Anchor Excercise Time Counted Cross Stitch. Shaun The Sheep is keeping fit. This small project is ideal for stashing in luggage & taking on journeys. Kit contains carefully sorted Anchor stranded cotton, 14-count white Aida fabric & easy-to-follow charts & instructions. Finished

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Within the pages of Exhibition 36, the reader enters a virtual art exhibit featuring 36 mixed-media artists whose collage, digital, assemblage, altered & repurposed art adorn the walls & pedestals of the gallery. The artists are present with the reader, available to talk about their work & share their techniques & creative processes. The reader attends presentations by well-know artists such as Jonathan Talbot, listen in on a question-&-answer sessions with popular crafters such as Claudine Hellmuth, & peek in on demos by mixed-media authors & artists such as Suzanne Simanaitis. Before heading out the door, the reader will receive a gift for attending: collage sheets containing donated imagery from the artists themselves for use in the readers own art. About the Author A self-taught mixed-media artist, Susan Tuttle creates collage & assemblage pieces from found imagery & recycled objects. She has a website (www.ilkasattic.com) & a blog (www.ilkasattic.blogspot.com). ...

Exploring Colour in Knitting: Techniques, Swatches & Projects to Expand Your Knit Horizons Combining yarns to make coloured patterns is one of the most enjoyable aspects of knitting. Exploring Colour in Knitting is packed with all the guidance & advice you will need to confidently knit with colour. First the book looks at understanding colour from hue families to warm & cool colours, brights, pastels & neutrals, tints, tones & shades. Next, a section on proportion & stitchwork explores how to combine various colours & the effects different stitches have on a colour. A section on colour & decoration offers advice on using embellishments such as beads, sequins, buttons & edgings, as well as tips on adding motifs & embroidery to your work. Chapters on Fair Isle & intarsia investigate the ways that these techniques affect colour relations from traditional patterns through to modern interpretations. Eleven specially selected projects demonstrate the most effective ways to experiment with colour. Brimming with essential advice & ideas this invaluable book is the last word on colour knitting. About the Author Emma King is a talented knitwear designer who is set to inspire knitters across the world. She is a Design Consultant for Rowan Yarns & also has her own company, supplying her knitted bags & limited edition kits. She uses her passion for colour & texture to create designs that will inspire knitters everywhere to pick up their needles. Sarah Hazell is a qualified teacher whose passion for knitting led her to join Rowan Yarns in 2006. She continues to develop the workshop programme for Rowan, teaching knitting, crochet & h&-pieced patchwork. She has a particular interest in colour work & decorative techniques. ...

Exploring Colour in Knitting: Techniques, Swatches & Projects to Expand Your Knit Horizons Combining yarns to make coloured patterns is one of the most enjoyable aspects of knitting. Exploring Colour in Knitting is packed with all the guidance & advice you will need to confidently knit with colour. First the book looks at understanding colour from hue families to warm & cool colours, brights, pastels & neutrals, tints, tones & shades. Next, a section on proportion & stitchwork explores how to combine various colours & the effects different stitches have on a colour. A section on colour & decoration offers advice on using embellishments such as beads, sequins, buttons & edgings, as well as tips on adding motifs & embroidery to your work. Chapters on Fair Isle & intarsia investigate the ways that these techniques affect colour relations from traditional patterns through to modern interpretations. Eleven specially selected projects demonstrate the most effective ways to experiment with colour. Brimming with essential advice & ideas this invaluable book is the last word on colour knitting. About the Author Emma King is a talented knitwear designer who is set to inspire knitters across the world. She is a Design Consultant for Rowan Yarns & also has her own company, supplying her knitted bags & limited edition kits. She uses her passion for colour & texture to create designs that will inspire knitters everywhere to pick up their needles. Sarah Hazell is a qualified teacher whose passion for knitting led her to join Rowan Yarns in 2006. She continues to develop the workshop programme for Rowan, teaching knitting, crochet & h&-pieced patchwork. She has a particular interest in colour work & decorative techniques. ...

Follow along & paint a landscape in oil from start to finish. Learn about perspective, values, portraying mood & more. George shows you the process of painting from life as well as techniques to capture your unique vision to make your paintings more expressive & engaging. Running time: 104 minutes ...

Jack Russell Bingo saves his owners life
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Extraordinary Fixes for Everyday Things Think about the past week. How many little things went wrong? How many times did you make a note something that needs to be enhanced or fixed at home? How many times were you just utterly frustrated with a person, a thing or a situation? That is exactly how many times Extraordinary Fixes For Everyday Things could have helped you. From a messy room to a button thats popped off your shirt to a burnt roast to a rain-soaked shoe, this new book from Readers Digest delivers fast, clever & thrifty solutions to most every conceivable problem or annoyance. Throughout its 368 pages, Extraordinary Fixes For Everyday Things delivers an amazing stream of fixes
- many ingenious, all practical, all proven to be effective. It is an exceptionally useful resource for everyday problem-solving. So, if your children are whinging...your toilet is leaking...your dinner is drying out...your shirt is stained...your hall is a mountain of shoes...your workplace is thronged with sneezy people... Guess what? Its no trouble at all. For these & hundreds of other problems, Extraordinary Fixes For Everyday Things has the fastest, most effective solution.
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Extreme Face Painting: 50 Friendly & Fiendish Demos Whether youre looking for fun & friendly costumes, or strikingly horrible masquerades, this easy to follow book shows readers how to paint super-cool face designs step by step, starting with materials & basic techniques; moving on to 50 projects of the most popular subjects from basic to advanced. Even if youve never done it before, you can create striking faces including animals, romantic themes, humorous characters, sports & Halloween themes. The author is a respected professional, the quality of whose work gives readers something to aspire to, but the instruction will be easy to follow, even for beginners. About the Author Brian Wolfe is known for his fast-paced face & body art techniques. He has worked with Universal Studios Florida, contributed to face-painting publications, taught classes & workshops. He conducts face-painting classes, including full-day workshops at conventions. He was named World Champion at the World Bodypainting Festival in July 2009. ...

Eyelet Greeting Cards Eyelets have always been a good way of attaching layers to cards, but nowadays they come in a huge range of sizes & colours, many with shaped inserts to add to their decorative appeal. Polly Pinder's shows how to attach eyelets using specialist piercing & setting tools & a hammer & cutting mat that most crafters will already own. The attaching process is then as simple as banging in a nail! Polly's wonderfullly creative designs show how to create six cards using eyelets in a variety of innovative ways: as flowers in a vase, seeds in a sunflower, autumn leaves or threaded with ribbon or chain to suspend a golden heart or a framed family portrait, or with gold thread to create the sun's rays. Templates are provided wherever necessary & there are many beautiful pictures to inspire all card makers, from beginners to experienced crafters. ...