new projects made with shot cottons and striped fabrics
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"Kaffee Fassett presents 24 quilt projects made with his solid-colored cotton fabrics and striped cotton fabrics"--
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Demonstrates two screen printing techniques--stencilling and screen filler--and how they can be used to create stunning, professional results with basic, inexpensive equipment. Both techniques are explained using step-by-step text and photography. Karen also explains how to create simple sewn projects from your hand printed fabrics. The sewing patterns include an apron, tote bag and tea cosy, as well as ideas for how to print on ready made items such...
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Iridescent fabric shimmers and glows, changing colors depending on how the light hits it. Different colors appear in the folds and pleats, adding surprising layers of color to fabric. To the uninformed it appears magical and difficult, but the truth is that weaving iridescent fabric is accessible to any handweaver who knows the tricks.
Bobbie Irwin has been teaching the techniques for weaving iridescence in person and through articles for more than...
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Wrap anything from a wine bottle to a yoga mat with this practical Japanese fabric-wrapping book. Long before today's eco-friendly philosophy of "reduce, reuse, recycle" entered America's collective consciousness, furoshiki-the Japanese method of wrapping things with fabric-nourished as a time-honored and practical art form. In Wrapping With Fabric, Etsuko Yamada-born into a long-line of furoshiki makers in Kyoto-explains the "one cloth, many uses"...
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"Are you a knitter, crocheter, crafter, or none of the above? This clever book gives yarn lovers--both knitters and non-knitters alike--50 fun ways to use their stashes without taking out their knitting needles. The projects are easy and simple, but with a modern aesthetic that manages to be both sophisticated and inviting. Get your hot glue gun fired up, adhere some pompoms to an old office chair, and make the most ho-hum seat in your house into...
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"In this thoroughly revised edition of "Gardens of the arts and crafts movement", landscape scholar Judith B. Tankard surveys the inspirations, characteristics, and development of garden design during the movement. Tankard presents a selection of houses and gardens of the era from Great Britain and the United States, with an emphasis on the diversity of designers who helped forge a truly distinct approach to garden design. A visual feast of nearly...
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Lerlene Nevaril teaches you how to use black and other dark fabrics as the contrasting color with these 11 projects (3 table runners, 8 quilts). Show off your brights and solids in blocks like Log Cabin, and Pinwheel — they'll glow like you've never seen before! Includes handy cutting charts plus a chapter with the basics for making these projects perfect-learn about the stitch-and-flip, making half-square triangles, and more. Lerlene's love for...
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For every boy from eight to eighty, covers essential boyhood skills such as building tree houses, learning how to fish, finding true north, and even answering the age-old question of what the big deal with girls is. In this digital age there is still a place for knots, skimming stones and stories of incredible courage. This book recaptures Sunday afternoons, stimulates curiosity, and makes for great father-son activities. The brothers Conn and Hal...
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Love Patchwork & Quilting is the brand new magazine from the makers of Mollie Makes and Simply Crochet. Every issue features fresh, modern, step-by-step projects for quilts, cushions, home style and gifts, with something for every skill level. In addition there are fascinating features and interviews, the latest fabric and trends, plus news, reviews and ideas to inform and inspire you. Essential reading for every modern quilter! ****Note: This
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Discover the secret behind show-stopping painterly quilts: "Invaluable advice on creating successful compositions." -Machine Quilting Unlimited
Grace Errea and Meridith Osterfeld share their art quilting expertise by demonstrating the impact of value on a quilt-it creates a focal point, develops dimensionality, changes a mood, and creates a painterly effect.
Explore the unexpected and making your quilt becomes a dreamlike experience, in which the...
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