This definitive guide outlines everything you need to know to design and print gorgeous fabrics. Inside, you'll find step-by-step tutorials for designing patterns (both digitally and by hand); a comprehensive section on printing techniques, including screen printing, stenciling, block printing, resist dyeing, and digital printing; hundreds of gorgeous photos; and insider tips for developing your collection and bringing it to the marketplace... Features...

Heirloom Wood is a love letter to wood's form and function through simple woodworking projects. Combining traditional techniques with contemporary design, Max Bainbridge teaches you how to identify wood types, source timber, and set up a basic toolbox, then offers step-by-step carving and cutting techniques for making your own pieces. With little experience and very few tools, you'll learn to create hand-carved bowls, cutting boards, spoons, knives,...

Projects include mobiles, garlands, ornaments, wreaths, and more, and each reflects the author's layered, collage-inspired approach to paper crafting.

A guide for males of any age provides instructions for engaging in a wide range of classic boyhood projects and activities, from building go-carts and constructing treehouses to identifying insects and flying the most effective paper airplanes.

Design and sew your own fabulously stylish skirts. In this fun guide, Nicole Smith shows you how to draft a pattern for a custom fit and shape it into one of four basic silhouettes: wrap, straight, flared, and high-waisted. Each skirt can then be easily redesigned into seven distinct looks, one for each day of the week. Suitable for beginners and expert sewers alike, “Skirt-a-Day Sewing” will inspire you to express your unique personal style as...

A beginner’s guide and visual dictionary for young people who want to learn to sew, packed with photos: “Some of the coolest projects we've seen.”—Kiki Magazine
 
With this book by Sophie Kerr—with some help from her parents, Weeks Ringle and Bill Kerr of Modern Quilt Studio—kids can learn how to navigate a sewing machine, make smart fabric choices, and use basic sewing...

Release your inner child and step into the fairy world by creating your own enchanted garden, no matter how much space you have! Fairy gardens are increasing in popularity and Fairy Gardening 101 provides you with all the information necessary to design, plant, and care for your very own miniature garden oasis. Author, artist, and fairy gardener extraordinaire Fiona McDonald introduces readers to the history of fairy gardens and then provides...

A simple, elegant guide to making origami.
From playful animals to delicate flowers and fun paper airplanes, this origami guide has projects that will delight both children and adults. With words, illustrations, and more than three hundred photographs, even the most complicated of folds and manipulations are made simple by this book's easy-to-follow instructions. Master Norio Torimoto, with the help of Yukiko Duke, takes the mystery out...

"This book is a joy. Medieval, Elizabethan and folk art inspire Madeleine's work and she creates using a wonderful palette of bright and bold colours." -- Love to Make Felt with Love is a must-have book for anyone with an appreciation of adorable hand-crafted objects. It is a colourful one-off book, filled with fifteen cute, fun and simple projects (plus some variations) made from felted wool. As well as easy to follow instructions and step-by-step...