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[[Category:New Reviews|Crafts]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucasfilm0811771741|title=Star Wars Art of Colouring The Force Awakens|rating=4.5|genre=Crafts|summary=Without giving any spoilers away, the end of ''The Force Awakens'' sees a character and their peace interrupted. While said person probably has The Force to give them some restful ease, you never know what else they used. They may, for one, have dabbled in colouring-in books, and their much-lauded effect on the mind – that of calming it, and providing a meditative, simple yet creative task for it. Whether that is the case or not, there are books set in the ''Star Wars'' universe InstaKnits for people to join in in that way – and this is the best I've seen.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405285796</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBaby|author=Katrina Pallant and Kate Rhodes|title=Star Wars Make and Do|rating=3|genre=Crafts|summary=For the right young mind, their favourite franchises just don't end with watching them once or twice and that's it. Given great characters they will want to write them into their own stories, or re-enact their dramas in the playground. If things get a bit more sedate, some of them can be convinced to sit diligently working on craft projects, which is where this book comes in. It latches on to the biggest names in the Star Wars universe, and allows you to either draw or create them, or both. But while the 'why don't you?' spirit is strong with this one, I remain unconvinced the results will please everyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405279974</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Peter Korn|title=Why We Make Things and Why It Matters: The Education of a Craftsman|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary='My intuition from the day I first picked up a hammer was that making things with a commitment to quality would lead to a good life,' Peter Korn writes. As an aimless, free-spirited University of Pennsylvania student, he moved to Nantucket Island to earn the rest of his college credits through independent study and happened to be offered a carpentry job. That arbitrary job choice at the age of twenty would come to define the rest of his career. Manual labour was all new to him, but 'from the start there was a mind/body wholeness to carpentry that put it way ahead of what I imagined office work to be.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784705063</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Warner Brothers|title=Harry Potter: Magical Artefacts Colouring BookMelissa Leapman
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|summary=With a big production film you can be almost overwhelmed by all that's there to see, but what most of us forget is that in the film-maker's archive thereMelissa Leapman's an awful lot which we never get to see. ''Harry Potter: Magical Artefacts Colouring BookInstaKnits for Baby'' is packed with stunning pieces gives us a collection of artwork knits from the Warner Brothers archive, giving you the chance toys to colour the magic of J K Rowling's wizarding worldblankets. There Some will be quick knits - others are of the props from the Harry Potter films: an enchanted map, a piece of jewellery that can turn back time, vials full of liquid memories and newspapers with moving photos. What an inventive brain that woman has!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783705922</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lucasfilm|title=Star Wars Rogue One: Art of Colouring|rating=3.5|genre=Crafts|summary=Colour me happy that ''Rogue One: A Star Wars Story'' is around. While I've not had the chance of seeing it yetlong, I'm dead chuffed it takes place at a central point cosy afternoons in front of the main arc of filmsfire' storylines, and not some nebulous place elsewhere in [[Star Wars: Galactic Atlas by Emil Fortune and Tim McDonagh|that galaxy far, far away]]variety. Yes, it does do what The projects are divided by the time they'new trilogy' didll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and have much more gloss and many more technologies than twenty hours. All the films set after itprojects are attractive, but what is not to like? modern and useable. Well, the expected expenditure on tie-in books and articles, I guess – several hundred pounds on perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects'one'' collectorbut that's card is a little steepme being picky. But seeing as I handily mentioned colouring above, in the vernacular, why not take it literally and use this large format paperback, promising ''100 Images to Inspire Creativity''?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405286377</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Jarvis1635866243|title=British Airways Colouring Book|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=Over the past couple of years we've seen a lot of colouring books: flowers, patterns, fantasy creatures, characters and settings from television shows, films and books and lots more, but I can't recollect that we've ever before had one which featured a ''company''. Mind you, British Airways, is rather special; iconic and rather more long lasting than most passing celebrities. It has ''heritage'' and ''tradition''. The ''British Airways Colouring Book'' is based on exclusive posters, photographs and artwork from the company's archives and the 46 images allow the reader to recreate these as they wish. There's a bonus too: on the facing page of each image there's a potted history. I passed the book to someone with an interest in BA and he found the book interesting and informative ''without'' even thinking of doing any colouring.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144566612X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewKnitting Pattern Writing Handbook|author=Rebecca Jones|title=The Colouring Book of Cards Kristina McGrath and Envelopes: A Year of CelebrationsSarah Walworth
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|summary=''I enjoy colouring: I find it relaxing quickly discovered that putting words and satisfying, but most colouring books have one big snag for menumbers on a page wasn't enough. When you've finishedCreating a pattern that was correct, clear, concise, what use is what you've done? If I'm investing quite and consistent required a bit great deal of time in producing somethingtrial and error, patience, I like it to be usefuland perseverance. I'm ' (Introduction byFrancoise Danoy) A friend recently showed me a bit knitting pattern for which she'd paid good money. The first line of a puritan about such matters! the instructions began: ''Cast off 100 stitches...'' It was therefore something clear that no good could come of this - the instructions didn't get any better - and (finally) PayPal obliged with a relief refund when I found 'the seller refused as she couldn't afford the repayment. The Colouring Book of Cards and Envelopes: A Year of Celebrationspattern looked pretty, but the creator didn'' - t have the basic knowledge and before anyone starts skills to be pedantic about the title, you do get enable her to colour the envelope too; in fact you colour the inside and the outside and all four faces of the cardsconnect with her knitters. There are even some stickers for you to seal the envelopeShe should have read ''The Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857638564</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jody Revenson1529507987|title=Incredibuilds: Buckbeak: Deluxe Model The Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Book Set Sonia Albert (Harry PotterIllustrator)
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I love ''The general perception is that to become a leading British actor, you need the fillip of Eton or somesuch educationRepair Shop''. But you donIt't have s my go-to programme when I want to be an actor to make a great filmcheered up. After a hard day, there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they'Gravity'' for instance has extended scenes where re worth. You see, the only thing natural value is in what these possessions are worth to the performers' faces – everything else, even their bodies, was made in Britain by people using computerswho own them and the memories they hold. The eight ''Harry Potter'' films, also made in No expense appears to be spared and the UK, needed a lot of computing power experts spend as much time and effort as well, but also a lot of craftsmen with their hands on tools is required to achieve the desired result. Regular viewers know the experts and a keen eyethey're all brilliant at explaining what it is they're doing. What better way to But how did they start training the young reader into that side of things, than with tasking them with making a, er, hippogriff?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707232</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jody Revenson0760379912|title=Incredibuilds: Aragog: Deluxe Model and Book Set (Harry Potter)Super Easy Quilting for Beginners|author=Editors of Quarry Books
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrafts|summary=Aragog the giant spider, don't you know, took six man years just I learned patchworking from necessity: old or outgrown clothes needed to build, be turned into something new and weighed a tonusable when I was in my twenties. After countless trial models and pieces of visual design work, he could finally It would be constructed, and he stretched across eighteen feet of the studio floora while before it became a pleasure rather than a chore but I've never felt completely at home with quilting. Or, conversely, he is about seven inches long and seven wide, and you put him together in I needed something a day little more stylish than my usual buttons or two, knots. ''Super Easy Quilting for the cost of this book-and-gift set and some craft paintsBeginners'' seemed like a good place to start.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707240</amazonuk> So, how did it stack up?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jody Revenson0760379874|title=Incredibuilds: House-Elves: Deluxe Book and Model Set (Harry Potter)Super Easy Knitting for Beginners|author=Carri Hammett
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrafts|summary=How do you create I learned to knit in the nineteen-fifties: it wasn't a house-elf like Dobby? Wellchoice, you have it was a tennis ball on requirement. Girls learned to knit and to embroider and boys did wood and metal work. My knitting wa accompanied by a string, lot of criticism and point actors so they look at quite a few tears: it, and say their lines was a long time before I realised that there was pleasure to a pretty-much empty spacebe had in the skill. You then film Toby Jones doing the elfNearly seventy years later it's lines, and use the only thing that sound file keeps my hands at all supple. The turning point was a booklet published by Patons which gave all the basics and his facial expressions as basis some patterns. I've been looking for your CGI creation – the first major character something simple to recommend to people who'd like to come from the digital realm in master the skill. So, how did ''Harry PotterSuper Easy Knitting For Beginners'' filmswork out?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0760373531|title=Cozy Knits: 30 Hat, Mitten, Scarf and Sock Projects from Around the World|author=Sue Flanders|rating=5|genre=Crafts|summary=Just occasionally you encounter a book of knitting patterns that seems to meet your every need. You can throw Right now, it's bitterly cold and we're in a few puppetsthe sandwich filling between two storms: I need socks, scarves, hats and now mittens. They have to look stylish, keep me warm and again be so cheerful that they make me feel better. If that sounds like a gifted small personlot to ask, particularly have a look at the end ''Cozy Knits'': it has thirty designs for those necessary items and I don't think that there was one of film #7… them which I couldn't see myself wearing. Or, We start with an introduction by Nancy Bush which gives some of course, you can get this gift set, and press the wooden parts out, muckle them together – and lo and behold, history of knitting. It's not essential but it's a six inch tall Dobby for your windowsillnice extra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707070</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Vladimir Aleksic and Kate Ware0760373558|title=Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol: A Colouring ClassicNordic Knits|author=Sue Flanders
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|summary=I was so delighted by Sue Flanders' [[Cozy Knits: 30 Hat, Mitten, Scarf and Sock Projects from Around the World by Sue Flanders|Cozy Knits]] that I didn't need any persuading at all to pick up her ''A Christmas CarolNordic Knits'' has always been my favourite book . This delivers forty-four patterns inspired by Charles Dickenstextiles and local traditions from Norway, Sweden and Iceland. Perhaps it's the fact that it's There are a novella rather than few sweaters or jackets but the usual brick majority of a bookpatterns are for smaller items such as mittens, gloves, but the plotting has always seemed tighter hats and the story more fast movingbags. I also like to idea of Ebenezer Scrooge not so much getting his comeuppance as his seeing the error of his ways. I've read the book All are bright and cheerful and seen numerous film adaptations - now I've had the opportunity to do some relaxing colouring of scenes from the classic storyvery cosy. Was it fun?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848695411</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Bonnie Burton1635864070|title=Crafting with Feminism: 25 Girl-Powered Projects to Smash the PatriarchyKnit 2 Socks in 1|author=Safiyyah Talley
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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. ItIf you's been ve ever started knitting a hard fight to get to where we are now - and there's still a way to gopair of socks, particularly when you read finished the [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/philip-davies-feminists-cake-first one and-eat-it-tory-mp-mens-rights-conference-anti-women-comments-a7187351.html views] either got bored by the idea of people such as Member of Parliament Philip Davisdoing the same thing all over again, but or started on the cause can't always be moved forward by being deadly serioussecond sock and lost the first before you finished it, no matter how serious this is the cause: sometimes what book for you need . Where is it that single socks go to hide? Safiyyah Talley has developed a little ''whimsy''. We might take the cause seriouslysystem that allows you to knit two socks in one, but we don't take ourselves too seriouslydivide them up and have a perfectly finished pair of socks. And besides, whatSounds good? It's better than to unleash your creativity?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594749272</amazonuk>clever and well-thought-out.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca Jones1529393930|title=The Colouring Book of Cards and Envelopes - ChristmasMaking a Living: How to Craft Your Business|author=Sophie Rochester
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|summary=Have you ever opened a Christmas card and had a sense of deja vu? It might be that you've already had 'Starting a couple just like this one (it's one of the more popular ones being sold by M&S this yearcreative business has never been easier...) or you recognise it the design which a major charity sold ''last '' Christmas - and which they started selling off at half price in the Boxing Day Sale. Either wayIf not now, you donwhen?'t feel particularly ' I know that I'special'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 lot of people who have been delighted to accept what I make as gifts. An embroidered card is lovelySelling would offset the costs, but not everyone has the skills which can be quite considerable and if you buy them theyit could be fun to do, couldn're a frightening price. t it? But where to start? What do I've just discovered need to think about? Well, the first thing anyone who is considering turning a relaxing, satisfying way of producing individual cards at crafting hobby into a reasonable price: business should do is to read ''The Colouring Book of Cards and Envelopes: ChristmasMaking a Living''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857637266</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Molly Manners and Alex Worrall1635862353|title=The Mindless Colouring Book: Art Therapy Exclusively Available to Anyone with £8.99Sandalmaking Workshop|author=Rachel Corry|rating=4.5
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|summary=Can A sandal-making workshop? I let couldn't really believe it, mainly because I'd always thought that you into a secret? Promise not 'd need more equipment than the average home was likely to be able to tell anyone, contain but I do wonder if was intrigued. Rachel Corry started sandal making accidentally - a lot small fire destroyed some of adult colouring books are not just a little bit too ''worthy''her shoes. They're all very intricate One pair had come apart and rewarding when you've finished, but I she could see how the sandal was chatting to someone recently who mentioned constructed. Then she realised that it might take generations she couldn't afford to complete replace all her colouring bookshoes. I mean, where's the ''fun'' in thatCould she combine these two facts to create a new and worthwhile craft? When I relax I want to have She showed quite a good time, enjoy myself few people her first pair and feel better at the end of they all either wanted to know how to do it- or if she'd make them a pair. A good laugh wouldn't go amiss. Anyone disagree with that? I thought notnew career was born.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722958</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Walsh1783784350|title=The Colouring Book of Beautiful Gift BoxesThis Golden Fleece: Christmas A Journey Through Britain's Knitted History|author=Esther Rutter
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|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 even her knitting did not soothe her mind. January was going to be a 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 story of wool's history and how it had made and changed the landscape. She'd grown up on a sheep farm in Suffolk - '' a free range child on the farm'' - and learned to spin, knit and weave from her mother and her mother's friend. This was in her blood.
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{{Frontpage
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|title=Make and Play: Nativity
|author=Joey Chou
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I 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 set up Somewhere Safe. Where's the imagination, the creativity, the sense of pride in that? How much better to have a child create their own nativity scene, which they can then play with? That's exactly what they get with Joey Chou's ''Make and Play Nativity''.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=099334030X
|title=Can You Draw the Dragosaur?
|author=Peter Lynas and Charlie Roberts
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|summary=When you give You're going to get a small gift, ithint of what this book's often difficult to wrap it appropriatelyabout very quickly. If When you wrap a small objectsee the title page, it looks ''insignificantyou'll find out what the book' s called and if youthat it've gone s been written by Peter Lynas. Then we move on to who has done the trouble of finding the appropriate gift for someone thatillustration - and there's the last thing you want. If you pad it out a little, it ends up looking like a game of pass the parcelgap. ''You can, of course, buy a gift box but they're expensive for what they ' are and they're hardly individualgoing to put your name there. The answer lies in It's 'The Colouring Book of Beautiful Gift Boxes: Christmas'your''responsibility to provide the pictures for this book about one of the largest creatures ever to roam the earth. The cover price There's some help available, but your name is £9.99, so that works out at less than 42p for each of on the 24 boxes which title page - as and you're colouring it - will be unique.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857638033</amazonuk>have work to do!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Zoe Ingram1635860334|title=Press Out and Colour: BirdsWhy We Quilt|author=Thomas Knauer
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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 a felt-tip pen or a crayon. YouI've got to remember to do both often wondered about the back story that patchwork quilting began as a way for women (and the front and whilst myth would have it that it was always women) to make an extra blanket out of material which would be nice if they matched it's in no way essentialotherwise go to waste. If This undoubtedly ''did'' happen but when you're skillfulthink about it, so much you need an awful lot of material to make a quilt and the time could have been better, but the designs are decorated with foil which catches the light and gives spent if all that sheen which you see on the edges of birds' featherswas required was bedding. When youLike Thomas Knauer, I've finished colouring you gently press the pieces out from the page. I experimented with pressing them out first and then colouring, but the pieces were easier come to colour actually in the page.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857637673</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Kelsey Elam|title= 100 Simple Paper Flowers|rating= 5|genre= Crafts|summary=''100 Simple Paper Flowers'' is an easy-to-follow guide to creating impressive floral artworks conclusion that could almost be mistaken for the real thing. Whether it is a craft project, something to brighten up a room, or a full-on display for a big event, the book began as an art and has plenty of styles and designs to fit largely continued down that same road with fluctuations in popularity over the occasion. And unlike real flowers, your paper creations will never dieyears.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782403086</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elisabetta Stoinich1419726625|title=Emily Bronte's Wuthering HeightsThe Mitten Handbook: A Colouring ClassicKnitting Recipes to Make Your Own|author=Mary Scott Huff
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|summary=I love mittens - they''Wuthering Heights'' is one re so convenient and much easier to get onto (and off) cold hands than a pair of the classics which has stood the test of timefiddly gloves. At the time of its publication They're not something you regularly see in December 1847 reviews were mixedshops, not least because of the start depictions of mental and physical cruelty and it certainly wasn't in line with how Victorians felt so I knew that life should be livedif I wanted new pairs I would have to knit them myself. But Well, actually, that's my rationalisation of the book hung situation: in there and before long it was considered superior to Emily Bronte's sister Charlotte's ''Jane Eyre''truth, I love knitting mittens. There They have been filmsjust enough technique to make them satisfying, adaptations plenty of quick work and now - a colouring bookpair of warm mittens in a few days. But does the book capture the nature of the landscape and the people who inhabited it a hundred and seventy years agoPatterns, though - where do you get them from?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848693281</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chellie Carroll1621137775|title=Bram Stoker's DraculaHandbag Workshop: A Colouring ClassicDesign and Sew the Perfect Bag|author=Anna M Mazur
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|summary=ThereI love handbags, but I resent paying the prices demanded by manufacturers of 'good's no choice in bags. Additionally, I often find a bag I like but the matter - youcolour/shape/size/capacity/internal layout isn're going back to Transylvania t ''quite'' what I had in the late nineteenth centurymind, to follow Dracula's attempts to move to England in search so I end up spending rather a lot of new blood money and to spread the undead cursecompromising. Only this time you're not reading Bram Stoker's classicThe solution is to make my own bags and whilst I was confident about sewing fabric bags, but I was nervous about using pens and crayons in this colouring classic full of bloodthirsty vampiresleather, gothic patterns, dramatic landscapes not least because leather isn't very forgiving when it comes to mistakes and nightmarish figuresit's usually more expensive than fabric. I needed help. ItAnna Mazur's eerie, it's dramatic and it's great good funThe Handbag Workshop'' came to me free through NetGalley in return for an unbiased review.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184869329X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Kidby1632506386|title=Terry PratchettThe Knitter's Discworld Colouring Book|rating=4.5|genre=Crafts|summary=It was Sir Terry Pratchett whose chose Paul Kidby as artist for ''The Last World'' and the covers of the ''Discworld'' novels Dictionary: Knitting Know-How from 2002 onwards and it was a marriage made in heaven, with the one complementing the other. Kidby himself says that designing the characters with pencil and paint ''challenged and amused him beyond measure.'' The writing conjured clear imagery and it was his job A to capture the humour and richly-textured stories on paper. Kidby and Pratchett shared interests in nature, folklore, science and history as well as a love of Monty Python and the bizarre and to my eyes at least the result was more, far more, than the sum of the parts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473217474</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewZ|author=LucasFilm|title=Star Wars: Colouring By NumbersKate Atherley
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|summary=I've never had any talent as an artist: been knitting for well over sixty years, following patterns of varying complexity with success. I once earned 've knit Aran sweaters, socks by the comment from an art teacher that dozen and I would struggle 'm currently knitting blankets for a charity to draw a straight line with a ruler, but itsell. There hasn's something t been an occasion when I've always wanted been stuck and people have often come to be able to do. For a while in my teens I was seduced by oil-painting-by-numbers kits, which promised to allow ''me to produce paintings of horses grazing in the fields or boats at anchor in the harbour. In fact all I ''reallyfor help when '' produced was a mess - literally they''andve'' artisticallybeen stuck. IWould a knitter've had slightly more success with adult colouring books, providing that they didn't require too much skill, 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]]. s dictionary really be of any help to me? If I was going to produce anything worth looking at then surprised by just how much I needed a great deal got out of help with shadingit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405284781</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Coco Balderrama and Laura Coulman1440248850|title=David BowieModern Patchwork Home: Starman: A Colouring BookDynamic Quilts and Projects for Every Room|author=Vivika DeNegre (Editor)
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|summary=David Bowie's death in January 2016 came as The problem with a shock to me: we were much of an age and he'd always seemed so ''vital''. But his final album, ''Blackstar'', seemed to foretell his death and was a commercial success, coming in at number one in the UK Top 100 Albums Chart, and the ''David Bowie Is'' exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum craft which is largely based on traditional designs is the most successful exhibition ever staged by the V&A. But that what of a more relaxing memory of the man who was part genius and part chameleon?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0859655504</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Danielle Kroll and Nghiem Ta|title=Pattern Play: Cutresults from your labours is also traditional, Fold and Make Your Own 3D Animal Models|rating=4|genre=Children's Nonor -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 depending upon what light you see shine on animals, not paw prints! Some are subtle and others are rather more init -yourold-facefashioned. On the reverse of these printed pages provide Vivika DeNegre has curated a cutting line so that you can cut and fold the paper and it becomes a 3D model collection of an animalpatterns from today's top designers. Provide some stickers which replicate facesAs a word of warning, tails or beaks - or whatever else if you read ''Modern Patchwork Magazine'' you feel needs highlighting - and number these so may well find that they get into there's nothing new in the right place. All book, but if you need 're new to add the magazine this could well prove to the mix is be a pair of scissors, parental supervision if necessary for delightful collection from the cutting, a little imagination and you have hours of funback catalogue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807321</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin HandfordPallant_Star|title=Where's Wally: The Colouring Star Wars Millennium Falcon Book|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Are you looking for something relaxing, easy to complete and which will allow your mind to wander freely as you gently colour in a pleasing design? Do you want to indulge your imagination and use the colours which tempt you at the moment, 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 eye? Sorry: you've got the wrong book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406367303</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMega Model|author=Serge Bloch|title=3, 2, 1... Draw!Katrina Pallant and Neal Manning
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrafts|summary=I can't draw. I've never been able to draw. A blank sheet One of the unexpected results of paper making a rough-and -ready sci-fi film back in the 1970s, was that George Lucas left a pencil frightens mewhole generation capable of spelling Millennium. I thought I was probably In amongst all the iconic inventions for the film, his design team left him – and us – with a little bit old to change my ways but then I discovered ''3very loveable, 2, 1... Draw!'' very fast and there might have been a movement within the tectonic plates of my brainvery asymmetrical space ship. It's a drawing book which isn't about blank pages: How is it's about imagination and inspirationbalanced when the cockpit is stuck out one side? What is that dish-like array doing on what seems to act as the top? And where can you get your own? Well, with beyond the first encouraged rarity and great cost of the second delivered by the barrow load. Lego model, I've just had more fun than I thought possible with pencil can at least provide one answer to those three pertinent questions, and paper!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807240</amazonuk>that answer is… here.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Various ArtistsMcLelland_Press|title=Doctor WhoPress Out and Decorate: The Colouring BookUnicorns|author=Kate McLelland
|rating=4
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|summary=Colouring books for adults are all It's the rage at the moment, but one of the problems with popularity is that the books do tend to become a bit, well, ''samey'weekend and I've been indulging myself. Once you've coloured in one peacockThere's tail, it's not easy something about a unicorn which appeals to get inspiration for another me and there's a limit to the number little bit of research into a book of flowerspress-out unicorns, patterns clouds and mystical beasts which you can attach rainbows seemed like the ideal way to spend a Saturday morning. You get twenty designs in the fridge door. Webook and they've seen re all sorts of variations, such as mindfulnessdecorated with pink foil: even if you don't want to add any further colouring they're still going to look great, but what we really want is something ''fresh'' and with because the pages are a bit of something extra substantial card you have the opportunity to use crayons, felt tips or even paints to get the brain cells going. Welcome ''Sherlock: The Mind Palace''add your own personal touch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940430</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Natasha Slee and Becca StadtlanderV&A_Embroidery|title=Style Embroidery: A Maker's Guide: Fashion From Head to Toe|author=Victoria and Albert Museum
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|summary=In ''Style Embroidery: A Maker's Guide: Fashion from Head to Toe'' we have get a guided tour through fashion from brief introduction to the eighteen nineties to about 2010craft by James Merry, embroidery artist, taking a decade or so at a time and exploring several aspects of each decade. For instance information on the period 1890 to 1914 is divided into ''The Belle Epoque'tools you'll need, ''Out materials you can utilise and Abouta guide to the stitches you'll be using. If you' re just thinking about starting embroidery and not certain which type will suit you best or someone who''The Orient''s experienced in one area but wanting to branch out this book could be an ideal starting point. Each division has a picture to be coloured but rather than being a picture of ''one'' garment, there's a montage There are over 230 glorious photographs (of garments and accessories items from the period: ''The Orient '' has eight different pictures - V&A collections) and illustrations covering 15 styles of the triangle bag, a fur-trimmed shawl, kimono, pleated gown, a folding fan, a Ballet Russes costume and slippers embroidery and finally a turban. On giving all the reverse of each picture is a key. The article is numbered on the main picture information and in the corresponding key designs you'll find some historical information and some colour detailsneed for 15 projects.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807348</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Axel Scheffler, Emily Gravett et alV&A_Patchwork|title=Draw It! Colour It! Creatures|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Colouring books for adults are all the rage at the moment Patchwork and it's too easy to forget that adults are not the only ones who benefit from the calming, soothing therapy of colouring or the improvement in hand-eye co-ordination which comes with practice. Children's picture books have tended to be flimsier and not put together with quite such panache or by such well-known names, but we now have a children's colouring book to bridge the gap. ''Draw It! Colour It! Creatures'' has projects from 43 artists, well known in the field of childrenQuilting: A Maker's book illustration, all packed together in a stylish book with flaps so that you're not going to lose your place.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447290704</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewGuide|author=David Hollis|title=Practical Landscape Painting: Materials, Techniques & ProjectsVictoria and Albert Museum
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|genre=ArtCrafts|summary=Almost any Patchwork is a magical craft: you can take relatively small pieces of us can visit the countryside material and capture the view in our memory or on our camera turn them into another piece of material with comparatively consummate easean entirely different pattern. However capturing it in paint is more difficult Quilting converts a topper and yet something a backing fabric with some wadding in between into a fabric of us (me included) dream ofan entirely different weight. It was therefore with great excitement that I picked up this compact book of seven lessons in landscape painting. As I believe (with good evidence) that I Combine the two crafts and you have the artistic ability of a house bricksomething more than magical, it would be a challenge occasionally fashionable but I also have a dream always deeply satisfying. But where to start, when there are so many different styles of both crafts? One answer is to read ''Patchwork and Quilting: A Maker's Guide'' which looks - as the cover says - at styles from Italian trapunto to followKorean jogakbo and then delivers fifteen projects inspired by the V&A collections.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782402802</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=BM_Origami|title=Teal Triggs Origami, Poems and Daniel FrostPictures|titleauthor=The School of Art: Learn How To Make Great Art With 40 Simple LessonsBritish Museum|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrafts|summary=Written with Sometimes you find a delight of a book. On an interesting approachafternoon when it was unseasonably cold and decidedly wet I discovered ''Origami, this book treats the reader as a new art student Poems and Pictures'' and I was transported to The School of ArtJapan. The five professors of As the school take the student through 40 different lessons, title suggests we're looking at a huge range three celebrated arts and crafts: the ancient art of ideas right from how to draw a linepaper folding, perspective haiku poetry and proportion, composition and aestheticspainting. Aimed probably at senior school children I'll confess that it could, howeverwas the origami which caught my attention, also be used but I was surprised by older primary children who are particularly interested the extent to which the rest of the book caught my imagination. We begin with something very simple: a boat and in artcase you're worried, and if you were working through all the book with your child then entries have a younger child could also try out some degree of difficulty (from 'simple' through to 'tricky') and this one is at the lesson ideas and suggestionslowest level.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806112</amazonuk>
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