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[[Category:New Reviews|Crafts]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Bonnie Burton0811771741|title=Crafting with Feminism: 25 Girl-Powered Projects to Smash the PatriarchyInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman
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|summary=For far too long it has been accepted that men will have free choice as to what they do and that women will somehow accommodate and adjust around them. ItMelissa Leapman's been a hard fight to get to where we are now - and there's still 'InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a way collection of knits from toys to go, particularly when you read the [http://wwwblankets.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home Some will be quick knits -news/philip-davies-feminists-cake-and-eat-it-tory-mp-mens-rights-conference-anti-women-comments-a7187351.html views] of people such as Member others are of Parliament Philip Davis, but the cause can't always be moved forward by being deadly seriouslong, no matter how serious cosy afternoons in front of the cause: sometimes what you need is a little ''whimsy'fire'variety. We might take The projects are divided by the cause seriously, but we dontime they't ll take ourselves too seriouslyto complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. And besidesAll the projects are attractive, whatmodern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's better than to unleash your creativity?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594749272</amazonuk>me being picky.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca Jones1635866243|title=The Colouring Book of Cards Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook|author=Kristina McGrath and Envelopes - ChristmasSarah Walworth |rating=4.5
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|summary=Have you ever opened ''I quickly discovered that putting words and numbers on a page wasn't enough. Creating a Christmas card pattern that was correct, clear, concise, and had consistent required a sense great deal of deja vu? It might be that youtrial and error, patience, and perseverance.''ve already had (Introduction byFrancoise Danoy) A friend recently showed me a couple just like this one (itknitting pattern for which she's one d paid good money. The first line of the more popular ones being sold by M&S this yearinstructions began: ''Cast off 100 stitches...) or you recognise it the design which a major charity sold ''last It was clear that no good could come of this - the instructions didn'' Christmas t get any better - and which they started selling off at half price in (finally) PayPal obliged with a refund when the seller refused as she couldn't afford the Boxing Day Salerepayment. Either wayThe pattern looked pretty, you donbut the creator didn't feel particularly have the basic knowledge and skills to enable her to connect with her knitters. She should have read ''specialThe Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook''. An embroidered card is lovely, but not everyone has the skills }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529507987|title=The Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and if you buy them theySonia Albert (Illustrator)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=I love ''The Repair Shop''re a frightening price. But It's my go-to programme when I've just discovered want to be cheered up. After a relaxinghard day, satisfying way of producing individual cards at a reasonable price: there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they'The Colouring Book of Cards re worth. You see, the value is in what these possessions are worth to the people who own them and the memories they hold. No expense appears to be spared and the experts spend as much time and effort as is required to achieve the desired result. Regular viewers know the experts and Envelopes: Christmasthey're all brilliant at explaining what it is they're doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857637266</amazonuk> But how did they start?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Molly Manners and Alex Worrall0760379912|title=The Mindless Colouring Book: Art Therapy Exclusively Available to Anyone with £8.99Super Easy Quilting for Beginners|author=Editors of Quarry Books
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|summary=Can I let you learned patchworking from necessity: old or outgrown clothes needed to be turned into something new and usable when I was in my twenties. It would be a while before it became a secret? pleasure rather than a chore but I've never felt completely at home with quilting. Promise not to tell anyone, but I do wonder if a lot of adult colouring books are not just needed something a little bit too more stylish than my usual buttons or knots. ''worthySuper Easy Quilting for Beginners''seemed like a good place to start. TheySo, how did it stack up?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0760379874|title=Super Easy Knitting for Beginners|author=Carri Hammett|rating=4.5|genre=Crafts|summary=I learned to knit in the nineteen-fifties: it wasn're all very intricate and rewarding when you've finishedt a choice, but I it was chatting a requirement. Girls learned to someone recently who mentioned knit and to embroider and boys did wood and metal work. My knitting wa accompanied by a lot of criticism and quite a few tears: it was a long time before I realised that it might take generations there was pleasure to complete her colouring bookbe had in the skill. I mean, whereNearly seventy years later it's the ''fun'' in only thing that? keeps my hands at all supple. When I relax I want to have The turning point was a good time, enjoy myself booklet published by Patons which gave all the basics and feel better at the end of itsome patterns. A good laugh wouldnI've been looking for something simple to recommend to people who't go amissd like to master the skill. Anyone disagree with thatSo, how did ''Super Easy Knitting For Beginners'' work out? I thought not.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722958</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Walsh0760373531|title=The Colouring Book of Beautiful Gift BoxesCozy Knits: Christmas 30 Hat, Mitten, Scarf and Sock Projects from Around the World|author=Sue Flanders
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|summary=When Just occasionally you give encounter a small gift, it's often difficult book of knitting patterns that seems to wrap it appropriatelymeet your every need. If you wrap a small objectRight now, it looks ''insignificant's bitterly cold and we' re in the sandwich filling between two storms: I need socks, scarves, hats and if you've gone mittens. They have to the trouble of finding the appropriate gift for someone look stylish, keep me warm and be so cheerful that's the last thing you wantthey make me feel better. If you pad it out a little, it ends up looking that sounds like a game of pass the parcel. You canlot to ask, of course, buy have a gift box but theylook at 're expensive for what they are and they're hardly individual. The answer lies in Cozy Knits''The Colouring Book of Beautiful Gift Boxes: Christmasit has thirty designs for those necessary items and I don't think that there was one of them which I couldn't see myself wearing. The cover price is £9.99, so that works out at less than 42p for each We start with an introduction by Nancy Bush which gives some of the 24 boxes which - as youhistory of knitting. It're colouring s not essential but it - will be unique's a nice extra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857638033</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Zoe Ingram0760373558|title=Press Out and Colour: BirdsNordic Knits|author=Sue Flanders
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|summary=Ten beautiful birds which start life as detailed line illustrations I was so delighted by Zoe Ingram are then coloured in by anyone of any age who is capable of having reasonable control of a felt-tip pen or a crayon. You've got to remember to do both the back and the front and whilst it would be nice if they matched itSue Flanders's in no way essential. If you're skillful[[Cozy Knits: 30 Hat, so much the betterMitten, but the designs are decorated with foil which catches the light Scarf and gives that sheen which you see on the edges of birds' feathers. When you've finished colouring you gently press the pieces out Sock Projects from Around the page. World by Sue Flanders|Cozy Knits]] that I experimented with pressing them out first and then colouring, but the pieces were easier didn't need any persuading at all to colour actually in the page.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857637673</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Kelsey Elam|title= 100 Simple Paper Flowers|rating= 5|genre= Crafts|summary=pick up her ''100 Simple Paper FlowersNordic Knits'' is an easy. This delivers forty-to-follow guide to creating impressive floral artworks that could almost be mistaken for the real thingfour patterns inspired by textiles and local traditions from Norway, Sweden and Iceland. Whether it is There are a craft project, something to brighten up a room, few sweaters or a full-on display jackets but the majority of patterns are for a big eventsmaller items such as mittens, gloves, the book has plenty of styles hats and designs to fit the occasionbags. And unlike real flowers, your paper creations will never die All are bright and cheerful and very cosy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782403086</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elisabetta Stoinich1635864070|title=Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights: A Colouring ClassicKnit 2 Socks in 1|author=Safiyyah Talley
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|summary=If you''Wuthering Heights'' is one ve ever started knitting a pair of socks, finished the classics which has stood first one and either got bored by the test idea of time. At doing the time of its publication in December 1847 reviews were mixedsame thing all over again, not least because of or started on the start depictions of mental and physical cruelty second sock and lost the first before you finished it certainly wasn't in line with how Victorians felt that life should be lived. But , this is the book hung for you. Where is it that single socks go to hide? Safiyyah Talley has developed a system that allows you to knit two socks in there one, divide them up and before long it was considered superior to Emily Bronte's sister Charlottehave a perfectly finished pair of socks. Sounds good? It's ''Jane Eyre''. There have been films, adaptations clever and now well-thought- a colouring bookout. But does the book capture the nature of the landscape and the people who inhabited it a hundred and seventy years ago?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848693281</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chellie Carroll1529393930|title=Bram Stoker's DraculaMaking a Living: A Colouring ClassicHow to Craft Your Business|author=Sophie Rochester|rating=45
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|summary=There's no choice in the matter - you're going back to Transylvania in the late nineteenth centuryStarting a creative business has never been easier.'' ''If not now, to follow Draculawhen?'' I know that I's attempts to move to England m not alone in search of new blood and to spread the undead cursehaving wondered whether or not I could turn my hobby into a business. Only this time you're not reading Bram StokerThere's classic, but using pens a lot of motivation to do so: I make more items than we can sensibly use and crayons in this colouring classic full there are a lot of bloodthirsty vampires, gothic patterns, dramatic landscapes and nightmarish figurespeople who have been delighted to accept what I make as gifts. It's eerieSelling would offset the costs, which can be quite considerable and itcould be fun to do, couldn's dramatic and 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 business should do is to read ''Making a Living''s great good fun.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184869329X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Kidby1635862353|title=Terry Pratchett's Discworld Colouring BookThe Sandalmaking Workshop|author=Rachel Corry
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|summary=It was Sir Terry Pratchett whose chose Paul Kidby as artist for A sandal-making workshop? I couldn't really believe it, mainly because I'The Last Worldd always thought that you'' and d need more equipment than the covers average home was likely to be able to contain but I was intrigued. Rachel Corry started sandal making accidentally - a small fire destroyed some of her shoes. One pair had come apart and she could see how the ''Discworld'' novels from 2002 onwards and it sandal was a marriage made in heaven, with the one complementing the otherconstructed. Kidby himself says Then she realised that designing the characters with pencil and paint she couldn''challenged and amused him beyond measuret afford to replace all her shoes.'' The writing conjured clear imagery and it was his job Could she combine these two facts to capture the humour create a new and richly-textured stories on paper. worthwhile craft? Kidby and Pratchett shared interests in nature, folklore, science and history as well as She showed quite a love of Monty Python and the bizarre few people her first pair and they all either wanted to know how to my eyes at least the result do it - or if she'd make them a pair. A new career was more, far more, than the sum of the partsborn.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473217474</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=LucasFilm1783784350|title=Star WarsThis Golden Fleece: Colouring By NumbersA Journey Through Britain's Knitted History|author=Esther Rutter|rating=45|genre=CraftsHistory|summary=I've never had any talent as an artist: I once earned the comment from an art teacher that I would struggle to draw a straight line with a ruler, but it's something I've always wanted to be able to do. For a while It was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in my teens I was seduced by oil-painting-by-numbers kitsher office job, which promised to allow me writing to produce paintings of horses grazing in the fields or boats at anchor in the harbour. In fact all I ''really'' produced was a mess - literally 'people she'd never met and'' artisticallypreparing spreadsheets. I've had slightly more success with adult colouring books, providing that they didn't require too much skill, although I The job frustrated her and even her knitting 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]]soothe her mind. If I January was going to produce anything worth looking at then I needed be a great deal time for making changes and she decided that she would travel the length and breadth of help the British Isles with shading.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405284781</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Coco Balderrama occasional forays abroad, discovering and Laura Coulman|title=David Bowie: Starman: A Colouring Book|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=David Bowietelling the story of wool's death in January 2016 came as a shock to me: we were much of an age history and how it had made and he'd always seemed so ''vital''changed the landscape. But his final album, She''Blackstar'', seemed to foretell his death and was d grown up on a commercial success, coming sheep farm in at number one in the UK Top 100 Albums Chart, and the ''David Bowie IsSuffolk - '' exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum is the most successful exhibition ever staged by the V&A. But what of a more relaxing memory of free range child on the man who was part genius and part chameleon?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0859655504</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Danielle Kroll and Nghiem Ta|title=Pattern Play: Cut, Fold and Make Your Own 3D Animal Models|rating=4|genre=Childrenfarm'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 animalslearned to spin, not paw prints! Some are subtle knit and others are rather more in-your-face. On the reverse of these printed pages provide a cutting line so that you can cut weave from her mother and fold the paper and it becomes a 3D model of an animalher mother's friend. 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 placeThis was in her blood. 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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin HandfordChou_Make|title=Where's WallyMake and Play: The Colouring BookNativity|author=Joey Chou
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|summary=Are you looking I always feel a slight disappointment for something relaxing, easy children at Christmas when they're presented with a tree to complete decorate with a box of ornaments and a nativity scene (sometimes quite precious, so it's Not To Be Played With) which will allow your mind to wander freely as you gently colour in a pleasing design? is set up Somewhere Safe. Do you want to indulge your Where's the imagination and use , the colours which tempt you at creativity, the moment, content sense of pride in that it will not affect the finished creation? Would you like large spaces How much better to have a child create their own nativity scene, which you they can shade in large swoops as it pleases youthen play with? Are you aiming for a soothing finished product which is easy on the eye? Sorry: youThat's exactly what they get with Joey Chou's ''Make and Play Nativity''ve got the wrong book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406367303</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Serge Bloch099334030X|title=3, 2, 1... Can You Draw!the Dragosaur?|author=Peter Lynas and Charlie Roberts
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrafts|summary=I canYou't drawre going to get a hint of what this book's about very quickly. IWhen you see the title page, you'll find out what the book's called and that it've never s been able to drawwritten by Peter Lynas. A blank sheet of paper Then we move on to who has done the illustration - and there's a pencil frightens megap. I thought I was probably a little bit old to change my ways but then I discovered ''3, 2, 1... Draw!You'' and are going to put your name there might have been a movement within the tectonic plates of my brain. It's a drawing book which isn't about blank pages: it's your'' responsibility to provide the pictures for this book about imagination and inspiration, with one of the first encouraged and the second delivered by largest creatures ever to roam the barrow loadearth. IThere've just had more fun than I thought possible with pencil s some help available, but your name is on the title page - and paperyou have work to do!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807240</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Various Artists1635860334|title=Doctor Who: The Colouring BookWhy We Quilt|author=Thomas Knauer
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|summary=Colouring books I've often wondered about the story that patchwork quilting began as a way for adults are all the rage at the moment, but one women (and myth would have it that it was always women) to make an extra blanket out of the problems with popularity is that the books do tend material which would otherwise go to become a bit, well, waste. This undoubtedly ''sameydid''. Once happen but when you've coloured in one peacock's tailthink about it, it's not easy you need an awful lot of material to get inspiration for another and there's make a limit to the number of flowers, patterns quilt and mystical beasts which you can attach to the fridge doortime could have been better spent if all that was required was bedding. WeLike Thomas Knauer, I've seen all sorts of variations, such come to the conclusion that it began as mindfulness, but what we really want is something ''fresh'' an art and has largely continued down that same road with a bit of something extra to get fluctuations in popularity over the brain cells going. Welcome ''Sherlock: The Mind Palace''years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940430</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Natasha Slee and Becca Stadtlander1419726625|title=Style GuideThe Mitten Handbook: Fashion From Head Knitting Recipes to ToeMake Your Own|author=Mary Scott Huff
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|summary=In I love mittens - they''Style Guide: Fashion from Head re so convenient and much easier to Toe'' we have a guided tour through fashion from the eighteen nineties to about 2010, taking get onto (and off) cold hands than a decade or so at a time and exploring several aspects pair of each decadefiddly gloves. For instance the period 1890 to 1914 is divided into ''The Belle Epoque'They're not something you regularly see in shops, ''Out and About'' and ''The Orient''so I knew that if I wanted new pairs I would have to knit them myself. Each division has a picture to be coloured but rather than being a picture of ''one'' garmentWell, actually, therethat's a montage my rationalisation of garments and accessories from the periodsituation: ''The Orient '' has eight different pictures - of the triangle bagin truth, a fur-trimmed shawlI love knitting mittens. They have just enough technique to make them satisfying, kimono, pleated gown, a folding fan, a Ballet Russes costume plenty of quick work and slippers and finally a turban. On the reverse pair of each picture is warm mittens in a keyfew days. The article is numbered on the main picture and in the corresponding key Patterns, though - where do you'll find some historical information and some colour details.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807348</amazonuk>get them from?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Axel Scheffler, Emily Gravett et al1621137775|title=Draw It! Colour It! CreaturesHandbag Workshop: Design and Sew the Perfect Bag|author=Anna M Mazur
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|summary=Christmas is a time I love handbags, but I resent paying the prices demanded by manufacturers of joy and goodwill to all men'good' bags. Additionally, I often find a bag I like but it can also be the colour/shape/size/capacity/internal layout isn't ''quite'' what I had in mind, so I end up spending rather a time lot of bad weather, of being stuck in the house money and feeling like you have nothing to docompromising. The holiday period can need filling solution is to make my own bags and for a crafty kid there are loads of activities that can be done simply by whilst I was confident about sewing fabric bags, I was nervous about using paper; including creating their own decorations or making the best letter they can for Father Christmasleather, not least because leather isn't very forgiving when it comes to mistakes and it's usually more expensive than fabric. I needed help. If only there was a handy book that contained loads of great Christmas crafting ideas Anna Mazur's ''The Handbag Workshop'' came to me free through NetGalley in one placereturn for an unbiased review.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782402470</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amber Anderson1632506386|title=The Little Book of ColouringKnitter's Dictionary: Animal KingdomKnitting Know-How from A to Z|author=Kate Atherley|rating=3.54
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|summary=After I've been knitting for well over sixty years , following patterns of doing craft work which must be ''useful'', varying complexity with success. I've discovered knit Aran sweaters, socks by the relaxing benefits of colouring. dozen and I'm doing it currently knitting blankets for a charity to please me: it doesnsell. There hasn'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 of colours is mine been an occasion when I've been stuck and mine alone. If I want people have often come 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'' for help when ''they've'' been stuck. WhatWould a knitter's not dictionary really be of any help to love about colouringme?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784296457</amazonuk> I was surprised by just how much I got out of it.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anastasia Catris1440248850|title=Colour Me MindfulModern Patchwork Home: BirdsDynamic Quilts and Projects for Every Room|author=Vivika DeNegre (Editor)
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|summary=About half The problem with a century ago I mentioned to someone craft which is largely based on traditional designs is that colouring was relaxing and enjoyable and received a lecture what results from your labours is also traditional, or - depending upon what light you shine on my lack of creativity and willingness to use what other people had drawn for my own ends. I still did colouring it - at a time when there were considerable pressures in my life over which I had no control old- but it was just that it became my guilty secretfashioned. Now colouring is mainstream and there's Vivika DeNegre has curated a considerable range collection of design books to choose patterns fromtoday's top designers. Orion have published three by Anastasia Catris: this As a word of warning, if you read ''Modern Patchwork Magazine'' you may well find that there's nothing new in the book, {{amazonurl|isbn=1409163067|title=Colour Me Mindful: Underwater}} and {{amazonurl|isbn=1409163083|title=Colour Me Mindful: Tropical}}. So, how do they stand out but if you're new to the magazine this could well prove to be a delightful collection from the crowd?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409163105</amazonuk>back catalogue.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eglantine de la Fontaine et alPallant_Star|title=My Magical Oasis: Art Therapy Colouring Star Wars Millennium Falcon Book for Creative Mindsand Mega Model|author=Katrina Pallant and Neal Manning
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|summary=It's not often I can review One of the unexpected results of making a book rough-and mention how it changes your brain-ready sci-fi film back in the 1970s, but was that's apparently the effect George Lucas left a whole generation capable of spelling Millennium. In amongst all the colouring-in-iconic inventions for-adults phenomenon. There's a science behind it all that attests how alpha wavesthe film, his design team left him – and us – with a slightly more childlikevery loveable, accepting, relaxed form of brain activity, are used by our bonces very fast and very asymmetrical space ship. How is it balanced when we colour – and the cockpit is stuck out one side? What is that dish-like array doing on what seems to act as opposed to the bravertop? And where can you get your own? Well, thinking, active beta waves they're something beyond the mind could do more rarity and great cost ofthe Lego model, especially in this kinetic, plugged-in, 24/7 lifestyle. So whereas I normally review books can at least provide one answer to help my readers make their mind upthose three pertinent questions, and that answer is… here I'm mentioning this volume because it allegedly would change your mind.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0859655350</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewplainFrontpage|isbn=McLelland_Press|title=The Creative Colouring Book for Grown-UpsPress Out and Decorate: Unicorns|author=Kate McLelland
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|summary=Johanna Basford was not It's the first, weekend and nor was she an overnight success. If youI're salivating over the ''Enchanted Forest'', having finished her ''Secret Garden'', you are one of those many people ve been 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). 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 soapsmyself. ItThere's fun, it opens the mind something about a unicorn which appeals to other thoughts in quite me and a little bit of research into a meditative waybook of press-out unicorns, clouds and it needs no instructions – much rainbows seemed like, again, Sudoku, even if newspapers persist in telling us them even when nobody on earth is left the ideal way to need themspend a Saturday morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782433287</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lucy Engelman|title=Field Guide: Creatures Great and Small (Field Guides)|rating=4.5|genre=Crafts|summary=Call me fuddy-duddy, but I have never seen You get twenty designs in the need to review a book via video – and they're all decorated with Youtube and other sources becoming full of people giving their thoughts about the latest hot release the idea has never appealed to me, when there are also countless ways for one pink foil: even if you don't want to share opinions by old-fashioned written word. That is, of course, until now, and the phenomenon that is building rapidly – that of mature add any further colouring-in books. Here at the Bookbag we can easily prove wethey've read every word of the books by being eloquent, informative and opinionated about what we examinere still going to look great, but even I admit four paragraphs regarding because the pages are a picture book we ourselves substantial card you have the opportunity to finish off may leave some members of our audience wanting use crayons, felt tips or even paints to see the resultsadd your own personal touch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780635X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewplainFrontpage|isbn=V&A_Embroidery|title=Gorgeous Colouring Book for Grown-UpsEmbroidery: A Maker's Guide|author=Victoria and Albert Museum
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|summary=So, when I mentioned on Facebook that I had In ''Embroidery: A Maker's Guide'' we get a nice new grown-up colouring book brief introduction to review, I discovered a secret little group of friends who all confessed (instantly and with glee) that they have succumbed to the new relaxation craze of grown-up colouring! They had tales of how tricky it was to stay inside of the linescraft by James Merry, how long one picture could takeembroidery artist, and how relaxing information on the whole thing is. I dug out my old tin of pencilstools you'll need, materials you can utilise and settled down a guide to give it a trythe stitches you'll be using.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782434461</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Paula Briggs|title=Drawing Projects for Children|rating=5|genre=Crafts|summary= If you're just thinking about starting embroidery and not certain which type will suit you best or someone who'Drawing Projects for Children'' is a beautiful, full-colour guide that encourages children s experienced in one area but wanting to use a range of materials to create stunning and thought-provoking artwork. As the author points branch out, the end result is not always as important as the journey and this book helps children to move away could be an ideal starting point. There are over 230 glorious photographs (of items from the more traditional, or 'safe' type V&A collections) and illustrations covering 15 styles of drawing styles 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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|summary=I wouldn't normally Sometimes you find the idea a delight of children's clothes with a national theme appealing as book. On an afternoon when itwas unseasonably cold and decidedly wet I discovered 's all too easy for them 'Origami, Poems and Pictures'' and I was transported to look like fancy dress and kids can be all too picky about something like thatJapan. If youAs the title suggests we're going to put the effort into making something then you want it to be worn! But - I took one look looking at those two kids on three celebrated arts and crafts: the cover ancient art of 'Sew Japanese' - paper folding, haiku poetry and painting. I liked what 'll confess that it was the origami which caught my attention, but I sawwas surprised by the extent to which the rest of the book caught my imagination. ThereWe begin with something very simple: a boat and in case you's re worried, all the entries have a distinctive style but what comes across most degree of all is that theydifficulty (from 're clothes that kids can play simple'through to 'in'tricky' ) and feel comfortable ''with''this one is at the lowest level.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909397407</amazonuk>
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