This practical yet fun book is full of helpful advice on how to make your own soap at home using only the best natural ingredients. The recipes range from the fun and frivolous to sensible and serious and the book is packed with home-made skin care ideas. An essential guide for anyone interested in learning about this fascinating craft, you’ll also find some inspirational ideas for original and moneysaving gifts.
From a herringbone stitch to a wheatear - a new edition of this comprehensive guide to stitching. Create beautiful needlework with this complete illustrated guide to stitching. It is the perfect reference for embroidery, needlepoint, dressmaking, canvas work or other needlecrafts. Find advice on what thread, needles or fabric will work with which stitches and take a look at over 200 decorative and practical stitches with ideas on how and where to use them.
Step-by-step instructions and detailed working photographs will help you understand exactly how to create any stitch and what it should look like. This title is invaluable for beginners, and full of ideas for the accomplished stitcher.
Using just a few simple sewing techniques, Making Children’s Clothes shows you the easy way to create fun and stylish outfits for young children. From party frocks and pinafore dresses, to simple shirts and elasticated trousers, sleepwear and babies’ clothes, here are 25 great projects that your child will love to wear.
Established as the essential manual for every quilter, this is the most comprehensive reference available to the techniques of these two immensely popular crafts. With over 1,000 clear diagrams and illustrations, this is ideal for everyone wanting to improve their skills, whatever their level of expertise.
Featuring a dozen dazzling origami projects plus giant pull-out templates, this stunning book provides everything you need to create beautiful paper models. The book includes a simple introduction, step-by-step instructions as well as a selection of beautiful papers to help bring your models alive.
Debbie Bliss, one of the UK’s top knitwear designers, has compiled this handy little book of tips aimed at both new knitters who want a quick reference guide and more experienced knitters who want to improve their techniques and begin to create their own ideas. From the basics - choosing yarns, casting on and off and simple shaping - through to more complex techniques such as how to incorporate buttons and beads into your creations. This fully illustrated book is a useful guide to this popular hobby.
There’s fairy fun on every page of this sparkling activity book. Join the Rainbow Magic fairies as they introduce children to a variety of craft projects, including swirly dance ribbons, whirling windmills, a pretty headband and a tutu to pirouette in. With 250 silver stickers too, this is the perfect rainy day boredom buster!
Following the huge success of last year’s MAKE!, Cath Kidston has now put together a treasure trove of fabulous simple projects for stitchers to get their needles into - bags, clothes, soft toys - and all designed to be made with her popular printed fabrics. Cath has also included a length of a unique fabric specially printed for the book.
Parents in search of a stylish array of fun things to make for newborns, toddlers and small children need look no further! These 40 attractive projects require only basic sewing or embroidery and include nursery and bedroom decor, clothing, unique gifts, toys for active learning, keepsakes and memory crafts. Some are made from scratch; others involve embellishing already-purchased items. Whatever project is chosen, it’s sure to be enchanting!
This wonderfully inspiring book shows forty-eight gorgeous designs for jewellery made with glass beads. There are precise details of the materials needed for the projects, which range from ethnic to elegant and from simple to sumptuous.