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[[Category:New Reviews|Crafts]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Danielle Kroll and Nghiem Ta0811771741|title=Pattern Play: Cut, Fold and Make Your Own 3D Animal ModelsInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrafts|summary=HereMelissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a neat idea for youcollection of knits from toys to blankets. Provide pages with animal prints on one side Some will be quick knits - only by animal printsothers are of the 'long, I mean cosy afternoons in front of the sort of colours and pattern which you see on animals, not paw prints! fire' variety. Some The projects are subtle divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and others are rather more in-your-facethan twenty hours. On All the reverse of these printed pages provide a cutting line so that you can cut projects are attractive, modern and fold the paper and it becomes a 3D model of an animaluseable. Provide some stickers which replicate faces, tails or beaks I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social- or whatever else you feel needs highlighting media- and number these so worthy projects' but that they get into the right place's me being picky. All you need to add to the mix is a pair of scissors, parental supervision if necessary for the cutting, a little imagination and you have hours of fun.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807321</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Handford1635866243|title=Where's Wally: The Colouring BookKnitting Pattern Writing Handbook|author=Kristina McGrath and Sarah Walworth |rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrafts|summary=Are you looking for something relaxing''I quickly discovered that putting words and numbers on a page wasn't enough. Creating a pattern that was correct, clear, concise, easy to complete and which will allow your mind to wander freely as you gently colour in consistent required a pleasing design? Do you want to indulge your imagination great deal of trial and use the colours which tempt you at the momenterror, patience, 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?and perseverance.'' (Introduction byFrancoise Danoy)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Serge Bloch1529507987|title=3, 2, 1... Draw!The Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)
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|summary=I canlove ''The Repair Shop''t draw. It's my go-to programme when I've never been able want to drawbe cheered up. A blank sheet of paper and After a pencil frightens me. I thought I was probably a little bit old to change my ways but then I discovered ''3hard day, 2, 1... Draw!there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they' and there might have been a movement within the tectonic plates of my brainre worth. It's a drawing book which isn't about blank pages: it's about imagination and inspirationYou see, with the first encouraged value is in what these possessions are worth to the people who own them and the second delivered by the barrow loadmemories they hold. I've just had more fun than I thought possible with pencil and paper!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807240</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Various Artists|title=Doctor Who: The Colouring Book|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=In my youth colouring books were popular for children: they helped No expense appears to teach some valuable skills. But teachers, 'experts', thought that they stifled creativity be spared and once you'd mastered being able to stick within the lines they were whisked away experts spend as being 'childish' much time and you were restricted effort as is required to artistic completion of maps in geography or illustrations of experiments in science. The fact that colouring could be relaxing and fun had been forgottenachieve the desired result. Fortunately times have changed: adults are encouraged to relax with one of Regular viewers know the hundreds of colouring books now available experts and Ithey'm delighted to see a resurgence of the idea for not just the youngest children but for those whore all brilliant at explaining what it is they're a bit older toodoing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141367385</amazonuk> But how did they start?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mike Collins0760379912|title=Sherlock: The Mind Palace: The Official Colouring Book|rating=5|genre=Crafts|summary=Colouring books for adults are all the rage at the moment, but one of the problems with popularity is that the books do tend to become a bit, well, ''samey''. Once you've coloured in one peacock's tail, it's not easy to get inspiration Super Easy Quilting for another and there's a limit to the number of flowers, patterns and mystical beasts which you can attach to the fridge door. We've seen all sorts of variations, such as mindfulness, but what we really want is something ''fresh'' and with a bit of something extra to get the brain cells going. Welcome ''Sherlock: The Mind Palace''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940430</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBeginners|author=Natasha Slee and Becca Stadtlander|title=Style Guide: Fashion From Head to ToeEditors of Quarry Books
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|summary=In ''Style GuideI learned patchworking from necessity: Fashion from Head to Toe'' we have a guided tour through fashion from the eighteen nineties to about 2010, taking a decade old or so at a time and exploring several aspects of each decade. For instance the period 1890 outgrown clothes needed to 1914 is divided be turned into ''The Belle Epoque'', ''Out something new and About'' and ''The Orient''usable when I was in my twenties. Each division has It would be a picture to be coloured but while before it became a pleasure rather than being a picture of chore but I''one'' garment, there's a montage of garments and accessories from the period: ''The Orient '' has eight different pictures - of the triangle bag, a fur-trimmed shawl, kimono, pleated gown, a folding fan, a Ballet Russes costume and slippers and finally a turbanve never felt completely at home with quilting. On the reverse of each picture is I needed something a keylittle more stylish than my usual buttons or knots. The article is numbered on the main picture and in the corresponding key you'll find some historical information and some colour details.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807348</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Axel Scheffler, Emily Gravett et al|title=Draw It! Colour It! Creatures|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Colouring books Super Easy Quilting for adults are all the rage at the moment and itBeginners'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 seemed like a children's colouring book good place to bridge the gapstart. ''Draw It! Colour It! Creatures'' has projects from 43 artists, well known in the field of children's book illustrationSo, all packed together in a stylish book with flaps so that you're not going to lose your place.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447290704</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=David Hollis|title=Practical Landscape Painting: Materials, Techniques & Projects|rating=4.5|genre=Art|summary=Almost any of us can visit the countryside and capture the view in our memory or on our camera with comparatively consummate ease. However capturing how did it in paint is more difficult and yet something some of us (me included) dream of. It was therefore with great excitement that I picked stack up this compact book of seven lessons in landscape painting. As I believe (with good evidence) that I have the artistic ability of a house brick, it would be a challenge but I also have a dream to follow.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782402802</amazonuk>?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Teal Triggs and Daniel Frost0760379874|title=The School of Art: Learn How To Make Great Art With 40 Simple Lessons|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Written with an interesting approach, this book treats the reader as a new art student to The School of Art. The five professors of the school take the student through 40 different lessons, looking at a huge range of ideas right from how to draw a line, perspective and proportion, composition and aesthetics. Aimed probably at senior school children it could, however, also be used by older primary children who are particularly interested in art, and if you were working through the book with your child then a younger child could also try out some of the lesson ideas and suggestions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806112</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSuper Easy Knitting for Beginners|author=Lydia Crook|title=Christmas Paper PlayCarri Hammett
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|summary=Christmas is I learned to knit in the nineteen-fifties: it wasn't a time of joy and goodwill to all menchoice, but it can also be was a time of bad weather, of being stuck in the house requirement. Girls learned to knit and feeling like you have nothing to doembroider and boys did wood and metal work. The holiday period can need filling My knitting wa accompanied by a lot of criticism and for quite a few tears: it was a crafty kid long time before I realised that there are loads of activities that can was pleasure to be done simply by using paper; including creating their own decorations or making had in the best letter they can for Father Christmasskill. If Nearly seventy years later it's the only there thing that keeps my hands at all supple. The turning point was a handy book that contained loads of great Christmas crafting ideas in one placebooklet published by Patons which gave all the basics and some patterns. I've been looking for something simple to recommend to people who'd like to master the skill.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782402470</amazonuk> So, how did ''Super Easy Knitting For Beginners'' work out?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amber Anderson0760373531|title=The Little Book of ColouringCozy Knits: Animal Kingdom30 Hat, Mitten, Scarf and Sock Projects from Around the World|author=Sue Flanders|rating=3.5
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|summary=After years Just occasionally you encounter a book of doing craft work which must be ''usefulknitting patterns that seems to meet your every need. Right now, it's bitterly cold and we're in the sandwich filling between two storms: I need socks, scarves, I've discovered the relaxing benefits of colouringhats and mittens. I'm doing it They have to please look stylish, keep me: it doesn't need to warm and be perfect or functional. No one but so cheerful that they make me is going to judge the finished articlefeel better. All it needs is If that sounds like a lot to be doneask, slowly, peacefully and have a look at my own pace. The choice of colours is mine ''Cozy Knits'': it has thirty designs for those necessary items and mine alone. If I want to drop the finished page into the paper recycling then don't think thatthere was one of them which I couldn's my prerogativet see myself wearing. It's sheer indulgence on paper, lasts longer than a bottle We start with an introduction by Nancy Bush which gives some of the history of wine and does me more goodknitting. WhatIt's not to love about colouring?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784296457</amazonuk>essential but it's a nice extra.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anastasia Catris0760373558|title=Colour Me Mindful: BirdsNordic Knits|author=Sue Flanders
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|summary=About half a century ago I mentioned to someone that colouring was relaxing so delighted by Sue Flanders' [[Cozy Knits: 30 Hat, Mitten, Scarf and enjoyable and received a lecture on my lack of creativity and willingness Sock Projects from Around the World by Sue Flanders|Cozy Knits]] that I didn't need any persuading at all to use what other people had drawn for my own endspick up her ''Nordic Knits''. I still did colouring This delivers forty- at a time when there were considerable pressures in my life over which I had no control - but it was just that it became my guilty secretfour patterns inspired by textiles and local traditions from Norway, Sweden and Iceland. Now colouring is mainstream and there's There are a considerable range few sweaters or jackets but the majority of design books to choose frompatterns are for smaller items such as mittens, gloves, hats and bags. Orion have published three by Anastasia Catris: this book, {{amazonurl|isbn=1409163067|title=Colour Me Mindful: Underwater}} All are bright and cheerful and {{amazonurl|isbn=1409163083|title=Colour Me Mindful: Tropical}}very cosy. So, how do they stand out from the crowd?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409163105</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eglantine de la Fontaine et al1635864070|title=My Magical Oasis: Art Therapy Colouring Book for Creative MindsKnit 2 Socks in 1|author=Safiyyah Talley|rating=4.5
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|summary=ItIf you's not often I can review ve ever started knitting a book 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 mention how lost the first before you finished it changes your brain, but that's apparently this is the effect of the colouring-in-book for-adults phenomenonyou. There's a science behind Where is it all that attests how alpha waves, single socks go to hide? Safiyyah Talley has developed a slightly more childlikesystem that allows you to knit two socks in one, accepting, relaxed form of brain activity, are used by our bonces when we colour – divide them up and as opposed to the braver, thinking, active beta waves they're something the mind could do more have a perfectly finished pair of, especially in this kinetic, plugged-in, 24/7 lifestylesocks. So whereas I normally review books to help my readers make their mind up, here ISounds good? It'm mentioning this volume because it allegedly would change your minds clever and well-thought-out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0859655350</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewplainFrontpage|isbn=1529393930|title=The Creative Colouring Book for Grown-UpsMaking a Living: How to Craft Your Business|author=Sophie Rochester|rating=45
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|summary=Johanna Basford was not the first, and nor was she an overnight success''Starting a creative business has never been easier. If you're salivating over the ''Enchanted Forest ''If not now, having finished her when?''Secret Garden I know that I'', you are one of those many people indulging m not alone in the new/old having wondered whether or not I could turn my hobby into a business. There's a lot of adult colouring-in (adult perhaps only because her titles smack motivation to do so: I make more of soft erotica items than colouring-in books). The hobby is rapidly killing off Sudoku as the pastime we can sensibly use and there are a lot of choice for many – either on the train or sitting with half an ear people who have been delighted to the soapsaccept what I make as gifts. It's funSelling would offset the costs, which can be quite considerable and it opens the mind could be fun to other thoughts in quite a meditative waydo, and couldn't it needs no instructions – much like? But where to start? What do I need to think about? Well, again, Sudoku, even if newspapers persist in telling us them even when nobody on earth the first thing anyone who is considering turning a crafting hobby into a business should do is left to need themread ''Making a Living''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782433287</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucy Engelman1635862353|title=Field Guide: Creatures Great and Small (Field Guides)The Sandalmaking Workshop|author=Rachel Corry
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|summary=Call me fuddyA sandal-duddymaking workshop? I couldn't really believe it, but mainly because I have never seen the 'd always thought that you'd need to review a book via video – with Youtube and other sources becoming full of people giving their thoughts about the latest hot release more equipment than the idea has never appealed average home was likely to me, when there are also countless ways for one be able to share opinions by oldcontain but I was intrigued. Rachel Corry started sandal making accidentally -fashioned written worda small fire destroyed some of her shoes. That is, of course, until now, One pair had come apart and she could see how the phenomenon sandal was constructed. Then she realised that is building rapidly – that of mature colouring-in booksshe couldn't afford to replace all her shoes. Here at the Bookbag we can easily prove we've read every word of the books by being eloquent, informative Could she combine these two facts to create a new and opinionated about what we examine, but even I admit four paragraphs regarding worthwhile craft? She showed quite a picture book we ourselves have few people her first pair and they all either wanted to finish off may leave some members of our audience wanting know how to see the resultsdo it - or if she'd make them a pair. A new career was born.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780635X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewplainFrontpage|isbn=1783784350|title=Gorgeous Colouring Book for Grown-UpsThis Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain's Knitted History|author=Esther Rutter|rating=45|genre=CraftsHistory|summary=SoIt was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in her office job, when I mentioned on Facebook that I had a nice new grown-up colouring book 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 review, I discovered be a secret little group of friends who all confessed (instantly time for making changes and with glee) she decided that they have succumbed to she would travel the new relaxation craze length and breadth of grown-up colouring! They had tales the British Isles with occasional forays abroad, discovering and telling the story of wool's history and how tricky it was to stay inside of the lines, how long one picture could take, had made and how relaxing changed the whole thing islandscape. I dug out my old tin of pencilsShe'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 settled down to give it a tryher mother's friend. This was in her blood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782434461</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paula BriggsChou_Make|title=Drawing Projects for ChildrenMake and Play: Nativity|author=Joey Chou
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|genre=CraftsChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=''Drawing Projects I always feel a slight disappointment for Childrenchildren at Christmas when they'' is re presented with a beautiful, full-colour guide that encourages children tree to use decorate with a range box of materials to create stunning ornaments and thought-provoking artworka nativity scene (sometimes quite precious, so it's Not To Be Played With) which is set up Somewhere Safe. As Where's the author points outimagination, the end result is not always as important as the journey and this book helps children to move away from creativity, the more traditional, or 'safe' type sense of drawing styles and indulge pride in that? How much better to have a little more experimentation and risk taking. The book is ideal for parents to use with child create their childrenown nativity scene, but each chapter is a self-contained lesson plan that facilitators and teachers which they can use then play with? That's exactly what they get with groupsJoey Chou's ''Make and Play Nativity''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908966742</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hannah Davies099334030X|title=The Big Beautiful Colouring BookCan You Draw the Dragosaur?|author=Peter Lynas and Charlie Roberts
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|summary=Although I have two small childrenYou'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 that it's been a long time since I just sat and did any colouring written by myselfPeter Lynas. Usually I am tasked with drawing various family members, or vehicles, or animals, Then we move on to who has done the illustration - and then we colour them in togetherthere's a gap. ''You'' are going to put your name there. This time I sat quietly by myself with a pack It's ''your'' responsibility to provide the pictures for this book about one of my sonthe largest creatures ever to roam the earth. There's new colouring pencilssome help available, but your name is on the title page - and I quite happily passed a couple of hours colouring inyou have work to do!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780553498</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Weltman1635860334|title=This is Not a Maths BookWhy We Quilt|author=Thomas Knauer|rating=54|genre=ArtCrafts|summary=I 've 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 admit, I wasn't a huge fan make an extra blanket out of maths at schoolmaterial which would otherwise go to waste. Maybe if I This undoubtedly ''did''d had this book happen but when I was a childyou think about it, I would have been. 'This is not a Maths Book' cleverly bridges the gap between maths and art and teaches kids how you need an awful lot of material to make beautiful patterns a quilt and shapes by using mathematical principlesthe time could have been better spent if all that was required was bedding. We learn about parabolic curves Like Thomas Knauer, PascalI's triangle, ve come to the stomachion, tesselation conclusion that it began as an art and 3D drawings. Because has largely continued down that same road with fluctuations in popularity over the pages are interactive and hands-on, kids are learning the rules of maths without realising ityears. After all, there is no reason why maths shouldn't be fun!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782402055</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mariko Nakamura1419726625|title=Sew JapaneseThe Mitten Handbook: Knitting Recipes to Make Your Own|author=Mary Scott Huff
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|summary=I wouldnlove mittens - they't normally find the idea of children's clothes with a national theme appealing as it's all too easy for them re so convenient and much easier to look like fancy dress get onto (and kids can be all too picky about something like thatoff) cold hands than a pair of fiddly gloves. If youThey're going to put the effort into making not something then you want it to be worn! But - regularly see in shops, so I took one look at those two kids on the cover of 'Sew Japanese' - and knew that if I liked what wanted new pairs I sawwould have to knit them myself. ThereWell, actually, that's my rationalisation of the situation: in truth, I love knitting mittens. They have just enough technique to make them satisfying, plenty of quick work and a distinctive style but what comes across most pair of all is that they're clothes that kids can play ''warm mittens in'' and feel comfortable ''with''a few days.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909397407</amazonuk> Patterns, though - where do you get them from?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Esterly1621137775|title=The Lost CarvingHandbag Workshop: A Journey to Design and Sew the Heart of MakingPerfect Bag|author=Anna M Mazur
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|summary=If you are going to make a colouring book aimed at adults I say do it 100% and go all outlove handbags, but I resent paying the prices demanded by manufacturers of 'good' bags. You can keep your minimalist landscapes or your naïve animals; give me Additionally, I often find a page packed to bag I like but the gills with something that needs filling colour/shape/size/capacity/internal layout isn't ''quite'' what I had inmind, so I end up spending rather a lot of money and compromising. This can The solution is to make a creative colouring book for grownups feel more like a military operationmy own bags and whilst I was confident about sewing fabric bags, I was nervous about using leather, but at not least you will have fun doing because leather isn't very forgiving when it comes to mistakes and improve your skillsit'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>1782432787</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1632506386|title=The Paint BookKnitter's Dictionary: Knitting Know-How from A to Z|author=Miri FlowerKate Atherley|rating=54
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|summary=Craft blogger Miri Flower challenges bored children everywhere I've been knitting for well over sixty years, following patterns of varying complexity with her lovely new series of art bookssuccess. I've knit Aran sweaters, which utilise basic materials that can be found in most homessocks by the dozen and I'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 ''me''for help when 'The Paint Book'they' outlines seventy simple projects which encourage kids to get crafty and creative with paintsve'' been stuck. It Would a knitter's going dictionary really be of any help to get messy, so house-proud parents turn away now..me? I was surprised by just how much I got out of it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>071123583X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1440248850|title=The Pencil BookModern Patchwork Home: Dynamic Quilts and Projects for Every Room|author=Miri FlowerVivika DeNegre (Editor)|rating=54
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|summary=Summer The problem with a craft which is almost overlargely 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. Gone are the carefree days playing outdoors in the sunshine with friends Vivika DeNegre has curated a collection of patterns from today's top designers. Here come the rainy days and dark evenings As a word of warning, heralding the inevitable cry of: if you read ''IModern Patchwork Magazine'm bored!'you may well find that there'. Author and craft-blogger Miri Flower (fantastic name!) comes to s nothing new in the rescue of harassed parents everywhere with her book, but if you're new series of art books which encourage children to utilise simple materials the magazine this could well prove to create fun games and artwork. ''The Pencil Book'' sees be a delightful collection from the humble pencil takes centre stage, with seventy projects to keep kids engaged and amusedback catalogue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0711235848</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pauline BrownPallant_Star|title=The Complete Guide to Quilting Techniques: Essential Techniques Star Wars Millennium Falcon Book and Mega Model|author=Katrina Pallant and Step-by-Step Projects for Making Beautiful QuiltsNeal Manning|rating=4.5
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|summary=''Quilting'' is One of the unexpected results of making a generic term covering patchwork, quilting itself rough-and appliqué. All three require different skills and you'll find them all covered to a greater or lesser extent -ready sci-fi film back in this gorgeous book. There's an introduction covering the origin 1970s, was that George Lucas left a whole generation capable of the skills - patchwork developing spelling Millennium. In amongst all the pioneer women of early America iconic inventions for whom it was an essential way of keeping their families warmthe film, his design team left him – and us – with a very loveable, as did quilting very fast and for much the same reasonvery asymmetrical space ship. Appliqué How is rather more decorative and luxurious and it balanced when the original appliqué quilts were made cockpit is stuck out one side? What is that dish-like array doing on what seems to commemorate special occasions. Don't think that quilting is a craft mired in act as the top? And where can you get your own? Well, beyond the rarity and great cost of the past though - over my lifetime Lego model, I've seen numerous developments can at least provide one answer to those three pertinent questions, and tried many of them for myselfthat answer is… here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401679</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=McLelland_Press|title=Richard Merritt, Amanda Hillier Press Out and Felicity FrenchDecorate: Unicorns|titleauthor=The Neon Colouring Book Kate McLelland|rating=4.5
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|summary=Half It's the weekend and I've been indulging myself. There's something about a century ago I trained unicorn which appeals to me and a little bit of research into a book of press-out unicorns, clouds and rainbows seemed like the ideal way to be spend a teacherSaturday morning. My tutors were adamant that children should not be allowed You get twenty designs in the book and they're all decorated with pink foil: even if you don't want to colour in add any outline which further colouring they had not drawn themselves. It 'stifled their creativity' you seere still going to look great, but took no account of because the pencil control which it gave, or, indeed, pages are a substantial card you have the pleasure of creating something individual - because everyone colours differently. Times have (fortunately) changed and colouring books opportunity to delight adults and children are now all the rage and yesterday I took an idle look at oneuse crayons, 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 alltips or even paints to add your own personal touch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178055270X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=V&A_Embroidery|title=The Creative Therapy Colouring BookEmbroidery: A Maker's Guide|author=Hannah Davies, Richard Merritt Victoria and Jo TaylorAlbert Museum|rating=54
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|summary=Apparently, colouring books for adults have become In ''Embroidery: A Maker'de rigeurs Guide'' in Francewe get a brief introduction to the craft by James Merry, embroidery artist, with information on the book tools you'll need, materials you can utilise and a guide to the stitches you'Art Therapie-100 Coloriages Anti-Stressll be using. If you're just thinking about starting embroidery and not certain which type will suit you best or someone who' flying off s experienced in one area but wanting to branch out this book could be an ideal starting point. There are over 230 glorious photographs (of items from the shelves as increasing numbers V&A collections) and illustrations covering 15 styles of stressed-out individuals discover embroidery and giving all the therapeutic value of 'colouring ininformation and designs you'll need for 15 projects.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782433007</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=V&A_Patchwork|title=Explore Patchwork and Draw PatternsQuilting: An Art Activity BookA Maker's Guide|author=Owen Davey Victoria and Georgia Amson-BradshawAlbert Museum
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|summary=Explore and Draw Patterns Patchwork is a beautifully presented interactive workbook designed to spark creativity magical craft: you can take relatively small pieces of material and imaginationturn them into another piece of material with an entirely different pattern. The appeal Quilting converts a topper and a backing fabric with some wadding in between into a fabric of an entirely different weight. Combine the subject matter is universal; everyone loves two crafts and you have something more than magical, occasionally fashionable but always deeply satisfying. But where to doodlestart, 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 Korean jogakbo and then delivers fifteen projects inspired by the book would be equally enjoyable for adults or childrenV&A collections.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401407</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fiona GobleBM_Origami|title=Sew QuickOrigami, Sew Cute: 30 Simple, Speedy ProjectsPoems and Pictures|author=The British Museum|rating=45
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