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[[Category:New Reviews|Crafts]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Walsh0811771741|title=The Colouring Book of Beautiful Gift Boxes: Christmas InstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=54
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|summary=When you give a small gift, itMelissa Leapman's often difficult to wrap it appropriately. If you wrap a small object, it looks ''insignificantInstaKnits for Baby'' and if you've gone gives us a collection of knits from toys to the trouble blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of finding the appropriate gift for someone that's the last thing you want. If you pad it out a littlelong, it ends up looking like a game cosy afternoons in front of pass the parcelfire' variety. You canThe projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, of coursefive to ten hours, buy a gift box but they're expensive for what they ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, modern and they're hardly individualuseable. The answer lies in I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects'The Colouring Book of Beautiful Gift Boxes: Christmas''. The cover price is £9.99, so but that works out at less than 42p for each of the 24 boxes which - as you're colouring it - will be uniques me being picky.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857638033</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Zoe Ingram1635866243|title=Press Out The Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook|author=Kristina McGrath and Colour: BirdsSarah Walworth |rating=4.5
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|summary=Ten beautiful birds which start life as detailed line illustrations by Zoe Ingram are then coloured in by anyone of any age who is capable of having reasonable control of ''I quickly discovered that putting words and numbers on a felt-tip pen or a crayonpage wasn't enough. You've got to remember to do both the back Creating a pattern that was correct, clear, concise, and the front consistent required a great deal of trial and whilst it would be nice if they matched it's in no way essential. If you're skillfulerror, so much the betterpatience, but the designs are decorated with foil which catches the light and gives that sheen perseverance.'' (Introduction byFrancoise Danoy) A friend recently showed me a knitting pattern for which you see on she'd paid good money. The first line of the edges of birdsinstructions began: '' feathersCast off 100 stitches. ..'' When youIt was clear that no good could come of this - the instructions didn've finished colouring you gently press t get any better - and (finally) PayPal obliged with a refund when the pieces out from seller refused as she couldn't afford the pagerepayment. I experimented with pressing them out first and then colouringThe pattern looked pretty, but the pieces were easier creator didn't have the basic knowledge and skills to colour actually in the pageenable her to connect with her knitters. She should have read ''The Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857637673</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kelsey Elam1529507987|title= 100 Simple Paper FlowersThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)|rating= 4.5|genre= CraftsChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=I love ''The Repair Shop'100 Simple Paper Flowers'. It' is an easys my go-to-follow guide programme when I want to creating impressive floral artworks that could almost be mistaken for the real thingcheered up. Whether it is After a craft projecthard day, there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. You see, something the value is in what these possessions are worth to the people who own them and the memories they hold. No expense appears to brighten up a room, or a full-on display for a big event, be spared and the book has plenty of styles experts spend as much time and designs effort as is required to fit achieve the occasiondesired result. And unlike real flowers, your paper creations will never die Regular viewers know the experts and they're all brilliant at explaining what it is they're doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782403086</amazonuk> But how did they start?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elisabetta Stoinich0760379912|title=Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights: A Colouring ClassicSuper Easy Quilting for Beginners|author=Editors of Quarry Books
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|summary=''Wuthering Heights'' is one of the classics which has stood the test of timeI learned patchworking from necessity: old or outgrown clothes needed to be turned into something new and usable when I was in my twenties. At the time of its publication in December 1847 reviews were mixed, not least because of the start depictions of mental and physical cruelty and It would be a while before it certainly wasnbecame a pleasure rather than a chore but I't in line ve never felt completely at home with how Victorians felt that life should be livedquilting. I needed something a little more stylish than my usual buttons or knots. But the book hung in there and before long it was considered superior to Emily Bronte's sister Charlotte's ''Jane EyreSuper Easy Quilting for Beginners''seemed like a good place to start. There have been filmsSo, adaptations and now - a colouring book. But does the book capture the nature of the landscape and the people who inhabited how did it a hundred and seventy years agostack up?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848693281</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chellie Carroll0760379874|title=Bram Stoker's Dracula: A Colouring ClassicSuper Easy Knitting for Beginners|author=Carri Hammett|rating=4.5
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|summary=There's no choice I learned to knit in the matter nineteen- youfifties: it wasn're going back to Transylvania in the late nineteenth centuryt a choice, it was a requirement. Girls learned to follow Dracula's attempts knit and to move to England in search embroider and boys did wood and metal work. My knitting wa accompanied by a lot of new blood criticism and quite a few tears: it was a long time before I realised that there was pleasure to spread be had in the undead curseskill. Only this time you're not reading Bram StokerNearly seventy years later it's classic, but using pens the only thing that keeps my hands at all supple. The turning point was a booklet published by Patons which gave all the basics and crayons in this colouring classic full of bloodthirsty vampires, gothic some patterns, dramatic landscapes and nightmarish figures. ItI've been looking for something simple to recommend to people who's eeried like to master the skill. So, ithow did ''Super Easy Knitting For Beginners's dramatic and it's great good fun.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184869329X</amazonuk>work out?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Kidby0760373531|title=Terry Pratchett's Discworld Colouring BookCozy Knits: 30 Hat, Mitten, Scarf and Sock Projects from Around the World|author=Sue Flanders|rating=4.5
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|summary=It was Sir Terry Pratchett whose chose Paul Kidby as artist for Just occasionally you encounter a book of knitting patterns that seems to meet your every need. Right now, it's bitterly cold and we'The Last World'' and re in the covers of the ''Discworld'' novels from 2002 onwards sandwich filling between two storms: I need socks, scarves, hats and it was a marriage made in heavenmittens. They have to look stylish, with the one complementing the otherkeep me warm and be so cheerful that they make me feel better. Kidby himself says If that designing the characters with pencil and paint sounds like a lot to ask, have a look at ''challenged and amused him beyond measure.Cozy Knits'' The writing conjured clear imagery : it has thirty designs for those necessary items and it I don't think that there was his job to capture the humour and richly-textured stories on paperone of them which I couldn't see myself wearing. Kidby and Pratchett shared interests in nature, folklore, science and history as well as a love We start with an introduction by Nancy Bush which gives some of Monty Python and the bizarre and to my eyes at least the result was more, far more, than the sum history of the partsknitting. It's not essential but it's a nice extra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473217474</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=LucasFilm0760373558|title=Star Wars: Colouring By NumbersNordic Knits|author=Sue Flanders
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|summary=Iwas so delighted by Sue Flanders've never had any talent as an artist[[Cozy Knits: I once earned 30 Hat, Mitten, Scarf and Sock Projects from Around the comment from an art teacher World by Sue Flanders|Cozy Knits]] that I would struggle didn't need any persuading at all to draw a straight line with a ruler, but itpick up her ''Nordic Knits's something I've always wanted to be able to do. For a while in my teens I was seduced by oil-paintingThis delivers forty-four patterns inspired by-numbers kitstextiles and local traditions from Norway, which promised to allow me to produce paintings of horses grazing in the fields or boats at anchor in the harbourSweden and Iceland. In fact all I ''really'' produced was There are a mess - literally ''and'' artistically. I've had slightly more success with adult colouring booksfew sweaters or jackets but the majority of patterns are for smaller items such as mittens, providing that they didn't require too much skillgloves, although I did succeed in establishing that Benedict Cumberbatch would not look good [[Sherlock: The Mind Palace: The Official Colouring Book by Mike Collins|with a spray tan]]hats and bags. If I was going to produce anything worth looking at then I needed a great deal of help with shadingAll are bright and cheerful and very cosy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405284781</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Coco Balderrama and Laura Coulman1635864070|title=David Bowie: Starman: A Colouring BookKnit 2 Socks in 1|author=Safiyyah Talley
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|summary=David BowieIf you's death in January 2016 came as ve ever started knitting a shock to me: we were much pair of an age socks, finished the first one and he'd always seemed so ''vital''. But his final albumeither got bored by the idea of doing the same thing all over again, ''Blackstar''or started on the second sock and lost the first before you finished it, seemed this is the book for you. Where is it that single socks go to foretell his death and was hide? Safiyyah Talley has developed a commercial success, coming system that allows you to knit two socks in at number one in the UK Top 100 Albums Chart, divide them up and the have a perfectly finished pair of socks. Sounds good? It''David Bowie Is'' exhibition at the Victoria s clever and Albert Museum is the most successful exhibition ever staged by the V&Awell-thought-out. But what of a more relaxing memory of the man who was part genius and part chameleon?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0859655504</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Danielle Kroll and Nghiem Ta1529393930|title=Pattern PlayMaking a Living: Cut, Fold and Make How to Craft Your Own 3D Animal Models|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Here's a neat idea for you. Provide pages with animal prints on one side - only by animal prints, I mean the sort of colours and pattern which you see on animals, not paw prints! Some are subtle and others are rather more in-your-face. On the reverse of these printed pages provide a cutting line so that you can cut and fold the paper and it becomes a 3D model of an animal. Provide some stickers which replicate faces, tails or beaks - or whatever else you feel needs highlighting - and number these so that they get into the right place. All you need to add to the mix is a pair of scissors, parental supervision if necessary for the cutting, a little imagination and you have hours of fun.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807321</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBusiness|author=Martin Handford|title=Where's Wally: The Colouring BookSophie Rochester
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrafts|summary=Are you looking for something relaxing, easy to complete and which will allow your mind to wander freely as you gently colour in ''Starting a pleasing design? Do you want to indulge your imagination and use the colours which tempt you at the momentcreative business has never been easier.'' ''If not now, content that it will not affect the finished creation? Would you like large spaces which you can shade in large swoops as it pleases you? Are you aiming for a soothing finished product which is easy on the eyewhen?''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Serge Bloch1635862353|title=3, 2, 1... Draw!The Sandalmaking Workshop|author=Rachel Corry
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrafts|summary=A sandal-making workshop? I cancouldn't draw. really believe it, mainly because I've never been d always thought that you'd need more equipment than the average home was likely to be able to drawcontain but I was intrigued. A blank sheet Rachel Corry started sandal making accidentally - a small fire destroyed some of paper her shoes. One pair had come apart and she could see how the sandal was constructed. Then she realised that she couldn't afford to replace all her shoes. Could she combine these two facts to create a pencil frightens me. new and worthwhile craft? I thought I was probably She showed quite a little bit old few people her first pair and they all either wanted to know how to change my ways but then I discovered do it - or if she''3, 2, 1d make them a pair. A new career was born.. Draw!}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1783784350|title=This Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain's Knitted History|author=Esther Rutter|rating=5|genre=History|summary=It was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in her office job, writing to people she' d never met and preparing spreadsheets. The job frustrated her and there might have been even her knitting did not soothe her mind. January was going to be a movement within time for making changes and she decided that she would travel the length and breadth of the British Isles with occasional forays abroad, discovering and telling the tectonic plates story of my brainwool's history and how it had made and changed the landscape. ItShe'd grown up on a sheep farm in Suffolk - ''s a drawing book which isnfree range child on the farm't about blank pages: it's about imagination - and inspirationlearned to spin, with the first encouraged knit and weave from her mother and the second delivered by the barrow loadher mother's friend. I've just had more fun than I thought possible with pencil and paper!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807240</amazonuk>This was in her blood.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Various ArtistsChou_Make|title=Doctor WhoMake and Play: The Colouring BookNativity|author=Joey Chou|rating=45
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|summary=In my youth colouring books were popular I always feel a slight disappointment for children: at Christmas when they helped 're presented with a tree to teach some valuable skills. But teachersdecorate with a box of ornaments and a nativity scene (sometimes quite precious, so it'expertss Not To Be Played With) which is set up Somewhere Safe. Where's the imagination, thought that they stifled the creativity and once you'd mastered being able to stick within , the lines they were whisked away as being 'childish' and you were restricted to artistic completion sense of maps pride in geography or illustrations of experiments in science. The fact that colouring could be relaxing and fun had been forgotten. ? Fortunately times How much better to have changed: adults are encouraged to relax a child create their own nativity scene, which they can then play with? That's exactly what they get with one of the hundreds of colouring books now available Joey Chou's ''Make and IPlay Nativity'm delighted to see a resurgence of the idea for not just the youngest children but for those who're a bit older too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141367385</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mike Collins099334030X|title=Sherlock: The Mind Palace: The Official Colouring BookCan You Draw the Dragosaur?|author=Peter Lynas and Charlie Roberts|rating=4.5
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|summary=Colouring books for adults are all the rage at the moment, but one of the problems with popularity is that the books do tend You're going to become get a bit, well, ''samey'hint of what this book's about very quickly. Once When you see the title page, you've coloured in one peacockll find out what the book's tail, called and that it's not easy been written by Peter Lynas. Then we move on to get inspiration for another who has done the illustration - and there's a limit gap. ''You'' are going to the number of flowers, patterns and mystical beasts which you can attach to the fridge doorput your name there. WeIt've seen all sorts of variations, such as mindfulness, but what we really want is something s ''freshyour'' and with a bit responsibility to provide the pictures for this book about one of something extra the largest creatures ever to get roam the brain cells goingearth. Welcome There''Sherlock: The Mind Palace''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940430</amazonuk>s some help available, but your name is on the title page - and you have work to do!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Natasha Slee and Becca Stadtlander1635860334|title=Style Guide: Fashion From Head to ToeWhy We Quilt|author=Thomas Knauer
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|summary=In I''Style Guide: Fashion from Head to Toe'' we have a guided tour through fashion from ve often wondered about the eighteen nineties to about 2010, taking story that patchwork quilting began as a decade or so at a time way for women (and exploring several aspects myth would have it that it was always women) to make an extra blanket out of each decadematerial which would otherwise go to waste. For instance the period 1890 to 1914 is divided into ''The Belle Epoque'', ''Out and AboutThis undoubtedly '' and did''The Orient''. Each division has a picture to be coloured happen but rather than being a picture of ''one'' garmentwhen you think about it, there's a montage you need an awful lot of garments and accessories from the period: ''The Orient '' has eight different pictures - of the triangle bag, a fur-trimmed shawl, kimono, pleated gown, material to make a folding fan, a Ballet Russes costume and slippers quilt and finally a turban. On the reverse of each picture is a keytime could have been better spent if all that was required was bedding. The article is numbered on Like Thomas Knauer, I've come to the main picture conclusion that it began as an art and has largely continued down that same road with fluctuations in popularity over the corresponding key you'll find some historical information and some colour detailsyears.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807348</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Axel Scheffler, Emily Gravett et al1419726625|title=Draw It! Colour It! CreaturesThe Mitten Handbook: Knitting Recipes to Make Your Own|author=Mary Scott Huff
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|summary=Christmas is a time of joy I love mittens - they're so convenient and goodwill much easier to all men, but it can also be get onto (and off) cold hands than a time pair of bad weatherfiddly gloves. They're not something you regularly see in shops, of being stuck in the house and feeling like you so I knew that if I wanted new pairs I would have nothing to doknit them myself. The holiday period can need filling and for a crafty kid there are loads Well, actually, that's my rationalisation of activities that can be done simply by using paper; including creating their own decorations or making the best letter they can for Father Christmassituation: in truth, I love knitting mittens. If only there was They have just enough technique to make them satisfying, plenty of quick work and a handy book that contained loads pair of great Christmas crafting ideas warm mittens in one placea few days.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782402470</amazonuk> Patterns, though - where do you get them from?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amber Anderson1621137775|title=The Little Book of ColouringHandbag Workshop: Animal KingdomDesign and Sew the Perfect Bag|author=Anna M Mazur|rating=3.54
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|summary=After years of doing craft work which must be ''useful''I love handbags, but I've discovered resent paying the relaxing benefits prices demanded by manufacturers of colouring. I'm doing it to please me: it doesngood't need to be perfect or functionalbags. No one Additionally, I often find a bag I like but me is going to judge the finished articlecolour/shape/size/capacity/internal layout isn't ''quite'' what I had in mind, so I end up spending rather a lot of money and compromising. All it needs The solution is to be done, slowly, peacefully and at make my own pace. The choice of colours is mine bags and mine alone. If whilst I was confident about sewing fabric bags, I want was nervous about using leather, not least because leather isn't very forgiving when it comes to drop the finished page into the paper recycling then thatmistakes and it's my prerogativeusually more expensive than fabric. It's sheer indulgence on paper, lasts longer than a bottle of wine and does me more goodI needed help. WhatAnna Mazur's not ''The Handbag Workshop'' came to love about colouring?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784296457</amazonuk>me free through NetGalley in return for an unbiased review.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anastasia Catris1632506386|title=Colour Me MindfulThe Knitter's Dictionary: BirdsKnitting Know-How from A to Z|author=Kate Atherley
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|summary=About half a century ago I mentioned to someone that colouring was relaxing and enjoyable and received a lecture on my lack 've been knitting for well over sixty years, following patterns of creativity and willingness to use what other people had drawn for my own endsvarying complexity with success. I still did colouring - at a time when there were considerable pressures in my life over which 've knit Aran sweaters, socks by the dozen and I had no control - but it was just that it became my guilty secret. Now colouring is mainstream and there's m currently knitting blankets for a considerable range of design books charity to choose fromsell. 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}}. So, how do they stand out from the crowd?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409163105</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Eglantine de la Fontaine et al|title=My Magical Oasis: Art Therapy Colouring Book for Creative Minds|rating=4.5|genre=Crafts|summary=ItThere hasn's not often t been an occasion when I can review a book 've been stuck and mention how it changes your brain, but thatpeople have often come to ''me''s apparently the effect of the colouring-in-for-adults phenomenonhelp when ''they've'' been stuck. ThereWould a knitter's a science behind it all that attests how alpha waves, a slightly more childlike, accepting, relaxed form dictionary really be of brain activity, are used by our bonces when we colour – and as opposed any help to the braver, thinking, active beta waves they're something the mind could do more of, especially in this kinetic, plugged-in, 24/7 lifestyle. me? So whereas I normally review books to help my readers make their mind up, here was surprised by just how much I'm mentioning this volume because got out of it allegedly would change your mind.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0859655350</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewplainFrontpage|isbn=1440248850|title=The Creative Colouring Book Modern Patchwork Home: Dynamic Quilts and Projects for Grown-UpsEvery Room|author=Vivika DeNegre (Editor)
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|summary=Johanna Basford was not the firstThe problem with a craft which is largely based on traditional designs is that what results from your labours is also traditional, and nor was she an overnight successor - depending upon what light you shine on it - old-fashioned. If you're salivating over the ''Enchanted Forest'Vivika DeNegre has curated a collection of patterns from today's top designers. As a word of warning, having finished her if you read ''Secret GardenModern Patchwork Magazine'', you are one of those many people indulging may well find that there's nothing new in the book, but if you're new/old hobby of adult colouring-in (adult perhaps only because her titles smack more of soft erotica than colouring-in books). The hobby is rapidly killing off Sudoku as the pastime of choice for many – either on the train or sitting with half an ear to the soaps. It's fun, it opens the mind magazine this could well prove to other thoughts in quite be 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 themdelightful collection from the back catalogue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782433287</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucy EngelmanPallant_Star|title=Field Guide: Creatures Great Star Wars Millennium Falcon Book and Mega Model|author=Katrina Pallant and Small (Field Guides)Neal Manning
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|summary=Call me fuddyOne of the unexpected results of making a rough-duddyand-ready sci-fi film back in the 1970s, but I have never seen the need to review was that George Lucas left a book via video – with Youtube and other sources becoming full whole generation capable of people giving their thoughts about spelling Millennium. In amongst all the latest hot release iconic inventions for the idea has never appealed to mefilm, his design team left him – and us – with a very loveable, when there are also countless ways for one to share opinions by old-fashioned written wordvery fast and very asymmetrical space ship. That How is, of course, until now, and it balanced when the phenomenon that cockpit is stuck out one side? What is building rapidly – that of mature colouringdish-in books. Here at like array doing on what seems to act as the Bookbag we top? And where can easily prove we've read every word you get your own? Well, beyond the rarity and great cost of the books by being eloquent, informative and opinionated about what we examineLego model, but even I admit four paragraphs regarding a picture book we ourselves have can at least provide one answer to finish off may leave some members of our audience wanting to see the resultsthose three pertinent questions, and that answer is… here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780635X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewplainFrontpage|isbn=McLelland_Press|title=Gorgeous Colouring Book for Grown-UpsPress Out and Decorate: Unicorns|author=Kate McLelland
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|summary=So, when It's the weekend and I mentioned on Facebook that I had 've been indulging myself. There's something about a nice new grown-up colouring book unicorn which appeals to review, I discovered me and a secret little group bit of research into a book of friends who press-out unicorns, clouds and rainbows seemed like the ideal way to spend a Saturday morning. You get twenty designs in the book and they're all confessed (instantly and decorated with glee) that they have succumbed pink foil: even if you don't want to the new relaxation craze of grown-up add any further colouring! They had tales of how tricky it was they're still going to stay inside of look great, but because the lines, how long one picture could take, and how relaxing pages are a substantial card you have the whole thing is. I dug out my old tin of pencilsopportunity to use crayons, and settled down felt tips or even paints to give it a tryadd your own personal touch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782434461</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paula BriggsV&A_Embroidery|title=Drawing Projects for ChildrenEmbroidery: A Maker's Guide|author=Victoria and Albert Museum|rating=54
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|summary=In ''Drawing Projects for ChildrenEmbroidery: A Maker's Guide'' is we get a beautiful, full-colour guide that encourages children to use a range of materials brief introduction to create stunning and thought-provoking artwork. As the author points outcraft by James Merry, embroidery artist, information on the end result is not always as important as the journey tools you'll need, materials you can utilise and this book helps children a guide to move away from the more traditional, or stitches you'safell be using. If you' re just thinking about starting embroidery and not certain which type will suit you best or someone who's experienced in one area but wanting to branch out this book could be an ideal starting point. There are over 230 glorious photographs (of drawing items from the V&A collections) and illustrations covering 15 styles of embroidery and indulge in a little more experimentation giving all the information and risk taking. The book is ideal designs you'll need for parents to use with their children, but each chapter is a self-contained lesson plan that facilitators and teachers can use with groups15 projects.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908966742</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hannah DaviesV&A_Patchwork|title=The Big Beautiful Colouring BookPatchwork and Quilting: A Maker's Guide|author=Victoria and Albert Museum
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|summary=Although I have two Patchwork is a magical craft: you can take relatively small children, it's been pieces of material and turn them into another piece of material with an entirely different pattern. Quilting converts a long time since I just sat topper and did any colouring by myselfa backing fabric with some wadding in between into a fabric of an entirely different weight. Usually I am tasked with drawing various family membersCombine the two crafts and you have something more than magical, or vehicles, or animalsoccasionally fashionable but always deeply satisfying. But where to start, when there are so many different styles of both crafts? One answer is to read ''Patchwork and then we colour them in together. This time I sat quietly by myself with a pack of my sonQuilting: A Maker's new colouring pencils, Guide'' which looks - as the cover says - at styles from Italian trapunto to Korean jogakbo and I quite happily passed a couple of hours colouring in!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780553498</amazonuk>then delivers fifteen projects inspired by the V&A collections.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna WeltmanBM_Origami|title=This is Not a Maths BookOrigami, Poems and Pictures|author=The British Museum
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