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[[Category:New Reviews|Crafts]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Axel Scheffler, Emily Gravett et al0811771741|title=Draw It! Colour It! CreaturesInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman

|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrafts|summary=Colouring books Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for adults are all the rage at the moment and itBaby''s too easy gives us a collection of knits from toys to forget that adults blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are not of the only ones who benefit from the calming'long, soothing therapy cosy afternoons in front of colouring or the improvement in hand-eye co-ordination which comes with practicefire' variety. ChildrenThe projects are divided by the time they's picture books have tended ll take to be flimsier and not put together with quite such panache or by such wellcomplete -known namesless than five hours, but we now have a children's colouring book five to ten hours, ten to bridge twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the gapprojects are attractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about ''Draw It! Colour It! Creatures'' has social-media-worthy projects from 43 artists, well known in the field of children's book illustration, all packed together in a stylish book with flaps so but that you're not going to lose your places me being picky.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447290704</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Hollis1635866243|title=Practical Landscape Painting: Materials, Techniques & ProjectsThe Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook|author=Kristina McGrath and Sarah Walworth

|genre=ArtCrafts|summary=Almost any of us can visit the countryside ''I quickly discovered that putting words and capture the view in our memory or numbers on our camera with comparatively consummate easea page wasn't enough. However capturing it in paint is more difficult Creating a pattern that was correct, clear, concise, and yet something some consistent required a great deal of us trial and error, patience, and perseverance.'' (Introduction byFrancoise Danoy) A friend recently showed me included) dream a knitting pattern for which she'd paid good money. The first line ofthe instructions began: ''Cast off 100 stitches... '' It was therefore with great excitement clear that I picked up no good could come of this compact book of seven lessons in landscape painting. As I believe - the instructions didn't get any better - and (finally) PayPal obliged with good evidence) that I have a refund when the seller refused as she couldn't afford the artistic ability of a house brickrepayment. The pattern looked pretty, it would be a challenge but I also the creator didn't have a dream the basic knowledge and skills to enable her to followconnect with her knitters. She should have read ''The Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782402802</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Teal Triggs and Daniel Frost1529507987|title=The School of Art: Learn How To Make Great Art With 40 Simple LessonsRepair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)

|summary=Written with an interesting approach, this book treats the reader as a new art student to I love ''The School of ArtRepair Shop''. The five professors of the school take the student through 40 different lessons, looking at a huge range of ideas right from how It's my go-to programme when I want to draw be cheered up. After a linehard day, perspective and proportion, composition and aestheticsthere's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. Aimed probably at senior school children it couldYou see, however, also be used by older primary children the value is in what these possessions are worth to the people who are particularly interested in art, own them and if you were working through the book with your child then a younger child could also try out some of the lesson ideas and suggestionsmemories they hold.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806112</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lydia Crook|title=Christmas Paper Play|rating=4.5|genre=Crafts|summary=Christmas is a time of joy and goodwill No expense appears to all men, but it can also be a spared and the experts spend as much time of bad weather, of being stuck in the house and feeling like you have nothing effort as is required to doachieve the desired result. The holiday period can need filling Regular viewers know the experts and for a crafty kid there are loads of activities that can be done simply by using paper; including creating their own decorations or making the best letter they can for Father Christmas're all brilliant at explaining what it is they're doing. If only there was a handy book that contained loads of great Christmas crafting ideas in one place.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782402470</amazonuk>But how did they start?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amber Anderson0760379912|title=The Little Book of Colouring: Animal KingdomSuper Easy Quilting for Beginners|ratingauthor=3.5|genre=Crafts|summary=After years of doing craft work which must be ''useful'', I've discovered the relaxing benefits of colouring. I'm doing it to please me: it doesn't need to be perfect or functional. No one but me is going to judge the finished article. All it needs is to be done, slowly, peacefully and at my own pace. The choice Editors of colours is mine and mine alone. If I want to drop the finished page into the paper recycling then that's my prerogative. It's sheer indulgence on paper, lasts longer than a bottle of wine and does me more good. What's not to love about colouring?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784296457</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Anastasia Catris|title=Colour Me Mindful: BirdsQuarry Books

|summary=About half a century ago I mentioned learned patchworking from necessity: old or outgrown clothes needed to someone that colouring be turned into something new and usable when I was relaxing and enjoyable and received a lecture on in my lack of creativity and willingness to use what other people had drawn for my own endstwenties. It would be a while before it became a pleasure rather than a chore but I still did colouring - 've never felt completely at home with quilting. I needed something a time when there were considerable pressures in little more stylish than my life over which I had no control - but it was just that it became my guilty secretusual buttons or knots. Now colouring is mainstream and there's 'Super Easy Quilting for Beginners'' seemed like a considerable range of design books good place to choose from. Orion have published three by Anastasia Catris: this book, {{amazonurl|isbn=1409163067|title=Colour Me Mindful: Underwater}} and {{amazonurl|isbn=1409163083|title=Colour Me Mindful: Tropical}}start. So, how do they stand out from the crowddid it stack up?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409163105</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eglantine de la Fontaine et al0760379874|title=My Magical Oasis: Art Therapy Colouring Book Super Easy Knitting for Creative MindsBeginners|author=Carri Hammett

|summary=ItI learned to knit in the nineteen-fifties: it wasn's not often I can review t a choice, it was a book requirement. Girls learned to knit and to embroider and mention how boys did wood and metal work. My knitting wa accompanied by a lot of criticism and quite a few tears: it changes your brain, but was a long time before I realised that's apparently there was pleasure to be had in the effect of the colouring-in-for-adults phenomenonskill. ThereNearly seventy years later it's a science behind it the only thing that keeps my hands at all that attests how alpha waves, supple. The turning point was a slightly more childlike, accepting, relaxed form of brain activity, are used booklet published by our bonces when we colour – Patons which gave all the basics and as opposed some patterns. I've been looking for something simple to the braver, thinking, active beta waves theyrecommend to people who're something d like to master the mind could do more of, especially in this kinetic, plugged-in, 24/7 lifestyleskill. So whereas I normally review books to help my readers make their mind up, here Ihow did ''Super Easy Knitting For Beginners''m mentioning this volume because it allegedly would change your mind.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0859655350</amazonuk>work out?

{{newreviewplainFrontpage|isbn=0760373531|title=The Creative Colouring Book for Grown-UpsCozy Knits: 30 Hat, Mitten, Scarf and Sock Projects from Around the World|author=Sue Flanders|rating=45

|summary=Johanna Basford was not Just occasionally you encounter a book of knitting patterns that seems to meet your every need. Right now, it's bitterly cold and we're in the firstsandwich filling between two storms: I need socks, scarves, hats and nor was she an overnight successmittens. They have to look stylish, keep me warm and be so cheerful that they make me feel better. If youthat sounds like a lot to ask, have a look at 're salivating over the 'Cozy Knits'Enchanted Forest': it has thirty designs for those necessary items and I don', having finished her ''Secret Garden'', you are t think that there was one of those many people indulging in the new/old hobby of adult colouring-in (adult perhaps only because her titles smack more of soft erotica than colouring-in books)them which I couldn't see myself wearing. The hobby is rapidly killing off Sudoku as the pastime of choice for many – either on the train or sitting We start with half an ear to introduction by Nancy Bush which gives some of the soapshistory of knitting. It's fun, not essential but it opens the mind to other thoughts in quite 's a meditative way, and it needs no instructions – much like, again, Sudoku, even if newspapers persist in telling us them even when nobody on earth is left to need themnice extra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782433287</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucy Engelman0760373558|title=Field Guide: Creatures Great and Small (Field Guides)Nordic Knits|author=Sue Flanders|rating=4.5

|summary=Call me fuddy-duddyI was so delighted by Sue Flanders' [[Cozy Knits: 30 Hat, Mitten, but Scarf and Sock Projects from Around the World by Sue Flanders|Cozy Knits]] that I have never seen the didn't need any persuading at all to review a book via video – with Youtube pick up her ''Nordic Knits''. This delivers forty-four patterns inspired by textiles and other sources becoming full of people giving their thoughts about the latest hot release the idea has never appealed to melocal traditions from Norway, when there are also countless ways for one to share opinions by old-fashioned written wordSweden and Iceland. That is, There are a few sweaters or jackets but the majority of coursepatterns are for smaller items such as mittens, until nowgloves, hats and the phenomenon that is building rapidly – that of mature colouring-in booksbags. Here at the Bookbag we can easily prove we've read every word of the books by being eloquent, informative All are bright and cheerful and opinionated about what we examine, but even I admit four paragraphs regarding a picture book we ourselves have to finish off may leave some members of our audience wanting to see the resultsvery cosy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780635X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewplainFrontpage|isbn=1635864070|title=Gorgeous Colouring Book for Grown-UpsKnit 2 Socks in 1|author=Safiyyah Talley

|summary=So, when I mentioned on Facebook that I had If you've ever started knitting a nice new grown-up colouring book to reviewpair of socks, I discovered a secret little group of friends who all confessed (instantly finished the first one and with glee) that they have succumbed to either got bored by the new relaxation craze of grown-up colouring! They had tales of how tricky it was to stay inside idea of doing the lines, how long one picture could takesame thing all over again, or started on the second sock and how relaxing lost the whole thing first before you finished it, this isthe book for you. I dug out my old tin of pencilsWhere is it that single socks go to hide? Safiyyah Talley has developed a system that allows you to knit two socks in one, divide them up and settled down to give it have a tryperfectly finished pair of socks. Sounds good? It's clever and well-thought-out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782434461</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paula Briggs1529393930|title=Drawing Projects for ChildrenMaking a Living: How to Craft Your Business|author=Sophie Rochester

|summary=''Drawing Projects for ChildrenStarting a creative business has never been easier.'' '' is a beautifulIf not now, full-colour guide when?'' I know that encourages children I'm not alone in having wondered whether or not I could turn my hobby into a business. There's a lot of motivation to do so: I make more items than we can sensibly use and there are a range lot of materials people who have been delighted to create stunning and thought-provoking artworkaccept what I make as gifts. As Selling would offset the author points outcosts, the end result is not always as important as the journey which can be quite considerable and this book helps children it could be fun to move away from the more traditionaldo, or couldn'safe' type of drawing styles and indulge in t it? But where to start? What do I need to think about? Well, the first thing anyone who is considering turning a crafting hobby into a little more experimentation and risk taking. The book business should do is ideal for parents to use with their children, but each chapter is read ''Making a self-contained lesson plan that facilitators and teachers can use with groupsLiving''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908966742</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hannah Davies1635862353|title=The Big Beautiful Colouring BookSandalmaking Workshop|author=Rachel Corry

|summary=Although A sandal-making workshop? I have two small childrencouldn't really believe it, itmainly because I'd always thought that you's been d need more equipment than the average home was likely to be able to contain but I was intrigued. Rachel Corry started sandal making accidentally - a long time since I just sat small fire destroyed some of her shoes. One pair had come apart and did any colouring by myselfshe could see how the sandal was constructed. Usually I am tasked with drawing various family members, or vehicles, or animals, and then we colour them in togetherThen she realised that she couldn't afford to replace all her shoes. This time I sat quietly by myself with Could she combine these two facts to create a pack of my son's new colouring pencils, and I worthwhile craft? She showed quite happily passed a couple of hours colouring in!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780553498</amazonuk>few people her first pair and they all either wanted to know how to do it - or if she'd make them a pair. A new career was born.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Weltman1783784350|title=This is Not a Maths BookGolden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain's Knitted History|author=Esther Rutter

|genre=ArtHistory|summary=I have It was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in her office job, writing to admit, I wasnpeople she't a huge fan of maths at schoold never met and preparing spreadsheets. The job frustrated her and even her knitting did not soothe her mind. Maybe if I'd had this book when I January was going to be a child, I time for making changes and she decided that she would have been. 'This is not a Maths Book' cleverly bridges travel the gap between maths length and art and teaches kids how to make beautiful patterns and shapes by using mathematical principles. We learn about parabolic curves, Pascal's triangle, breadth of the stomachionBritish Isles with occasional forays abroad, tesselation discovering and 3D drawings. Because the pages are interactive and hands-on, kids are learning the rules of maths without realising it. After all, there is no reason why maths shouldn't be fun!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782402055</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mariko Nakamura|title=Sew Japanese|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=I wouldn't normally find telling the idea story of childrenwool's clothes with a national theme appealing as history and how it's all too easy for them to look like fancy dress had made and kids can be all too picky about something like thatchanged the landscape. If youShe're going to put the effort into making something then you want it to be worn! But d grown up on a sheep farm in Suffolk - I took one look at those two kids '' a free range child on the cover of farm'Sew Japanese' - and I liked what I saw. There's a distinctive style but what comes across most of all is that they're clothes that kids can play ''in'' and feel comfortable ''with''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909397407</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=David Esterly|title=The Lost Carving: A Journey learned to the Heart of Making|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=Bouncing between his studio in upstate New York and the sites of various English sojournsspin, woodcarver David Esterly's seems to be an idyllic existence. Yet it's not all cosy cottages in the snow knit and watching geese weave from her mother and coyotes when he looks up from his workbench. There is an element of hard-won retreat from the trials of life in this memoir, but at the same time there is an argument for the essential difficulty of the artisther mother's lifefriend. 'Carvers are starvers,' a wizened English carver once told him This was in her blood. Certainly there is no great fortune to be won from a profession as obscure as limewood carving, but the rewards outweigh the hard graft for Esterly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649191</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Chou_Make|title=Excavate! DinosaursMake and Play: Paper Toy PaleontologyNativity|author=Jonathan Tennant, Vladamir Nikolov and Charlie SimpsonJoey Chou

|summary=I believe that always feel a slight disappointment for children at Christmas when they're presented with a tree to decorate with a box of ornaments and a nativity scene (sometimes quite precious, so it 's Not To Be Played With) which is now an established worldwide fact that dinosaurs are awesomeset up Somewhere Safe. I have checked Where's the imagination, the creativity, the latest edition sense of Nature and it would appear pride in that this is definitely the case. ? Dinosaurs are without doubt the coolest creatures How much better to have roamed the Earth. a child create their own nativity scene, which they can then play with? Do you know That's exactly what makes them really great? The fact that that left fabulous fossils and brilliant bones behind. Any kid would love the chance to dig up some old bones they get with Joey Chou's ''Make and build their own dinosaurPlay Nativity''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1612125204</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=099334030X|title=Beautiful PatternsCan You Draw the Dragosaur?|author=Various AuthorsPeter Lynas and Charlie Roberts

|summary=If you are You're going to make get a colouring hint of what this book aimed at adults I say do 's about very quickly. When you see the title page, you'll find out what the book's called and that it 100% 's been written by Peter Lynas. Then we move on to who has done the illustration - and go all outthere's a gap. ''You can keep '' are going to put your minimalist landscapes or name there. It's ''your naïve animals; give me a page packed '' responsibility to provide the pictures for this book about one of the largest creatures ever to roam the gills with something that needs filling inearth. This can make a creative colouring book for grownups feel more like a military operationThere's some help available, but at least your name is on the title page - and you will have fun doing it and improve your skills.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782432787</amazonuk>work to do!

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1635860334|title=The Paint BookWhy We Quilt|author=Miri FlowerThomas Knauer|rating=54

|summary=Craft blogger Miri Flower challenges bored children everywhere with her lovely new series I've often wondered about the story that patchwork quilting began as a way for women (and myth would have it that it was always women) to make an extra blanket out of art books, material which utilise basic materials that can be found in most homeswould otherwise go to waste. This undoubtedly ''The Paint Bookdid'' outlines seventy simple projects which encourage kids happen but when you think about it, you need an awful lot of material to get crafty make a quilt and creative with paintsthe time could have been better spent if all that was required was bedding. It Like Thomas Knauer, I's going ve come to get messy, so house-proud parents turn away now..the conclusion that it began as an art and has largely continued down that same road with fluctuations in popularity over the years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>071123583X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1419726625|title=The Pencil BookMitten Handbook: Knitting Recipes to Make Your Own|author=Miri FlowerMary Scott Huff|rating=54

|summary=Summer is almost over. Gone are the carefree days playing outdoors in the sunshine with friends. Here come the rainy days and dark evenings, heralding the inevitable cry of: ''Ilove mittens - they'm bored!''. Author re so convenient and craft-blogger Miri Flower much easier to get onto (fantastic name!and off) comes to the rescue cold hands than a pair of harassed parents everywhere with her fiddly gloves. They're not something you regularly see in shops, so I knew that if I wanted new series of art books which encourage children pairs I would have to utilise simple materials to create fun games and artworkknit them myself. Well, actually, that''The Pencil Book'' sees s my rationalisation of the humble pencil takes centre stagesituation: in truth, with seventy projects I love knitting mittens. They have just enough technique to keep kids engaged make them satisfying, plenty of quick work and amuseda pair of warm mittens in a few days.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0711235848</amazonuk> Patterns, though - where do you get them from?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pauline Brown1621137775|title=The Complete Guide to Quilting TechniquesHandbag Workshop: Essential Techniques Design and Step-by-Step Projects for Making Beautiful QuiltsSew the Perfect Bag|author=Anna M Mazur|rating=54

|summary=I love handbags, but I resent paying the prices demanded by manufacturers of 'good' bags. Additionally, I often find a bag I like but the colour/shape/size/capacity/internal layout isn't 'Quilting'quite' is ' what I had in mind, so I end up spending rather a generic term covering patchwork, quilting itself lot of money and appliquécompromising. All three require different skills The solution is to make my own bags and youwhilst I was confident about sewing fabric bags, I was nervous about using leather, not least because leather isn'll find them all covered t very forgiving when it comes to a greater or lesser extent in this gorgeous book. Theremistakes and it's an introduction covering the origin of the skills - patchwork developing amongst the pioneer women of early America for whom it was an essential way of keeping their families warm, as did quilting and for much the same reasonusually more expensive than fabric. Appliqué is rather more decorative and luxurious and the original appliqué quilts were made to commemorate special occasionsI needed help. DonAnna Mazur't think that quilting is a craft mired s ''The Handbag Workshop'' came to me free through NetGalley in the past though - over my lifetime I've seen numerous developments and tried many of them return for myselfan unbiased review.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401679</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Merritt, Amanda Hillier and Felicity French1632506386|title=The Neon Colouring Book Knitter's Dictionary: Knitting Know-How from A to Z|author=Kate Atherley|rating=4.5

|summary=Half a century ago I trained to be a teacher. My tutors were adamant that children should not be allowed to colour in any outline which they had not drawn themselves. It 'stifled their creativity' you seeve been knitting for well over sixty years, but took no account following patterns of the pencil control which it gave, or, indeed, the pleasure of creating something individual - because everyone colours differentlyvarying complexity with success. Times have (fortunately) changed and colouring books to delight adults and children are now all I've knit Aran sweaters, socks by the rage dozen and yesterday I took an idle look at one, equipped with some felt-tipped pens and 'm currently knitting blankets for a few crayons left behind when my daughter departedcharity to sell. Half There hasn't been an hour, occasion when I thought've been stuck and people have often come to ''me'' for help when ''they've'' been stuck. Just half an hour. ThatWould a knitter's alldictionary really be of any help to me? I was surprised by just how much I got out of it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178055270X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1440248850|title=The Creative Therapy Colouring BookModern Patchwork Home: Dynamic Quilts and Projects for Every Room|author=Hannah Davies, Richard Merritt and Jo TaylorVivika DeNegre (Editor)|rating=54

|summary=ApparentlyThe problem with a craft which is largely based on traditional designs is that what results from your labours is also traditional, colouring books for adults have become or - depending upon what light you shine on it - old-fashioned. Vivika DeNegre has curated a collection of patterns from today's top designers. As a word of warning, if you read ''Modern Patchwork Magazine'de rigeur'you may well find that there' s nothing new in France, with the book , but if you''Art Therapie-100 Coloriages Anti-Stress'' flying off re new to the shelves as increasing numbers of stressed-out individuals discover magazine this could well prove to be a delightful collection from the therapeutic value of 'colouring in'back catalogue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782433007</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Pallant_Star|title=Explore Star Wars Millennium Falcon Book and Draw Patterns: An Art Activity BookMega Model|author=Owen Davey Katrina Pallant and Georgia Amson-BradshawNeal Manning

|summary=Explore One of the unexpected results of making a rough-and Draw Patterns is -ready sci-fi film back in the 1970s, was that George Lucas left a whole generation capable of spelling Millennium. In amongst all the iconic inventions for the film, his design team left him – and us – with a beautifully presented interactive workbook designed to spark creativity very loveable, very fast and imaginationvery asymmetrical space ship. The appeal of How is it balanced when the subject matter cockpit is universal; everyone loves stuck out one side? What is that dish-like array doing on what seems to doodleact as the top? And where can you get your own? Well, so beyond the rarity and great cost of the book would be equally enjoyable for adults or childrenLego model, I can at least provide one answer to those three pertinent questions, and that answer is… here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401407</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fiona GobleMcLelland_Press|title=Sew Quick, Sew CutePress Out and Decorate: 30 Simple, Speedy ProjectsUnicorns|author=Kate McLelland

|summary=I have a patchwork quilt on It's the go at the moment weekend and it will take me months to completeI've been indulging myself. But sometimes you want to have the satisfaction of making There's something which might take hours or about a weekend and unicorn which is more relaxing appeals to me and ''fun''. Sometimes you want a project which you can do with the kids which will encourage them to feel that they can be creative little bit of research into a book of press- out unicorns, clouds and which produces something which is relaevant rainbows seemed like the ideal way to their livesspend a Saturday morning. I was You get twenty designs in the book and they'encouragedre all decorated with pink foil: even if you don' t want to knit tea cosies as a child. It didnadd any further colouring they't cut re still going to look great, but because the mustard even then... I think I might pages are a substantial card you have found the answeropportunity to use crayons, felt tips or even paints to add your own personal touch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400885</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fiona PearceV&A_Embroidery|title=Treat PetiteEmbroidery: 42 Sweet and Savoury Miniature Bakes|rating=4.5|genre=Cookery|summary=I know that they're not good for me, but I do love cakes. ThereA Maker's always so ''much'' of them though - and I'm not going to let them go to waste, am I? I love making them too, but no matter how hard I try they always seem to end up more Little Chef than Masterchef. When I found ''Treat Petite'' it seemed that I just might have found the answer to my prayers. It's a book of forty two recipes for tiny petit fours, little sponge cakes, jewel-like macaroons and gorgeous savouries. They're all mere morsels - just big enough to pop into your mouth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400982</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewGuide|author=Lucinda Ganderton|title=The Maison Sajou Sewing Book: 20 projects from the famous French haberdasheryVictoria and Albert Museum|rating=4.5

|summary=When I was younger I dreamed of going In ''Embroidery: A Maker's Guide'' we get a brief introduction to Paris the craft by James Merry, embroidery artist, information on the tools you'll need, materials you can utilise and visiting a guide to the fashion housesstitches you'll be using. Now I would love to go to visit Maison Sajou, the haberdasher If you're just thinking about starting embroidery and not certain which type will suit you best or someone who seems 's experienced in one area but wanting to have everything that someone who works with material branch out this book could want, so when I saw The Maison Sajou Sewing Book there was no way that I could resist itbe an ideal starting point. It's a confection There are over 230 glorious photographs (of twenty projects, items from the very essence V&A collections) and illustrations covering 15 styles of French chic, with something embroidery and giving all the information and designs you'll need for everyone15 projects.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400850</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susan BealV&A_Patchwork|title=Hand-Stitched HomePatchwork and Quilting: Projects to Sew with Pendleton A Maker's Guide|author=Victoria and Other WoolsAlbert Museum

|summary=I've had extensive experience Patchwork is a magical craft: you can take relatively small pieces of craft teachers - both in person material and through books - turn them into another piece of material with an entirely different pattern. Quilting converts a topper and they fall a backing fabric with some wadding in between into two categoriesa fabric of an entirely different weight. The first are Combine the ones who want two crafts and you have something more than magical, occasionally fashionable but always deeply satisfying. But where to be awed by their knowledge and techniquesstart, when there are so many different styles of both crafts? One answer is to know that what they can do easily may well be completely beyond your abilities. The other group are the ones who within minutes have you believing that you can do this, that youread ''re going to find it exciting, rewarding Patchwork and Quilting: A Maker's Guide'fun''. Fortunately Susan Beal comes firmly into which looks - as the second group. Just so that you know where I'm coming cover says - at styles from, I've been sewing for over half a century, but for some reason I've not strayed far into Italian trapunto to Korean jogakbo and then delivers fifteen projects inspired by the realms of woolen materials. There was a reluctance which I couldn't ''quite'' put my finger onV&A collections.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1621138704</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Beth SheardBM_Origami|title=Stitch It Simple: 25 Hand Sewn Projects to Make and Share|rating=3.5|genre=Crafts|summary=Beth Sheard has created twenty five projects of varying degrees of difficulty ranging from simple makes which could be completed by a child with minimal help Origami, Poems and supervision through to a quilt which would engaged the more experienced sewer. Throughout the book there's plenty to inspire every stitcher and it's all supported by examples made in glorious fabrics.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1627107592</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewPictures|author=Susanne Woods (Editor)|title=Lucky Spool's Essential Guide to Modern Quilt MakingThe British Museum|rating=45

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