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[[Category:New Reviews|Crafts]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{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.__NOTOC__}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1635866243|title=Outdoor WonderlandThe Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook|author=Josie JefferyKristina McGrath and Sarah Walworth
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrafts|summary=When ''I quickly discovered that putting words and numbers on a page wasn't enough. Creating a pattern that was growing up we had ‘Why Don’t You’ to inspire us what to do during the summer holidayscorrect, clear, concise, but I still don’t understand why and consistent required a TV show would encourage great deal of trial and error, patience, and perseverance.'' (Introduction byFrancoise Danoy) A friend recently showed me to switch a knitting pattern for which she'd paid good money. The first line of the instructions began: ''Cast off 100 stitches...'' It was clear that no good could come of this - the instructions didn't get any better - and (finally) PayPal obliged with a refund when the seller refused as she couldn't afford the repayment. The pattern looked pretty, but the creator didn't have the telly – how am I meant basic knowledge and skills to know what enable her to do? connect with her knitters. A far more sensible guide for outdoor fun is a book like Josie Jeffery’s ‘Outdoor Wonderland’, an informative book full of interesting things to do outside no matter the weather or time of dayShe should have read ''The Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400826</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529507987|title=Flowerpot Farm: A First Gardening Activity The Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Lorraine HarrisonWalker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)|rating=34.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=With the demand for us I love ''The Repair Shop''. It's my go-to programme when I want to eat seemingly more fruit and vegetables every be cheered up. After a hard day, the world of grow-your-own is backthere's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. Why buy from You see, the supermarket when you can release value is in what these possessions are worth to the kids into people who own them and the garden memories they hold. No expense appears to graze like cattle? However, before you do this, perhaps you should pick up a book like ‘Flowerpot Farm’ by Lorraine Harrison be spared and the experts spend as much time and Faye Bradley which will show them how effort as is required to create their own fruit, veg achieve the desired result. Regular viewers know the experts and flower garden no matter they're all brilliant at explaining what it is they're doing. But how small a space did they have to work with.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400818</amazonuk>start?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0760379912|title=This Belongs to Me: Cool Ways to Personalize Your StuffSuper Easy Quilting for Beginners|author=Anna WrayEditors of Quarry Books
|rating=4
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|summary=I 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 pleasure rather than a chore but I've never felt completely at home with quilting. I needed something a little more stylish than my usual buttons or knots. 'This Belongs to Me'Super Easy Quilting for Beginners'' contains 14 design projects that describe how seemed like a good place to customise everything from clothing to furniturestart. The book encourages people to get creative by showing the basic techniques and skills involved for each project So, but leaving the actual creative design how did it stack up to the personal preferences of the reader.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908005785</amazonuk>?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0760379874|title=Make Super Easy Knitting for Beginners|author=Carri Hammett|rating=4.5|genre=Crafts|summary=I learned to knit in the nineteen-fifties: it wasn't a choice, it was a requirement. Girls learned to knit and to embroider and boys did wood and metal work. My knitting wa accompanied by a lot of criticism and quite a Mobilefew tears: 12 Cool Designs it was a long time before I realised that there was pleasure to be had in the skill. Nearly seventy years later it's the only thing that keeps my hands at all supple. The turning point was a booklet published by Patons which gave all the basics and some patterns. I've been looking for something simple to recommend to Press Out people who'd like to master the skill. So, how did ''Super Easy Knitting For Beginners'' work out?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0760373531|title=Cozy Knits: 30 Hat, Mitten, Scarf and HangSock Projects from Around the World|author=Lydia CrookSue Flanders
|rating=5
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|summary=Just occasionally you encounter a book of knitting patterns that seems to meet your every need. Right now, it's bitterly cold and we'Make re in the sandwich filling between two storms: I need socks, scarves, hats and mittens. They have to look stylish, keep me warm and be so cheerful that they make me feel better. If that sounds like a lot to ask, have a Mobilelook at ''Cozy Knits' is a delightful crafting book crammed full of projects ': it has thirty designs for parents those necessary items and children to share. The book contains 12 unique designs I don't think that fit together beautifully and are surprisingly easy to makethere was one of them which I couldn't see myself wearing. The perforated pages allow We start with an introduction by Nancy Bush which gives some of the components history of each mobile knitting. It's not essential but it's a nice extra.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0760373558|title=Nordic Knits|author=Sue Flanders|rating=4|genre=Crafts|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 be simply pushed out pick up her ''Nordic Knits''. This delivers forty-four patterns inspired by textiles and local traditions from Norway, Sweden and Iceland. There are a few sweaters or jackets but the page without the need majority of patterns are for nimble scissor skillssmaller items such as mittens, gloves, hats and bags. All are bright and cheerful and very cosy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908005807</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1635864070|title=Paper PlayKnit 2 Socks in 1|author=Lydia CrookSafiyyah Talley|rating=4.5
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|summary=Paper Play is If you've ever started knitting a virtual time machinepair of socks, taking us back to an era before finished the first one and either got bored by the idea of doing the PCsame thing all over again, tablet or started on the second sock and games consolelost the first before you finished it, when children had this is the ability book for you. Where is it that single socks go to amuse themselves for hours with hide? Safiyyah Talley has developed a few sheets of papersystem that allows you to knit two socks in one, some scissors divide them up and some glue. Simple papercraft skills were passed down from generation to generation, arming creative minds with have a seemingly endless supply perfectly finished pair of crafting ideas, including paper dresssocks. Sounds good? It's clever and well-thought-up dolls, flying contraptions and finger puppetsout.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0762449578</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Griffiths1529393930|title=Woodworking for the WeekendMaking a Living: 20 Projects Using Reclaimed TimberHow to Craft Your Business|author=Sophie Rochester|rating=4.5
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|summary=I realised a long time ago that there's a great deal to be said for reclaimed timber. Not only is there virtue in reusing wood (and it's often hardwood) which might otherwise end up on Starting a bonfire or in landfill, it creative business has never been easier.''character ''If not now, with marks and shadings which speak of its history. Used in the right place it can sing as no completely new piece could ever could - but the trick is in knowing the right place and how to use the wood. Mark Griffiths has come up with twenty projects, most of which are likely to be complete in a weekend and all of which will give pleasure to the woodworker and to the people who use the end results.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400575</amazonuk>}}when?''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fiona Goble1635862353|title=Fiona Goble's Fairy Tale Knits: 20 Enchanting Characters to MakeThe Sandalmaking Workshop|author=Rachel Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crafts
|summary=ItA 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's t afford to replace all her shoes. Could she combine these two facts to create a lovely idea: knitting patterns for twenty fairy tale characters new and worthwhile craft? She showed quite a brief story few people her first pair and they all either wanted to know how to go with do it - or if she'd make thema pair. ThereA new career was born.}}{{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 pleasure length and breadth of knitting the characters British Isles with occasional forays abroad, discovering and then 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 playing with them alongside a story on the farm'' - and then being able to use their imaginations learned to built their own stories. Best of allspin, itknit and weave from her mother and her mother's done without a battery or a computer/games console in sightfriend. It's a winner all roundThis was in her blood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908005467</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David SavageChou_Make|title=Furniture with SoulMake and Play: Master Woodworkers and Their CraftNativity|author=Joey Chou
|rating=5
|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
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crafts
|summary=David Savage is You're going to get a master furniture maker and one hint of what this book's about very quickly. When you see the artists featured in title page, you'll find out what the book, so he is not – as he says himself – a neutral observer 's called and nor can he be neutral in choosing that it's been written by Peter Lynas. Then we move on to who to include in has done the bookillustration - and there's a gap. Having said that, the pictures alone will tell you that he has chosen people who create furniture of great beauty and – often – originality''You'' are going to put your name there. It's ''your'' responsibility to provide the text that makes pictures for this book about one of the book shine, though – as it seeks not largest creatures ever to give a critical appreciation of each man and one womanroam the earth. There's worksome help available, but to look at what makes them tick, what drives them your name is on the title page - and how they you have handled the good times as well as the bad. It is, if you like, ten in-depth biographies of artists who work in a common medium and ten shorter pieces about those we should look out for in the future.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>4770031211</amazonuk>to do!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patricia Wing1635860334|title=Creative Parchment Cards: Incorporating Siesta GridsWhy We Quilt|author=Thomas Knauer
|rating=4
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|summary=Here at Bookbag weI've long admired Patricia Wing's ability not just often wondered about the story that patchwork quilting began as a way for women (and myth would have it that it was always women) to produce beautiful hand-made cards but make an extra blanket out of material which would otherwise go to guide us through the process of making themwaste. WeThis undoubtedly ''ve seen her regularly in did'Crafts Beautiful' magazinehappen but when you think about it, so we know that she's you need an awful lot of material to make a name quilt and the time could have been better spent if all that you can ''rely'' onwas required was bedding. Equally reassuring is Like Thomas Knauer, I've come to the fact conclusion that she came to card making in middle age – giving hope to anyone who feels that they have left it too late to learn a new craft. We know began as an art and has largely continued down that we're same road with fluctuations in a safe – and very creative – pair of handspopularity over the years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956951708</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Barnardo1419726625|title=DadcandoThe Mitten Handbook: Build, Knitting Recipes to Make, Do ... the Best Way to Spend Quality Time with Your KidsOwn|author=Mary Scott Huff
|rating=4
|genre=Crafts
|summary=The ideas in this book originated as I love mittens - they're so convenient and much easier to get onto (and off) cold hands than a [http://wwwpair of fiddly gloves.dadcando.co.uk/ website] They're not something you regularly see in shops, so I knew that Chris Barnardo set up for divorced and separated fathers if I wanted new pairs I would have to help knit them spend quality time with their children Now hemyself. Well, actually, that's written a book that although aimed at single fathers is equally as useful for married dads, and mums too or grandparents or carers to inspire crafty ideas my rationalisation of things to make with kids.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852652011</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jean Baggott|title=The Girl on the Wallsituation: One Life's Rich Tapestry|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=Jean Baggott is now seventy two and in the final year of her history degree at Warwick Universitytruth, I love knitting mittens. After almost They have just enough technique to make them satisfying, plenty of quick work and a lifetime pair of bending her life to the needs of other people she has decided that now is the time to look after herself – the eleven year old girl whose picture hangs on her wallwarm mittens in a few days. She plans to achieve what that girl would want her to achieve and Patterns, though - where do you get them from this she's found great fulfilment.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848311265</amazonuk>?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marion Bataille1621137775|title=Abc 3dHandbag Workshop: Design and Sew the Perfect Bag|author=Anna M Mazur
|rating=4
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|summary=WowI love handbags, but I resent paying the prices demanded by manufacturers of 'good' bags. This is an ABC book with Additionally, I often find a difference. The publisherbag I like but the colour/shape/size/capacity/internal layout isn't ''s notes say itquite's "astoundingly beautiful" and it is. Marion Bataille's carefulwhat I had in mind, ingenious alphabet pops so I end up from the pages to amaze spending rather a lot of money and entrance all who lookcompromising. From A, a proud pyramid on the inside cover, The solution is to Z, standing on its side at the end, each letter of our alphabet has a personality of its make my own. E morphs into Fbags and whilst I was confident about sewing fabric bags, V mirrors itself and becomes WI was nervous about using leather, not least because leather isn't very forgiving when it comes to mistakes and U is a cascade of parabolasit's usually more expensive than fabric. I needed help. Anna Mazur's ''The Handbag Workshop'' came to me free through NetGalley in return for an unbiased review. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747595798</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pamela Brooks1632506386|title=The Knitter's Dictionary: Knitting Know-How from A to Research Local HistoryZ|author=Kate Atherley|rating=54
|genre=Crafts
|summary=Find out all about your houseI've been knitting for well over sixty years, village or townfollowing patterns of varying complexity with success. I've knit Aran sweaters, socks by the subtitle of this book announcesdozen and I'm currently knitting blankets for a charity to sell. In my view, it tells you much more than thatThere hasn't been an occasion when I've been stuck and people have often come to ''me'' for help when ''they've'' been stuck. For Would a knitter's dictionary really be of any historian, and not help to me? I was surprised by just in the field how much I got out of purely local studies, this volume is probably as near to indispensable as they comeit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845282760</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adele Ramet1440248850|title=Writing Modern Patchwork Home: Dynamic Quilts and Projects for MagazinesEvery Room|author=Vivika DeNegre (Editor)
|rating=4
|genre=Crafts
|summary=From being an avid reader (and maybe The problem with a passionate book reviewer) to writing for magazines yourself 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 pretty logical progressioncollection of patterns from today's top designers. Yet like any other competitive field As a word of warning, if you read ''Modern Patchwork Magazine'' you may well find that there's nothing new in lifethe book, itbut if you's re new to the magazine this could well prove to be a very hard one to get into – and doubtless getting harder all delightful collection from the timeback catalogue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845281616</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael OkePallant_Star|title=Times of Our LivesStar Wars Millennium Falcon Book and Mega Model|author=Katrina Pallant and Neal Manning|rating=34.5
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|summary=I am currently writing my autobiography as One of the unexpected results of making a longrough-term project and something to leave for my children-ready sci-fi film back in the 1970s, so I was interested to receive ''Times that George Lucas left a whole generation capable of Our Lives'' by Michael Okespelling Millennium. In amongst all the iconic inventions for the film, his design team left him – and us – with a very loveable, which very fast and very asymmetrical space ship. How is it balanced when the cockpit is stuck out one side? What is advertised that dish-like array doing on what seems to act as ''the essential companion for writing top? And where can you get your own life story? Well, beyond the rarity and great cost of the Lego model, I can at least provide one answer to those three pertinent questions, and that answer is… here.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>185703970X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Judy ReevesMcLelland_Press|title=A Writer's Book of DaysPress Out and Decorate: Unicorns|author=Kate McLelland|rating=54
|genre=Crafts
|summary=It's the weekend and I have always written really – diaries every day for years, letters, stories, poems… Ciao 've been indulging myself. There's something about a unicorn which appeals to me and Dooyoo fitted a little bit of research into this perfectly and increased my confidence, as I received better feedback over time, gaining crowns here and Premium Fund payments on Ciao. I am not a particularly confident person, I have quite low selfbook of press-esteem at timesout unicorns, but I love writing clouds and believe it is my one talentrainbows seemed like the ideal way to spend a Saturday morning. I think everyone has something You get twenty designs in the book and they're all decorated with pink foil: even if you don't want to add any further colouring they 're still going to look great, but because the pages are good ata substantial card you have the opportunity to use crayons, felt tips or even paints to add your own personal touch. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1577311000</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Bryn Davies V&A_Embroidery|title=Dragons in Watercolour (Fantasy Art Series) Embroidery: A Maker's Guide|author=Victoria and Albert Museum
|rating=4
|genre=Crafts
|summary=This is where my love of In ''Embroidery: A Maker's Guide'' we get a brief introduction to the fantasy art range of books from Search Press continues... So far I have reviewed [[Painting Fairies in Watercolour craft by Paul Bryn Davies|Painting Fairies in Watercolour]] James Merry, embroidery artist, information on the tools you'll need, materials you can utilise and [[Painting Unicorns in Watercolour by Rebecca Balchin|Painting Unicorns in Watercolour]] a guide to the stitches you'll be using. If you're just thinking about starting embroidery and Inot certain which type will suit you best or someone who'm pleased s experienced in one area but wanting to say that branch out this book lives up to my expectations as much as could be an ideal starting point. There are over 230 glorious photographs (of items from the V&A collections) and illustrations covering 15 styles of embroidery and giving all the last books didinformation and designs you'll need for 15 projects.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844483827</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma Callery V&A_Patchwork|title=The Calligraphy HandbookPatchwork and Quilting: A Maker's Guide|author=Victoria and Albert Museum|rating=4.5
|genre=Crafts
|summary=I chose Patchwork is 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 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 try read ''Patchwork and learn calligraphy, Quilting: A Maker's Guide'' which looks - as it was something that would enhance all my many other craft the cover says - at styles from Italian trapunto to Korean jogakbo and then delivers fifteen projectsinspired by the V&A collections. So did this book help me?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184448307X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview Frontpage|isbn=BM_Origami|title=Stash-Busting QuiltsOrigami, Poems and Pictures|author=Lynne EdwardsThe British Museum|rating=5
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