Learn how to crochet with this complete beginner's guide

With just a little yarn and a crochet hook, you can enjoy a relaxing new hobby while creating beautiful gifts, garments, and decor. This crochet book for beginners shows you how to get started with step-by-step instructions and illustrations for 30 fundamental crochet stitches and techniques—plus a collection of fun projects to help you practice your skills.

What sets Crochet for Beginners apart from other crochet books:

• The basics of crochet—Learn the different types of hooks and yarn, essential and nice-to-have tools, and explanations of important crochet terms.
• Skill-building stitches—Start with the most basic stitches and work your way up to more intricate ones as you learn techniques like following a pattern, joining pieces, changing colors, and more.
• 10 beginner projects—Put everything you learn into practice with easy crochet patterns for beginners, including a beanie, a crochet tool holder, a circle bag, and a blanket.
• Develop your crochet skills with this beginner-friendly guide to success.

Learn how to draw your favorite feathered friends! *Named One of the 54 Best Colored Pencil Drawing Books of All Time by BookAuthority* Drawing Cute Birds in Colored Pencil offers simple step-by-step drawing instructions that help you to learn how to draw your favorite birds. Adorable birds like robins, owls, penguins, and bluebirds come alive with vibrant color and beautiful detail on the paper, thanks to the how-to guide in this clever book. Sharpen your best colored pencils because you'll be using them to add loads of colored feathers, little beaks, and fine details in your drawings. Before you know it, you'll be surrounded by a wide array of beautiful feathered friends. Make learning to draw easy-and make all your drawings cute-with the Drawing Cute series from Quarry Books.

With his unerring eye, Kaffe has succeeded in finding the perfect location for his exquisite new collection of quilts, featuring both his scintillating new fabric designs and his classics, all in his unique color palette. This time he has chosen the medieval English village of Lavenham in Suffolk, where the 19 quilts in this book are set off against the ancient half-timbered Tudor houses. They are displayed in all their glory in a sumptuous eye-catching quilt gallery. Included in this set of new designs are many very special ones by Kaffe, and several by his long-time friend and co-designer, Liza Prior Lucy. Kaffe's Starry Night, featured on the cover, fussy cuts some of his brilliant floral fabrics in deep rich colors to great effect, setting them off by surrounding stars in his Shot Cottons. Shards translates the traditional Broken Dishes design into deliciously soft and subtle blends of pastel fabrics, shown off to perfection against the pale plaster and weathered timbers of the Lavenham houses. In a quite different vein, the boldly contrasting background stripes in black and white fabric in Blooming Columns make a dramatic contrast to the huge fussy-cut flowers appliqued onto it. This book--the 23rd in the series--includes a range of quilts for all skill levels, from beginners to advanced. Shaded Squares is one such lovely quilt for first timers, with its cleverly shaded squares each made up from two large triangles, one plain and one striped in Kaffe's Shot Cotton and Wide Stripe fabrics. Flat shots, a practical know-how section and glossary, back up the fully illustrated, step-by-step instructions for each quilt.

Help your little loved-ones discover hours of imaginative fun and activity with these delightful, easy-to-sew games. Drawing on her background as an occupational therapist, Farah Wolfe presents creative, handmade game that invite children to enjoy active play. A greener alternative to plastic, battery-operated gifts, these are simple, beautifully sewn games that children will love and remember. You can: choose from 11 versatile, gender neutral projects that are safe, washable, lightweight, and great for travel; find full instructions for each game, plus play options for different ages and even clever ways to package and store the games; and, engage toddlers, preschoolers, and school kids with captivating games that foster a wide range of physical, cognitive, and social skills.

Discover a world filled with vibrant color and creative possibilities as you explore an array of painting, drawing, printing, and lettering techniques and styles using vivid colors of artist's ink. In Brilliant Inks, artist, illustrator, and top Skillshare teacher Anna Sokolova shares her own unique methods that get the most out of this versatile medium. With her guidance, create beginner-friendly florals and foliage, animals, still lifes, figures and portraits, and hand lettering. Learn about the various types of inks and the best tools and surfaces to use with them. Then, try basic techniques such as color mixing, creating visual texture, negative painting, and splattering. Work with a variety of brushes, dip pens, and droppers to get different looks, and see how adding common household supplies such as salt and bleach can create the most amazing effects. Use these methods in lessons designed to improve skills and boost confidence. Be inspired to make projects such as a bracelet, paper art dolls, a tote bag, and a decorated book. Full instructions and templates make projects fun and stress free. This incredible material offers so much that's waiting to be discovered: Vivid monotypes made in minutes using a combination of painting and printmaking methods Custom palettes created with unique blended colors Watercolor-like translucent washes and opaque silhouettes Techniques for creating beautiful motifs using simple brushstrokes and patterns. Begin your colorful journey today with Brilliant Inks and see how far your creativity can go! Perfect for all skill levels, the books in the Art for Modern Makers series take a fun, practical approach to learning about and working with paints and other art mediums to create beautiful DIY projects and crafts.