Crafts & Hobbies

Journal your way through your knitting projects! The act of knitting is a deeply personal and creative one. With long lengths of yarn, needles, and pattern in hand, we spend hours, weeks, months, and even years making for ourselves and loved ones. Whether alone or with friends, around those moments and ...

Shows us that 'natural' need not be bland with the range of colourful crochet projects for babies and toddlers. This title helps to make use of yarns such as alpaca, soy silk, corn fibre, cotton, wool and bamboo. It includes projects such as: corn fibre sundress and leggings, cotton toy rabbit, and soy silk matinee jacket.

Includes something for every skill level, from easy to advanced. Clear, concise instructions accompanied by full-color photos and illustrations.

Turn panels and large print fabrics into unique and stunning quilts! Take a panel or large print fabric, add more fabulous fabrics, a dash of design, a sprinkling of stitching and stir it all together to produce a unique, stunning quilt! Kay Capps Cross is here to show you how to start with something ...

Quickest, easiest way to turn left-over fabric into handsome quilt. 46 patchwork quilts; 31 full-size templates.

This manual demonstrates how to create the illusion of hand-hooked wool rugs using machine embroidery. It presents 20 designs using a rag wool applique technique in 28 different projects, including clothing and home decor. The CD-ROM of patterns can be used with computerized embroidery machines.

58 delightful royalty-free Santa illustrations in 3 sizes. No need for statting. Ideal for ads, announcements, invitations, much more. 174 black-and-white illustrations.

Stained glass crafters can add a beautiful antique touch to their decor by creating their own decorative panels. These 180 simple designs in traditional formats for stained glass projects include a tremendous variety of patterns that includes birds, fish, florals, abstracts, geometrics, and other charming ...

A complete guide to understanding and looking after your pet dog, containing advice on buying a dog and expert information on all aspects of canine care and first aid. Sections on breeding and whelping are inlcuded, as well as instructions for training your puppy and dog.

Helps to discover how to create odd and endearing, one-of-a-kind creatures from your odd socks. This title offers eight step-by-step projects which show you how to use your new-found skills to make cute and cuddly creations such as the lotus kitty, sock pig and Indian elephant.

Presents 25 projects that aim in transforming a dining table from plain to brilliant. Each one is easy to make yet interesting, and beautiful. These projects require no crafting experience and combine craft materials, faux florals, candles, foods or textiles with decorative objects and dishes that you already have.

Tangled Circles and Mandalas explores these beautiful, mystical shapes and designs, which can take artists and coloring enthusiasts to the heart of meditative creativity, relaxation, and peace.

Discover new patterns, get easy instructions on creating your own patterns to create and COLOR works of art.

All the projects in this guide to making candles are accessible to beginners but there are also ideas for the more advanced craftsperson. In addition, the book provides a range of projects for crafting innovative holders of all kinds.

Knitters of all skill levels will find this volume an excellent source of inspiration as well as a guide that ranges from familiar Shetland and Fair Isle patterns to charming, lesser-known styles of Norway, Greece, Turkey, and other countries. Illustrated with photographs, diagrams, and charts, it also ...

A must-have collection for the word search solver who prefers larger-print searches! Readers of all ages will enjoy these quick, fun puzzles without straining their eyes. This volume of brand-new puzzles will delight word search fans who can't get enough of these bestselling pencil puzzles.

No reading glasses? No problem! Forget eye strain--this must-have collection was made specifically for the word search solver who prefers larger-print searches. No matter what age you are, you won't be able to get enough of these quick, popular pencil puzzles!

Show off your woodworking skills--in the kitchen!

60 wonderfully whimzigal coloring pages!

Modern interior decoration offers many more solutions today compared to the past, and the main focus is on furniture and home accessories. Despite that, walls too can be the subject of our decoration: painting them, or applying wallpapers, posters and pictures can decorate the rooms in which we live. ...