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|summary=Never before have I found much cause love ''The Repair Shop''. It's my go-to programme when I want to point out the sort of lower-casebe cheered up. After a hard day, almost-a-subtitle wording on the front of a bookthere's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. I say that because very little of this You see, the value is about sharks – so if you have a youngster intending in what these possessions are worth to come here the people who own them and learn all their bloodthirsty imagination can the memories they hold, then they may well . No expense appears to be disappointedspared and the experts spend as much time and effort as is required to achieve the desired result. If you take it on board that Regular viewers know the experts and they'other sea creaturesre all brilliant at explaining what it is they' make up the bulk re doing. But how did they start?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0760379912|title=Super Easy Quilting for Beginners|author=Editors of the book, then all well Quarry Books|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=I learned patchworking from necessity: old or outgrown clothes needed to be turned into something new and goodusable when I was in my twenties. It would be a while before it became a pleasure rather than a chore but I've never felt completely at home with quilting. I needed something a little more stylish than my usual buttons or knots. And even better, if you expect yourself to ''makeSuper Easy Quilting for Beginners'' the bulk of said creatures…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241274389</amazonuk>seemed like a good place to start. So, how did it stack up?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucasfilm0760379874|title=Star Wars Art of Colouring The Force AwakensSuper Easy Knitting for Beginners|author=Carri Hammett

|summary=Without giving any spoilers away, I learned to knit in the end of nineteen-fifties: it wasn''The Force Awakens'' sees t a choice, it was a character and their peace interruptedrequirement. While said person probably has The Force Girls learned to knit and to give them some restful ease, you never know what else they usedembroider and boys did wood and metal work. They may, for one, have dabbled in colouring-in books, and their much-lauded effect on the mind – that My knitting wa accompanied by a lot of calming it, criticism and providing quite a meditative, simple yet creative task for few tears: it. Whether was a long time before I realised that is the case or not, there are books set was pleasure to be had in the skill. Nearly seventy years later it's the only thing that keeps my hands at all supple. The turning point was a booklet published by Patons which gave all the basics and some patterns. I'Star Wars'' universe ve been looking for something simple to recommend to people who'd like to join in in that way – and this is master the best Iskill. So, how did ''Super Easy Knitting For Beginners''ve seen.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405285796</amazonuk>work out?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Katrina Pallant and Kate Rhodes0760373531|title=Star Wars Make Cozy Knits: 30 Hat, Mitten, Scarf and DoSock Projects from Around the World|author=Sue Flanders|rating=35

|summary=For the right young mindJust occasionally you encounter a book of knitting patterns that seems to meet your every need. Right now, their favourite franchises just donit't end with watching them once or twice s bitterly cold and thatwe's itre in the sandwich filling between two storms: I need socks, scarves, hats and mittens. Given great characters they will want They have to write them into their own storieslook stylish, or re-enact their dramas in the playgroundkeep me warm and be so cheerful that they make me feel better. If things get that sounds like a bit more sedatelot to ask, some have a look at ''Cozy Knits'': it has thirty designs for those necessary items and I don't think that there was one of them can be convinced to sit diligently working on craft projects, which is where this book comes inI couldn't see myself wearing. It latches on to We start with an introduction by Nancy Bush which gives some of the biggest names in the Star Wars universe, and allows you to either draw or create them, or bothhistory of knitting. But while the It'why dons not essential but it't you?' spirit is strong with this one, I remain unconvinced the results will please everyones a nice extra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405279974</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Korn0760373558|title=Why We Make Things and Why It Matters: The Education of a CraftsmanNordic Knits|author=Sue Flanders

|genre=AutobiographyCrafts|summary=I was so delighted by Sue Flanders'My intuition [[Cozy Knits: 30 Hat, Mitten, Scarf and Sock Projects from Around the day World by Sue Flanders|Cozy Knits]] that I first picked didn't need any persuading at all to pick up a hammer was that making things with a commitment to quality would lead to a good life,her ''Nordic Knits'' Peter Korn writes. As an aimless, free This delivers forty-spirited University of Pennsylvania studentfour patterns inspired by textiles and local traditions from Norway, he moved to Nantucket Island to earn the rest of his college credits through independent study Sweden and happened to be offered Iceland. There are a carpentry job. That arbitrary job choice at few sweaters or jackets but the age majority of twenty would come to define the rest of his careerpatterns are for smaller items such as mittens, gloves, hats and bags. Manual labour was all new to him, but 'from the start there was a mind/body wholeness to carpentry that put it way ahead of what I imagined office work to be All are bright and cheerful and very cosy.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784705063</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Warner Brothers1635864070|title=Harry Potter: Magical Artefacts Colouring BookKnit 2 Socks in 1|author=Safiyyah Talley

|summary=With a big production film If you can be almost overwhelmed by all that's there to seeve ever started knitting a pair of socks, but what most of us forget is that in finished the first one and either got bored by the film-maker's archive there's an awful lot which we never get to see. ''Harry Potter: Magical Artefacts Colouring Book'' is packed with stunning pieces idea of artwork from doing the Warner Brothers archivesame thing all over again, giving or started on the second sock and lost the first before you finished it, this is the chance book for you. Where is it that single socks go to colour the magic of J K Rowling's wizarding world. There are the props from the Harry Potter films: an enchanted map, hide? Safiyyah Talley has developed a piece of jewellery system that can turn back timeallows you to knit two socks in one, vials full divide them up and have a perfectly finished pair of liquid memories socks. Sounds good? It's clever and newspapers with moving photoswell-thought-out. What an inventive brain that woman has!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783705922</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucasfilm1529393930|title=Star Wars Rogue OneMaking a Living: Art of ColouringHow to Craft Your Business|author=Sophie Rochester|rating=3.5

|summary=Colour me happy that ''Rogue One: A Star Wars StoryStarting a creative business has never been easier.'' ' is around. While I've If not had the chance of seeing it yetnow, when?'' I know that I'm dead chuffed it takes place at not alone in having wondered whether or not I could turn my hobby into a business. There's a central point lot of the main arc of films' storylines, and not some nebulous place elsewhere in [[Star Warsmotivation to do so: Galactic Atlas by Emil Fortune I make more items than we can sensibly use and Tim McDonagh|that galaxy far, far away]]there are a lot of people who have been delighted to accept what I make as gifts. YesSelling would offset the costs, which can be quite considerable and it does could be fun to do what the 'new trilogy, couldn' did, and have much more gloss and many more technologies than the films set after t it, but what is not ? But where to start? What do I need to likethink about? Well, the expected expenditure on tie-in books and articles, I guess – several hundred pounds on ''one'' collector's card first thing anyone who is considering turning a little steep. But seeing as I handily mentioned colouring above, in the vernacular, why not take it literally and use this large format paperback, promising crafting hobby into a business should do is to read ''100 Images to Inspire CreativityMaking a Living''?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405286377</amazonuk>.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Jarvis1635862353|title=British Airways Colouring Book|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=Over the past couple of years we've seen a lot of colouring books: flowers, patterns, fantasy creatures, characters and settings from television shows, films and books and lots more, but I can't recollect that we've ever before had one which featured a ''company''. Mind you, British Airways, is rather special; iconic and rather more long lasting than most passing celebrities. It has ''heritage'' and ''tradition''. The ''British Airways Colouring Book'' is based on exclusive posters, photographs and artwork from the company's archives and the 46 images allow the reader to recreate these as they wish. There's a bonus too: on the facing page of each image there's a potted history. I passed the book to someone with an interest in BA and he found the book interesting and informative ''without'' even thinking of doing any colouring.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144566612X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSandalmaking Workshop|author=Rebecca Jones|title=The Colouring Book of Cards and Envelopes: A Year of CelebrationsRachel Corry

|summary=A sandal-making workshop? I enjoy colouring: I find couldn't really believe it relaxing and satisfying, but most colouring books have one big snag for me. When youmainly because I've finished, what use is what d always thought that you've done? If I'm investing quite a bit of time in producing something, I like it d need more equipment than the average home was likely to be usefulable to contain but I was intrigued. I'm Rachel Corry started sandal making accidentally - a bit small fire destroyed some of a puritan about such matters! her shoes. It One pair had come apart and she could see how the sandal was therefore something of a relief when I found constructed. Then she realised that she couldn''The Colouring Book of Cards and Envelopes: A Year of Celebrations'' - and before anyone starts t afford to be pedantic about the title, you do get replace all her shoes. Could she combine these two facts to colour the envelope too; in fact you colour the inside create a new and the outside worthwhile craft? She showed quite a few people her first pair and they all four faces of the cardseither wanted to know how to do it - or if she'd make them a pair. There are even some stickers for you to seal the envelopeA new career was born.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857638564</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jody Revenson1783784350|title=IncredibuildsThis Golden Fleece: Buckbeak: Deluxe Model and Book Set (Harry Potter)A Journey Through Britain's Knitted History|author=Esther Rutter|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionHistory|summary=It was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in her office job, writing to people she'd never met and preparing spreadsheets. The general perception is that to become a leading British actor, you need the fillip of Eton or somesuch educationjob frustrated her and even her knitting did not soothe her mind. But you don't have January was going to be an actor to make a great film. ''Gravity'' time for instance has extended scenes where making changes and she decided that she would travel the only thing natural is length and breadth of the performersBritish Isles with occasional forays abroad, discovering and telling the story of wool' faces – everything else, even their bodies, was s history and how it had made in Britain by people using computersand changed the landscape. The eight She'd grown up on a sheep farm in Suffolk - ''Harry Pottera free range child on the farm'' films- and learned to spin, also made in the UK, needed a lot of computing power as well, but also a lot of craftsmen with their hands on tools knit and weave from her mother and a keen eyeher mother's friend. What better way to start training the young reader into that side of things, than with tasking them with making a, er, hippogriff?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707232</amazonuk>This was in her blood.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jody RevensonChou_Make|title=IncredibuildsMake and Play: Aragog: Deluxe Model and Book Set (Harry Potter)Nativity|author=Joey Chou|rating=45

|summary=Aragog the giant spider, donI always feel a slight disappointment for children at Christmas when they't you know, took six man years just re presented with a tree to build, decorate with a box of ornaments and weighed a tonnativity scene (sometimes quite precious, so it's Not To Be Played With) which is set up Somewhere Safe. After countless trial models and pieces of visual design workWhere's the imagination, he could finally be constructedthe creativity, and he stretched across eighteen feet the sense of the studio floor. pride in that? Or, conversely, he is about seven inches long and seven wide, and you put him together in How much better to have a day or twochild create their own nativity scene, for the cost of this book-which they can then play with? That's exactly what they get with Joey Chou's ''Make and-gift set and some craft paintsPlay Nativity''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707240</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jody Revenson099334030X|title=Incredibuilds: House-Elves: Deluxe Book Can You Draw the Dragosaur?|author=Peter Lynas and Model Set (Harry Potter)Charlie Roberts

|summary=You're going to get a hint of what this book's about very quickly. When you see the title page, you'A Christmas Carolll find out what the book's called and that it' has always s been my favourite book written by Charles DickensPeter Lynas. Perhaps it's Then we move on to who has done the fact that itillustration - and there's a novella rather than the usual brick of a book, but the plotting has always seemed tighter and the story more fast movinggap. I also like ''You'' are going to idea of Ebenezer Scrooge not so much getting his comeuppance as his seeing the error of his waysput your name there. IIt's ''your''ve read responsibility to provide the pictures for this book and seen numerous film adaptations - now I've had about one of the opportunity largest creatures ever to do some relaxing colouring of scenes from roam the classic storyearth. Was it fun?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848695411</amazonuk>There's some help available, but your name is on the title page - and you have work to do!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Bonnie Burton1635860334|title=Crafting with Feminism: 25 Girl-Powered Projects to Smash the PatriarchyWhy We Quilt|author=Thomas Knauer

|summary=For far too long it has been accepted I've often wondered about the story that men will have free choice patchwork quilting began as to what they do a way for women (and myth would have it that it was always women will somehow accommodate and adjust around them) to make an extra blanket out of material which would otherwise go to waste. ItThis undoubtedly ''did's been a hard fight to get to where we are now - and there's still a way to go, particularly happen but when you read the [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/philip-davies-feminists-cake-and-eat-think about it-tory-mp-mens-rights-conference-anti-women-comments-a7187351.html views] of people such as Member of Parliament Philip Davis, but the cause can't always be moved forward by being deadly serious, no matter how serious the cause: sometimes what you need is an awful lot of material to make a little ''whimsy''. We might take quilt and the cause seriously, but we don't take ourselves too seriouslytime could have been better spent if all that was required was bedding. And besidesLike Thomas Knauer, whatI's better than ve come to unleash your creativity?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594749272</amazonuk>the conclusion that it began as an art and has largely continued down that same road with fluctuations in popularity over the years.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca Jones1419726625|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 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 priceMitten Handbook: ''The Colouring Book of Cards and Envelopes: Christmas''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857637266</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewKnitting Recipes to Make Your Own|author=Molly Manners and Alex Worrall|title=The Mindless Colouring Book: Art Therapy Exclusively Available to Anyone with £8.99Mary Scott Huff

|summary=Can I let you into a secret? Promise not love mittens - they're so convenient and much easier to tell anyone, but I do wonder if get onto (and off) cold hands than a lot pair of adult colouring books are not just a little bit too ''worthy''fiddly gloves. They're all very intricate and rewarding when not something you've finishedregularly see in shops, but so I was chatting to someone recently who mentioned knew that it might take generations if I wanted new pairs I would have to complete her colouring bookknit them myself. I meanWell, actually, wherethat's my rationalisation of the ''fun'' situation: in that? truth, I love knitting mittens. When I relax I want They have just enough technique to have a good timemake them satisfying, enjoy myself plenty of quick work and feel better at the end a pair of itwarm mittens in a few days. A good laugh wouldn't go amiss. Anyone disagree with thatPatterns, though - where do you get them from? I thought not.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722958</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Walsh1621137775|title=The Colouring Book of Beautiful Gift BoxesHandbag Workshop: Christmas |rating=5|genre=Crafts|summary=When you give a small gift, it's often difficult to wrap it appropriately. If you wrap a small object, it looks ''insignificant'' Design and if you've gone to Sew the trouble of finding the appropriate gift for someone that's the last thing you want. If you pad it out a little, it ends up looking like a game of pass the parcel. You can, of course, buy a gift box but they're expensive for what they are and they're hardly individual. 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>}}{{newreviewPerfect Bag|author=Zoe Ingram|title=Press Out and Colour: BirdsAnna M Mazur

|summary=Ten beautiful birds which start life as detailed line illustrations by Zoe Ingram are then coloured in I love handbags, but I resent paying the prices demanded by anyone of any age who is capable of having reasonable control manufacturers of 'good' bags. Additionally, I often find a felt-tip pen or bag I like but the colour/shape/size/capacity/internal layout isn't ''quite'' what I had in mind, so I end up spending rather a crayonlot of money and compromising. You've got The solution is to remember to do both the back and the front make my own bags and whilst I was confident about sewing fabric bags, I was nervous about using leather, not least because leather isn't very forgiving when it would be nice if they matched comes to mistakes and it's in no way essentialusually more expensive than fabric. I needed help. If youAnna Mazur's ''re skillful, so much the better, but the designs are decorated with foil which catches the light and gives that sheen which you see on the edges of birdsThe Handbag Workshop' feathers. When you've finished colouring you gently press the pieces out from the page. I experimented with pressing them out first and then colouring, but the pieces were easier came to colour actually me free through NetGalley in the pagereturn for an unbiased review.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857637673</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kelsey Elam1632506386|title= 100 Simple Paper Flowers|rating= 5|genre= Crafts|summary=The Knitter''100 Simple Paper Flowers'' is an easys Dictionary: Knitting Know-How from A to-follow guide to creating impressive floral artworks that could almost be mistaken for the real thing. Whether it is a craft project, something 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>}}{{newreviewZ|author=Elisabetta Stoinich|title=Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights: A Colouring ClassicKate Atherley

|summary=I''Wuthering Heights'' is one ve been knitting for well over sixty years, following patterns of the classics which has stood the test of timevarying complexity with success. At the time of its publication in December 1847 reviews were mixedI've knit Aran sweaters, not least because of socks by the start depictions of mental and physical cruelty dozen and it certainly wasnI't in line with how Victorians felt that life should be livedm currently knitting blankets for a charity to sell. But the book hung in there There hasn't been an occasion when I've been stuck and before long it was considered superior people have often come to Emily Bronte's sister Charlotte's me'' for help when ''they'Jane Eyreve''been stuck. There have been films, adaptations and now - Would a colouring book. knitter's dictionary really be of any help to me? But does the book capture the nature I was surprised by just how much I got out of the landscape and the people who inhabited it a hundred and seventy years ago?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848693281</amazonuk>.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chellie Carroll1440248850|title=Bram Stoker's DraculaModern Patchwork Home: A Colouring ClassicDynamic Quilts and Projects for Every Room|author=Vivika DeNegre (Editor)

|summary=There's no choice in the matter The problem with a craft which is largely based on traditional designs is that what results from your labours is also traditional, or - depending upon what light you're going back to Transylvania in the late nineteenth century, to follow Draculashine on it - old-fashioned. Vivika DeNegre has curated a collection of patterns from today's attempts to move to England in search of new blood and to spread the undead cursetop designers. Only this time As a word of warning, if youread ''re not reading Bram StokerModern Patchwork Magazine'' you may well find that there's classicnothing new in the book, but using pens and crayons in if you're new to the magazine this colouring classic full of bloodthirsty vampires, gothic patterns, dramatic landscapes and nightmarish figures. It's eerie, it's dramatic and it's great good funcould well prove to be a delightful collection from the back catalogue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184869329X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul KidbyPallant_Star|title=Terry Pratchett's Discworld Colouring Star Wars Millennium Falcon Bookand Mega Model|author=Katrina Pallant and Neal Manning

|summary=It was Sir Terry Pratchett whose chose Paul Kidby as artist for ''The Last World'' and One of the covers unexpected results of making a rough-and-ready sci-fi film back in the ''Discworld'' novels from 2002 onwards and it 1970s, was that George Lucas left a marriage made in heaven, with whole generation capable of spelling Millennium. In amongst all the one complementing iconic inventions for the other. Kidby himself says that designing the characters film, his design team left him – and us – with pencil and paint ''challenged a very loveable, very fast and amused him beyond measurevery asymmetrical space ship.'' The writing conjured clear imagery and How is it was his job to capture balanced when the humour and richlycockpit is stuck out one side? What is that dish-textured stories like array doing on paper. Kidby and Pratchett shared interests in naturewhat seems to act as the top? And where can you get your own? Well, folklore, science beyond the rarity and history as well as a love great cost of Monty Python and the bizarre and to my eyes Lego model, I can at least the result was moreprovide one answer to those three pertinent questions, far more, than the sum of the partsand that answer is… here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473217474</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=LucasFilmMcLelland_Press|title=Star WarsPress Out and Decorate: Colouring By NumbersUnicorns|author=Kate McLelland

|summary=It's the weekend and I've never had any talent as an artist: I once earned the comment from an art teacher that I would struggle to draw a straight line with a ruler, but itbeen indulging myself. There's something I've always wanted to be able to do. For about a while in my teens I was seduced by oil-painting-by-numbers kits, unicorn which promised appeals to allow me to produce paintings and a little bit of research into a book of horses grazing in press-out unicorns, clouds and rainbows seemed like the fields or boats at anchor ideal way to spend a Saturday morning. You get twenty designs in the harbour. In fact all I ''really'' produced was a mess - literally ''book andthey're all decorated with pink foil: even if you don' artistically. I've had slightly more success with adult t want to add any further colouring books, providing that they didn't require too much skillre still going to look great, 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 but because the pages are a spray tan]]. If I was going substantial card you have the opportunity to use crayons, felt tips or even paints to produce anything worth looking at then I needed a great deal of help with shadingadd your own personal touch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405284781</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Coco Balderrama and Laura CoulmanV&A_Embroidery|title=David Bowie: StarmanEmbroidery: A Colouring BookMaker's Guide|author=Victoria and Albert Museum

|summary=David BowieIn 's death in January 2016 came as a shock to me'Embroidery: we were much of an age and heA Maker'd always seemed so s Guide''vital''. But his final album, ''Blackstar'', seemed we get a brief introduction to foretell his death and was a commercial successthe craft by James Merry, coming in at number one in the UK Top 100 Albums Chartembroidery artist, and information on the tools you''David Bowie Is'' exhibition at the Victoria ll need, materials you can utilise and Albert Museum is the most successful exhibition ever staged by the V&A. But what of a more relaxing memory of guide to the man who was part genius 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=Herestitches you's a neat idea for youll be using. Provide pages with animal prints on one side - only by animal prints, I mean the sort of colours If you're just thinking about starting embroidery and pattern not certain which type will suit you see on animals, not paw prints! Some are subtle and others are rather more best or someone who's experienced in-your-faceone area but wanting to branch out this book could be an ideal starting point. On the reverse There are over 230 glorious photographs (of these printed pages provide a cutting line so that you can cut and fold items from the paper V&A collections) and it becomes a 3D model illustrations covering 15 styles of an animal. Provide some stickers which replicate faces, tails or beaks - or whatever else you feel needs highlighting - embroidery and number these so that they get into giving all the right place. All information and designs you 'll 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 fun15 projects.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807321</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin HandfordV&A_Patchwork|title=Where's WallyPatchwork and Quilting: The Colouring Book|rating=5|genre=ChildrenA Maker's Non-FictionGuide|summaryauthor=Are you looking for something relaxing, easy to complete Victoria 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? Sorry: you've got the wrong book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406367303</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Serge Bloch|title=3, 2, 1... Draw!Albert Museum

|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrafts|summary=I Patchwork is a magical craft: you can't draw. I've never been able to draw. A blank sheet take relatively small pieces of paper material and a pencil frightens meturn them into another piece of material with an entirely different pattern. I thought I was probably Quilting converts a little bit old to change my ways but then I discovered ''3, 2, 1... Draw!'' topper and there might have been a movement within the tectonic plates backing fabric with some wadding in between into a fabric of my brainan entirely different weight. It's a drawing book which isn't about blank pages: it's about imagination and inspiration, with Combine the first encouraged two crafts and the second delivered by the barrow load. I've just had you have something more fun than I thought possible with pencil and paper!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807240</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Various Artists|title=Doctor Who: The Colouring Book|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=In my youth colouring books were popular for children: they helped to teach some valuable skillsmagical, occasionally fashionable but always deeply satisfying. But teacherswhere to start, when there are so many different styles of both crafts? One answer is to read 'experts', thought that they stifled creativity Patchwork and once youQuilting: A Maker'd mastered being able to stick within the lines they were whisked away as being s Guide'childish' and you were restricted which looks - as the cover says - at styles from Italian trapunto to artistic completion of maps in geography or illustrations of experiments in science. The fact that colouring could be relaxing Korean jogakbo and fun had been forgotten. Fortunately times have changed: adults are encouraged to relax with one of then delivers fifteen projects inspired by the hundreds of colouring books now available and I'm delighted to see a resurgence of the idea for not just the youngest children but for those who're a bit older tooV&A collections.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141367385</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mike CollinsBM_Origami|title=Sherlock: The Mind Palace: Origami, Poems and Pictures|author=The Official Colouring BookBritish Museum

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