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Macramé for Home Decor shows how easy it is to make upscale, modern home décor using natural macramé craft cords. Readers will discover the 12 essential knots they need to create gorgeous macramé. 40 stylish projects range in skill levels from easy to advanced, so there’s something here for everyone. This book is filled with cool, contemporary ideas for rugs, throws, coverlets, room dividers, boho plant hangers, and much more. Mixed-media projects are also included that incorporate fun and interesting materials like beads and rings. Step-by-step illustrations, clear instructions, and beautiful color photographs make macramé simple and fun.
Self-Sufficiency: Herbs and Spices
This clear and concise directory provides all the essential information readers need to grow, use, and store a wide selection of flavor-enhancing herbs and spices. Some herbs are annuals, some are perennials, and some can be grown indoors—but all of those highlighted here can be grown either in pots or directly in the soil. Each individual plant profile includes detailed growing advice. Home and garden expert Linda Gray tells how to prepare the soil, when to sow and plant out, and when to harvest and gather. Linda also examines the culinary uses of each herb and spice, and explores other uses from medicinal remedies to insect repellents and sleep remedies. Tips on container growing and hints on how to store the harvest make Self Sufficiency: Herbs and Spices an indispensable guide.
A Kid's Guide to Drawing Cartoon Animals
Exciting, simple, and full of fun! This is an engaging book for kids to learn how to draw 28 cartoon animals, from crocodiles and cats to sea horses and sharks! With step-by-step, trace-and-draw instructions and plenty of room to practice, they’ll be able to draw animals all by themselves in no time. Author and former teacher Vicki Whiting is the founder of Kid Scoop, an award-winning weekly activity page that promotes standards-based learning. Parents and teachers around the world use Vicki’s fun activities to stimulate academic success and a joy of learning. With this expansive collection of exercises, kids aged 5-10 will spend hours creatively drawing all their favorite animals!
Complete Guide to Soap Carving
This comprehensive guide provides everything readers need to know about carving soap, from basic carving methods for beginners to sophisticated techniques for accomplished artists. Complete Guide to Soap Carving shows how to choose the best carving soap, and how to test soap for carving quality. Twenty-six step-by-step projects range from quick carvings to elaborate soap sculptures. Fun and easy-to-learn, soap carving is a perfect craft for children, who won’t need to handle sharp knives—this book shows how to make simple wooden carving tools that are safe for kids.
Let's Draw Flowers
Drawing beautiful flowers is easier than you think, and more enjoyable than you ever imagined! All you need to get started is a pencil or pen and this creative workbook. Angelea Van Dam, the professional artist behind Hello Angel coloring books, shows you how to propagate your own garden of hand-drawn blooms. Just as flowers begin with a seed, Angelea introduces you to the simple “seeds” of flower art, with basic techniques like making circles, tracing shapes, and drawing lines and marks. She then provides step-by-step instructions for drawing gorgeous daisies, daffodils, dahlias, mums, roses, peonies, and more. Experience the joy of instant happy art, as you practice your new skills with fun interactive exercises, printed on high-quality artist paper.
Outdoor Paint Techniques and Faux Finishes, Revised Edition
Outdoor Paint Techniques and Faux Finishes shows beginning and advanced decorators how to revitalize their outdoor environment with weatherproof paint effects. Colorful, inspirational and practical, it guides the reader through a series of 25 decorative finishes ideal for external walls, floors and woodwork. This book features a wide variety of stunning effects for five surfaces: plaster, cement, wood, metal and stone. The authors cover a wide variety of paint effects including stucco, faux tiles, frescos, lime washing, verdigris, moss effects and more. They introduce new decorative finishes that can withstand the forces of nature as effectively as traditional exterior paints, with advice on surface preparation, color usage and recommended equipment. Clear text and detailed step-by-step photographs make it easy to create beautiful embellishments that make a personal decorating statement.
Party Knits
Knit one of these fabulous patterns and go party! This great new collection of 25 luxurious party knitwear patterns covers jumpers, cardigans, boleros, dressy tops, camisoles, sweaters, coats and sleeveless jackets, as well as accessories such as corsages and bags. Match a satin skirt with the shimmering copper top or the frill-edge bolero to a pretty summer dress to make a fabulous summer ensemble. Or keep warm at a winter party without any loss of style wearing the latest in shrugs, wraps and gilets. Go wild with bold and bright colors or stay chic with black and white. Making your own party pieces allows you to find just the right shade of wool to coordinate with your outfit and with the amazing range of glittering, metallic and ribbon yarns, the patterns in Party Knits will add instant glamour to your wardrobe.
Contemporary Paper-Pieced Quilts
Contemporary Paper-Pieced Quilts introduces quiltmakers to foundation piecing with 8 sensational projects that range from a lovely wall hanging to an intricate bed quilt. The book begins with simple, skill-building projects that progressively build the quilter’s confidence to try more involved patterns. Paper piecing is a time-honored method to achieve precise, sharp points and perfectly matched seams in quilt blocks. The method is ideal for making small blocks with intricate angles and is experiencing a surge in popularity with the trend towards mini and pictorial quilts. The step-by-step projects in this book are modern and contemporary, using both solid and bold colors to emphasize the complex, but easily made, shapes achieved with paper piecing.
Colorful Batik Panel Quilts
Colorful Batik Panel Quilts shows how to make bold, graphic and joyous art quilt projects and home décor using batik panels created by Indonesian artisans. Readers can explore the many creative possibilities of working with fabric panels with this inspirational book as their guide. Talented fabric artist Judy Gula shows how to use hand-made batik panels in traditional quilt settings, or turn them into works of art with the addition of embellishment. The creative journey begins with an introduction to Judy’s design process, and then moves on to 3 easy step-by-step projects and a gallery tour of 24 stunning art quilts.
One-Stitch Baby Knits
Welcome your new baby to the world with lovingly knitted garments and accessories! This book is filled with easy-to-knit projects you’ll want to make for the baby in your life. Top knitwear designer and author Val Pierce presents 25 simple patterns for practical but adorable baby knits, from bootees to hats to blankets. Whether it’s a kimono-style jacket that you don’t have to pull over a newborn’s head or drawstring mittens that keep your little one from pulling them off, One-Stitch Baby Knits is full of thoughtful details that parents will love. Each and every one of these irresistible garments is made entirely with the garter stitch—the easiest stitch in knitting—making them accessible to beginners and quick and simple for more experienced knitters. Designed with small babies in mind, Val’s patterns can be readily customized to get exactly what you want in a garment that’s cheaper and sturdier than anything you’ll find in stores.