Crafting Books
Everything Alice
The Handmade Marketplace
Blogging for Bliss
Artist's Journal Workshop
The Practical Guide to Patchwork
Charmed Knits: Projects for Fans of Harry Potter
The Handmade Marketplace
Blogging for Bliss
Artist's Journal Workshop
The Practical Guide to Patchwork
Charmed Knits: Projects for Fans of Harry Potter
Delight in the Details
Teach Yourself VISUALLY
Mixed Media Mosaics
Sock Knitting Master Class
Handcrafted Wire Findings
Drawing Lab for Mixed Media Artists
Teach Yourself VISUALLY
Mixed Media Mosaics
Sock Knitting Master Class
Handcrafted Wire Findings
Drawing Lab for Mixed Media Artists
Sewing School
Patterns in Polymer
Teach Yourself VISUALLY Crochet
Encyclopedia of Scrapbooking
Doodle Stitching
Craft Book Favorites
If you have ever loved Lewis Carroll’s tale of Alice then this book will help bring Wonderland into your everyday life. It is jam packed with 50 ‘Make Me’ projects including jewellery making, sewing, baking, paper crafts and much more."
--Alison Wood
"For folks who create unique things with a view to getting paid, this book should prove quite useful...for makers at any stage, from just-thinking-about-it to ready-to-quit-my-
day-job." --BookPage
day-job." --BookPage
"Kari has thoughtfully created the very best guide book for navigating the craft marketplace. Her personal voice, guided by personal experience is evident throughout the book. You'll feel encouraged, inspired and informed..... totally confident to jump start your own craft business!"
--Amy Butler, Amy Butler Design
--Amy Butler, Amy Butler Design
"Today’s crafting community is online, connected, and blissfully blogging about their work and ideas. Blogging is hot in this highly creative world—and here is the only how-to book aimed directly at them.
Everyone from knitters and beaders to scrapbookers and altered artists will find the practical information and visual inspiration they need to create an artful online journal." --Good Reads
"Based on her own 40 years' experience in keeping an artist's journal, Cathy Johnson knows that an artist's creative life can benefit from written and visual explanations and experiments. Over the course of this book, you will benefit from the tips, techniques and exercises that will make your artist's journals your own. You will also discover how to use your journal to celebrate any occasion or milestone,
work through a problem or creative block, plan future works, sketch from life and experiment with new materials or techniques. With 24 contributors from around the world there is a variety of styles and perspectives throughout the book, and with 15+ exercises you will learn to personalize your journal in a variety of ways." --Amazon Editorial Review
"This book was exactly what I hoped it would be and more. She is inspiring and encouaging. It also has some of my other favorite artists in the book. I will go back to this book over and over again. Every single page has something beautiful on it. I highly recommend it."
--Pamela Lance, customer review
"This book was exactly what I hoped it would be and more. She is inspiring and encouaging. It also has some of my other favorite artists in the book. I will go back to this book over and over again. Every single page has something beautiful on it. I highly recommend it."
--Pamela Lance, customer review
"The Practical Guide toTo Patchwork is a great book for beginning to intermediate quilters, covering everything from basic supplies and planning your quilt, to free-motion quilting and binding, all pesented with a bright aesthetic and clear, simple instructions. Twelve beautiful and brightly colored projects are accompanied by numerous step-by-step photographs, perfect for the visual learner. Each project
includes ideas for alternate colorways that show you how swapping out fabrics can completely change the look of your quilt. The Practical Guide To Patchwork would make a great starter book for a young person who wants to learn how to make fun and functional quilts." -- Quilters World
"Charmed Knits offers dozens of patterns for items that evoke the mystique of Harry Potter - a Wizard Robe, an Invisibility Shawl, a Quidditch Sweater, Ron's Ragg Raglan, a Clock Blanket, Harry Christmas Ornaments, and more. Easy-to-follow patterns, color photos of the finished projects, and illustrations of special stitch patterns and design elements make it easy for all knitters - from beginners to
those at Mrs. Weasley's level - to work knitting magic. Charmed Knits whisks you away on a wonderful journey. Along the way, you can pick patterns inspired by the Weasleys, stock up at Diagon Alley, show your house colors, conjure up gifts, or create pieces to help you feel at home in the magical world of Harry Potter." --Amazon Editorial Review
"Delight in the Details will inspire you with more than 40 techniques for creating accents and embellishments that will provide a finishing touch to any papercraft project. Get creative with a variety of materials, from simple paper and fabric scraps to glitter, ink, modeling paste and vintage finds. 100 lovely projects--including greeting cards, scrapbook layouts, mini albums and home décor--
showcase the techniques in fabulous form. Plus, take a peak inside the author's studio where pretty vintage details come to life."
--Amazon Editorial Review
"This book is pure eye candy. The projects are over the top cool...but with Lisa's clear instructions & great photos...you can easily follow along & make these projects. It's loaded with inspiration and I know I'll refer to it often. If you LOVE Lisa's style...shabby, chic, vintage & BEAUTIFUL...this is a MUST HAVE purchase." --Wendy Vecchi, customer review
--Amazon Editorial Review
"This book is pure eye candy. The projects are over the top cool...but with Lisa's clear instructions & great photos...you can easily follow along & make these projects. It's loaded with inspiration and I know I'll refer to it often. If you LOVE Lisa's style...shabby, chic, vintage & BEAUTIFUL...this is a MUST HAVE purchase." --Wendy Vecchi, customer review
"You've probably coveted jewelry you've seen in artsy boutiques and fashion magazines or envied friends who have the perfect bling to accent everything. With this book, you'll learn to craft designs that are chic but inexpensive. With hundreds of detailed photos, this book covers tools and supplies, bead
stringing and weaving, wire wrapping, and more. Terrific projects will get you started and inspire you to create your own jewelry and beadwork designs." --Amazon Editorial Review
"If you want to get into beading & jewelry-making, Chris Franchetti Michaels's Teach Yourself VISUALLY Jewelry Making & Beading is a fantastic place to start. It's a thick book loaded with photographs, and it tackles a comprehensive spread of topics." --H. Grove, customer review
"If you want to get into beading & jewelry-making, Chris Franchetti Michaels's Teach Yourself VISUALLY Jewelry Making & Beading is a fantastic place to start. It's a thick book loaded with photographs, and it tackles a comprehensive spread of topics." --H. Grove, customer review
"Mixed-Media Mosaics uses polymer-clay and mosaic-tile work as a new and exciting platform for mixed-media/collage artists. It helps readers learn to craft highly textural and vividly coloured icons, boxes, tables, items of personal adornment and more, using a combination of manufactured and handmade tiles. It also contains techniques for creating the tiles such as painting and glazing, stamping,
embedding items like beads and buttons, mixing pigments and mica powders with clay, adding metallic leaf, creating molds, combining the handcrafted tiles with traditional mosaic tile, grout alternatives and more."--Amazon Editorial Review
"I was lucky enough to take a class with Laurie Mika not too long ago and she's just as generous in sharing her techniques and tips in her book as she was in class...I love this book and have been making tiles since I got it!" --Amy Huff, customer review
"I was lucky enough to take a class with Laurie Mika not too long ago and she's just as generous in sharing her techniques and tips in her book as she was in class...I love this book and have been making tiles since I got it!" --Amy Huff, customer review
"Sock Knitting Master Class showcases methods for designing and knitting creative socks, featuring signature elements and techniques from 16 top designers. You’ll learn what makes good sock design, and then dive into knitting 18 spectacular, brand-new patterns featuring the widest variety of techniques.
With patterns divided into two sections by top-down and toe-up construction, Sock Knitting Master Class explores such techniques as cables, twisted stitches, lace, stranded colorwork, entrelac, shadow knitting, and intarsia worked in the round. Plus, you’ll discover inventive ways to start and end socks, shape heels and toes, and knit the soles.
--Amazon Editorial Review
--Amazon Editorial Review
"Add personal style at minimal cost with custom-made findings. Why spend hundreds of dollars stocking up on expensive manufactured clasps, jump rings, ear wires, bails, and more when you can make exactly what you need for
a fraction of the cost? Making custom findings enables jewelry makers toaffordably create just the right component to complement their own jewelry designs. Handcrafted Wire Findings looks at your wire stash and focuses on how to create custom, professional-quality findings. With fundamental skills for beginners that progress to more sophisticated designs, this book covers techniques such as basic wirework, texturizing, silver fusing, adding patina, and traditional finishes. Included are over 30 projects for making custom wire findings, each accompanied by step-by-step photographs and directions to ensure success."
--Amazon Editorial Review
--Amazon Editorial Review
"If I ever meet Carla Sonheim, I will probably not be able to suppress the urge to hug her for writing “Drawing Lab For Mixed Media Artists: 52 Creative Exercises to Make Drawing Fun”. Loaded with a year’s worth of inspirational prompts, this book is for all of us creative types who stopped drawing right around the
third grade because we decided we weren’t talented enough to stick with it. From doodle sketches to paper dolls, this book will renew your confidence and make you want a new sketch book and box of Crayolas."
--Jennifer Ackerman-Haywood, craftgossip.com
"I loved this book. It was instantly inspiring and not just to me but also to my 8 year old daughter which spilled over to my 5 year old son and my mother was visiting and she was doing some of the exercises as well.
This book is very creative, fun to look at, fun to read with easy to understand exercises." --Flamesbain, customer review
--Jennifer Ackerman-Haywood, craftgossip.com
"I loved this book. It was instantly inspiring and not just to me but also to my 8 year old daughter which spilled over to my 5 year old son and my mother was visiting and she was doing some of the exercises as well.
This book is very creative, fun to look at, fun to read with easy to understand exercises." --Flamesbain, customer review
"Written by a kindergarten teacher and a journalist who have taught many children to sew, this large-format book offers appealing projects illustrated with color photos of step-by-step directions as well as kids engaged in sewing and showing off work. The opening 12 lessons begin at the very beginning with topics such as
threading a needle, knotting the thread, and making a basic running stitch. After covering basic knowledge and skills, the presentation moves on to instructions for fun, easy projects such as making a drawstring tote bag or a “Super Hero Cuff.” Sections on mending clothes and repairing stuffed animals round out the presentation. The book includes a practical introduction for adults, a glossary, a list of recommended blogs, and sources of tools, supplies, and fabrics. Best of all, this practical, attractive sewing book features finished projects that look like they were actually made by children. Grades 3-6." --Carolyn Phelan, Booklist
"With her unmatched eye for color, color mixing and layering, well-known artist and fan favorite Julie Picarello helps beginners and advanced polymer artisans design, texture and finish gorgeous art beads using relatively simple techniques. In-depth introduction sections cover basics, color inspiration and recipes, and needed tools and materials. It’s the color
that makes polymer clay truly exciting, and this book uses color like
you’ve never seen it before." --Amazon Editorial Review
"Incredible Resource! Patterns in Polymer is an incredible resource on using the mokume gane technique with polymer clay. Julie has been a pioneer on taking polymer clay mokume gane to the next level, and this book is comprehensive and clear not only in instruction, but also in inspiration. Even experienced polymer clay artists will learn some new tricks from this book." --Ronna Sarvas Weltman, customer review
you’ve never seen it before." --Amazon Editorial Review
"Incredible Resource! Patterns in Polymer is an incredible resource on using the mokume gane technique with polymer clay. Julie has been a pioneer on taking polymer clay mokume gane to the next level, and this book is comprehensive and clear not only in instruction, but also in inspiration. Even experienced polymer clay artists will learn some new tricks from this book." --Ronna Sarvas Weltman, customer review
"The visual way to get hooked on crochet. The art of crocheting is timeless-and its popularity is evident in the surge of modern, sophisticated techniques like amigurumi and Tunisian crochet. So if you yearn for the skills to join this crafting revolution, this easy-to-follow guide is for you!"
--Amazon Editorial Review
--Amazon Editorial Review
"I bought this book with no clue how to crochet a single stitch. I found the directions and pictures very helpful, and I was soon able to use my new found knowledge to follow crochet patterns from my MIL's older pattern books. I have recommended this book to many of my friends and given it as a gift. It's just great!" --Susan, customer review
"Introducing the scrapbooker's new best friend. When it comes to making the most of your memories, take a page from the Creating Keepsakes experts. Beginners and more experienced scrapbookers alike will turn to this hefty new reference guide time and time again for helpful insights and daily inspiration on tools, techniques, layouts - plus all the
can't-miss tips you'd expect from The Scrapbooking Authority.
--Amazon Editorial Review
"I have many beginners scrapbooking books and this book is the BEST of them all. I cannot live without this book. This is the first book I would recommend to anyone. It is my scrapbooking bible. If you buy this book, you will not regret it." --Beryl H. Hamerla, customer review
"This could be a very short review because I can sum it up in one sentence - if you buy only one scrapbooking book in your lifetime, buy this book. --Wendy C., allcrafts.net
--Amazon Editorial Review
"I have many beginners scrapbooking books and this book is the BEST of them all. I cannot live without this book. This is the first book I would recommend to anyone. It is my scrapbooking bible. If you buy this book, you will not regret it." --Beryl H. Hamerla, customer review
"This could be a very short review because I can sum it up in one sentence - if you buy only one scrapbooking book in your lifetime, buy this book. --Wendy C., allcrafts.net
"This follow-up to the best-selling Doodle Stitching offers fans expanded and updated basics, 400+ easy embroidery motifs on the page and on a CD sealed in the back of the book, 17 projects, and lots of added inspiration. More than a dozen categories include
Alphabet, Asian Chic, Baby, Celebrations, Embellishments, Fruits & Veggies, Space, Trees, Flowers, Winged Wonders, and Woodland Creatures-and each section includes one motif stitched by the author.
The motifs on the CD are in simple black lines, so readers can easily manipulate them using their own image-editing software, print them out, and transfer them onto their substrate of choice using the instructions in the book." --Amazon Editorial Review
The motifs on the CD are in simple black lines, so readers can easily manipulate them using their own image-editing software, print them out, and transfer them onto their substrate of choice using the instructions in the book." --Amazon Editorial Review
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