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This is a wonderful collection of more than 15 quick-and-easy
projects to show off your favourite fabrics. Show off your fabrics
with these wonderful big-piece quilts. Easy enough for beginners
and intriguing enough for seasoned quilters, these designs will put
your favourite fabrics centre stage. Featuring more than 15 quick
and easy projects - in a variety of styles, including theme prints,
Asian prints, batiks, and pastels - made from squares, strips, or
rectangles, this is sure to become a favourite among quilters at
all levels.
Expressive Sketchbooks shares a host of creative ideas and prompts,
tools and techniques, methods for working around obstacles and
barriers, and tons of visual inspiration to help you grow in your
sketchbooking practice. An expressive sketchbook is a place for you
to explore, express, and enjoy your own innate creativity on your
own terms. It is a safe playground for the imagination-a place to
mess about, play, and experiment-and to gain confidence in your
abilities as you develop your skills. Expressive Sketchbooks offers
techniques and creative exercises that incorporate mark making,
watercolor, mixed media, collage, words and text, and more. It
unpacks some of the obstacles and barriers that you may face along
the way and offers wisdom and encouragement to help you decide why
and how to start your sketchbook and how to develop and expand your
artistic practice. This book is packed with ideas and exercises,
including: Exploratory drawing exercises How to utilize color in
your sketchbook How to create dynamic and varied sketchbook pages
How to find inspiration in nature and in your everyday life Ways to
mix media and art supplies Ways to kickstart your creativity How to
find and develop a process that feels personal to you Through this
book, you'll find out what lights you up, what makes you curious
and fascinated, and what makes you expansive. Discover how to
magnify your creativity and enliven your art skills by using an
expressive sketchbook as your daily companion.
A charming collection of crocheted designs for the home, featuring
flowers, plants and leaves.
Kate Eastwood is known and loved for her wreaths and garlands covered
in crocheted decorations, and her exquisite attention to detail in
everything she makes. Crochet with Flowers and Plants brings together
her love of nature and the seasons with her eye for colour and style.
These 35 different patterns for blankets and cushions, home décor,
table decorations and wreaths and garlands all feature flower, leaf or
plant motifs, and in a few cases they actually recreate the whole
plant! If you follow Kate on Instagram (@justpootling) or if you have
seen her work in Simply Crochet magazine or on lovecrafts.com, you'll
know how much her garden and the countryside around her home are an
inspiration to her. Now you too can share her appreciation of nature
with these beautiful designs.
Re-Bound is a beautiful book on bookbinding with a fun green
twist-all the projects use recycled and upcycled materials. This
book shows you how to take everyday materials from around the
house, flea markets, thrift stores, and hardware stores and turn
them into clever and eye-catching hand-made books.
Create your own unique tarot deck and discover the secrets of the past,
present and future with Colour Your Tarot.
Using tarot cards is a time-honoured practice of foreseeing what is to
come, as well as interpreting past and current events. Colouring a
tarot echoes a mystical tradition as secret as the origins of the cards
themselves. By focusing on every detail of a card’s design, you will
connect with its symbols and grasp its messages in a reading. Colour
Your Tarot includes two full decks of tarot cards, one in
black-and-white and one in full colour, so you can follow the colour
cards as a guide or choose your own shades and schemes. Also included
is a 64-page full-colour illustrated companion book with card spreads
and meanings. Guided by this vibrant oracle, you will discover the rich
symbols of the tarot and be able to create a deck that is entirely
unique and personal to you.
Master the art and craft of metal jewelry making in your own home
studio Great jewelry is original, well-designed, and -- with the
right tools -- can be created at home by the aspiring artist. "The
Jeweler's Studio Handbook "guides you through the process of
equipping your own jewelry studio and teaches you the techniques
that will have you crafting one-of-a-kind metal jewelry in no
time.Artist Brandon Holschuh walks you through planning your work
space, selecting tools and materials, mastering basic metalwork
techniques, and applying your new skills to twenty original pieces.
In addition, "The Jeweler's Studio Handbook "encourages novel
design, good organization and fearless experimentation, ensuring it
will remain an invaluable resource for jewelry artists for years to
come.Invites you into the world of the home jewelry artist, from
workbench to galleryTeaches fundamental jewelry-making techniques
-- hammering, soldering, riveting, and more -- in full-color
photographsIllustrates the steps for crafting twenty beautiful
pieces of metalwork jewelry, including rings, bracelets, earrings,
and pendantsFeatures gallery-quality jewelry from dozens of
contributing artists
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