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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0811771741
|title=InstaKnits for Baby
|author=Melissa Leapman
|rating=4
|genre=Crafts
|summary=Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the fire' variety. The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1635866243
|title=The Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook
|author=Kristina McGrath and Sarah Walworth
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crafts
|summary=''I quickly discovered that putting words and numbers on a page wasn't enough. Creating a pattern that was correct, clear, concise, and consistent required a great deal of trial and error, patience, and perseverance.'' (Introduction byFrancoise Danoy)
|genre=Crafts
|summary=Have you ever tried wrapping a small gift, I learned patchworking from necessity: old or those handmade sweets or biscuits you've prepared for a friend? outgrown clothes needed to be turned into something new and usable when I was in my twenties. It's not easy is would be a while before it? If you use wrapping paper the gift tends to lose became a pleasure rather than a chore but I''presence'' and once you start to use glass jars the gift becomes really quite expensive and less easy to transportve never felt completely at home with quilting. Do you find colouring relaxing and rewarding but somehow it feels just I needed something a little bit more stylish than my usual buttons or knots. ''tooSuper Easy Quilting for Beginners'' indulgent if all you do is turn seemed like a good place to the next page and start colouring that? . Would you get more out of So, how did it if you could use what you've coloured for a practical purposestack up? The ideal solution to both problems is ''Gift Boxes to Colour and Make: A Year of Celebrations'' by Eilidh Muldoon.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788000099</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre0760379874|title=Pug-a-Doodle-Do!Super Easy Knitting for Beginners|author=Carri Hammett
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crafts
|summary=I was reading a book so utterly different learned to this knit in the other daynineteen-fifties: it wasn't a choice, it has was a requirement. Girls learned to knit and to bear mentionembroider and boys did wood and metal work. It My knitting wa accompanied by a lot of criticism and quite a few tears: it was a long time before I realised that there was an exceedingly academic book about graphic novels and comics for pleasure to be had in the YA audience, and skill. Nearly seventy years later it featured an essay picking up on 's the way books like the fill-in-bits-yourself entries in the Wimpy Kid and Dork Diaries series (such as [[Dork Diaries: How to Dork Your Diary only thing that keeps my hands at all supple. The turning point was a booklet published by Rachel Renee Russell|this one]]) let you interact with Patons which gave all the franchise, basics and also to create your own contentsome patterns. There was some weird high-falutinI' academic language ve been looking for something simple to describe such books – but you know what? I say (redacted) recommend to that – letpeople who's just hang it and have fund like to master the skill. And this bookSo, spinning off from the four books this partnership has so far been responsible for, is certainly a provider of that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192764047</amazonuk>how did ''Super Easy Knitting For Beginners'' work out?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca Jones0760373531|title=The Colouring Book of Cards and EnvelopesCozy Knits: Unicorns 30 Hat, Mitten, Scarf and RainbowsSock Projects from Around the World|author=Sue Flanders
|rating=5
|genre=Crafts
|summary=I've Just occasionally you encounter a problem with many colouring books for children: some initial effort goes into the colouringbook of knitting patterns that seems to meet your every need. Right now, but the chances are that little will be kept on a long-term basis and it's not particularly satisfyingbitterly cold and we're in the sandwich filling between two storms: I need socks, scarves, hats and mittens. How much better would it be if the colouring produced something which could be sent They have to someone elselook stylish, who would appreciate that it's unique keep me warm and be so cheerful that effort and care has gone into the card? they make me feel better. How much better If that sounds like a lot to give ask, have a child something like look at ''Cozy Knits''The Colouring Book of Cards and Envelopes: Unicorns it has thirty designs for those necessary items and RainbowsI don't think that there was one of them which I couldn' than t see myself wearing. We start with an ordinary colouring book introduction by Nancy Bush which will soon be discarded?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788000897</amazonuk>gives some of the history of knitting. It's not essential but it's a nice extra.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Matilda Tristram0760373558|title= My Year in Small Drawings: Notice, Draw, AppreciateNordic Knits|author=Sue Flanders|rating= 4.5|genre= Crafts|summary=In recent years there has been an upsurge in the publication of I was so delighted by Sue Flanders'interactive' books[[Cozy Knits: 30 Hat, designed to spark our creativity. Colouring books for adultsMitten, as well as my teenage daughterScarf and Sock Projects from Around the World by Sue Flanders|Cozy Knits]] that I didn's current favourite: t need any persuading at all to pick up her ''Wreck This Journal,Nordic Knits'' seek to tap into our creative side, whilst promoting mindfulness and relaxation. By actively encouraging us to slow down This delivers forty-four patterns inspired by textiles and look at the world around uslocal traditions from Norway, books like these enable us to take time out of our busy lives Sweden and just enjoy the present momentIceland. And this method must be working, because they There are proving incredibly popular. I was intrigued, therefore, at the idea behind ''My Year in Small Drawings,'' which invites readers to create a visual diary of few sweaters or jackets but the world around us by creating a series majority of small pictures on a given subjectpatterns are for smaller items such as mittens, gloves, hats and bags. All are bright and cheerful and very cosy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782405348</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Thomas Flintham1635864070|title=Around the World Colouring BookKnit 2 Socks in 1|author=Safiyyah Talley
|rating=4
|genre=Crafts
|summary=If you've ever started knitting a pair of socks, finished the first one and either got bored by the idea of doing the same thing all over again, or started on the second sock and lost the first before you finished it, this is the book 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 one, divide them up and have a perfectly finished pair of socks. Sounds good? It's clever and well-thought-out.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529393930
|title=Making a Living: How to Craft Your Business
|author=Sophie Rochester
|rating=5
|genre=Crafts
|summary=''Starting a creative business has never been easier.''
''If not now, when?''
I know that I'm not alone in having wondered whether or not I could turn my hobby into a business. There's a lot of motivation to do so: I make more items than we can sensibly use and there are a lot of people who have been delighted to accept what I make as gifts. Selling would offset the costs, which can be quite considerable and it could be fun to do, couldn'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''.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1635862353
|title=The Sandalmaking Workshop
|author=Rachel Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crafts
|summary=A sandal-making workshop? I couldn't really believe it, mainly because I'd always thought that you'd need more equipment than the average home was likely to be able to contain but I was intrigued. Rachel Corry started sandal making accidentally - a small fire destroyed some of 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 new and worthwhile craft? She showed quite a few people her first pair and they all either wanted to know how to do it - or if she'd make them a pair. A new career was born.
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{{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 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
|isbn=Chou_Make
|title=Make and Play: Nativity
|author=Joey Chou
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Colouring books are I always feel a useful way slight disappointment for children at Christmas when they're presented with a tree to relax, develop manual dexterity decorate with a box of ornaments and explore coloura nativity scene (sometimes quite precious, but in the dash to appeal to the child so many miss the opportunity to be gently educational it''and'' to still appeal to the youngs Not To Be Played With) which is set up Somewhere Safe. The two are not mutually exclusive! Look for instance at this colouring book: itWhere's got page upon page the imagination, the creativity, the sense of pictures pride in that? How much better to colour (with just have a little narrative to set the child create their own nativity scene) , which they can then play with the added attraction of four pages of stickers. ? YouThat'll see grey shapes - s exactly what they get with Joey Chou's ''Make and thatPlay Nativity''s the signal to get stickering!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788000005</amazonuk>.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gavin Rutherford and Tanya Batrak099334030X|title=Rainforest Masks: Ten 3D Rainforest Masks to Press Out Can You Draw the Dragosaur?|author=Peter Lynas and MakeCharlie Roberts
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crafts
|summary=I have been having the most tremendous fun making rainforest masks: you know the effect that you You're going to get when a really talented face artist does a young childhint of what this book's face and about very quickly. When you ''seethe title page, you'll find out what the book' the tiger? Well, this is an even better result s called and that it's in 3Dbeen written by Peter Lynas. All Then we move on to who has done the creatures are, as you would expect, from the rainforest regions of the world, but illustration - and there's decidedly more here than the usual suspectsa gap. ''You get a green iguana, toucan, jaguar, emperor tamarin, blue morpho butterfly, red-eyed tree frog, Brazilian tapir, giant otter, blue-and-yellow macaw and the emerald tree boa'' are going to put your name there. Never heard of some of them? Well, donIt's ''your''t worry: responsibility to provide the pictures for this book is gently educational, with a paragraph telling you just enough about one of the largest creatures ever to roam the creatureearth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782404430</amazonuk> There's some help available, but your name is on the title page - and you have work to do!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emil Fortune and Neal Manning1635860334|title=Star Wars: Imperial Assault Activity Book and Model (Star Wars Construction Books)Why We Quilt|author=Thomas Knauer
|rating=4
|genre=Crafts
|summary=Bobby, my U-Wing model, I've often wondered about the story that patchwork quilting began as a way for women (and myth would have it that it was feeling lonelyalways women) to make an extra blanket out of material which would otherwise go to waste. Sure, he had a few select critters from Harry Potter on his shelf, This undoubtedly ''did'' happen but nothing else from his world. Luckilywhen you think about it, now he has you need an awful lot of material to make a companionquilt and the time could have been better spent if all that was required was bedding. Unluckily, howeverLike Thomas Knauer, itI's a baddy – one of the AT-ST Scout Walkers those nasty Empire people like ve come to use to stride around and attack the good rebels. But conclusion that aside, it is a very handsome companionbegan as an art and has largely continued down that same road with fluctuations in popularity over the years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405285389</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim Hopgood1419726625|title=Doodle DogsThe Mitten Handbook: Best in ShowKnitting Recipes to Make Your Own|author=Mary Scott Huff|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrafts|summary=I love mittens - they're so convenient and much easier to get onto (and off) cold hands than a pair of fiddly gloves. They'Doodle Dogsre not something you regularly see in shops, so I knew that if I wanted new pairs I would have to knit them myself. Well, actually, that'' introduces a wide variety s my rationalisation of artistic styles through the idea of a dog show! situation: in truth, I love knitting mittens. Tim Hopgood shows us different kinds of dogsThey have just enough technique to make them satisfying, all plenty of which can be created very easily, quick work and you soon find that doodling a dog can be pair of warm mittens in a lot more detailedfew days. Patterns, and interesting, than though - where do you perhaps previously appreciated!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509820817</amazonuk>get them from?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Warner Brothers1621137775|title=Harry Potter Colouring Book Celebratory EditionHandbag Workshop: The Best of Harry Potter colouringDesign and Sew the Perfect Bag|author=Anna M Mazur
|rating=4
|genre=Crafts
|summary=Imagine pages and pages I love handbags, but I resent paying the prices demanded by manufacturers of images from the Harry Potter books and films for you to colour as you wish'good' bags. You ''might'' have seen some of the images before - Additionally, I know often find a bag I have - as they've appeared in like but the colour/shape/size/capacity/internal layout isn't 'Harry Potter Colouring Book'', ''Harry Potter Magical Creatures Colouring Bookquite''what I had in mind, so I end up spending rather a lot of money and compromising. The solution is to make my own bags and whilst I was confident about sewing fabric bags, I was nervous about using leather, not least because leather isn''Harry Potter Magical Places t very forgiving when it comes to mistakes and Characters Colouring Bookit'', but there are several exclusive never-before-seen images which will please the collector of Harry Potter memorabilias usually more expensive than fabric. I needed help. If youAnna Mazur're s ''The Handbag Workshop'' came to me free through NetGalley in need of inspiration as to colours then you'll enjoy the sixteen pages of film stills, unit photography and concept art at the back of the bookreturn for an unbiased review.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783708255</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alice Bowsher1632506386|title=LiftThe Knitter's Dictionary: Knitting Know-the-Flap and Colour: OceanHow from A to Z|author=Kate Atherley
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrafts|summary=When you think about itI've been knitting for well over sixty years, itfollowing patterns of varying complexity with success. I's quite startling that oceans cover most of our planet ve knit Aran sweaters, socks by the dozen and theyI're home m currently knitting blankets for a charity to nearly half of all species, apart from humanssell. We donThere hasn't know a lot about the oceans either - less than 5% of the area has been explored, but it is an area of outstanding beauty. With Alice Bowsheroccasion when I've been stuck and people have often come to ''me'' for help when 's 'they'Lift-the-Flap and Colour: Oceanve'' children as young as two have the opportunity to do a little exploration and to colour their own picturesbeen stuck. The flaps are Would a stroke knitter's dictionary really be of genius: when we look at the sea we see little more than the movement any help to me? I was surprised by just how much I got out of the water, but how different it would be if you could see a little of what is going on underneath.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809294</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1440248850|title=Katie Scott Modern Patchwork Home: Dynamic Quilts and Kathy WillisProjects for Every Room|titleauthor=Botanicum Activity BookVivika DeNegre (Editor)
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrafts|summary=Children and adults who enjoyed [[Botanicum (Welcome To The Museum) by Katie Scott and Kathy Willis]] are going to love the problem with a craft which is largely based on traditional designs is that what results from your labours is also traditional, or - depending upon what light you shine on it - old-fashioned. Vivika DeNegre has curated a collection of patterns from today's top designers. As a word of warning, if you read 'Botanicum Activity Book'Modern Patchwork Magazine'. Don't be misled by the suggestion you may well find that there's nothing new in the book is aimed at , but if you're new to the magazine this could well prove to be a delightful collection from the back catalogue.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Pallant_Star|title=Star Wars Millennium Falcon Book and Mega Model|author=Katrina Pallant and Neal Manning|rating=4.5|genre=Crafts|summary=One of the sevenunexpected results of making a rough-and-plus age group: there's plenty ready sci-fi film back in here the 1970s, was that George Lucas left a whole generation capable of spelling Millennium. In amongst all the iconic inventions for anyone who the film, his design team left him – and us – with a very loveable, very fast and very asymmetrical space ship. How is it balanced when the cockpit is stuck out one side? What is still capable that dish-like array doing on what seems to act as the top? And where can you get your own? Well, beyond the rarity and great cost of holding a pen or pencilthe Lego model, I can at least provide one answer to those three pertinent questions, and that answer is… here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783706791</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DKMcLelland_Press|title=Forest Life Press Out and Woodland CreaturesDecorate: Unicorns|author=Kate McLelland
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Crafts|summary=This book knows that if youIt're going to learn about forest life and s the animals, plants weekend and trees in it, then youI're only going to be itching to go and explore the woods for yourselfve been indulging myself. ItThere's for something about a very young audience, so always expects an adult hand unicorn which appeals to guide you – but provides me and a little bit of research into a warm companion itself through several quick and easy tasksbook of press-out unicorns, clouds and rainbows seemed like the ideal way to spend a few lessonsSaturday morning. The balance between carrot You get twenty designs in the book and stickthey're all decorated with pink foil: even if you don't want to add any further colouring they're still going to look great, or duty and reward, is great – but what exactly is because the pages are a substantial card you have the edutainment going opportunity to provideuse crayons, and what will it demand of us?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241273110</amazonuk>felt tips or even paints to add your own personal touch.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DKV&A_Embroidery|title=Sharks Embroidery: A Maker's Guide|author=Victoria and Other Sea CreaturesAlbert Museum
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrafts|summary=Never before have I found much cause In ''Embroidery: A Maker's Guide'' we get a brief introduction to point out the sort of lower-casecraft by James Merry, embroidery artist, almost-a-subtitle wording information on the front of tools you'll need, materials you can utilise and a 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's experienced in one area but wanting to branch out this bookcould be an ideal starting point. I say that because very little There are over 230 glorious photographs (of items from the V&A collections) and illustrations covering 15 styles of this embroidery and giving all the information and designs you'll need for 15 projects.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=V&A_Patchwork|title=Patchwork and Quilting: A Maker's Guide|author=Victoria and Albert Museum|rating=4.5|genre=Crafts|summary=Patchwork is about sharks – so if a magical craft: you can take relatively small pieces of material and turn them into another piece of material with an entirely different pattern. Quilting converts a topper and a backing fabric with some wadding in between into a fabric of an entirely different weight. Combine the two crafts and you have a youngster intending something more than magical, occasionally 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 Quilting: A Maker's Guide'' which looks - as the cover says - at styles from Italian trapunto to come here Korean jogakbo and learn all their bloodthirsty imagination can hold, then they may well be disappointeddelivers fifteen projects inspired by the V&A collections. If }}{{Frontpage|isbn=BM_Origami|title=Origami, Poems and Pictures|author=The British Museum|rating=5|genre=Crafts|summary=Sometimes you take find a delight of a book. On an afternoon when it on board that was unseasonably cold and decidedly wet I discovered ''Origami, Poems and Pictures'' and I was transported to Japan. As the title suggests we'other sea creaturesre looking at three celebrated arts and crafts: the ancient art of paper folding, haiku poetry and painting. I' make up ll confess that it was the bulk origami which caught my attention, but I was surprised by the extent to which the rest of the bookcaught my imagination. We begin with something very simple: a boat and in case you're worried, then all well and good. And even better, if you expect yourself to the entries have a degree of difficulty (from 'simple'makethrough to 'tricky' ) and this one is at the bulk of said creatures…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241274389</amazonuk>lowest level.
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