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[[Category:New Reviews|Crafts]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jody Revenson0811771741|title=Incredibuilds: Aragog: Deluxe Model and Book Set (Harry Potter)InstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrafts|summary=Aragog Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the giant spider'long, doncosy afternoons in front of the fire't you knowvariety. The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, took six man years just ten to buildtwenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, modern and weighed a tonuseable. After countless trial models I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1635866243|title=The Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook|author=Kristina McGrath and pieces of visual design work, he could finally be constructed, Sarah Walworth |rating=4.5|genre=Crafts|summary=''I quickly discovered that putting words and he stretched across eighteen feet of the studio floornumbers on a page wasn't enough. OrCreating a pattern that was correct, converselyclear, he is about seven inches long concise, and consistent required a great deal of trial and seven wideerror, patience, and you put him together in perseverance.'' (Introduction byFrancoise Danoy) A friend recently showed me a day or two, knitting pattern for which she'd paid good money. The first line of the cost instructions began: ''Cast off 100 stitches...'' It was clear that no good could come of this book- the instructions didn't get any better -and-gift set (finally) PayPal obliged with a refund when the seller refused as she couldn't afford the repayment. The pattern looked pretty, but the creator didn't have the basic knowledge and some craft paintsskills to enable her to connect with her knitters. She should have read ''The Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707240</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jody Revenson1529507987|title=Incredibuilds: House-Elves: Deluxe The Repair Shop Craft Book |author=Walker Books and Model Set Sonia Albert (Harry PotterIllustrator)
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|summary=How do you create a houseI love ''The Repair Shop''. It's my go-elf like Dobby? to programme when I want to be cheered up. Well, you have After a tennis ball on a stringhard day, and point actors so there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they look at it, and say their lines to a pretty-much empty space're worth. You then film Toby Jones doing the elf's linessee, and use that sound file and his facial expressions as basis for your CGI creation – the first major character value is in what these possessions are worth to come from the digital realm in people who own them and the ''Harry Potter'' filmsmemories they hold. You can throw in a few puppets, No expense appears to be spared and now the experts spend as much time and again a gifted small person, particularly at effort as is required to achieve the end of film #7… desired result. Or, of course, you can get this gift set, and press Regular viewers know the wooden parts out, muckle them together – experts and lo and behold, a six inch tall Dobby for your windowsillthey're all brilliant at explaining what it is they're doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707070</amazonuk> But how did they start?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Vladimir Aleksic and Kate Ware0760379912|title=Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol: A Colouring ClassicSuper Easy Quilting for Beginners|author=Editors of Quarry Books
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|summary=''A Christmas Carol'' has always been I learned patchworking from necessity: old or outgrown clothes needed to be turned into something new and usable when I was in my favourite book by Charles Dickenstwenties. Perhaps it's the fact that It would be a while before it's became a novella pleasure rather than the usual brick of a book, chore but the plotting has always seemed tighter and the story more fast movingI've never felt completely at home with quilting. I also like to idea of Ebenezer Scrooge not so much getting his comeuppance as his seeing the error of his waysneeded something a little more stylish than my usual buttons or knots. I've read the book and seen numerous film adaptations - now I've had the opportunity Super Easy Quilting for Beginners'' seemed like a good place to do some relaxing colouring of scenes from the classic storystart. Was So, how did it funstack up?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848695411</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Bonnie Burton0760379874|title=Crafting with Feminism: 25 Girl-Powered Projects to Smash the PatriarchySuper Easy Knitting for Beginners|author=Carri Hammett|rating=4.5
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|summary=For far too long I learned to knit in the nineteen-fifties: it has been accepted that men will have free wasn't a choice as , it was a requirement. Girls learned to knit and to what they do embroider and that women will somehow accommodate boys did wood and adjust around themmetal work. It's been My knitting wa accompanied by a hard fight to get to where we are now - lot of criticism and quite a few tears: it was a long time before I realised that therewas pleasure to be had in the skill. Nearly seventy years later it's still the only thing that keeps my hands at all supple. The turning point was a way to go, particularly when you read booklet published by Patons which gave all the [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/philip-davies-feminists-cake-basics and-eat-it-tory-mp-mens-rights-conference-anti-women-comments-a7187351some patterns.html views] of I've been looking for something simple to recommend to people such as Member of Parliament Philip Davis, but who'd like to master the cause can't always be moved forward by being deadly seriousskill. So, no matter how serious the cause: sometimes what you need is a little did ''whimsy''. We might take the cause seriously, but we donSuper Easy Knitting For Beginners't take ourselves too seriously. And besides, what's better than to unleash your creativitywork out?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594749272</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca Jones0760373531|title=The Colouring Book of Cards Cozy Knits: 30 Hat, Mitten, Scarf and Envelopes - ChristmasSock Projects from Around the World|author=Sue Flanders
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|summary=Have Just occasionally you ever opened encounter a Christmas card and had a sense book of deja vu? knitting patterns that seems to meet your every need. It might be that you've already had a couple just like this one (Right now, it's one of bitterly cold and we're in the more popular ones being sold by M&S this yearsandwich filling between two storms: I need socks, scarves, hats and mittens...) or you recognise it the design which a major charity sold ''last'' Christmas - They have to look stylish, keep me warm and which be so cheerful that they started selling off at half price in the Boxing Day Salemake me feel better. Either wayIf that sounds like a lot to ask, you donhave a look at 't feel particularly 'Cozy Knits'special''. An embroidered card is lovely, but not everyone : it has the skills thirty designs for those necessary items and if you buy I don't think that there was one of them theywhich I couldn're a frightening pricet see myself wearing. But I've just discovered a relaxing, satisfying way We start with an introduction by Nancy Bush which gives some of producing individual cards at a reasonable price: ''The Colouring Book the history of Cards and Envelopes: Christmasknitting. It's not essential but it's a nice extra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857637266</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Molly Manners and Alex Worrall0760373558|title=The Mindless Colouring Book: Art Therapy Exclusively Available to Anyone with £8.99Nordic Knits|author=Sue Flanders
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|summary=Can I let you into a secret? Promise not to tell anyonewas so delighted by Sue Flanders' [[Cozy Knits: 30 Hat, Mitten, but Scarf and Sock Projects from Around the World by Sue Flanders|Cozy Knits]] that I do wonder if a lot of adult colouring books are not just a little bit too didn''worthy''. They're t need any persuading at all very intricate and rewarding when you've finished, but I was chatting to someone recently who mentioned that it might take generations to complete pick up her colouring book. I mean, where's the ''funNordic Knits'' in that? . When I relax I want to have a good timeThis delivers forty-four patterns inspired by textiles and local traditions from Norway, enjoy myself Sweden and feel better at the end of itIceland. A good laugh wouldn't go amiss. Anyone disagree with that? I thought not.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722958</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sarah Walsh|title=The Colouring Book of Beautiful Gift Boxes: Christmas |rating=5|genre=Crafts|summary=When you give There are a small gift, it's often difficult to wrap it appropriately. If you wrap a small object, it looks ''insignificant'' and if you've gone to few sweaters or jackets but the trouble majority of finding the appropriate gift patterns are for someone that's the last thing you want. If you pad it out a littlesmaller items such as mittens, gloves, it ends up looking like a game of pass the parcelhats and bags. You can, of course, buy a gift box but they're expensive for what they All are bright and cheerful and they're hardly individualvery cosy. The answer lies in ''The Colouring Book of Beautiful Gift Boxes: Christmas''. The cover price is £9.99, so that works out at less than 42p for each of the 24 boxes which - as you're colouring it - will be unique.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857638033</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Zoe Ingram1635864070|title=Press Out and Colour: BirdsKnit 2 Socks in 1|author=Safiyyah Talley
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|summary=Ten beautiful birds which start life as detailed line illustrations by Zoe Ingram are then coloured in by anyone of any age who is capable of having reasonable control of a felt-tip pen or a crayon. YouIf you've got to remember to do both ever started knitting a pair of socks, finished the back first one and either got bored by the front and whilst it would be nice if they matched it's in no way essential. If you're skillful, so much idea of doing the bettersame thing all over again, but or started on the designs are decorated with foil which catches second sock and lost the light and gives that sheen which first before you see on finished it, this is the edges of birds' feathersbook for you. When Where is it that single socks go to hide? Safiyyah Talley has developed a system that allows you've to knit two socks in one, divide them up and have a perfectly finished colouring you gently press the pieces out from the pagepair of socks. I experimented with pressing them Sounds good? It's clever and well-thought-out first and then colouring, but the pieces were easier to colour actually in the page.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857637673</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kelsey Elam1529393930|title= 100 Simple Paper Flowers|rating= 5|genre= Crafts|summary=''100 Simple Paper Flowers'' is an easy-to-follow guide to creating impressive floral artworks that could almost be mistaken for the real thing. Whether it is Making a craft project, something Living: How to brighten up a room, or a full-on display for a big event, the book has plenty of styles and designs to fit the occasion. And unlike real flowers, your paper creations will never die.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782403086</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewCraft Your Business|author=Elisabetta Stoinich|title=Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights: A Colouring ClassicSophie Rochester|rating=45
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|summary=''Wuthering Heights'' is one of the classics which Starting a creative business has stood the test of timenever been easier. At the time of its publication in December 1847 reviews were mixed, not least because of the start depictions of mental and physical cruelty and it certainly wasn't in line with how Victorians felt that life should be lived. But the book hung in there and before long it was considered superior to Emily Bronte's sister Charlotte 's 'If not now, when?'Jane Eyre' I know that I'm not alone in having wondered whether or not I could turn my hobby into a business. There 's a lot of motivation to do so: I make more items than we can sensibly use and there are a lot of people who have been films, adaptations and now - a colouring bookdelighted to accept what I make as gifts. But does Selling would offset the book capture the nature of the landscape costs, which can be quite considerable and the people who inhabited it a hundred and seventy years ago?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848693281</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Chellie Carroll|title=Bram Stoker's Dracula: A Colouring Classic|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=There's no choice in the matter - you're going back could be fun to Transylvania in the late nineteenth centurydo, to follow Draculacouldn's attempts t it? But where to move start? What do I need to England in search of new blood and think about? Well, the first thing anyone who is considering turning a crafting hobby into a business should do is to spread the undead curse. Only this time youread 're not reading Bram Stoker's classic, but using pens and crayons in this colouring classic full of bloodthirsty vampires, gothic patterns, dramatic landscapes and nightmarish figures. It's eerie, itMaking a Living's dramatic and it's great good fun.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184869329X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Kidby1635862353|title=Terry Pratchett's Discworld Colouring BookThe Sandalmaking Workshop|author=Rachel Corry
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|summary=It was Sir Terry Pratchett whose chose Paul Kidby as artist for A sandal-making workshop? I couldn't really believe it, mainly because I'The Last Worldd always thought that you'' and d need more equipment than the covers average home was likely to be able to contain but I was intrigued. Rachel Corry started sandal making accidentally - a small fire destroyed some of her shoes. One pair had come apart and she could see how the ''Discworld'' novels from 2002 onwards and it sandal was a marriage made in heaven, with the one complementing the otherconstructed. Kidby himself says Then she realised that designing the characters with pencil and paint she couldn''challenged and amused him beyond measuret afford to replace all her shoes.'' The writing conjured clear imagery and it was his job Could she combine these two facts to capture the humour create a new and richly-textured stories on paper. worthwhile craft? Kidby and Pratchett shared interests in nature, folklore, science and history as well as She showed quite a love of Monty Python and the bizarre few people her first pair and they all either wanted to know how to my eyes at least the result do it - or if she'd make them a pair. A new career was more, far more, than the sum of the partsborn.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473217474</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=LucasFilm1783784350|title=Star WarsThis Golden Fleece: Colouring By NumbersA Journey Through Britain's Knitted History|author=Esther Rutter|rating=45|genre=CraftsHistory|summary=IIt was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in her office job, writing to people she've d never had any talent as an artist: I once earned the comment from an art teacher met and preparing spreadsheets. The job frustrated her and even her knitting did not soothe her mind. January was going to be a time for making changes and she decided that I she would struggle to draw a straight line travel the length and breadth of the British Isles with a ruleroccasional forays abroad, but itdiscovering and telling the story of wool's something I've always wanted to be able to dohistory and how it had made and changed the landscape. For She'd grown up on a while sheep farm in my teens I was seduced by oil-painting-bySuffolk -numbers kits, which promised to allow me to produce paintings of horses grazing in the fields or boats at anchor in the harbour. In fact all I ''reallya free range child on the farm'' produced was a mess - literally ''and'' artistically. I've had slightly more success with adult colouring bookslearned to spin, providing that they didnknit and weave from her mother and her mother't require too much skill, although I did succeed in establishing that Benedict Cumberbatch would not look good [[Sherlock: The Mind Palace: The Official Colouring Book by Mike Collins|with a spray tan]]s friend. If I This was going to produce anything worth looking at then I needed a great deal of help with shadingin her blood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405284781</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Coco Balderrama and Laura CoulmanChou_Make|title=David Bowie: Starman: A Colouring Book|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=David Bowie's death in January 2016 came as a shock to me: we were much of an age and he'd always seemed so ''vital''. But his final album, ''Blackstar'', seemed to foretell his death and was a commercial success, coming in at number one in the UK Top 100 Albums Chart, and the ''David Bowie Is'' exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum is the most successful exhibition ever staged by the V&A. But what of a more relaxing memory of the man who was part genius Make and part chameleon?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0859655504</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Danielle Kroll and Nghiem Ta|title=Pattern Play: Cut, Fold and Make Your Own 3D Animal Models|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Here's a neat idea for you. Provide pages with animal prints on one side - only by animal prints, I mean the sort of colours and pattern which you see on animals, not paw prints! Some are subtle and others are rather more in-your-face. On the reverse of these printed pages provide a cutting line so that you can cut and fold the paper and it becomes a 3D model of an animal. Provide some stickers which replicate faces, tails or beaks - or whatever else you feel needs highlighting - and number these so that they get into the right place. 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>}}{{newreviewNativity|author=Martin Handford|title=Where's Wally: The Colouring BookJoey Chou
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|summary=Are you looking I always feel a slight disappointment for something relaxing, easy children at Christmas when they're presented with a tree to complete decorate with a box of ornaments and a nativity scene (sometimes quite precious, so it's Not To Be Played With) which will allow your mind to wander freely as you gently colour in a pleasing design? is set up Somewhere Safe. Do you want to indulge your Where's the imagination and use , the colours which tempt you at creativity, the moment, content sense of pride in that it will not affect the finished creation? Would you like large spaces How much better to have a child create their own nativity scene, which you they can shade in large swoops as it pleases youthen play with? Are you aiming for a soothing finished product which is easy on the eye? Sorry: youThat's exactly what they get with Joey Chou's ''Make and Play Nativity''ve got the wrong book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406367303</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Serge Bloch099334030X|title=3, 2, 1... Can You Draw!the Dragosaur?|author=Peter Lynas and Charlie Roberts
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrafts|summary=I canYou't drawre going to get a hint of what this book's about very quickly. IWhen you see the title page, you'll find out what the book's called and that it've never s been able to drawwritten by Peter Lynas. A blank sheet of paper Then we move on to who has done the illustration - and there's a pencil frightens megap. I thought I was probably a little bit old to change my ways but then I discovered ''3, 2, 1... Draw!You'' and are going to put your name there might have been a movement within the tectonic plates of my brain. It's a drawing book which isn't about blank pages: it's your'' responsibility to provide the pictures for this book about imagination and inspiration, with one of the first encouraged and the second delivered by largest creatures ever to roam the barrow loadearth. IThere've just had more fun than I thought possible with pencil s some help available, but your name is on the title page - and paperyou have work to do!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807240</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Various Artists1635860334|title=Doctor Who: The Colouring BookWhy We Quilt|author=Thomas Knauer
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|summary=Colouring books I've often wondered about the story that patchwork quilting began as a way for adults are all the rage at the moment, but one women (and myth would have it that it was always women) to make an extra blanket out of the problems with popularity is that the books do tend material which would otherwise go to become a bit, well, waste. This undoubtedly ''sameydid''. Once happen but when you've coloured in one peacock's tailthink about it, it's not easy you need an awful lot of material to get inspiration for another and there's make a limit to the number of flowers, patterns quilt and mystical beasts which you can attach to the fridge doortime could have been better spent if all that was required was bedding. WeLike Thomas Knauer, I've seen all sorts of variations, such come to the conclusion that it began as mindfulness, but what we really want is something ''fresh'' an art and has largely continued down that same road with a bit of something extra to get fluctuations in popularity over the brain cells going. Welcome ''Sherlock: The Mind Palace''years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940430</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Natasha Slee and Becca Stadtlander1419726625|title=Style GuideThe Mitten Handbook: Fashion From Head Knitting Recipes to ToeMake Your Own|author=Mary Scott Huff
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|summary=In I love mittens - they''Style Guide: Fashion from Head re so convenient and much easier to Toe'' we have a guided tour through fashion from the eighteen nineties to about 2010, taking get onto (and off) cold hands than a decade or so at a time and exploring several aspects pair of each decadefiddly gloves. For instance the period 1890 to 1914 is divided into ''The Belle Epoque'They're not something you regularly see in shops, ''Out and About'' and ''The Orient''so I knew that if I wanted new pairs I would have to knit them myself. Each division has a picture to be coloured but rather than being a picture of ''one'' garmentWell, actually, therethat's a montage my rationalisation of garments and accessories from the periodsituation: ''The Orient '' has eight different pictures - of the triangle bagin truth, a fur-trimmed shawlI love knitting mittens. They have just enough technique to make them satisfying, kimono, pleated gown, a folding fan, a Ballet Russes costume plenty of quick work and slippers and finally a turban. On the reverse pair of each picture is warm mittens in a keyfew days. The article is numbered on the main picture and in the corresponding key Patterns, though - where do you'll find some historical information and some colour details.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807348</amazonuk>get them from?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Axel Scheffler, Emily Gravett et al1621137775|title=Draw It! Colour It! CreaturesHandbag Workshop: Design and Sew the Perfect Bag|author=Anna M Mazur
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|summary=Christmas is a time I love handbags, but I resent paying the prices demanded by manufacturers of joy and goodwill to all men'good' bags. Additionally, I often find a bag I like but it can also be the colour/shape/size/capacity/internal layout isn't ''quite'' what I had in mind, so I end up spending rather a time lot of bad weather, of being stuck in the house money and feeling like you have nothing to docompromising. The holiday period can need filling solution is to make my own bags and for a crafty kid there are loads of activities that can be done simply by whilst I was confident about sewing fabric bags, I was nervous about using paper; including creating their own decorations or making the best letter they can for Father Christmasleather, not least because leather isn't very forgiving when it comes to mistakes and it's usually more expensive than fabric. I needed help. If only there was a handy book that contained loads of great Christmas crafting ideas Anna Mazur's ''The Handbag Workshop'' came to me free through NetGalley in one placereturn for an unbiased review.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782402470</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amber Anderson1632506386|title=The Little Book of ColouringKnitter's Dictionary: Animal KingdomKnitting Know-How from A to Z|author=Kate Atherley|rating=3.54
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|summary=After I've been knitting for well over sixty years , following patterns of doing craft work which must be ''useful'', varying complexity with success. I've discovered knit Aran sweaters, socks by the relaxing benefits of colouring. dozen and I'm doing it currently knitting blankets for a charity to please me: it doesnsell. There hasn't need to be perfect or functional. No one but me is going to judge the finished article. All it needs is to be done, slowly, peacefully and at my own pace. The choice of colours is mine been an occasion when I've been stuck and mine alone. If I want people have often come to drop the finished page into the paper recycling then that's my prerogative. It's sheer indulgence on paper, lasts longer than a bottle of wine and does me more good'' for help when ''they've'' been stuck. WhatWould a knitter's not dictionary really be of any help to love about colouringme?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784296457</amazonuk> I was surprised by just how much I got out of it.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anastasia Catris1440248850|title=Colour Me MindfulModern Patchwork Home: BirdsDynamic Quilts and Projects for Every Room|author=Vivika DeNegre (Editor)
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|summary=About half The problem with a century ago I mentioned to someone craft which is largely based on traditional designs is that colouring was relaxing and enjoyable and received a lecture what results from your labours is also traditional, or - depending upon what light you shine on my lack of creativity and willingness to use what other people had drawn for my own ends. I still did colouring it - at a time when there were considerable pressures in my life over which I had no control old- but it was just that it became my guilty secretfashioned. Now colouring is mainstream and there's Vivika DeNegre has curated a considerable range collection of design books to choose patterns fromtoday's top designers. Orion have published three by Anastasia Catris: this As a word of warning, if you read ''Modern Patchwork Magazine'' you may well find that there's nothing new in the book, {{amazonurl|isbn=1409163067|title=Colour Me Mindful: Underwater}} and {{amazonurl|isbn=1409163083|title=Colour Me Mindful: Tropical}}. So, how do they stand out but if you're new to the magazine this could well prove to be a delightful collection from the crowd?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409163105</amazonuk>back catalogue.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eglantine de la Fontaine et alPallant_Star|title=My Magical Oasis: Art Therapy Colouring Star Wars Millennium Falcon Book for Creative Mindsand Mega Model|author=Katrina Pallant and Neal Manning
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|summary=It's not often I can review One of the unexpected results of making a book rough-and mention how it changes your brain-ready sci-fi film back in the 1970s, but was that's apparently the effect George Lucas left a whole generation capable of spelling Millennium. In amongst all the colouring-in-iconic inventions for-adults phenomenon. There's a science behind it all that attests how alpha wavesthe film, his design team left him – and us – with a slightly more childlikevery loveable, accepting, relaxed form of brain activity, are used by our bonces very fast and very asymmetrical space ship. How is it balanced when we colour – and the cockpit is stuck out one side? What is that dish-like array doing on what seems to act as opposed to the bravertop? And where can you get your own? Well, thinking, active beta waves they're something beyond the mind could do more rarity and great cost ofthe Lego model, especially in this kinetic, plugged-in, 24/7 lifestyle. So whereas I normally review books can at least provide one answer to help my readers make their mind upthose three pertinent questions, and that answer is… here I'm mentioning this volume because it allegedly would change your mind.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0859655350</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewplainFrontpage|isbn=McLelland_Press|title=The Creative Colouring Book for Grown-UpsPress Out and Decorate: Unicorns|author=Kate McLelland
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|summary=Johanna Basford was not It's the first, weekend and nor was she an overnight successI've been indulging myself. If youThere're salivating over the ''Enchanted Forest'', having finished her ''Secret Garden'', you are one s something about a unicorn which appeals to me and a little bit of those many people indulging in the new/old hobby research into a book of adult colouringpress-out unicorns, clouds and rainbows seemed like the ideal way to spend a Saturday morning. You get twenty designs in (adult perhaps only because her titles smack more of soft erotica than colouring-in books). The hobby is rapidly killing off Sudoku as the pastime of choice for many – either on the train or sitting book and they're all decorated with half an ear pink foil: even if you don't want to the soaps. Itadd any further colouring they's funre still going to look great, it opens but because the pages are a substantial card you have the mind opportunity to other thoughts in quite a meditative wayuse crayons, and it needs no instructions – much like, again, Sudoku, even if newspapers persist in telling us them felt tips or even when nobody on earth is left paints to need themadd your own personal touch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782433287</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucy EngelmanV&A_Embroidery|title=Field Embroidery: A Maker's Guide: Creatures Great |author=Victoria and Small (Field Guides)Albert Museum|rating=4.5
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|summary=Call me fuddy-duddyIn ''Embroidery: A Maker's Guide'' we get a brief introduction to the craft by James Merry, but I have never seen embroidery artist, information on the tools you'll need , materials you can utilise and a guide to review 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 me, when there are also countless ways for one to share opinions by old-fashioned written wordstitches you'll be using. That is, of course, until now, If you're just thinking about starting embroidery and the phenomenon that is building rapidly – that of mature colouring-not certain which type will suit you best or someone who's experienced in booksone area but wanting to branch out this book could be an ideal starting point. Here at the Bookbag we can easily prove we've read every word There are over 230 glorious photographs (of items from the books by being eloquent, informative V&A collections) and opinionated about what we examine, but even I admit four paragraphs regarding a picture book we ourselves have to finish off may leave some members illustrations covering 15 styles of our audience wanting to see embroidery and giving all the resultsinformation and designs you'll need for 15 projects.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780635X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewplainFrontpage|isbn=V&A_Patchwork|title=Gorgeous Colouring Book for Grown-UpsPatchwork and Quilting: A Maker's Guide|author=Victoria and Albert Museum|rating=4.5
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|summary=So, when I mentioned on Facebook that I had Patchwork is a magical craft: you can take relatively small pieces of material and turn them into another piece of material with an entirely different pattern. Quilting converts a topper and a nice new grown-up colouring book to review, I discovered backing fabric with some wadding in between into a secret little group fabric of friends who all confessed (instantly an entirely different weight. Combine the two crafts and with glee) that they you have succumbed something more than magical, occasionally fashionable but always deeply satisfying. But where to start, 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 new relaxation craze of growncover says -up colouring! They had tales of how tricky it was at styles from Italian trapunto to stay inside of the lines, how long one picture could take, Korean jogakbo and how relaxing then delivers fifteen projects inspired by the whole thing is. I dug out my old tin of pencils, and settled down to give it a tryV&A collections.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782434461</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paula BriggsBM_Origami|title=Drawing Projects for ChildrenOrigami, Poems and Pictures|author=The British Museum
|rating=5
|genre=Crafts
|summary=Sometimes you find a delight of a book. On an afternoon when it was unseasonably cold and decidedly wet I discovered ''Drawing Projects for ChildrenOrigami, Poems and Pictures'' is a beautiful, full-colour guide that encourages children and I was transported to use a range Japan. As the title suggests we're looking at three celebrated arts and crafts: the ancient art of materials to create stunning paper folding, haiku poetry and thought-provoking artworkpainting. As I'll confess that it was the author points outorigami which caught my attention, but I was surprised by the end result is not always as important as the journey and this book helps children extent to move away from which the more traditional, or 'safe' type rest of drawing styles the book caught my imagination. We begin with something very simple: a boat and indulge in case you're worried, all the entries have a little more experimentation degree of difficulty (from 'simple' through to 'tricky') and risk taking. The book this one is ideal for parents to use with their children, but each chapter is a self-contained lesson plan that facilitators and teachers can use with groupsat the lowest level.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908966742</amazonuk>
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