Get out your needles and get creative!
Want to make something amazing or create a unique gift? Then this is the book for you!
Made By Me teaches basic sewing, embroidery, and knitting, with simple patterns for lots of fabric fun.
From bags, brooches, and hats, to jazzing up clothes and making soft toys, this book is packed with inspiring projects to design and create.
This box includes
* a booklet about pocket gardening
* a booklet on how to grow more than 70 vegetables and flowers
* a booklet describing 8 different pocket gardens
* a wall chart to check the progress of your plants throughout the year
and 9 packets of seeds.
This great cross stitch set lets you stitch whatever your imagination can think of with this blank canvas and thread set. With helpful instructions on use and different kinds of stitches, this is perfect for beginners and experts alike. Stitch count 118 x 200. Dimensions 27.38 x 46.4cm
With helpful information on different types of stitches, and everything you need to stitch your own decorative pictures what are you waiting for. This set will allow you to create your own winter decorative picture. Stitch count 120x 120. Dimensions: 27.94 x 27.94 cm (11ct)
Includes 4 fun stencils: pirate, tiger, dog, batman. Decorate your face with brightly coloured cream paints, glitter gels, make-up pencils and much more. Specially formulated water soluble pains that are friendly to the most delicate skin, easy to remove and frangrance-free.
Design your own beautiful colourful birds to hang at home or to give to family and friends with this simple DIY craft kit. This kit contains everything you need to make 10 colourful bird hanging decorations. Kit includes 10 assorted coloured birds for decorating, colourful string & a holder for hanging.
We throw away too many useful things. In the UK alone, over 10 million items of furniture are thrown away every year, and re-usable textiles make up as much as 12 per cent of items sent to landfill.
Junk for Joy! Shows how to restore and re-use a wide range of items with inspiring and accessible projects, so you can create some stylish new things for your home, save waste, and money as well.
Fold & Fly Paper Planes is your comprehensive guide to building the perfect paper plane. Whether you're young or young at heart, there's nothing quite like the thrill of seeing a carefully crafted piece of paper sailing through the air. You'll be astounded as your planes fly faster, higher and longer with these amazing designs.
From mountain bikes and road racers to hybrid and leisure bikes, this practical guide shows you how to keep any bike in peak condition. Clear, jargon-free advice steers you through a complete maintenance programme. Detailed step-by step photographs demonstrate how to clean, maintain, and repair your bike.
his unique art course will teach you all the skills you need to create beautiful works of art in just 10 steps. Follow the series of simple projects to master the essential techniques for each medium, then put your skills together for a final masterpiece.
Drawing children has never been easier!
Maybe you can't stop your favourite child from growing up, but you can create timeless memories with pencil, paper and some simple drawing skills. Here to show you how are Carrie Stuart Parks and Rick Parks, professional composite artists and drawing instructors. In their friendly and foolproof teaching style, the Parks cover everything you need to know to create incredibly true-to-life pencil portraits of the children you love. You'll learn how to:
* Take strong reference photos.
* Achieve correct facial expressions.
* Draw a face from different angles, and bring it to life with shading.
* Master tricky facial features such as eyes, nose, ears, hair, lips and smiles.
* Make hair look realistic and shiny.
* Draw clothing, incorporate props, and work with light and shadows.
Complete with step-by-step demonstrations and countless expert tips for striking results, this book will help you create drawings that capture the one-of-a-kind essence of a child, preserving forever that lovable, clownish, whimsical or impish nature that makes children so very special.
Silk painting is a fascinating art, where the combination of material and colours leads to a remarkable effect. With a little practice you will very quickly learn the most important techniques.
Silk Painting for Beginners presents the variety of this art and introduces the most important tool and aids. Routines are explained in clear step by step instructions. In an extra chapter you will learn everything about dyeing, batik and fixing.
Immerse yourself in a wonderful hobby and surprise your friends or relatives with one of your creations!
Add a personal touch to your home, embellish your clothing and make wonderful gifts for family and friends.
This collection of quick and fashionable projects including trendy baby gifts, fabulous clothing and stylish home wares - while very easy to make - is sure to impress everyone around you.
One day, humans decide to travel, and to take their plants with them and grow them all over the world.
The Earth became a vast garden of fruit, vegetables, and spices. Discover for yourself, the adventures of these plants and become a World Gardener by growing them at home...
Make 3D crafts and scrapbooks with versatile fabric paper.
*Fabric paper sheets are the new hot thing in crafting!
*69 projects combine the colour and richness of fabric with the flexibility of paper.
*Make co-coordinated invitations and decorations for birthdays, weddings, and other events.
*Fun for all ages.
*Perfect for scrapbooking, photo transfer, 3D projects, altered books, and other crafts.
Whether you want to make a room look bigger, achieve a certain effect with colour or lighting, or simply make your apartment look better, painting walls offers you endless opportunities to do just this using the simplest approach.
Decorative Wall Painting for Beginners introduces 30 different techniques - from ragging and sponging, stencilling to combing - all presented in clear step by step instructions. You will also learn everything about tools and materials and will receive tips on the preparation of the surface as aswell as the choice of colour.
Allow yourself to be inspired by the numerous examples in this book to design your walls to suit your own personal use.
In Bathrooms Terence Conran discusses the expanding role of the bathroom in the modern home and presents a wide range of options for sitting, design and decoration. As an essentially built-in area, the bathroom must accommodate a number of fixed elements so as to make the best of available space. In addition, the practical issues of plumbing, waterproofing, heating and lighting require solutions different to those employed in other areas in the home.
FIX IT GOOD CAR is packed with all the information you need to keep your car on the road. With illustrations and explanations that are accessible to the complete beginner, this handy little book guides you all over the car, system by system. It offers advice on everything from fitting children's car seats to dealing with roadside emergencies.
To relax and enjoy your motoring, safe in the knowledge that expert advice is always close at hand, just pop this compact manual in the glove department. It is filled with everything you need and absolutely nothing that you don't.
Everything you need to know about fishing in one striving book, The Fishing Handbook offers a comprehensive guide to the relaxing pastime of angling.
Whether you are a committed angler or are keen to take up the sport, you will find everything you need to know in these pages.
Offering you a guide to the basic principles of angling, it advises on the equipment you will need and lets you into perhaps the biggest secret of all
is your home-office desk buried under paper? Are your file cabinets overstuffed? Organise Your Life provides both the know-how and software to easily store and manage all your personal records electronically. Within this book you'll find simple step-by-step instructions for scanning and archiving all of your family's papers and photographs, accompanied with a CD database, which is super-easy to install and navigate. Every imaginable kind of record is accommodated.
Brilliant colour meets classic design.
Japanese yarn company Noro has a cult following, and in Knitting Noro author Jane Ellison gives knitters exactly what they've been thirsting for; more than 30 classic designs that showcase the unique beauty and gorgeous colours of Noro's luxury yarns.
Save time and money! Do some extraordinary things with the ordinary household products you already have on your shelves. Polish your shoes with toothpaste? Absolutely. You can clean piano keys, diamond rings, remove lipstick and even ink stains with the stuff. Extraordinary Uses For Ordinary Things has thousands of intriguing ways to get more value out of more than 200 everyday items.
The Essential Lighting Manual for Photographers shows how to see light and use it effectively, empowering the amateur to improve his or her skills, and enabling semi-pros to build on their experience for more considered, creative results.
* Clear, jargon-free introduction to all types of lighting, from inside the studio to the great outdoors.
* Comprehensive survey of up-to-date lighting equipment and accessories.
* Easy-to-follow guidance on the key techniques for successful lighting.
* Inspirational photographs cover a range of subjects, from landscape and travel, to portraits and macro.
Over 80 original stamping projects for interiors, furniture, fabrics, china, glass and accessories. Includes brilliant ideas for stamping a variety of surfaces with original designs, such as Rose Breakfast Room, Folk Motif Chair, Fleur-de-lys Cushions, Heraldic Stationer, Hearts Toy Box, and many more. Creative advice on application effects, cutting your own stamps and mixing paints. Includes full-colour step-by-step instructions for each project so that you can see what you're aiming for.
Stamping is the mew decorative technique of the 1990's. Suitable for stylish gifts, stationary, utensils, furniture and fabrics. Over 40 projects, with clear step-by-step instructions and illustrated throughout with full colour photographs. Easy to learn, stamping will give you hours of fun.
Who among us could honestly say they've never experienced a senior moment? Those frustrating times when one's keys are 'misplaced' (or some b***er ran off with them); or one's sunglasses (stuck firmly on top of one's head) are just nowhere to be found; or when 'bad hair day' just doesn't cover it any more ('no hair day', more like).
Designed to keep yuor pen engaged while your mind goes wandering, this book celebrates senior moments with dozens of unfinished doodles for you to complete. And you never know, a bit of creative doodling might even jog the old memory! Now, where did you leave that damn pen...?
Spoil yourself with Merino, the world's most luxurious wool yarn. Tucked away in a valley surrounded by rolling hills, Morehouse Farm is home to two former Manhattanites - Margrit Lohrer and Albrecht Pichler - who sought refuge from city life to raise Merino sheep and create the plushest wool of them all. Here, Lohrer and Pichler open the gates of this magical farmland and share more than forty patterns inspired by the beauty of merino wool and the comfort of life on Morehouse Farm. From lacy shawls and classic sweaters to adorable baby garments and colourful mittens - along with a selection of gorgeous patterns include something special for every member of the family.
What better way to shower a child with love than with handmade, warm, snuggly socks and booties?
Cute, cuddly and ultra-wearable - special knits for baby feet!
Fun to knit and quick to finish, there's nothing quite so adorable as tiny socks for little feet. With designs ranging from classic booties and Fair Isle knits to playful duck feet, sweet elephants, soft clouds and yummy ice cream cones, you simply won't know which pair to start knitting first for that special little one in your life
This book is filled with easy to understand instructions and beautifully illustrated pictures to help beginners and experts alike on how to sew a wide range of items. From basics like cushions, aprons and simple curtains to more adventurous things like corsages, quilts and kimonos. All in the distinctive Liberty style covering basics in sewing and techniques to help any get started.
Easy-sew ideas for customizing clothes and home accessories.
Make it quick; make it your own. Sew Stylish offers simple makeovers for everything from jeans to sweaters to off-the-rack basics. Author Katie Ebben presents a modern twist on traditional sewing techniques and demonstrates clever ways to embellish, reinvent, and transform items for home and wardrobe.
Eighteen inspiring projects incorporate everything from beading and appliqu
New twists on cable knits.
Internationally acclaimed knitwear designer Fiona Ellsi shares the meditative power of mindful knitting in this collection of 20 stunning cable designs. Fascinated by nature's wonderful variety of patterns and textures, Ellis offers a selection of cables that venture out of the predictable realm of vertical columns and constant repetition.