Hierdie boek wys jou hoe om 'n groot verskeidenheid dekoratiewe en funksionele boksies en sakkies te maak, ideaal om vir geskenke te gebruik, maar ook nuttig in die huis. Deur die gedetailleerde aanwysings en stap-vir-stap foto's te volg, kan jy met gom, fotoplakboekpapier, kartonvelle, lap, lint, kant, washi-lint, tooisels of wat jy ook al beskikbaar het, self pragtige boksies en houers maak. Leer om langwerpige, vierkantige, seskantige, piramied-, ster-, hartvormige en vensterboksies te maak, of probeer eenvoudige origami-boksies, koevertboksies en geskenksakkies maak. Daar is boksies van verskeie groottes en vorms, en hulle kan vir verskillende doeleindes benut word. Treffende volbladfoto's van die voltooide projekte is nie net 'n lus vir die oog nie, maar gee ook gebruiksvoorstelle. Die ingeslote patrone met vergrotingsmates maak dit maklik om die boksies te skep.

The Vintage Pattern Selector is a practical sewing book that arms the reader with all the techniques and information they need in order to mix and match clothing styles from the 20th century. Accompanied by a CD with printable patterns for a range of dress sizes, this book is a comprehensive guide to creating contemporary outfits from vintage styles. For home sewers and fashion enthusiasts, vintage clothing isn't merely a device to replicate specific looks from a specific era, but instead, an opportunity for limitless style options that draw on decades of experimentation with hemlines, colour, styles, and silhouettes. Wear a 1960s style shift dress with a classic 80s blazer. Match a 40s' cowl neck blouse with 70s' style tapered trousers. The Vintage Pattern Selector is the ultimate handbook to show the reader how to choose the right fabric, colour palettes, styles, and patterns in order to create contemporary pieces that reference these timeless styles and designs.

If you love crochet and dolls, this is your book. Here you can find 15 projects made with the Japanese technique of amigurumi. There are four collections: The Four Seasons, a Costume Party, Successful Professionals and Dolls that you can dress with different clothes. You do not need to be a virtuoso in crochet. If you know how to do double crochet, increase and decrease, you can already make your first amigurumi project. Choose your favourite doll and get to work. The book offers some colour suggestions.

OVER 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE 'You will quickly amaze and delight yourself. Hands down the best and most life-enhancing thing I've done in lockdown' India Knight, Sunday Times Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is the world's most widely used drawing instruction book. Whether you are a professional, a student, or enjoy art as a hobby, Betty Edwards' practical step-by-step guide will give you greater confidence in your ability, deepen your artistic perception and provide a new way to appreciate the way you perceive the world around you. This groundbreaking guide includes: - Expert advice on materials to use and how to record your progress - Specific focus on perceiving edges, spaces and relationships within your drawings - Problem-solving techniques and guidance on continued development of your skills Blending artistic teaching with psychology, Betty Edwards offers a practical grounding in drawing technique with exercises designed to help you utilise the intuitive and creative right side of your brain, dramatically improving your ability to draw.

A comprehensive guide to 200 beautiful Fair Isle designs. Learn to read colour charts and rapidly gain the confidence to use these stunning designs to create your own stylish projects and garments. A unique "selector" at the beginning of the book makes it easy to choose a design you like. Organised by row and stitch count, each of the patterns is accompanied by an easy-to-follow chart indicating both the pattern stitches and the colours used, and each sample is shown charted in an alternative colourway. A "mix and match" feature lets you combine patterns with ease. Includes guidance on yarn choices and special techniques unique to Fair Isle knitting.

Predators get a pretty bad rap. Sure, they prey on helpless animals that never stand a chance. But behind those jagged teeth, powerful jaws, and razor-sharp claws, every predator has a softer side. Maybe even an adorable one. Everyone has compassion for the cute bunny or lamb. But what about their predators who are working hard for their meal? Capturing their prey is a life or death game. Just think about the last time you had to hunt for food while hangry. You can understand, right? With thirty adorably dark scenes of nature, illustrator Alex Solis shares his sense of humor while giving you a chance to color in the most gruesome parts of life with a smile. It's time to give theses predators a break! Because, in the end, both predators and their prey play a role. I mean, it's not their fault they were made this way! They're just living off of instincts; doing what comes naturally to them. So rather than turning away from nature, let's celebrate all the animals who complete The Adorable Circle of Life Adult Coloring Book!

Faye Whittaker's "All Our Yesterdays" cross stitch designs are among DMC Creative World's best-selling kits; an ever-popular licence that has been running for ten years. The 33 nostalgic designs depict charming images of bygone days, and reflect upon the pleasure and excitement of childhood and occasions from the turn of the 20th century. It includes clear colour charts and photographs, easy-to-follow stitching instructions and inspiring project ideas for adapting the designs. Faye's original watercolours are featured throughout, alongside nostalgic rhymes and sayings that will evoke memories of bygone days.

The ultimate illustrated guide for sourcing, processing and using wild clay. Potters around the world are taking to the local landscape to dig their own wild clay, discover its unique properties, and apply it to their craft. This guide is the ideal starting point for anyone - from novices, improvers and experts to educators and students - who wants to forge a closer bond between their art and their surroundings. Testing and trial and error are key to finding a material's best use, so the authors' tips, drawn from long experience in the US and Japan (but which can be applied to clays anywhere) provide an enviable head-start on this rewarding journey. A clay might be best suited to sculpture and tile bodies, throwing clay bodies, handbuilding and slab bodies, or simply be applied as a glaze or slip. The specific properties of found materials can create a diverse range of effects and surfaces, or, even when not fired, can be adapted for use as colorful pastels or pigments. Beautiful illustrations and helpful technical descriptions explain the formation of various clays; how to locate, collect and assess them; how to test their properties of shrinkage, water absorption, texture and plasticity; the best ways to test-fire them; and how to adapt a clay's characteristics by blending appropriate materials. From prospecting in the field to holding your finished product, there is helpful advice through every stage, and a gallery of work by international potters who have embraced the clays found around them.

Spread the joy and craft of books in your family with Making Books with Kids. This inspiring collection features more than 25 creative, kid-friendly projects in design, illustration, paper decorating, binding techniques, and more. Book artist and author Esther K. Smith offers an exciting resource of easy-to-follow instructions supported throughout with step-by-step, full-color photographs and illustrations. Each sequence is accompanied by finished samples and variations as well as the inspiring work of a prominent book artist. Whether you use these projects independently or as a curriculum for hands-on, family-friendly, bookmaking experiences, you'll find that the lessons in this book are open-ended so they can be explored over and over-with different results each time! Colorful photos illustrate how different people using the same lesson will yield different results, exemplifying the way the lesson brings out each artist's personal style. Making Books with Kids is the perfect book for creative families, friends, and community groups and works as lesson plans for both experienced and new art teachers. Children of all ages and experience levels can be guided by adults and will enjoy these engaging exercises. Encourage the artistic spirit in the children in your life with Making Books with Kids.

15 beautiful embroidery projects from the era of Jane Austen. Jane Austen was as skilful with a needle as she was with a pen. This unique book from Jennie Batchelor and Alison Larkin showcases recently discovered 18th century embroidery patterns expertly repurposed into 15 exciting modern stitching projects. The patterns and projects are brought to life with glimpses into the world of Regency women and their domestic lives by lively historical features, quotes from Jane Austen's letters and novels, enchanting illustrations and inspirational project photography. The book opens with an illustrated introduction on historical embroidery. Next comes the materials and methods section, clearly explaining the key stitches, as well as providing information on threads, fabrics and frames. The practical section includes 15 projects for modern items. The projects are divided into three chapters according to the item the 18th century pattern was originally intended for with patterns for different skill levels: Embroidered Clothes: Dressed to Impress: Projects include Simple Sprig Pattern (Two Ways), Pencil Case, Clutch Purse, Apron, Housewife. Embroidered Accessories: How Do You Like My Trimming?: Projects include Napkin Set, Mobile Phone Pouch, Tablet Sleeve, Jewellery Pouch, Muslin Shawl. Embroidery for the Home: A 'Nest of Comforts': Projects include Tea Box Top, Work Bag, Cushion, Sewing Set, Tablecloth. It is more than likely that Jane herself would have used these very patterns for her own embroidery, and now, with Jennie and Alison's help, readers can stitch-a-long with Jane to make a selection of beautifully embroidered, practical items.

'n Veelsydige versameling patrone met uitstekende geskenkidees.

Die boek bevat meer as 100 oorspronklike ontwerpe, elk op ' kleur-rooster, insluitend - vrolike alfabetprente; stylvolle monogramme en motiewe vir tafellinne; oulike motiewe vir babas; cool tienermotiewe; kersfeesontwerpe; maklike patrone vir kinders.

Daar is afwerkingsaanwysings vir al die geborduurde voorbeelde, asook verdere gebruiksvoorstelle.

Originally published in 1847. INTRODUCTION: Treated as an art, Millinery is deservedly acknowledged to be one of no mean importance. Painters and sculptors, in all ages, have been more or less indebted to drapery as an admirable resource for producing effect. Raphael excelled in the flow of his draperies; and the phidiases of both ancient and modern times, have always closely attended to this particular, as being one of paramount importance. A cap or a bonnet, should not be considered merely as a covering for the head, but also an ornament, which by the aid of judicious managment, may be made subservient - as an adjunct - to render more interesting the countenance of which nature has lavished her most lovely graces...... Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Welcome to the evolution of adult coloring! New York Times bestselling illustrator Marty Noble has added a new dimension to the coloring craze: mazes! Cut out some of the stress from your daily life in this fun and innovative new series as you color and navigate your way through the hidden twists and turns of these elaborate labyrinths. Created for the artist and inspired by art nouveau, Marty Noble's Mindful Mazes: Art Nouveau Animals features forty-four black-and-white illustrations of sinuous animal scenes for you to decorate and immerse in color. However, the true fun lies within: cleverly disguised in each of these beautiful outlines is a complex, underlying maze for colorists to solve, if they so choose. These intricate puzzles add another way to easily access and practice mindfulness, and diminish some of the anxiety in your life. This book includes an answer key for the mazes as well as perforated pages printed on one side so colorists can easily remove and display their masterpieces! So grab your colored pencils and a copy of Marty Noble's Mindful Mazes: Art Nouveau Animals and find the end of stress and the beginning of relaxation!

This early work is a fascinating read for any sewing enthusiast or historian. Its 304 pages are extensively illustrated with diagrams, drawings and photographs forming a complete how-to guide to embroidery that is thoroughly recommended for the shelf of all handicraft lovers. Contents Include: Preface; Acknowledgments; Types of Embroidery: Applique Embroidery; Assisi Cross Stitch Embroidery; Black Work; Broderie Anglaise; Canvas Embroidery; Cords, Fringes and Tassels; Couching, Laid and Gold Work; Cross Stitch Embroidery; Cut Work; Darning on Fabric; Double Running; Drawn Fabric Work; Drawn Thread Work; Filet Darning; Florentine Embroidery; Hardanger Embroidery; Hedebo Embroidery; Initials and Monograms; Jacobean Embroidery; Mountmellick Embroidery; Needleweaving; Net Embroidery; Patchwork; Quilting; Samplers; Seams, hems and Faggotting; Shadow Work; Smocking; Stump Work; Tapestry; Technical Hints; List of Illustrations. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Tell your own story in comic-book form with this blank journal--already formatted with panels! An intro from art instruction superstar Christopher Hart will get you started. Whether they're interested in producing comic strips, manga, or graphic novels, aspiring illustrators can begin their own artistic journey with this specially produced journal. Every page features blank, black-framed panels formatted in the comic-book style, and separate sections throughout allow artists to create several different stories. Those with more experience can use the journal to flesh out their narrative and visual ideas, while beginners can experiment with the format and see where it takes them. The possibilities for self-expression are endless!

This is a large size 'bible' of 600 different weaves of loom. It is organised by type, from basic 4-shaft structures to block drafts and double weaves, providing a wide range of herringbone, twill, zigzag and diamond designs. Each weave is rated according to degree of expertise required, and features a recipe of materials, a clearly photographed swatch showing the intricacies of each design and an easy-to-follow colour chart indicating the threading sequence and order of work. There are also basic explanations of basic weave structures and information on choosing and using looms and shuttles. There is also advice on working with colour, selecting and dyeing yarn, finishing techniques and suggested applications for the finished yarn.