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[[Category:New Reviews|Crafts]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eglantine de la Fontaine et al0811771741|title=My Magical Oasis: Art Therapy Colouring Book InstaKnits for Creative MindsBaby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=4.5
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|summary=ItMelissa Leapman's not often I can review ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a book and mention how it changes your brain, but that's apparently the effect collection of the colouring-in-for-adults phenomenonknits from toys to blankets. ThereSome will be quick knits - others are of the 's a science behind it all that attests how alpha waveslong, a slightly more childlike, accepting, relaxed form cosy afternoons in front of brain activity, the fire' variety. The projects are used divided by our bonces when we colour – and as opposed to the braver, thinking, active beta waves time they're something the mind could do more ofll take to complete - less than five hours, especially in this kineticfive to ten hours, plugged-inten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, 24/7 lifestylemodern and useable. So whereas I normally review books to help perhaps show my readers make their mind up, here age when Iwonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that'm mentioning this volume because it allegedly would change your minds me being picky.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0859655350</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewplainFrontpage|isbn=1635866243|title=The Creative Colouring Book for Grown-UpsKnitting Pattern Writing Handbook|author=Kristina McGrath and Sarah Walworth |rating=4.5
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|summary=Johanna Basford ''I quickly discovered that putting words and numbers on a page wasn't enough. Creating a pattern that was not the firstcorrect, clear, concise, and consistent required a great deal of trial and error, patience, and nor was perseverance.'' (Introduction byFrancoise Danoy) A friend recently showed me a knitting pattern for which she an overnight success'd paid good money. If you're salivating over The first line of the instructions began: ''Enchanted ForestCast off 100 stitches...'', having finished her ''Secret Garden'', you are one It was clear that no good could come of those many people indulging in this - the new/old hobby of adult colouringinstructions didn't get any better -in and (adult perhaps only because her titles smack more of soft erotica than colouring-in booksfinally)PayPal obliged with a refund when the seller refused as she couldn't afford the repayment. The hobby is rapidly killing off Sudoku as pattern looked pretty, but the pastime of choice for many – either on creator didn't have the train or sitting basic knowledge and skills to enable her to connect with half an ear to the soapsher knitters. ItShe should have read ''The Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook''s fun, it opens the mind to other thoughts in quite a meditative way, and it needs no instructions – much like, again, Sudoku, even if newspapers persist in telling us them even when nobody on earth is left to need them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782433287</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucy Engelman1529507987|title=Field Guide: Creatures Great The Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Small Sonia Albert (Field GuidesIllustrator)
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|genre=CraftsChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Call me fuddyI love ''The Repair Shop''. It's my go-duddy, but to programme when I have never seen the need want to review be cheered up. After a book via video – with Youtube and other sources becoming full of people giving their thoughts about the latest hot release the idea has never appealed to mehard day, when there 's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. You see, the value is in what these possessions are also countless ways for one worth to share opinions by old-fashioned written wordthe people who own them and the memories they hold. That is, of course, until now, No expense appears to be spared and the phenomenon that experts spend as much time and effort as is building rapidly – that of mature colouring-in booksrequired to achieve the desired result. Here at Regular viewers know the Bookbag we can easily prove weexperts and they've read every word of the books by being eloquent, informative and opinionated about re all brilliant at explaining what we examine, but even I admit four paragraphs regarding a picture book we ourselves have to finish off may leave some members of our audience wanting to see the resultsit is they're doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780635X</amazonuk> But how did they start?
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{{newreviewplainFrontpage|isbn=0760379912|title=Gorgeous Colouring Book Super Easy Quilting for Grown-UpsBeginners|author=Editors of Quarry Books
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|summary=So, I learned patchworking from necessity: old or outgrown clothes needed to be turned into something new and usable when I mentioned on Facebook that was in my twenties. It would be a while before it became a pleasure rather than a chore but I had a nice new grown-up colouring book to review, 've never felt completely at home with quilting. I discovered needed something 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! more stylish than my usual buttons or knots. They had tales of how tricky it was ''Super Easy Quilting for Beginners'' seemed like a good place to stay inside of the lines, how long one picture could take, and how relaxing the whole thing isstart. I dug out my old tin of pencilsSo, and settled down to give how did it a try.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782434461</amazonuk>stack up?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paula Briggs0760379874|title=Drawing Projects for Children|rating=5|genre=Crafts|summary=''Drawing Projects for Children'' is a beautiful, full-colour guide that encourages children to use a range of materials to create stunning and thought-provoking artwork. As the author points out, the end result is not always as important as the journey and this book helps children to move away from the more traditional, or 'safe' type of drawing styles and indulge in a little more experimentation and risk taking. The book is ideal Super Easy Knitting for parents to use with their children, but each chapter is a self-contained lesson plan that facilitators and teachers can use with groups.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908966742</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBeginners|author=Hannah Davies|title=The Big Beautiful Colouring BookCarri Hammett
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|summary=Although I have two small childrenlearned to knit in the nineteen-fifties: it wasn't a choice, it's been was a long time since I just sat requirement. Girls learned to knit and to embroider and boys did any colouring by myselfwood and metal work. Usually My knitting wa accompanied by a lot of criticism and quite a few tears: it was a long time before I am tasked with drawing various family members, or vehicles, or animals, and then we colour them realised that there was pleasure to be had in togetherthe skill. This time I sat quietly by myself with a pack of my sonNearly seventy years later it's new colouring pencils, 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 quite happily passed a couple of hours colouring in!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780553498</amazonuk>'ve been looking for something simple to recommend to people who'd like to master the skill. So, how did ''Super Easy Knitting For Beginners'' work out?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Weltman0760373531|title=This is Not a Maths BookCozy Knits: 30 Hat, Mitten, Scarf and Sock Projects from Around the World|author=Sue Flanders
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|genre=ArtCrafts|summary=I have to admit, I wasn't Just occasionally you encounter a huge fan book of maths at schoolknitting patterns that seems to meet your every need. Maybe if I'd had this book when I was a child Right now, I would have been. it'This is not a Maths Books bitterly cold and we' cleverly bridges re in the gap sandwich filling between maths two storms: I need socks, scarves, hats and art mittens. They have to look stylish, keep me warm and teaches kids how to be so cheerful that they make beautiful patterns and shapes by using mathematical principlesme feel better. We learn about parabolic curves If that sounds like a lot to ask, Pascalhave a look at ''Cozy Knits''s triangle, the stomachion, tesselation : it has thirty designs for those necessary items and 3D drawingsI don't think that there was one of them which I couldn't see myself wearing. Because the pages are interactive and hands-on, kids are learning We start with an introduction by Nancy Bush which gives some of the rules history of maths without realising knitting. It's not essential but it's a nice extra. After all, there is no reason why maths shouldn't be fun!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782402055</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mariko Nakamura0760373558|title=Sew JapaneseNordic Knits|author=Sue Flanders
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|summary=I wouldnwas so delighted by Sue Flanders't normally find [[Cozy Knits: 30 Hat, Mitten, Scarf and Sock Projects from Around the idea of childrenWorld by Sue Flanders|Cozy Knits]] that I didn's clothes with a national theme appealing as it's t need any persuading at all too easy for them to look like fancy dress and kids can be all too picky about something like that. If youpick up her ''re going to put the effort into making something then you want it to be worn! But - I took one look at those two kids on the cover of Nordic Knits'Sew Japanese' . This delivers forty- four patterns inspired by textiles and local traditions from Norway, Sweden and I liked what I sawIceland. There's are a distinctive style few sweaters or jackets but what comes across most the majority of all is that they're clothes that kids can play ''in'' patterns are for smaller items such as mittens, gloves, hats and bags. All are bright and cheerful and feel comfortable ''with''very cosy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909397407</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Esterly1635864070|title=The Lost Carving: A Journey to the Heart of MakingKnit 2 Socks in 1|author=Safiyyah Talley
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|summary=If you are going to make 've ever started knitting a colouring book aimed at adults I say do it 100% pair of socks, finished the first one and go either got bored by the idea of doing the same thing all out. You can keep your minimalist landscapes over again, or your naïve animals; give me a page packed to started on the second sock and lost the first before you finished it, this is the gills with something that needs filling in. This can make a creative colouring book for grownups feel more like you. Where is it that single socks go to hide? Safiyyah Talley has developed a military operationsystem that allows you to knit two socks in one, but at least you will divide them up and have fun doing it a perfectly finished pair of socks. Sounds good? It's clever and improve your skillswell-thought-out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782432787</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529393930|title=The Paint BookMaking a Living: How to Craft Your Business|author=Miri FlowerSophie Rochester
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|summary=Craft blogger Miri Flower challenges bored children everywhere with her lovely new series of art books''Starting a creative business has never been easier.'' ''If not now, which utilise basic materials when?'' I know that can be found I'm not alone in most homeshaving wondered whether or not I could turn my hobby into a business. There''The Paint Book'' outlines seventy simple projects which encourage kids s a lot of motivation to get crafty do so: I make more items than we can sensibly use and creative with paintsthere are a lot of people who have been delighted to accept what I make as gifts. It Selling would offset the costs, which can be quite considerable and it could be fun to do, couldn's going t it? But where to start? What do I need to get messythink about? Well, so house-proud parents turn away now.the first thing anyone who is considering turning a crafting hobby into a business should do is to read ''Making a Living''..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>071123583X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1635862353|title=The Pencil BookSandalmaking Workshop|author=Miri FlowerRachel Corry|rating=4.5
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|summary=Summer is almost overA 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. Gone are the carefree days playing outdoors in the sunshine with friends Rachel Corry started sandal making accidentally - a small fire destroyed some of her shoes. Here One pair had come the rainy days apart and dark evenings, heralding she could see how the inevitable cry of: ''I'm bored!'sandal was constructed. Then she realised that she couldn't afford to replace all her shoes. Author Could she combine these two facts to create a new and worthwhile craft-blogger Miri Flower (fantastic name!) comes to the rescue of harassed parents everywhere with ? She showed quite a few people her new series of art books which encourage children first pair and they all either wanted to utilise simple materials know how to create fun games and artworkdo it - or if she'd make them a pair. ''The Pencil Book'' sees the humble pencil takes centre stage, with seventy projects to keep kids engaged and amused A new career was born.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0711235848</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pauline Brown1783784350|title=The Complete Guide to Quilting TechniquesThis Golden Fleece: Essential Techniques and Step-by-Step Projects for Making Beautiful QuiltsA Journey Through Britain's Knitted History|author=Esther Rutter
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|genre=CraftsHistory|summary=It was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in her office job, writing to people she''Quilting'' is a generic term covering patchwork, quilting itself d never met and appliquépreparing spreadsheets. All three require different skills The job frustrated her and you'll find them all covered even her knitting did not soothe her mind. January was going to be a greater or lesser extent in this gorgeous book. There's an introduction covering time for making changes and she decided that she would travel the origin length and breadth of the skills - patchwork developing amongst the pioneer women of early America for whom it was an essential way of keeping their families warmBritish Isles with occasional forays abroad, as did quilting discovering and for much telling the same reason. Appliqué is rather more decorative story of wool's history and luxurious how it had made and changed the original appliqué quilts were made to commemorate special occasionslandscape. DonShe't think that quilting is d grown up on a craft mired sheep farm in Suffolk - '' a free range child on the past though farm'' - over my lifetime Iand learned to spin, knit and weave from her mother and her mother've seen numerous developments and tried many of them for myselfs friend. This was in her blood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401679</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Merritt, Amanda Hillier and Felicity FrenchChou_Make|title=The Neon Colouring Book |rating=4.5|genre=Crafts|summary=Half a century ago I trained to be a teacher. My tutors were adamant that children should not be allowed to colour in any outline which they had not drawn themselves. It 'stifled their creativity' you see, but took no account of the pencil control which it gave, or, indeed, the pleasure of creating something individual - because everyone colours differently. Times have (fortunately) changed and colouring books to delight adults and children are now all the rage Make and yesterday I took an idle look at one, equipped with some felt-tipped pens and a few crayons left behind when my daughter departed. Half an hour, I thought. Just half an hour. That's all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178055270X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Creative Therapy Colouring BookPlay: Nativity|author=Hannah Davies, Richard Merritt and Jo TaylorJoey Chou
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|genre=CraftsChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Apparently, colouring books I always feel a slight disappointment for adults have become 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'de rigeur's Not To Be Played With) which is set up Somewhere Safe. Where' s the imagination, the creativity, the sense of pride in Francethat? How much better to have a child create their own nativity scene, which they can then play with the book ? That's exactly what they get with Joey Chou'Art Therapie-100 Coloriages Anti-Stresss '' flying off the shelves as increasing numbers of stressed-out individuals discover the therapeutic value of Make and Play Nativity'colouring in'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782433007</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=099334030X|title=Explore and Can You Draw Patterns: An Art Activity Bookthe Dragosaur?|author=Owen Davey Peter Lynas and Georgia Amson-BradshawCharlie Roberts
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|summary=Explore You're going to get a hint of what this book's about very quickly. When you see the title page, you'll find out what the book's called and Draw Patterns is that it's been written by Peter Lynas. Then we move on to who has done the illustration - and there's a beautifully presented interactive workbook designed gap. ''You'' are going to spark creativity and imaginationput your name there. The appeal It's ''your'' responsibility to provide the pictures for this book about one of the subject matter is universal; everyone loves largest creatures ever to doodleroam the earth. There's some help available, so but your name is on the book would be equally enjoyable for adults or children.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401407</amazonuk>title page - and you have work to do!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fiona Goble1635860334|title=Sew Quick, Sew Cute: 30 Simple, Speedy ProjectsWhy We Quilt|author=Thomas Knauer
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|summary=I have 've often wondered about the story that patchwork quilting began as a patchwork quilt on the go at the moment way for women (and myth would have it will take me months that it was always women) to make an extra blanket out of material which would otherwise go to completewaste. But sometimes you want to have the satisfaction of making something which might take hours or a weekend and which is more relaxing and This undoubtedly ''fundid''. Sometimes happen but when you think about it, you want need an awful lot of material to make a project which you can do with quilt and the kids which will encourage them to feel time could have been better spent if all that they can be creative - and which produces something which is relaevant to their liveswas required was bedding. Like Thomas Knauer, I was 'encouraged' ve come to knit tea cosies the conclusion that it began as a child. It didn't cut the mustard even then... I think I might have found an art and has largely continued down that same road with fluctuations in popularity over the answeryears.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400885</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fiona Pearce1419726625|title=Treat PetiteThe Mitten Handbook: 42 Sweet and Savoury Miniature Bakes|rating=4.5|genre=Cookery|summary=I know that they're not good for me, but I do love cakes. There's always so ''much'' of them though - and I'm not going to let them go to waste, am I? I love making them too, but no matter how hard I try they always seem to end up more Little Chef than Masterchef. When I found ''Treat Petite'' it seemed that I just might have found the answer to my prayers. It's a book of forty two recipes for tiny petit fours, little sponge cakes, jewel-like macaroons and gorgeous savouries. They're all mere morsels - just big enough Knitting Recipes to pop into your mouth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400982</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMake Your Own|author=Lucinda Ganderton|title=The Maison Sajou Sewing Book: 20 projects from the famous French haberdasheryMary Scott Huff|rating=4.5
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|summary=When I was younger I dreamed of going love mittens - they're so convenient and much easier to Paris get onto (and visiting the fashion housesoff) cold hands than a pair of fiddly gloves. Now I would love to go to visit Maison Sajou, the haberdasher who seems to have everything that someone who works with material could wantThey're not something you regularly see in shops, so when I saw The Maison Sajou Sewing Book there was no way knew that if I could resist itwanted new pairs I would have to knit them myself. ItWell, actually, that's a confection my rationalisation of twenty projectsthe situation: in truth, the very essence I love knitting mittens. They have just enough technique to make them satisfying, plenty of quick work and a pair of French chicwarm mittens in a few days. Patterns, with something for everyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400850</amazonuk>though - where do you get them from?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susan Beal1621137775|title=Hand-Stitched HomeHandbag Workshop: Projects to Design and Sew with Pendleton and Other Woolsthe Perfect Bag|author=Anna M Mazur|rating=4.5
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|summary=Ilove handbags, but I resent paying the prices demanded by manufacturers of 'good' bags. Additionally, I often find a bag I like but the colour/shape/size/capacity/internal layout isn't 've 'quite'' what I had extensive experience in mind, so I end up spending rather a lot of craft teachers - both in person money and through books - and they fall into two categoriescompromising. The first are the ones who want you solution is to be awed by their knowledge make my own bags and techniqueswhilst I was confident about sewing fabric bags, to know that what they can do easily may well be completely beyond your abilities. The other group are the ones who within minutes have you believing that you can do thisI was nervous about using leather, that younot least because leather isn're going t very forgiving when it comes to find mistakes and it exciting, rewarding and ''fun''s usually more expensive than fabric. Fortunately Susan Beal comes firmly into the second group. Just so that you know where I'm coming from, I've been sewing for over half a century, but for some reason I've not strayed far into the realms of woolen materialsneeded help. There was a reluctance which I couldnAnna Mazur't s ''quiteThe Handbag Workshop'' put my finger oncame to me free through NetGalley in return for an unbiased review.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1621138704</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Beth Sheard1632506386|title=Stitch It SimpleThe Knitter's Dictionary: 25 Hand Sewn Projects to Make and Share|rating=3.5|genre=Crafts|summary=Beth Sheard has created twenty five projects of varying degrees of difficulty ranging Knitting Know-How from simple makes which could be completed by a child with minimal help and supervision through to a quilt which would engaged the more experienced sewer. Throughout the book there's plenty A to inspire every stitcher and it's all supported by examples made in glorious fabrics.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1627107592</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewZ|author=Susanne Woods (Editor)|title=Lucky Spool's Essential Guide to Modern Quilt MakingKate Atherley
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|summary=ItI've been knitting for well over sixty years, following patterns of varying complexity with success. I've knit Aran sweaters, socks by the dozen and I's perhaps easier m currently knitting blankets for a charity to sell. There hasn't been an occasion when I've been stuck and people have often come to explain this book by starting from what it ''isnme'' for help when ''they'tve''been stuck. If youWould a knitter're just thinking about making quilts then this is not the place to start. Much s dictionary really be of the book will be completely unintelligible any help to you. me? Even if you have some experience you might find - as I did - that there are some subjects where you need more basic information to make the most was surprised by just how much I got out of what you are being told. What you get is a series of ten masterclasses which will move you forward in specific areas and enable you to improve the quilts you produceit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1940655005</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|title=Outdoor Wonderland|author=Josie Jeffery|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=When I was growing up we had ‘Why Don’t You’ to inspire us what to do during the summer holidays, but I still don’t understand why a TV show would encourage me to switch off the telly – how am I meant to know what to do? 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 day.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782400826</amazonuk>}}{{newreview1440248850|title=Flowerpot FarmModern Patchwork Home: A First Gardening Activity Book|author=Lorraine Harrison|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=With the demand Dynamic Quilts and Projects for us to eat seemingly more fruit and vegetables every day, the world of grow-your-own is back. Why buy from the supermarket when you can release the kids into the garden to graze like cattle? However, before you do this, perhaps you should pick up a book like ‘Flowerpot Farm’ by Lorraine Harrison and Faye Bradley which will show them how to create their own fruit, veg and flower garden no matter how small a space they have to work with.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400818</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=This Belongs to Me: Cool Ways to Personalize Your StuffEvery Room|author=Anna WrayVivika DeNegre (Editor)
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|summary=''This Belongs to Me'' contains 14 design projects The problem with a craft which is largely based on traditional designs is that describe how to customise everything what results from clothing to furnitureyour labours is also traditional, or - depending upon what light you shine on it - old-fashioned. The book encourages people to get creative by showing the basic techniques and skills involved for each project, but leaving the actual creative design up to the personal preferences Vivika DeNegre has curated a collection of the readerpatterns from today's top designers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908005785</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Make As a Mobile: 12 Cool Designs to Press Out and Hang|author=Lydia Crook|rating=5|genre=Crafts|summary=word of warning, if you read ''Modern Patchwork Magazine'Make a Mobile'you may well find that there' is a delightful crafting s nothing new in the book crammed full of projects for parents and children , but if you're new to share. The book contains 12 unique designs that fit together beautifully and are surprisingly easy to make. The perforated pages allow the components of each mobile magazine this could well prove to be simply pushed out a delightful collection from the page without the need for nimble scissor skillsback catalogue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908005807</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Pallant_Star|title=Paper PlayStar Wars Millennium Falcon Book and Mega Model|author=Lydia CrookKatrina Pallant and Neal Manning
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|summary=Paper Play is One of the unexpected results of making a virtual time machine, taking us rough-and-ready sci-fi film back to an era before in the PC1970s, tablet and games console, when children had was that George Lucas left a whole generation capable of spelling Millennium. In amongst all the ability to amuse themselves iconic inventions for hours the film, his design team left him – and us – with a few sheets of papervery loveable, some scissors very fast and some gluevery asymmetrical space ship. Simple papercraft skills were passed down from generation How is it balanced when the cockpit is stuck out one side? What is that dish-like array doing on what seems to generationact as the top? And where can you get your own? Well, arming creative minds with a seemingly endless supply beyond the rarity and great cost of crafting ideasthe Lego model, including paper dress-up dollsI can at least provide one answer to those three pertinent questions, flying contraptions and finger puppetsthat answer is… here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0762449578</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark GriffithsMcLelland_Press|title=Woodworking for the WeekendPress Out and Decorate: 20 Projects Using Reclaimed TimberUnicorns|author=Kate McLelland|rating=4.5
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|summary=It's the weekend and I realised a long time ago that there've been indulging myself. There's something about a great deal unicorn which appeals to be said for reclaimed timber. Not only is there virtue in reusing wood (me and it's often hardwood) which might otherwise end up on a bonfire or in landfilllittle bit of research into a book of press-out unicorns, it has ''character'', with marks clouds and shadings which speak of its historyrainbows seemed like the ideal way to spend a Saturday morning. Used in the right place it can sing as no completely new piece could ever could - but the trick is You get twenty designs in knowing the right place book and how they're all decorated with pink foil: even if you don't want to use add any further colouring they're still going to look great, but because the wood. Mark Griffiths has come up with twenty projects, most of which pages are likely to be complete in a weekend and all of which will give pleasure to substantial card you have the woodworker and opportunity to the people who use the end resultscrayons, felt tips or even paints to add your own personal touch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400575</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Libby Abadee and Cath ArmstrongV&A_Embroidery|title=Craft it Up Around the WorldEmbroidery: A Maker's Guide|author=Victoria and Albert Museum
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrafts|summary=With long summer holidays looming ahead along with uncertain British weather itIn ''Embroidery: A Maker's alway Guide'' we get a good idea brief introduction to have plans about activities which will involve the craft by James Merry, embroidery artist, information on the tools you'll need, materials you can utilise and interest childrena guide to the stitches you'll be using. In If you''Craft it Up Around the World'' we've got thirty five suggestions for projects re just thinking about starting embroidery and not certain which type will keep children entertainedsuit you best or someone who's experienced in one area but wanting to branch out this book could be an ideal starting point. As There are over 230 glorious photographs (of items from the title suggests we're going on a world tour V&A collections) and illustrations covering 15 styles of embroidery and giving all the information and designs you can pick the 'll need for 15 projects to suit other activities you have planned, as a reminder of a holiday or just on a random basis.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782490388</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fiona GobleV&A_Patchwork|title=Fiona GoblePatchwork and Quilting: A Maker's Fairy Tale Knits: 20 Enchanting Characters to MakeGuide|author=Victoria and Albert Museum
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|summary=It's Patchwork is a lovely ideamagical craft: knitting patterns for twenty fairy tale characters you can take relatively small pieces of material and a brief story to go turn them into another piece of material with theman entirely different pattern. There's the pleasure of knitting the characters Quilting converts a topper and then of a child playing backing fabric with them alongside some wadding in between into a story fabric of an entirely different weight. Combine the two crafts and then being able you have something more than magical, occasionally fashionable but always deeply satisfying. But where to use their imaginations start, when there are so many different styles of both crafts? One answer is to built their own stories. Best of all, itread ''Patchwork and Quilting: A Maker's done without a battery or a computer/games console in sight. ItGuide''s a winner all roundwhich looks - as the cover says - at styles from Italian trapunto to Korean jogakbo and then delivers fifteen projects inspired by the V&A collections.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908005467</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David SavageBM_Origami|title=Furniture with Soul: Master Woodworkers Origami, Poems and Their CraftPictures|author=The British Museum
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|summary=David Savage is Sometimes you find a master furniture maker and one delight of the artists featured in the a book. On an afternoon when it was unseasonably cold and decidedly wet I discovered ''Origami, so he is not – as he says himself – a neutral observer Poems and Pictures'' and nor can he be neutral in choosing who I was transported to include in Japan. As the book. Having said that, title suggests we're looking at three celebrated arts and crafts: the pictures alone will tell you that he has chosen people who create furniture ancient art of great beauty paper folding, haiku poetry and – often – originalitypainting. ItI's the text ll confess that makes it was the book shine, though – as it seeks not to give a critical appreciation of each man and one woman's workorigami which caught my attention, but I was surprised by the extent to look at what makes them tick, what drives them on and how they have handled which the good times as well as rest of the badbook caught my imagination. It is, if We begin with something very simple: a boat and in case you like're worried, ten in-depth biographies all the entries have a degree of artists who work in a common medium difficulty (from 'simple' through to 'tricky') and ten shorter pieces about those we should look out for in this one is at the futurelowest level.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>4770031211</amazonuk>
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