Crafts & Hobbies

Features 101 fun projects that will inspire you to get crafting! These brilliant 'quick makes' span across sewing, knitting, crochet, quilting, patchwork, applique, embroidery, cake decorating, papercraft, beading and cross stitch, giving you the opportunity to try something new and expand your crafting skills!

Pick up your colouring pencils and create a wonderful oasis of peace on paper.

Readers will get 25 original stripes and squares blocks from celebrated quilt designer Rosemary Youngs, along with complete instructions for a unique sampler quilt. The diverse range of stars blocks-culled from three of Young's top-selling books will inspire traditional quilters with their versatility.

Fierce and irreverent, these dot-to-dots lead you to a fabulous finish! Pick up a pencil and prepare to go wild with it! Twenty fresh puzzles from the talented hand of Jennie Edwards will keep you guessing right to the end - when each reveals a stunning drag queen in their glorious pomp. The puzzles ...

Contains more than 200 puzzles

Some puzzle books are big and some are small. Some look good and some don't. Some feature colour and some are black and white. This one offers a whole new look and feel in a compact interactive package for puzzlers everywhere. "Puzzle Cubes" are a funtastic new puzzle format from one of the UK's largest ...

Enjoy hours of challenging fun with this fantastic collection of over 250 wordsearch puzzles. You'll love working your way through these word challenges and with it's blue and red flowery cover it will not look out of place on your bookcase!

More than 100 crosswords designed for those with little time on their hands Who says you have to choose between style and content? Pretty Puzzles is a successful series for discerning puzzle lovers. Inside the gorgeous covers of each book you'll find a selection of the finest brain-teasers to give your ...

More than 100 wordsearches all designed around a different theme.

Before Edward Powys Mathers wrote Cain's Jabwone, the world's most difficult literary puzzle, he was a cryptic crossword creator. Published under his pseudonym ‘Torquemada’, his puzzles would taunt readers for days. He created his first cryptic crossword puzzle in 1924 and went on to set them for ...

This book explains for the layman and the beginner what change-ringing is about, why it is unique to Britain, and how it was developed.

Before Edward Powys Mathers wrote Cain's Jabwone, the world's most difficult literary puzzle, he was a cryptic crossword creator. Published under his pseudonym ‘Torquemada’, his puzzles would taunt readers for days. He created his first cryptic crossword puzzle in 1924 and went on to set them for ...

Lose yourself in the calming world of origami and create colourful paper models to amaze and inspire your friends and family.
The Mindful Origami Pack contains: a 72-page book with full instructions on how to make 15 of your own beautifully intricate models and 40 sheets of origami paper.
Origami expert ...

Crack those cryptic clues!

If we want our world to be more beautiful, kind and fair, can we make our activism more beautiful, kind and fair? ‘Gentle Protest’ is a unique methodology of strategic, compassionate and visually intriguing activism using handicrafts as a tool. Since its creation in 2009, the award-winning global ...

A world of softness and femininity is revealed through the pages of this album: wisteria, blooming peonies, cherry branches on which a bird perches, sensual women crowned with flowers or fantastic elves. With simple colored pencils or felt-tip pens, allow yourself a time of poetry, where imagination ...

Press out the pieces, assemble your roller coaster and watch as your structure grows. Then race marbles from two starting points and see which marble comes out first! Includes information about the science behind your build.