MEGAN LAPP of Crafty Intentions has been creating crochet creatures from her imagination since 2017 and has amassed thousands of fans who just can't wait for her next exciting design. She is the author of Crochet Creatures of Myth and Legend.
Crochet Impkins
Over a million possible combinations! Yes, really!
By Megan Lapp
Enter the world of the reclusive yet mischievous Impkins! I'm sure you have seen them out of the corner of your eye from time to time, racing from hiding place to nook or cranny-odd little creatures of stitch and stuffing, of endless variety in form and manner. In these pages, you will not find a taxonomy of their features or a list of the names by which you might call them, you will find guidance on something far more important-the techniques and methods by which you might craft one of these little stitchlings of your very own.
It is a wonderful thing, I assure you, to bring an Impkin to life with hook and yarn, and herein you will find the detailed instructions necessary to craft one, with an endless array of options for ears, antennae, hats, wings, tails, scales, horns, hairstyles, clothing, and accessories. Each Impkin is unique, and only you can listen to find out what you long to be. Stitch by stitch, you'll cast a spell, until at last you have made a brand-new creature. Don't be surprised if it asks for a snazzy vest or a satchel to hold its treasures! Though hard to spot at first, when you see one Impkin you can be sure there are more around. Impkins are social little creatures; once you make one, it is sure to clamor for a multitude of friends from your hook!
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Crochet Creatures of Myth and Legend
19 Designs Easy Cute Critters to Legendary Beasts
By Megan Lapp
Crochet Creatures of Myth and Legend includes 13 Cute Critter patterns-small and adorable creatures that are quick and fun to make and a great place to start-and 6 Standard Size mythological beasts in all their glory, including a dragon, kraken, feathered serpent, owl griffin, phoenix, and unicorn.
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Crochet Monsters
With more than 35 body patterns and options for horns, limbs, antennae and so much more, you can mix and match options for thousands upon thousands of possibilities!
By Megan Lapp
Crochet Monsters contains instructions for 37 unique bodies and more than 15 teeth patterns, tongues and horns, hair and scales, tails and limbs and more! Nearly everything is interchangeable so with over 30 limb options and so many more ways to customize your Monster, you can make a unique creature every time you return to this book.
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Crochet Snails and Mushroom Sprites
By Megan Lapp
Mushroom Sprites and Snails are a delightful pairing, offering endless possibilities for crafting magical creatures. With Mushroom Sprites available in various sizes, limb options, and cap styles, and Snails in small, medium, and giant sizes with round or pointed shells, this book provides everything you need to create a whimsical duo.
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Tunisian Crochet for Beginners
Step-by-step Instructions, plus 5 Patterns!
By Sharon Hernes Silverman, Alan Wycheck
Tunisian crochet, also known as the afghan stitch, is easy and fun to work, and is perfect not only for blankets and shawls but also for place mats and even skirts. The only special tool you need is a Tunisian crochet hook, and you are ready to go.
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Exploring Tunisian Crochet
All the Basics plus Stitches and Techniques to Take Your Crochet to the Next Level; 20 Beautiful Wraps, Scarves, and More
By Lori Harrison
Your one-stop Tunisian crochet resource is here! Whether you are completely new to Tunisian crochet or love it and are ready to move beyond the basic stitches, Exploring Tunisian Crochet has the step-by-step instructions you need to master any Tunisian crochet technique.
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Crochet Christmas Stockings
10 Delightful Designs to Fill with Holiday Cheer
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Have you always wanted to crochet your own blanket, but didn’t know where to begin? In Create Your Own Crochet Blankets, we take you through everything you need to know to complete your crafty project!
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By Salena Baca
Adorn your mantle with handmade crocheted stockings! Whether you are looking for a stocking reminiscent of Christmases past or love a fresh twist on tradition such as the Santa hat or mitten "stocking," you’ll find just what you need in this collection.
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Crochet Nativity
Complete Instructions for 10 Dolls
By Bianca Santos
Crochet the holy family and their visitors for your Christmas display! Patterns include Mary, Joseph, Baby Jesus, three wise men, angel, sheep, cow, and donkey. Each character has special details that set them apart, such as crocheted hair, robe, crown, and accessories. The animals are adorable and ready for play!
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Julie Harrison, Anita Mundt
Crochet Stitch Dictionary
440 Patterns for Textures, Shells, Bobbles, Lace, Cables, Chevrons, Ed
By Nele Braas, Eveline Hetty-Burkart
This is the ultimate collection of crochet stitch inspiration! 440 stitches are presented, each with a sample swatch of the fabric and charted instructions with written notes and detailed chart keys.
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Crochet Messy Bun Hats
12 Quick & Easy Designs to Keep Out the Cold
By Kristi Simpson
Secure your hair in a messy bun, slide on your hat, and you are out the door in style! Love warm winter hats but struggle to make them work with a ponytail or quick bun? Crochet messy bun hats are the answer!
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Crochet Granny Square Tops, Bags, and More
Learn to Make a Granny Square + 10 Surprisingly Modern Accessories Using the Classic Motif
By Salena Baca
Granny Squares are for more than just blankets! With a little ingenuity, they can be adapted to make cute tops, bags, hats, and more! Though often thought of as a beginner pattern, Granny Squares can be tricky to learn, so Salena Baca walks you through your first square row by row to ensure success.
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The
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Crochet Stitches
Everything you need to start creating today
By Katharine Marsh
Crochet has boomed in recent years, offering craft lovers a new way to make thoughtful gifts, inexpensive accessories and homemade decorations. The Compact Book of Crochet Stitches is the perfect companion for crochet crafters of any skill level that are looking to discover fun and creative new stitches.
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Beyond Darning
Creative Mending Techniques
By Hikaru Noguchi
This beautiful new book is translated from the Japanese book Darning Brooches by Hikaru Noguchi! Filled with her usual inspirational images, this is the perfect guide for those interested in preserving their garments and fabrics with mending techniques. The invention of the Darning Brooch allows you to give new life to precious fabric fragments you can’t bear to part with by creating accessories that you can keep gift or wear. Use the fabric and thread you have at home to make these beautiful pieces, ea ch one of which will be unique to you. All the basic darning stitches are included for beginners with step-by-step photographs, so you can mend your clothes and save them from landfill, as well as preserving memories by turning your fragments into mementoes.
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Darning Repair Make Mend
By Hikaru Noguchi
Climate change is making us rethink how we use resources and not subscribing to fast-fashion and re-using and mending our clothes has become a mark of pride. This is visible mending, more akin to embroidery and embellishment that will make your favorite clothing even more personal and save it from landfill. Fully illustrated with colour photography throughout Detailed step-by-step images. Easy to follow techniques (even for beginners). Plenty of inspiration for adventurous menders.
On Mending
Stories of damage and repair
By Celia Pym
The artist Celia Pym lives in London and has been exploring damage and repairing textiles since 2007. Working with garments that belong to individuals as well as items in museum archives, she has broad experience with stories of damage, from moth holes to accidents with fire. Textile language crops up in the body: mending language works on the body as well as on garments. We describe the body as mending after illness or injury - 'I'm on the mend,' someone might say if they're feeling better. You might hear a doctor or nurse describe a broken bone as 'mending well', or broken bones are often described as knitting back together as the break heals. Pym is interested in exploring the varied evidence of damage, and how repair draws attention to the places where garments and cloth wear down and grow thin
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Author Bio:
Sara Elizabeth Kellner is a knitted toy designer who can’t imagine a happier life; it combines a lifelong obsession with knitting and devotion to children and animals. Sara has a standing invitation from Vogue Knitting Live to exhibit her designs in the artist’s gallery at their live events in New York City, USA. She is the author of Knits for Kitties, and her designs have been published in Harry Potter Knitting Magic I and II, Official Disney Knitting Book, and Knit a Vintage Christmas, among others.
Victorian Housecats to Knit
By Sara Elizabeth Kellner
In the Victorian era, each room had a purpose, and in the imagined house of the Morgans, each room also has a feline inhabitant. Meet each cat and choose your favorites to knit: 20 cat patterns. From the cuddly and adorable Nursery Kittens to Aunt Pru’s Persian, each will capture your heart and get your needles flying.
Welcome to the Morgan family home! Let me give you a tour. Each room in this Victorian household has a special purpose and is favored by a unique feline inhabitant. From the cuddly and adorable Nursery Kittens to Aunt Pru’s Persian, there’s a tale behind each kitty companion and a family member who loves them. From the Cooks Cat to Grandads Silver Tabby, the Morgans cats will capture your heart, and the knitting pattern for each will have your needles flying. There are 20 cats in all, with complete instructions to knit each one. Most of the patterns in this book have sections which are worked flat and sections which are worked in the round, so your attention will always be held. A few of them are geared toward the beginner, with shaping achieved by simple increasing and decreasing. Others are more challenging, but even these will be easily accomplished if undertaken with an adventurous spirit. The Morgans and their kitties are sure to delight all cat-loving knitters!
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Margaret Holzmann's Iconic Knit Blankets and More
30+ Graphic Patterns for Blankets, Pillows, Tops, and Table Runners
By Margaret Holzmann
Margaret Holzmann, author of the wildly popular Geometric Knit Blankets, is back, this time with themed designs featuring cats, dogs, houses, Christmas trees and candy canes, among other highly graphic, colorful designs. 30+ patterns for blankets and pillows, plus table runners and tops featuring icons from the blanket designs-all in Margaret's signature style.
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Fair Isle Fashion Knits
17 Top-Down Designs in Allover Stranded Colorwork Patterns
By Andrea Brauneis
Unleash your love of colorwork! Instead of restricting stranded knitting to only the yoke of a sweater, the 17 patterns in this collection embrace colorwork from top to bottom. Modern and traditional motifs are used in new ways to create an array of styles and shapes, from cardigans, hoodies, and short sleeve sweaters to cozy pullovers, ponchos, and even a dress. A variety of colorful yarns are used to varying effects: mohair for soft halos, merino wool for stitch definition, and alpaca for lightweight warmth. The sweaters are unique and sure to be noticed yet are comfortable and appropriate for everyday wear. Patterns are sized from small to extra-large and are appropriate for intermediate knitters comfortable with sweater-making techniques and colorwork.
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Knit Wild
21 Sweaters with Nature-Inspired Motifs in Insulating Yarns to Keep You
By Anna-Sofia Vintersol
Embrace the outdoors! With animal and nature-inspired themes, the sweater designs of Anna-Sofia Vintersol share your love of all things wild and free. Delightful designs feature yokes of dog faces and pawprints, foxes, bears, whales, and other colorwork patterns. A favorite pattern is sure to be Kitulo, a "choose your own adventure" sweater which can be endlessly customized with myriad mixand-match charts. Every sweater from this design is one of a kind! Beautifully detailed, colorful, and robust when knitted in hardy wool yarns, these sweaters are ready for outdoor adventures and will keep your toasty on hikes and when camping
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The New Knitting Stitch Dictionary
500 Patterns for Textures, Lace, Aran Cables, Colorwork, Motifs, Edgings and More
By Lydia Klos
Inspiration at your fingertips! Within the pages of The New Knitting Stitch Dictionary, you will find not only 500 innovative knitting stitch patterns, but dozens of ideas popping through your mind. Cables may inspire designs for sweaters or blankets, cozy textures for scarves, colorwork for hats, mittens, and more. You will turn to this book again and again for fresh ideas! The stitches are divided into sections by type of stitch to make it easy to find what you want: texture, lace, cables, Aran cables, flower and leaf patterns, bobbles, lifted stitches, Fair Isle, Intarsia, borders, and more. Instructions for each stitch are charted so that you can easily visualize the pattern and use it in your own design.
Unisex Sweaters to Knit
Timeless Designs for Sizes 32-52
Inches
By Clarissa Schellong
Knit sweaters for all! Everyone should have the pleasure of knitting and/or wearing a sweater that fits well and looks fantastic. And with the 16 designs in this book, you’ll have a whole range of options, from comfy textured pullovers to classic aran styles to work-ready cardigans-in sizes ranging from 31.5 to 51 inches in chest circumference. These sweaters are classic yet interesting designs that never go out of style. Change colors, length, buttons, and details to personalize the look. Sweaters range from more fitted designs to lose oversize fits and are sure to please! Pattern skill levels range from intermediate and up, though an illustrated tutorial section of stitches and techniques will help the advanced beginner and others learn any new skills needed.
The Complete Beginners Guide to Knitting
Everything you need to know to start to knit
By Sian Brown, Rebecca Greig
In recent years we have seen a popularity boom surrounding all kinds of crafts. Once the reserve of older generations, hand-knitting skills have taken on a new life as a modern art form and relaxing pastime. From lavish fashion trends to homemade gifts, add a hand-crafted touch to your garments, gifts and decorations. Start by choosing your yarn and needles before getting to grips with casting on, knitting, purling, ribbing and casting off again. Once you've mastered the essentials, you'll put your newfound skills into practice with a range of creative project patterns that are perfect for newbie knitters.
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The Spinner's Blending Board Bible
From woolen to (nearly!) worsted and everything in between
By Deborah Held
As more and more spinners delve into fiber preparation for intentional spinning, the blending board has become more popular than ever before. Its space efficient, lightweight, and far less costly than investing in expensive blending tools and machinery. While most spinners know that the blending board makes lovely rolags, few are aware of the many other ways it can be used in one’s fiber preparation practices. In The Spinners Blending Board Bible, widely regarded spinning teacher and writer Deborah Held explains the many ways to use a blending board to its fullest capacity. Step by step, she reveals secrets for maximizing the boards carding and blending properties, providing an as-yet untapped level of know-how for putting the blending board to use in color management, combining fibers and mix-ins, and for creating specific yarn structures in spinning along the woolen and worsted continuum. Beginners and advanced spinners alike will find plenty to learn from her beautiful and instructive photos of fiber, detailed explanations of techniques, and numerous blending "recipes."
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Spinning 101
Step by Step from Fleece to Yarn with Wheel or Spindle
By Tom Knisely
Welcome to Toms beginner spinning class! Come on and he will teach you everything you need to know to turn raw wool into your first hand-spun yarn. Tom has been teaching introductory spinning for over 30 years, and in this book, he shares all this knowledge in his easy-to -understand manner, illustrated with photographs to guide you through each of the steps.
From how to choose a spinning wheel and how to set it up and keep it running smoothly; to how to select and prepare your fiber; how to spin your first yarn, and the various options for how to do so; to plying and finishing-Tom explains it all in simple terms and with helpful visuals. Because Tom has taught so many classes of spinners, he knows all the common pitfalls and addresses them with his troubleshooting tips. At its essence, yarn is fiber with twist added to keep it together, and Tom keeps the whole process as simple as that. You will soon be whirring away, spinning yards and yards of glorious yarn!
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The Compact Beginner's Guide to Embroidery
Everything you need to start creating today
By Esme Clemo
Theres something therapeutic about taking a piece of fabric and turning it into something wonderful. Whether you’re adorning it with a flowery motif, cross stitching the name of a newborn or creating something colorful for your wall, the punching of the needle through a fat quarter or Aida and the rustle of the thread that follows is incredibly calming. In The Compact Beginners Guide to Embroidery, you can experience this for yourself. Regardless of if you’re a needlework novice or a seasoned sewer, we’ve laid out all the tools and techniques you need to get started. The wide range of projects you’ll find in these pages mean that you’ll never be short of gifts for birthdays, holidays, Christenings or those just because moments.
Embroidery in 10 Lessons
Step-by-step instructions for first-time stitchers, plus 10 designs for denim, shoes, linens and more
By Juliette Michelet
Get ready to embellish with embroidery! In just 10 lessons, you'll be ready to brighten up jeans, tops, shoes, and more with beautiful stitches!
The Complete Beginner's Guide To Embroidery
By Esme Clemo
Theres something therapeutic about taking a piece of fabric and turning it into something wonderful. Whether you’re adorning it with a flowery motif, cross stitching the name of a newborn or creating something colorful for your wall, the punching of the needle through a fat quarter or Aida and the rustle of the thread that follows is incredibly calming. In Beginners Guide to Embroidery, you can experience this for yourself. Regardless of whether you’re a needlework novice or a seasoned sewer, we’ve laid out all the tools and techniques you need to get started. The wide range of projects you’ll find in these pages mean that you’ll never be short of gifts for birthdays, holidays, Christenings or those just because moments. So, what are you waiting for?
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Cross-Stitch Mandalas
20 Unique Projects
Celebrating Color Stories from Around the World
CROSS-STITCH
By Isabelle Haccourt Vautier
Bright, beautiful symmetry in cross-stitch! Mandalas are intricate circular designs used around the world to invoke calm centeredness through reflection. In recent times, drawing, coloring, and painting mandalas have become popular ways to seek out this inner serenity.
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Cottage CrossStitch
20 Designs Celebrating the Simple Joys of Home
100+ Cross Stitch Patterns to Mix and Match
Motifs and Borders, Plus 21 Alphabets
By Gail Bussi
Cross-stitch your cottage life! Whether you live in a cottage or an urban apartment, if you daydream of a simple life in a little house on a hill or near the sea, this book is full of designs that will inspire and feed your love of all things homey and sweet.
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By Jane Greenoff
With the 100+ motif and border patterns in this book, it's easy to combine them to make your own personal cross-stitch designs. The 21 unique cross-stitch alphabets, made to coordinate with the motifs in a variety of styles-floral, lacy, Christmas and more-allow you to add words to complement your ideas.
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Enchanted Garden
Cross-
Stitch
20 Designs Celebrating Birds, Blossoms, and the Beauty in Our Own Backyards
By Gail Bussi
Find your cross-stitch bliss in the enchanted garden! Beloved cross-stitch designer Gail Bussi is back with a new collection of designs inspired by the imagery of a discovered garden full of secret delights.
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Weaving Hand Towels Simply
43 Designs for 4- and 8-Shaft Looms
By Susan Kesler-Simpson
Every weaver weave hand towels! They are small and weave quickly, are perfect for using up small amounts of yarn, make great gifts, are perfect for beginners and for learning new techniques, and they are eminently practical, and you need new ones now and then. This collection of hand towel patterns is just the reference you need! With 43 designs in a variety of weave structures, from easy to advance patterns, for both 4- and 8shaft looms, there are plenty of patterns to explore and learn from while you make practical towels.
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Summer and Winter Simply
Understanding the Weave Structure 34 Projects to Practice Your Skills
By Susan Kesler-Simpson
Now is the time to try to a Summer and Winter weave! Whether you have been putting off a Summer and Winter project because you think it will be too difficult or you’ve tried in the past and failed, the explanations and instructions from expert weaver and Susan Kesler-Simpson are guaranteed to make your next attempt a success. Though Summer and Winters characteristic look of one light side and one dark side makes it appear complex, it’s no more difficult than many other weave structures once you understand how it works. Starting with the basics as in her other "Simply" series of books, Susan breaks down the weave structure and explains how it works and how to weave it.
The Art of Weaving
Master the Techniques, Understand the Weave Structures, Create Your Own
By Betty Briand
This comprehensive guide to floor loom weaving begins with the basicsparts of the loom, how to wind your warp and dress your loom; how to read and weave drafts-but then goes so much farther, explaining the different types of weaves and how to read and weave from charts, and exploring a variety of weaves in depth. The author covers each topic in detail, with illustrations, photos, and charts to guide you. The first half of the book is devoted to the basics of weaving, and the second part teaches a variety of weaving structures and how to use them and adapt them to whatever you want to make. The Art of Weaving is extensive in its scope, and a reference book appropriate for all skill levels.
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Rags to Rugs
30 New Weaving Designs for Repurposed Fabrics
By Tom Knisely
Tom Knisely is back with 30 brand-new designs for his favorite type of weaving project: rag rugs! Weaving with strips of cloth creates a sturdy, hard-wearing piece that can be enjoyed on your floor every day for years to come. When made with repurposed cloth from items you otherwise have no use for, these rugs are also an excellent way to keep fabrics from ending up in a landfill (or even just taking up space in a closet). In Rags to Rugs, Tom explores the weaving possibilities of a variety of fabrics, from T-shirts and jeans to quilts, linens, towels, and more. He shows you the techniques he uses to get the most from each piece and gives advice on how best to set up your loom for weaving with rags much thicker than your typical weaving thread.
Weaving Western Sakiori A Modern Guide for Rag Weaving
By Amanda Robinette
Sakiori is an approach to rag weaving used by Japanese peasants to cope with the scarcity of new cloth for clothing and household textiles. In modern times, there is instead an overabundance of cloth filling up thrift stores and being discarded. Weavers can use this source of "rags" to make useful and surprising new cloth. Depending on the fabric used, results can be rugged and utilitarian (like cotton rugs) or fashionable and delicate (like silk scarves). The book begins with an overview of the history and context of sakiori in Japan, followed by methods and tips for successful rag weaving with a variety of materials and looms, including rigid heddle looms as well as floor looms.
Complete Guide to Rigid Heddle Weaving
Beginner Basics, Finishing Techniques, Color Effects, Saori, Pick-up Sticks, Tapestry, Two-Heddle Weaving, Clasped Weft, Krokbragd, Finger-Controlled Weaving, Troubleshooting, Much More Plus 11 Skill-building Projects
By Petra Marciniak
The rigid heddle loom is a popular alternative to the floor loom because of its smaller size, much lower price, and ease of use. The rigid heddle loom is easy to use and the perfect size for small to medium items. The early chapters in this book give photo-illustrated instructions on how to prepare your materials, set up your loom, and weave. Detailed instructions are also given for more advanced types of weaving such as saori, lace, and working with pick up sticks and inclusions.
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The Skill of Flower Arranging
Everything you need to know
By Gregory Milner
The Skill of Flower Arranging captures a lifetime of international decorating, demonstrating and judging experience and wisdom in one beautifully presented book, a must for all present and aspiring floral artists, designers and hobbyists of all skill levels. All aspects of flower arranging are covered in a clear instructional and visual manner, in nearly 500 pages of floral wisdom. Gregory demonstrates simple arrangements for beginners and builds on the knowledge of intermediate and advanced artists to help them prepare complex and elaborate arrangements. One of the unique pleasures of this book is that it equips the reader to develop skills in handheld and container arrangements, as well as arrangements for weddings and funerals. This reliable and complete reference will become a treasured companion that floral artists will frequently turn to with great assurance and pleasure, while delighting in the beauty of the photographed arrangements. The Skill of Flower Arranging is filled with stunning photography and easy-to-follow diagrams detailing all aspects of flower arrangement, including the symbolism of flowers, the use of colour and balance, and materials and equipment required. Basic through to advanced arrangements are covered, from vase and tabletop arrangements, through to baskets, boxes, corsages, and flowers for weddings and funerals.
WOODSLANE PRESS
Author is from VIC
Disc: TRADE AUSTRALIAN Hardback
280 X 224 mm
456 pages
Release Date: March 2020 COLOUR THROUGHOUT
9781922131522
A Year in Flowers Inspiration for Everyday Living
By Shane Connolly
Shane Connolly, an internationally renowned and Royal floral designer, spent a year selecting plants and flowers to inspire everyday living using over sixty arrangements in this book.
His imaginative use of growing plants, shrubs and trees is inspired by the changing seasons, and his selections are guided by what is available locally and in the wild.
His dedication to what is sustainable and recyclable, to what can be replanted outside and enjoyed later, radiates from every page. Beautifully photographed by Jason Lowe, the book is a visual feast of colour and creativity yet remains faithful to what is affordable and what can be enjoyed at home.
All the arrangements, including a big celebratory event for each season, are exquisitely simple and easy to achieve.
CLEARVIEW
Disc: TRADE INTERNATIONAL Paperback
300 X 234 mm
AUD$: 49.99
160 pages
Release Date: August 2021 COLOUR SECTION(S) 9781908337597
AUD$: 53.99
Author Bio:
Frank Egholm is a lecturer, author and former woodwork teacher who worked for many years at the Rudolf Steiner School in Vordingborg, Denmark. Frank also designs and develops his own wooden toys and games and is married to the illustrator Lillian Egholm. Anna Cardwell is a translator who lives in Edinburgh, UK.
Easy Wood Carving for Children
Fun Whittling Projects for Adventurous Kids
By Frank Egholm, Anna Cardwell
Looking for an outdoor hobby to engage your children and encourage them to be crafty and creative? Wood carving is not only easy to learn and fun to do, but almost everything you need to get started can be found for free right outside your door! Together you can craft a tumbling tower game, a racing car toy, a dolphin necklace or even a handy coat hook! With more than fifty activities at levels for beginners and up, children can create something useful, beautiful or fun (often all three!) out of wood. Learning wood carving not only helps to improve children’s concentration, creativity and dexterity, it’s also invaluable in teaching them how to handle knives safely. Adventurous children will be thrilled to learn woodland skills, while natureloving parents will enjoy rediscovering the lost art of whittling with their kids.
FLORIS BOOKS
Category: HANDICRAFTS
Disc: Trade International Paperback 195 X 178 mm 128 pages
Release Date: October 2018
9781782505150
Making Peg Dolls
By Margaret Bloom
Peg dolls are small, enchanting, and easy to make. They are perfect crafts for children and can become the inspiration for endless play and storytelling. Margaret Bloom invites you to enter the tiny magical world of peg dolls. Coming from the Waldorf handcraft tradition, these irresistible dolls encourage creative play and promote the emotional and imaginative development of young children. Peg dolls can be made from natural materials to reflect the seasonal cycle, favorite fairytales and festivals from around the world.
HAWTHORN PRESS
Disc: TRADE INTERNATIONAL Paperback
198 X 210 mm
192 Pages
Rel Date: October 2016
9781907359774
AUD$: 48.99
Connecting Threads
Tactile social history
By Lynn Setterington
Connecting Threads brings together twelve textile projects completed between 1981 and 2024. Each one acts as a social history document, providing tactile evidence of often untold stories of people on the margins, unexamined histories and overlooked places, all through stitch The resulting work is both personal and political. It ranges from tiny colorful hand embroidered fragments recording everyday life in South London and Yorkshire, to monumental, site-specific banners made with construction workers in the north of England. As a collection it describes the author’s life in stitch and details how an artist-embroiderer works and thinks creatively, how projects are managed and take shape and some of the hurdles encountered in socially engaged practice.
QUICKTHORN LTD
Disc: TRADE INTERNATIONAL
240 X 170 mm
112 Pages
Rel Date: February 2025
9781739316051
AUD$: 58.99
Crafting Magical Window Stars How to Make Beautiful Paper Stars
By Frederique Gueret, Anna Cardwell
Learn how to make magical window stars from coloured tissue paper using special paper-folding techniques. This book includes step-by-step instructions, easy-to-follow diagrams and inspiring colour photographs for making twenty-five beautiful window stars, suitable for all seasons. From easy patterns for beginners to more complex designs each project is graded for difficulty to allow you to progress your paper-folding skills with confidence. Perfect for crafting at any time of the year, some projects such as the wintry Frost Flower star and the springtime Daisy star are great for marking the change of the seasons.
FLORIS BOOKS
Disc: TRADE INTERNATIONAL Paperback
210 X 192 mm
120 Pages
COLOUR SECTION(S)
Rel Date: June 2022
9781782507796
AUD$: 35.99
Making Simple Needle Felts
40 Seasonal Projects
By Steffi Stern
Steffi Stern brings her inimitable energy and enthusiasm to her second book, intended as a back-to-basics guide to making needle-felted objects. Each project includes very clear steps and photos, and Steffi also instructs the reader on basic techniques that will help them to make many other projects as well. The book contains chapters on techniques, materials, tools and accessories. There is a chapter on fairies, angels, and people, and the rest of the book is organized by season; it brims with all kinds of treasures, such as pumpkins, gnomes, strawberries, baubles, birds, bees, snails, flowers, the Nativity, mice, and mermaids. All the projects in the book are doable for a beginner. Some aimed at little fingers (no needles involved) and beginners, and some are aimed at those with more experience. Steffi's advice is to have a go!
Making Fairy Folk
30
Magical Needle Felted Characters
By Steffi Stern
Needle felting is one of the fastest-growing popular crafts in the UK, and Steffi's other books have been hugely popular. In this new title there are 30 magical characters to make, from fairies and sprites to gnomes and wildlife. Hand-drawn illustrations and clear instructions show every stage of the projects which are suitable for all levels of expertise. Fabulously engaging photographs throughout complement the illustrations and bring each character to life.
Knit Together, Share Together
Simple Knitting for All the Family
By Marja de Haan, Barbara Mees
Knitting can bring generations together. This practical and beautifully illustrated book, which contains step-by-step knitting instructions and patterns, was inspired by a granddaughter knitting a simple doll's sweater, her grandmother knitting the doll itself, and the girl's mother knitting a matching sweater for her daughter. Even young children can learn to knit the basic stitches, and this book features projects suitable for every age and stage of experience: from simple dolls' clothes for beginners, to sweaters for children and adults, and knitting the dolls themselves, which is more challenging. Knitting not only stimulates the mind and develops motor skills and dexterity but is also a way of creating something useful, with love, which can be cherished
