From award-winning quilter, garment designer & teacher Jen Swearington, comes an essential & accessible guide to printing by hand on fabric.

She starts by explaining how to translate design ideas into prints, from single motifs to repeating patterns.

Jen then goes on to cover various methods of transfer: stencils, photo emulsion, dye baths, bleach resists & more.

With plenty of tried-&-true recipes & a dozen teaching projects that range from garments to home décor, this beautiful book is the perfect resource for sewers, quilters & other fabric crafters!

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781454703945
• Author: Jen Swearington
• Publisher: Lark
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 160
• Dimensions: 20 x 25cm













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What could be better than getting together with friends & getting creative?

If you fancy stamping some personality on

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For Priscilla, pre-war Paris was an exciting carousel of suitors, soirees & heartbreak, & eventually a lavish wedding to a French aristocrat. But the arrival of the Nazi tanks signalled the end of life as a Vicomtesse, & the beginning of a precarious existence under German Occupation. ...

Robert Davies first went to China in 1988 as an overland backpacker &, after a hair-raising two months touring Pakistan, found himself in Kashgar, the fabled Silk Road city. Here his life was irrevocably changed when he fell head over heels in love with Sharapet, an Uighur lady who was already married with a ten-year-old daughter. Love made them blind to the bureaucracy they had to face, strong for the thousands of miles they had to travel to obtain permission to marry, & resolute against the rage of Sharapet's revenge-seeking ex-husb&. But Robert became involved in the trafficking of hashish. Arrested & taken 2, 500 miles across China to Shanghai, he was sentenced to eight & a half years behind bars in one of the largest, most overcrowded jails in Asia
- fighting against a corrupt system in grim conditions, with death a constant threat. He had suffered a legal process where law was merely a word & justice was as elusive as the holy grail & he believed the Chinese authorities had blatantly used him & other foreigners as propaganda tools.
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The protagonist, Sam Brave, is kidnapped by a gang of revolutionaries in retaliation for something bad that Sam did to them. If the revolutionaries are psychopathic, Sam is not the nicest guy in the world either. His imprisonment
- based on the Patricia Hearst case
- results in his taking on the coloration of his captors
- to an extent.


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When Professor Calculus is kidnapped, Tintin & a desperate Captain Haddock set off to Peru on a rescue mission, braving runaway train carriages, yellow fever & avalanches. Then they must find an ancient Inca tribe if they are to find their great friend. ...

When Professor Calculus is kidnapped, Tintin & a desperate Captain Haddock set off to Peru on a rescue mission, braving runaway train carriages, yellow fever & avalanches. Then they must find an ancient Inca tribe if they are to find their great friend. ...

Get yourself a Monster Creative Kit! Ready to fight a fire-spitting dragon? Then reach Dragon Hill to defeat the monster.



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Quick & easy to use, safe & solvent free pritt stick. Perfect for arts & crafts & daily use, this pritt stick is ideal for home, office & school use. Product Information:• Pritt Stick• Glue• Solvent-free• Suitable for all ages• 22g ...

Former US Marine Jack Morgan runs Private, a renowned investigation company with branches around the globe. It is where you go when you need maximum force & maximum discretion. The secrets of the most influential men & women on the planet come to Jack daily
- & his staff of investigators use the world's most advanced forensic tools to make & break their cases. In L.A., Jack is already deep into the investigation of a multimillion-dollar gambling scandal & the unsolved slayings of eighteen schoolgirls when he learns of a horrific murder close to home: his best friend's wife, Jack's former lover, has been killed. It nearly pushes him over the edge. Instead, Jack pushes back & devotes all of Private's resources to tracking down her killer. & Jack doesn't have to play by the rules.
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