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[[Category:New Reviews|Crafts]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0811771741|title=InstaKnits for Baby|author=Rebecca JonesMelissa Leapman|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=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 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the fire' variety. The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1635866243|title=The Colouring Book of Cards Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook|author=Kristina McGrath and Envelopes: A Year of CelebrationsSarah Walworth
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|summary=''I enjoy colouring: I find it relaxing quickly discovered that putting words and satisfying, but most colouring books have one big snag for menumbers on a page wasn't enough. When you've finishedCreating a pattern that was correct, clear, concise, what use is what you've done? If I'm investing quite and consistent required a bit great deal of time in producing somethingtrial and error, patience, I like it to be usefuland perseverance. I'm ' (Introduction byFrancoise Danoy) A friend recently showed me a bit knitting pattern for which she'd paid good money. The first line of a puritan about such matters! the instructions began: ''Cast off 100 stitches...'' It was therefore something clear that no good could come of this - the instructions didn't get any better - and (finally) PayPal obliged with a relief refund when I found 'the seller refused as she couldn't afford the repayment. The Colouring Book of Cards and Envelopes: A Year of Celebrationspattern looked pretty, but the creator didn'' - t have the basic knowledge and before anyone starts skills to be pedantic about the title, you do get enable her to colour the envelope too; in fact you colour the inside and the outside and all four faces of the cardsconnect with her knitters. There are even some stickers for you to seal the envelopeShe should have read ''The Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857638564</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jody Revenson1529507987|title=Incredibuilds: Buckbeak: Deluxe Model The Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Book Set Sonia Albert (Harry PotterIllustrator)
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|summary=I love ''The general perception is that to become a leading British actor, you need the fillip of Eton or somesuch educationRepair Shop''. But you donIt't have s my go-to programme when I want to be an actor to make a great filmcheered up. After a hard day, there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they'Gravity'' for instance has extended scenes where re worth. You see, the only thing natural value is in what these possessions are worth to the performers' faces – everything else, even their bodies, was made in Britain by people using computerswho own them and the memories they hold. The eight ''Harry Potter'' films, also made in No expense appears to be spared and the UK, needed a lot of computing power experts spend as much time and effort as well, but also a lot of craftsmen with their hands on tools is required to achieve the desired result. Regular viewers know the experts and a keen eyethey're all brilliant at explaining what it is they're doing. What better way to But how did they start training the young reader into that side of things, than with tasking them with making a, er, hippogriff?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707232</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jody Revenson0760379912|title=Incredibuilds: Aragog: Deluxe Model and Book Set (Harry Potter)Super Easy Quilting for Beginners|author=Editors of Quarry Books
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrafts|summary=Aragog the giant spider, don't you know, took six man years just I learned patchworking from necessity: old or outgrown clothes needed to build, be turned into something new and weighed a tonusable when I was in my twenties. After countless trial models and pieces of visual design work, he could finally It would be constructed, and he stretched across eighteen feet of the studio floora while before it became a pleasure rather than a chore but I've never felt completely at home with quilting. Or, conversely, he is about seven inches long and seven wide, and you put him together in I needed something a day little more stylish than my usual buttons or two, knots. ''Super Easy Quilting for the cost of this book-and-gift set and some craft paintsBeginners'' seemed like a good place to start.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707240</amazonuk> So, how did it stack up?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jody Revenson0760379874|title=Incredibuilds: House-Elves: Deluxe Book and Model Set (Harry Potter)Super Easy Knitting for Beginners|author=Carri Hammett
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrafts|summary=How do you create a houseI learned to knit in the nineteen-elf like Dobby? Well, you have fifties: it wasn't a tennis ball on a stringchoice, and point actors so they look at it, was a requirement. Girls learned to knit and say their lines to a pretty-much empty spaceembroider and boys did wood and metal work. You then film Toby Jones doing the elf's lines, My knitting wa accompanied by a lot of criticism and use quite a few tears: it was a long time before I realised that sound file and his facial expressions as basis for your CGI creation – the first major character there was pleasure to come from the digital realm be had in the skill. Nearly seventy years later it''Harry Potter'' filmss the only thing that keeps my hands at all supple. You can throw in The turning point was a few puppets, booklet published by Patons which gave all the basics and now and again a gifted small person, particularly at some patterns. I've been looking for something simple to recommend to people who'd like to master the end of film #7… skill. OrSo, of course, you can get this gift set, and press the wooden parts how did ''Super Easy Knitting For Beginners'' work out, muckle them together – and lo and behold, a six inch tall Dobby for your windowsill.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707070</amazonuk>?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Vladimir Aleksic and Kate Ware0760373531|title=Charles Dickens' A Christmas CarolCozy Knits: A Colouring Classic30 Hat, Mitten, Scarf and Sock Projects from Around the World|author=Sue Flanders|rating=45
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|summary=''A Christmas Carol'' has always been my favourite Just occasionally you encounter a book by Charles Dickensof knitting patterns that seems to meet your every need. Perhaps Right now, it's the fact that itbitterly cold and we's a novella rather than re in the usual brick of a booksandwich filling between two storms: I need socks, scarves, but the plotting has always seemed tighter hats and the story more fast movingmittens. I also like They have to idea of Ebenezer Scrooge not look stylish, keep me warm and be so much getting his comeuppance as his seeing the error of his wayscheerful that they make me feel better. If that sounds like a lot to ask, have a look at ''Cozy Knits'': it has thirty designs for those necessary items and Idon've read the book and seen numerous film adaptations - now t think that there was one of them which Icouldn've had the opportunity to do t see myself wearing. We start with an introduction by Nancy Bush which gives some relaxing colouring of scenes from the classic storyhistory of knitting. Was It's not essential but it fun?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848695411</amazonuk>'s a nice extra.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Bonnie Burton0760373558|title=Crafting with Feminism: 25 Girl-Powered Projects to Smash the PatriarchyNordic Knits|author=Sue Flanders
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|summary=For far too long it has been accepted that men will have free choice as to what they do and that women will somehow accommodate and adjust around them. ItI was so delighted by Sue Flanders's been a hard fight to get to where we are now - and there's still a way to go, particularly when you read the [http[Cozy Knits://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/philip-davies-feminists-cake-30 Hat, Mitten, Scarf and-eat-it-tory-mp-mens-rights-conference-anti-women-comments-a7187351.html viewsSock Projects from Around the World by Sue Flanders|Cozy Knits]] of people such as Member of Parliament Philip Davis, but the cause canthat I didn't always be moved forward by being deadly serious, no matter how serious the cause: sometimes what you need is a little any persuading at all to pick up her ''whimsyNordic Knits''. We might take This delivers forty-four patterns inspired by textiles and local traditions from Norway, Sweden and Iceland. There are a few sweaters or jackets but the cause seriouslymajority of patterns are for smaller items such as mittens, but we don't take ourselves too seriouslygloves, hats and bags. And besides, what's better than to unleash your creativity?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594749272</amazonuk>All are bright and cheerful and very cosy.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca Jones1635864070|title=The Colouring Book of Cards and Envelopes - Christmas|rating=5|genre=Crafts|summary=Have you ever opened a Christmas card and had a sense of deja vu? It might be that you've already had a couple just like this one (it's one of the more popular ones being sold by M&S this year...) or you recognise it the design which a major charity sold ''last'' Christmas - and which they started selling off at half price Knit 2 Socks in the Boxing Day Sale. Either way, you don't feel particularly ''special''. An embroidered card is lovely, but not everyone has the skills and if you buy them they're a frightening price. But I've just discovered a relaxing, satisfying way of producing individual cards at a reasonable price: ''The Colouring Book of Cards and Envelopes: Christmas''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857637266</amazonuk>}}{{newreview1|author=Molly Manners and Alex Worrall|title=The Mindless Colouring Book: Art Therapy Exclusively Available to Anyone with £8.99Safiyyah Talley
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|summary=Can I let If you into 've ever started knitting a secret? Promise not to tell anyonepair of socks, but I do wonder if a lot finished the first one and either got bored by the idea of adult colouring books are not just a little bit too ''worthy''. They're doing the same thing all very intricate over again, or started on the second sock and rewarding when lost the first before you've finishedit, but I was chatting to someone recently who mentioned that it might take generations to complete her colouring this is the bookfor you. I mean, where's the ''fun'' in Where is it thatsingle socks go to hide? When I relax I want Safiyyah Talley has developed a system that allows you to knit two socks in one, divide them up and have a good time, enjoy myself and feel better at the end perfectly finished pair of itsocks. A Sounds good laugh wouldn? It't go amiss. Anyone disagree with that? I s clever and well-thought not-out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722958</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Walsh1529393930|title=The Colouring Book of Beautiful Gift BoxesMaking a Living: Christmas How to Craft Your Business|author=Sophie Rochester
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|summary=When you give ''Starting a small gift, itcreative business has never been easier.'s often difficult to wrap it appropriately. If you wrap a small object, it looks ' 'insignificant'If not now, when?' and if you've gone to the trouble of finding the appropriate gift for someone I know thatI's the last thing you wantm not alone in having wondered whether or not I could turn my hobby into a business. If you pad it out There's a little, it ends up looking like lot of motivation to do so: I make more items than we can sensibly use and there are a game lot of pass the parcelpeople who have been delighted to accept what I make as gifts. You Selling would offset the costs, which canbe quite considerable and it could be fun to do, of coursecouldn't it? But where to start? What do I need to think about? Well, buy the first thing anyone who is considering turning a crafting hobby into a gift box but they're expensive for what they are and they're hardly individual. The answer lies in business should do is to read ''The Colouring Book of Beautiful Gift Boxes: Christmas'Making a Living'. 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 Ingram1635862353|title=Press Out and Colour: BirdsThe Sandalmaking Workshop|author=Rachel Corry|rating=4.5
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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 feltA sandal-tip pen or a crayon. making workshop? YouI couldn've got to remember to do both the back and the front and whilst it would be nice if they matched t really believe it, mainly because I's in no way essential. If d always thought that you're skillful, so much d need more equipment than the better, average home was likely to be able to contain but the designs are decorated with foil which catches the light I was intrigued. Rachel Corry started sandal making accidentally - a small fire destroyed some of her shoes. One pair had come apart and gives that sheen which you she could see on how the edges of birds' featherssandal was constructed. When youThen she realised that she couldn've finished colouring you gently press the pieces out from the paget afford to replace all her shoes. I experimented with pressing them out Could she combine these two facts to create a new and worthwhile craft? She showed quite a few people her first pair and then colouring, but the pieces were easier they all either wanted to know how to colour actually in the pagedo it - or if she'd make them a pair. A new career was born.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857637673</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kelsey Elam1783784350|title= 100 Simple Paper FlowersThis Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain's Knitted History|author=Esther Rutter|rating= 5|genre= CraftsHistory|summary=It was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in her office job, writing to people she''100 Simple Paper Flowers'' is an easy-to-follow guide d never met and preparing spreadsheets. The job frustrated her and even her knitting did not soothe her mind. January was going to creating impressive floral artworks that could almost be mistaken a time for making changes and she decided that she would travel the length and breadth of the British Isles with occasional forays abroad, discovering and telling the story of wool's history and how it had made and changed the real thinglandscape. Whether it is a craft project, something to brighten She'd grown up on a room, or sheep farm in Suffolk - '' a full-free range child on display for a big event, the book has plenty of styles farm'' - and designs learned to fit the occasionspin, knit and weave from her mother and her mother's friend. And unlike real flowers, your paper creations will never die This was in her blood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782403086</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elisabetta StoinichChou_Make|title=Emily Bronte's Wuthering HeightsMake and Play: A Colouring ClassicNativity|author=Joey Chou|rating=45|genre=CraftsChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=I always feel a slight disappointment for children at Christmas when they're presented with a tree to decorate with a box of ornaments and a nativity scene (sometimes quite precious, so it'Wuthering Heights'' s Not To Be Played With) which is one of the classics which has stood the test of timeset up Somewhere Safe. At Where's the imagination, the time of its publication in December 1847 reviews were mixedcreativity, not least because of the start depictions sense of mental and physical cruelty and it certainly wasn't pride in line with how Victorians felt that life should be lived. ? But the book hung in there and before long it was considered superior How much better to Emily Bronte's sister Charlotte's ''Jane Eyre''. There have been filmsa child create their own nativity scene, adaptations and now - a colouring book. which they can then play with? But does the book capture the nature of the landscape and the people who inhabited it a hundred and seventy years ago?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848693281</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Chellie Carroll|title=Bram StokerThat's Dracula: A Colouring Classic|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=Thereexactly what they get with Joey Chou's no choice in the matter - you're going back to Transylvania in the late nineteenth century, to follow Dracula's attempts to move to England in search of new blood and to spread the undead curse. Only this time you're not reading Bram Stoker's classic, but using pens Make and crayons in this colouring classic full of bloodthirsty vampires, gothic patterns, dramatic landscapes and nightmarish figures. It's eerie, itPlay Nativity's dramatic and it's great good fun.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184869329X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Kidby099334030X|title=Terry Pratchett's Discworld Colouring BookCan You Draw the Dragosaur?|author=Peter Lynas and Charlie Roberts
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|summary=It was Sir Terry Pratchett whose chose Paul Kidby as artist for You're going to get a hint of what this book'The Last Worlds about very quickly. When you see the title page, you'll find out what the book' s called and that it's been written by Peter Lynas. Then we move on to who has done the covers of the illustration - and there's a gap. ''DiscworldYou'' novels from 2002 onwards and it was a marriage made in heaven, with the one complementing the otherare going to put your name there. Kidby himself says that designing the characters with pencil and paint It's ''challenged and amused him beyond measure.your'' The writing conjured clear imagery and it was his job responsibility to provide the pictures for this book about one of the largest creatures ever to capture roam the humour and richly-textured stories on paperearth. Kidby and Pratchett shared interests in natureThere's some help available, folklore, science and history as well as a love of Monty Python and but your name is on the bizarre title page - and you have work to my eyes at least the result was more, far more, than the sum of the parts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473217474</amazonuk>do!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=LucasFilm1635860334|title=Star Wars: Colouring By NumbersWhy We Quilt|author=Thomas Knauer
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|summary=I've never had any talent as an artist: I once earned often wondered about the comment from an art teacher story that I patchwork quilting began as a way for women (and myth would struggle to draw a straight line with a ruler, but have it that it's something I've was always wanted women) to be able to do. For a while in my teens I was seduced by oil-painting-by-numbers kits, make an extra blanket out of material which promised would otherwise go to allow me to produce paintings of horses grazing in the fields or boats at anchor in the harbourwaste. In fact all I This undoubtedly ''reallydid'' produced was happen but when you think about it, you need an awful lot of material to make a mess - literally ''quilt and'' artisticallythe time could have been better spent if all that was required was bedding. Like Thomas Knauer, I've had slightly more success with adult colouring books, providing come to the conclusion that they didn't require too much skill, although I did succeed in establishing it began as an art and has largely continued down that Benedict Cumberbatch would not look good [[Sherlock: The Mind Palace: The Official Colouring Book by Mike Collins|same road with a spray tan]]. If I was going to produce anything worth looking at then I needed a great deal of help with shadingfluctuations in popularity over the years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405284781</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Coco Balderrama and Laura Coulman1419726625|title=David BowieThe Mitten Handbook: Starman: A Colouring BookKnitting Recipes to Make Your Own|author=Mary Scott Huff
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|summary=David BowieI love mittens - they's death in January 2016 came as re so convenient and much easier to get onto (and off) cold hands than a shock to me: we were much pair of an age and he'd always seemed so ''vital''fiddly gloves. But his final album, ''Blackstar'They're not something you regularly see in shops, seemed so I knew that if I wanted new pairs I would have to foretell his death and was a commercial successknit them myself. Well, coming in at number one in the UK Top 100 Albums Chartactually, and the that''David Bowie Is'' exhibition at s my rationalisation of the Victoria and Albert Museum is the most successful exhibition ever staged by the V&Asituation: in truth, I love knitting mittens. But what They have just enough technique to make them satisfying, plenty of quick work and a more relaxing memory pair of the man who was part genius and part chameleonwarm mittens in a few days. Patterns, though - where do you get them from?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0859655504</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Danielle Kroll and Nghiem Ta1621137775|title=Pattern PlayHandbag Workshop: Cut, Fold Design and Make Your Own 3D Animal ModelsSew the Perfect Bag|author=Anna M Mazur
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrafts|summary=HereI love handbags, but I resent paying the prices demanded by manufacturers of 's a neat idea for yougood' bags. Provide pages with animal prints on one side - only by animal printsAdditionally, I mean often find a bag I like but the sort colour/shape/size/capacity/internal layout isn't ''quite'' what I had in mind, so I end up spending rather a lot of colours and pattern which you see on animals, not paw prints! Some are subtle money and others are rather more in-your-facecompromising. On the reverse of these printed pages provide a cutting line so that you can cut The solution is to make my own bags and fold the paper whilst I was confident about sewing fabric bags, I was nervous about using leather, not least because leather isn't very forgiving when it comes to mistakes and it becomes a 3D model of an animal's usually more expensive than fabric. 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 placeI needed help. All you need Anna Mazur's ''The Handbag Workshop'' came to add to the mix is a pair of scissors, parental supervision if necessary me free through NetGalley in return for the cutting, a little imagination and you have hours of funan unbiased review.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807321</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Handford1632506386|title=Where's Wally: The Colouring Book|rating=5|genre=ChildrenKnitter's Non-Fiction|summary=Are you looking for something relaxing, easy to complete and which will allow your mind to wander freely as you gently colour in a pleasing design? Do you want to indulge your imagination and use the colours which tempt you at the moment, 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? SorryDictionary: you've got the wrong book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406367303</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Serge Bloch|title=3, 2, 1... Draw!|rating=4.5|genre=Children's NonKnitting Know-Fiction|summary=I can't draw. I've never been able to draw. How from A blank sheet of paper and a pencil frightens me. I thought I was probably a little bit old to change my ways but then I discovered ''3, 2, 1... Draw!'' and 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 about imagination and inspiration, with the first encouraged and the second delivered by the barrow load. I've just had more fun than I thought possible with pencil and paper!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807240</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewZ|author=Various Artists|title=Doctor Who: The Colouring BookKate Atherley
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|summary=Colouring books I've been knitting for adults are all the rage at the momentwell over sixty years, but one following patterns of the problems varying complexity with popularity is that the books do tend to become a bit, well, ''samey''success. Once youI've coloured in one peacock's tailknit Aran sweaters, itsocks by the dozen and I's not easy to get inspiration m currently knitting blankets for another and there's a limit charity to the number of flowers, patterns and mystical beasts which you can attach to the fridge doorsell. WeThere hasn't been an occasion when I've seen all sorts of variations, such as mindfulness, but what we really want is something been stuck and people have often come to ''me'' for help when ''they'freshve'' and with been stuck. Would a bit knitter's dictionary really be of something extra any help to get the brain cells going. me? Welcome ''Sherlock: The Mind Palace''I was surprised by just how much I got out of it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940430</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Natasha Slee and Becca Stadtlander1440248850|title=Style GuideModern Patchwork Home: Fashion From Head to ToeDynamic Quilts and Projects for Every Room|author=Vivika DeNegre (Editor)
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|summary=In ''Style Guide: Fashion from Head to Toe'' we have The problem with a guided tour through fashion craft which is largely based on traditional designs is that what results from the eighteen nineties to about 2010your labours is also traditional, taking a decade or so at a time and exploring several aspects of each decade- depending upon what light you shine on it - old-fashioned. For instance the period 1890 to 1914 is divided into ''The Belle Epoque'', ''Out and About'' and ''The Orient''. Each division Vivika DeNegre has curated a picture to be coloured but rather than being a picture collection of ''one'' garment, therepatterns from today's top designers. As a montage word of garments and accessories from the period: warning, if you read ''The Orient Modern Patchwork Magazine'' 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 turban. On the reverse of each picture is a key. The article is numbered on the main picture and in the corresponding key you'll may well 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 for adults are all the rage at the moment and it'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. Childrenthere'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 a children's colouring book to bridge the gap. ''Draw It! Colour It! Creatures'' has projects from 43 artists, well known nothing new in the field of children's book illustration, all packed together in a stylish book with flaps so that but if you're not going new 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 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 up magazine 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 could well prove to be a challenge but I also have a dream to followdelightful collection from the back catalogue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782402802</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Teal Triggs and Daniel FrostPallant_Star|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, Star Wars Millennium Falcon Book 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>}}{{newreviewMega Model|author=Lydia Crook|title=Christmas Paper PlayKatrina Pallant and Neal Manning
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|summary=Christmas is One of the unexpected results of making a rough-and-ready sci-fi film back in the 1970s, was that George Lucas left a time whole generation capable of joy and goodwill to spelling Millennium. In amongst all menthe iconic inventions for the film, but it can also be his design team left him – and us – with a time of bad weathervery loveable, of being very fast and very asymmetrical space ship. How is it balanced when the cockpit is stuck in the house and feeling out one side? What is that dish-like you have nothing array doing on what seems to do. The holiday period act as the top? And where can need filling you get your own? Well, beyond the rarity and for a crafty kid there are loads great cost of activities that can be done simply by using paper; including creating their own decorations or making the best letter they Lego model, I can for Father Christmas. If only there was a handy book at least provide one answer to those three pertinent questions, and that contained loads of great Christmas crafting ideas in one placeanswer is… here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782402470</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amber AndersonMcLelland_Press|title=The Little Book of ColouringPress Out and Decorate: Animal KingdomUnicorns|author=Kate McLelland|rating=3.54
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|summary=After years of doing craft work which must be It''useful'', s the weekend and I've discovered the relaxing benefits of colouringbeen indulging myself. IThere'm doing it s something about a unicorn which appeals to please meand a little bit of research into a book of press-out unicorns, clouds and rainbows seemed like the ideal way to spend a Saturday morning. You get twenty designs in the book and they're all decorated with pink foil: it doesneven if you don't need want to be perfect or functional. No one but me is add any further colouring they're still going to judge look great, but because the pages are a substantial card you have the finished article. All it needs is opportunity to be doneuse crayons, slowly, peacefully and at my felt tips or even paints to add your own pacepersonal touch. The choice of colours is mine and mine alone. If I want 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. What's not to love about colouring?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784296457</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anastasia CatrisV&A_Embroidery|title=Colour Me MindfulEmbroidery: BirdsA Maker's Guide|author=Victoria and Albert Museum
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|summary=About half In ''Embroidery: A Maker's Guide'' we get a century ago I mentioned brief introduction to someone that colouring was relaxing and enjoyable the craft by James Merry, embroidery artist, information on the tools you'll need, materials you can utilise and received a lecture on my lack of creativity and willingness guide to use what other people had drawn for my own endsthe stitches you'll be using. I still did colouring - at a time when there were considerable pressures in my life over which I had no control - but it was If you're just that it became my guilty secret. Now colouring is mainstream thinking about starting embroidery and therenot certain which type will suit you best or someone who's a considerable range of design books experienced in one area but wanting to choose from. Orion have published three by Anastasia Catris: branch out this book, {{amazonurl|isbn=1409163067|title=Colour Me Mindful: Underwater}} and {{amazonurl|isbn=1409163083|title=Colour Me Mindful: Tropical}}could be an ideal starting point. So, how do they stand out There are over 230 glorious photographs (of items from the crowd?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409163105</amazonuk>V&A collections) and illustrations covering 15 styles of embroidery and giving all the information and designs you'll need for 15 projects.
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|summary=It's not often I Patchwork is a magical craft: you can review a book take relatively small pieces of material and mention how it changes your brain, but that's apparently the effect turn them into another piece of the colouring-in-for-adults phenomenonmaterial with an entirely different pattern. There's Quilting converts a topper and a science behind it all that attests how alpha waves, backing fabric with some wadding in between into a slightly fabric of an entirely different weight. Combine the two crafts and you have something more childlikethan magical, acceptingoccasionally fashionable but always deeply satisfying. But where to start, relaxed form when there are so many different styles of brain activity, are used by our bonces when we colour – both crafts? One answer is to read ''Patchwork and Quilting: A Maker's Guide'' which looks - as opposed to the braver, thinking, active beta waves they're something the mind could do more of, especially in this kinetic, pluggedcover says -in, 24/7 lifestyle. So whereas I normally review books at styles from Italian trapunto to help my readers make their mind up, here I'm mentioning this volume because it allegedly would change your mindKorean jogakbo and then delivers fifteen projects inspired by the V&A collections.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0859655350</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewplainFrontpage|isbn=BM_Origami|title=Origami, Poems and Pictures|author=The Creative Colouring Book for Grown-UpsBritish Museum|rating=45
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|summary=Johanna Basford Sometimes you find a delight of a book. On an afternoon when it was not the first, unseasonably cold and nor was she an overnight success. If you're salivating over the ''Enchanted Forestdecidedly wet I discovered ''Origami, having finished her Poems and Pictures''Secret Gardenand I was transported to Japan. As the title suggests we'', you are one of those many people indulging in re looking at three celebrated arts and crafts: the new/old hobby ancient art of adult colouring-in (adult perhaps only because her titles smack more of soft erotica than colouring-in books)paper folding, haiku poetry and painting. The hobby is rapidly killing off Sudoku as the pastime of choice for many – either on the train or sitting with half an ear to the soaps. ItI's fun, ll confess that it opens was the mind to other thoughts in quite a meditative way, and it needs no instructions – much like, again, Sudoku, even if newspapers persist in telling us them even when nobody on earth is left to need them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782433287</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lucy Engelman|title=Field Guide: Creatures Great and Small (Field Guides)|rating=4.5|genre=Crafts|summary=Call me fuddy-duddyorigami which caught my attention, but I have never seen was surprised by the need extent to review a book via video – with Youtube and other sources becoming full which the rest 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 wordbook caught my imagination. That is, of course, until now, We begin with something very simple: a boat and the phenomenon that is building rapidly – that of mature colouring-in books. Here at the Bookbag we can easily prove wecase you've read every word of re worried, all the books by being eloquent, informative and opinionated about what we examine, but even I admit four paragraphs regarding entries have a picture book we ourselves have to finish off may leave some members degree of our audience wanting difficulty (from 'simple' through to see 'tricky') and this one is at the resultslowest level.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780635X</amazonuk>
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