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[[Category:New Reviews|Crafts]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Thomas Flintham0811771741|title=Around the World Colouring BookInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman
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|summary=I have been having the most tremendous fun making rainforest masks: you know the effect that you get when a really talented face artist does a young childMelissa Leapman's face and you ''seeInstaKnits for Baby'' the tiger? Well, this is an even better result and it's in 3Dgives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. All Some will be quick knits - others are of the creatures are'long, as you would expect, from the rainforest regions cosy afternoons in front of the world, but therefire's decidedly more here than the usual suspectsvariety. You get a green iguana, toucan, jaguar, emperor tamarin, blue morpho butterfly, redThe projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete -eyed tree frogless than five hours, Brazilian tapirfive to ten hours, giant otter, blue-ten to twenty hours and-yellow macaw and the emerald tree boamore than twenty hours. Never heard of some of them? Well, don't worry: All the book is gently educationalprojects are attractive, with a paragraph telling you just enough modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about the creature'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782404430</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emil Fortune and Neal Manning1635866243|title=Star Wars: Imperial Assault Activity Book and Model (Star Wars Construction Books)The Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summaryauthor=Bobby, my U-Wing model, was feeling lonely. Sure, he had a few select critters from Harry Potter on his shelf, but nothing else from his world. Luckily, now he has a companion. Unluckily, however, it's a baddy – one of the AT-ST Scout Walkers those nasty Empire people like to use to stride around Kristina McGrath and attack the good rebels. But that aside, it is a very handsome companion.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405285389</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tim Hopgood|title=Doodle Dogs: Best in ShowSarah Walworth
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|summary=Sometimes you find a delight of a book. On an afternoon when it was unseasonably cold and decidedly wet ''I quickly discovered ''Origami, Poems that putting words and Picturesnumbers on a page wasn'' and I was transported to Japant enough. As the title suggests we're looking at three celebrated arts and crafts: the ancient art of paper folding, haiku poetry and painting. I'll confess Creating a pattern that it was the origami which caught my attentioncorrect, clear, concise, but I was surprised by the extent to which the rest of the book caught my imagination. We begin with something very simple: a boat and in case you're worried, all the entries have consistent required a degree great deal of difficulty (from 'simple' through to 'tricky') and this one is at the lowest level.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857639382</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Warner Brothers|title=Harry Potter Colouring Book Celebratory Edition: The Best of Harry Potter colouring|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=Imagine pages trial and pages of images from the Harry Potter books and films for you to colour as you wish. You ''might'' have seen some of the images before - I know I have - as they've appeared in the ''Harry Potter Colouring Book''error, ''Harry Potter Magical Creatures Colouring Book''patience, and ''Harry Potter Magical Places and Characters Colouring Book'', but there are several exclusive never-before-seen images which will please the collector of Harry Potter memorabiliaperseverance. If you're in need of inspiration as to colours then you'll enjoy the sixteen pages of film stills, unit photography and concept art at the back of the book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783708255</amazonuk>}}(Introduction byFrancoise Danoy)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kiki Ljung1529507987|title=Build a ... ButterflyThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)
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|summary=I love butterflies: they're one of the delights of my garden and it'The Repair Shop''. It's always my go-to programme when I want to be cheered up. After a pleasure when hard day, there are children there and 's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they 're worth. You see a butterfly close up, possibly for the first time, as it rests on a flowervalue is in what these possessions are worth to the people who own them and the memories they hold. Kiki Ljung has given us No expense appears to be spared and the opportunity to learn about butterflies experts spend as much time and also effort as is required to build a 3D model of our ownachieve the desired result. The book Regular viewers know the experts and they're all brilliant at explaining what it is primarily aimed at the five to eight year old age group, but I have to confess that I had a great deal of fun building my own painted ladythey're doing. I learned quite a bit too!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809154</amazonuk>But how did they start?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Katie Scott and Kathy Willis0760379912|title=Botanicum Activity BookSuper Easy Quilting for Beginners|author=Editors of Quarry Books
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrafts|summary=Children I learned patchworking from necessity: old or outgrown clothes needed to be turned into something new and adults who enjoyed [[Botanicum (Welcome To The Museum) by Katie Scott and Kathy Willis]] are going to love the ''Botanicum Activity Book'usable 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. Don't be misled by the suggestion that the book is aimed at the seven-plus age group: there's plenty in here Super Easy Quilting for anyone who is still capable of holding Beginners'' seemed like a pen or pencilgood place to start.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783706791</amazonuk> So, how did it stack up?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK0760379874|title=Forest Life and Woodland Creatures|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=This book knows that if you're going to learn about forest life and the animals, plants and trees in it, then you're only going to be itching to go and explore the woods Super Easy Knitting for yourself. It's for a very young audience, so always expects an adult hand to guide you – but provides a warm companion itself through several quick and easy tasks, and a few lessons. The balance between carrot and stick, or duty and reward, is great – but what exactly is the edutainment going to provide, and what will it demand of us?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241273110</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=DK|title=Sharks and Other Sea Creatures|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Never before have I found much cause to point out the sort of lower-case, almost-a-subtitle wording on the front of a book. I say that because very little of this is about sharks – so if you have a youngster intending to come here and learn all their bloodthirsty imagination can hold, then they may well be disappointed. If you take it on board that the 'other sea creatures' make up the bulk of the book, then all well and good. And even better, if you expect yourself to ''make'' the bulk of said creatures…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241274389</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBeginners|author=Lucasfilm|title=Star Wars Art of Colouring The Force AwakensCarri Hammett
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|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?
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{{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
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|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Korn0760373558|title=Why We Make Things and Why It Matters: The Education of a CraftsmanNordic Knits|author=Sue Flanders
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|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Warner Brothers1635864070|title=Harry Potter: Magical Artefacts Colouring BookKnit 2 Socks in 1|author=Safiyyah Talley
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|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucasfilm1529393930|title=Star Wars Rogue OneMaking a Living: Art of ColouringHow to Craft Your Business|author=Sophie Rochester|rating=3.5
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|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>.
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{{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
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|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>
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{{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.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jody RevensonChou_Make|title=IncredibuildsMake and Play: Aragog: Deluxe Model and Book Set (Harry Potter)Nativity|author=Joey Chou|rating=45
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|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>
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{{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
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrafts|summary=How do you create You're going to get a house-elf like Dobby? hint of what this book's about very quickly. WellWhen you see the title page, you have a tennis ball on a string, 'll find out what the book's called and point actors so they look at that it, 's been written by Peter Lynas. Then we move on to who has done the illustration - and say their lines to there's a pretty-much empty spacegap. ''You then film Toby Jones doing the elf'' are going to put your name there. It's lines, and use that sound file and his facial expressions as basis for your CGI creation – the first major character to come from the digital realm in the ''Harry Potteryour'' films. You can throw in a few puppets, and now and again a gifted small person, particularly at responsibility to provide the end pictures for this book about one of film #7… the largest creatures ever to roam the earth. OrThere's some help available, of course, you can get this gift set, and press but your name is on the wooden parts out, muckle them together – title page - and lo and behold, a six inch tall Dobby for your windowsill.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707070</amazonuk>you have work to do!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Vladimir Aleksic and Kate Ware1635860334|title=Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol: A Colouring ClassicWhy We Quilt|author=Thomas Knauer
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|summary=I've often wondered about the story that patchwork quilting began as a way for women (and myth would have it that it was always women) to make an extra blanket out of material which would otherwise go to waste. This undoubtedly 'A Christmas Carol'did' has always been my favourite book by Charles Dickens. Perhaps it's the fact that happen but when you think about it's a novella rather than the usual brick , you need an awful lot of material to make a book, but the plotting has always seemed tighter quilt and the story more fast moving. I also like to idea of Ebenezer Scrooge not so much getting his comeuppance as his seeing the error of his waystime could have been better spent if all that was required was bedding. Like Thomas Knauer, I've read come to the book conclusion that it began as an art and seen numerous film adaptations - now I've had the opportunity to do some relaxing colouring of scenes from has largely continued down that same road with fluctuations in popularity over the classic storyyears. Was it fun?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848695411</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Bonnie Burton1419726625|title=Crafting with FeminismThe Mitten Handbook: 25 Girl-Powered Projects Knitting Recipes to Smash the PatriarchyMake Your Own|author=Mary Scott Huff
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|summary=For far too long it has been accepted that men will have free choice as to what I love mittens - they do 're so convenient and that women will somehow accommodate much easier to get onto (and adjust around themoff) cold hands than a pair of fiddly gloves. ItThey's been a hard fight re not something you regularly see in shops, so I knew that if I wanted new pairs I would have to get to where we are now - and thereknit them myself. Well, actually, that's still a way to go, particularly when you read my rationalisation of the [httpsituation://wwwin truth, I love knitting mittens.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/philip-davies-feminists-cake- They have just enough technique to make them satisfying, plenty of quick work and-eat-it-tory-mp-mens-rights-conference-anti-women-comments-a7187351.html views] a pair 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 warm mittens in a little ''whimsy''few days. We might take the cause seriouslyPatterns, but we don't take ourselves too seriously. And besides, what's better than to unleash your creativitythough - where do you get them from?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594749272</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca Jones1621137775|title=The Colouring Book of Cards Handbag Workshop: Design and Envelopes - ChristmasSew the Perfect Bag|author=Anna M Mazur|rating=54
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|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 I love handbags, but I resent paying the more popular ones being sold prices demanded by M&S this year...) or you recognise it the design which a major charity sold ''lastmanufacturers of 'good' Christmas - and which they started selling off at half price in the Boxing Day Salebags. Either wayAdditionally, you donI often find a bag I like but the colour/shape/size/capacity/internal layout isn't feel particularly ''specialquite''what I had in mind, so I end up spending rather a lot of money and compromising. An embroidered card The solution is lovelyto make my own bags and whilst I was confident about sewing fabric bags, I was nervous about using leather, but not everyone has the skills least because leather isn't very forgiving when it comes to mistakes and if you buy them theyit're a frightening prices usually more expensive than fabric. But Ineeded help. Anna Mazur've just discovered a relaxing, satisfying way of producing individual cards at a reasonable price: s ''The Colouring Book of Cards and Envelopes: ChristmasHandbag Workshop''came to me free through NetGalley in return for an unbiased review.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857637266</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Molly Manners and Alex Worrall1632506386|title=The Mindless Colouring BookKnitter's Dictionary: Art Therapy Exclusively Available Knitting Know-How from A to Anyone with £8.99Z|author=Kate Atherley
|rating=4
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|summary=Can I let you into a secret? Promise not to tell anyone've been knitting for well over sixty years, but I do wonder if a lot following patterns of adult colouring books are not just a little bit too ''worthy''varying complexity with success. They're all very intricate and rewarding when youI've finishedknit Aran sweaters, but socks by the dozen and I was chatting to someone recently who mentioned that it might take generations 'm currently knitting blankets for a charity to complete her colouring booksell. There hasn't been an occasion when I mean, where's the ve been stuck and people have often come to ''me'' for help when ''they'funve'' in thatbeen stuck. Would a knitter's dictionary really be of any help to me? When I relax was surprised by just how much I want to have a good time, enjoy myself and feel better at the end got out of it. A good laugh wouldn't go amiss. Anyone disagree with that? I thought not.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722958</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Walsh1440248850|title=The Colouring Book of Beautiful Gift BoxesModern Patchwork Home: Christmas Dynamic Quilts and Projects for Every Room|author=Vivika DeNegre (Editor)|rating=54
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|summary=When you give The problem with a small giftcraft which is largely based on traditional designs is that what results from your labours is also traditional, or - depending upon what light you shine on it- old-fashioned. Vivika DeNegre has curated a collection of patterns from today's often difficult to wrap it appropriatelytop designers. If you wrap As a small objectword of warning, it looks if you read ''insignificantModern Patchwork Magazine'' and if you've gone to the trouble of finding the appropriate gift for someone may well find thatthere's nothing new in the last thing you want. If you pad it out a littlebook, it ends up looking like a game of pass the parcel. You can, of course, buy a gift box but theyif you'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 new to the 24 boxes which - as you're colouring it - will magazine this could well prove to be uniquea delightful collection from the back catalogue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857638033</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Zoe IngramPallant_Star|title=Press Out Star Wars Millennium Falcon Book and Mega Model|author=Katrina Pallant and Colour: BirdsNeal Manning|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 One of any age who is capable of having reasonable control the unexpected results of making a feltrough-and-ready sci-tip pen or fi film back in the 1970s, was that George Lucas left a crayonwhole generation capable of spelling Millennium. You've got to remember to do both In amongst all the iconic inventions for the back film, his design team left him – and the front us – with a very loveable, very fast and whilst it would be nice if they matched very asymmetrical space ship. How is it's in no way essential. If you're skillful, so much balanced when the better, but the designs are decorated with foil which catches the light and gives cockpit is stuck out one side? What is that sheen which you see dish-like array doing on what seems to act as the edges of birds' feathers. When top? And where can you've finished colouring you gently press get your own? Well, beyond the pieces out from rarity and great cost of the page. Lego model, I experimented with pressing them out first can at least provide one answer to those three pertinent questions, and then colouring, but the pieces were easier to colour actually in the pagethat answer is… here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857637673</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kelsey ElamMcLelland_Press|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 a craft project, something to brighten up a room, or a full-on display for a big event, the book has plenty of styles Press Out and designs to fit the occasion. And unlike real flowers, your paper creations will never die.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782403086</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDecorate: Unicorns|author=Elisabetta Stoinich|title=Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights: A Colouring ClassicKate McLelland
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|summary=It's the weekend and I'Wuthering Heightsve been indulging myself. There'' is one of the classics s something about a unicorn which has stood the test appeals to me and a little bit of time. At the time research into a book of its publication in December 1847 reviews were mixedpress-out unicorns, not least because of clouds and rainbows seemed like the start depictions of mental and physical cruelty and it certainly wasn't ideal way to spend a Saturday morning. You get twenty designs 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 Brontethey's sister Charlottere all decorated with pink foil: even if you don's t want to add any further colouring they''Jane Eyre''. There re still going to look great, but because the pages are a substantial card you have been filmsthe opportunity to use crayons, adaptations and now - a colouring bookfelt tips or even paints to add your own personal touch. 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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chellie CarrollV&A_Embroidery|title=Bram StokerEmbroidery: A Maker's Dracula: A Colouring ClassicGuide|author=Victoria and Albert Museum
|rating=4
|genre=Crafts
|summary=ThereIn ''Embroidery: A Maker's no choice in the matter - youGuide''re going back we get a brief introduction to Transylvania in the late nineteenth centurycraft by James Merry, embroidery artist, to follow Draculainformation on the tools you's attempts to move to England in search of new blood ll need, materials you can utilise and a guide to spread the undead cursestitches you'll be using. Only this time If you're just thinking about starting embroidery and not reading Bram Stokercertain which type will suit you best or someone who's classic, experienced in one area but using pens wanting to branch out this book could be an ideal starting point. There are over 230 glorious photographs (of items from the V&A collections) and crayons in this colouring classic full illustrations covering 15 styles of bloodthirsty vampires, gothic patterns, dramatic landscapes embroidery and nightmarish figures. It's eerie, it's dramatic giving all the information and itdesigns you's great good funll need for 15 projects.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184869329X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul KidbyV&A_Patchwork|title=Terry PratchettPatchwork and Quilting: A Maker's Discworld Colouring BookGuide|author=Victoria and Albert Museum
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crafts
|summary=It was Sir Terry Pratchett whose chose Paul Kidby as artist for ''The Last World'' Patchwork is a magical craft: you can take relatively small pieces of material and the covers turn them into another piece of the ''Discworld'' novels from 2002 onwards material with an entirely different pattern. Quilting converts a topper and it was a marriage made backing fabric with some wadding in heaven, with the one complementing the otherbetween into a fabric of an entirely different weight. Kidby himself says that designing Combine the characters with pencil two crafts and paint you have 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 ''challenged Patchwork and amused him beyond measure.Quilting: A Maker's Guide'' The writing conjured clear imagery and it was his job to capture the humour and richlywhich looks -textured stories on paper. Kidby and Pratchett shared interests in nature, folklore, science and history as well as a love of Monty Python and the bizarre cover says - at styles from Italian trapunto to Korean jogakbo and to my eyes at least the result was more, far more, than the sum of then delivers fifteen projects inspired by the partsV&A collections.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473217474</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=BM_Origami
|title=Origami, 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 ''Origami, Poems and Pictures'' and I was transported to Japan. As the title suggests we're looking at three celebrated arts and crafts: the ancient art of paper folding, haiku poetry and painting. I'll confess that it was the origami which caught my attention, but I was surprised by the extent to which the rest of the book caught my imagination. We begin with something very simple: a boat and in case you're worried, all the entries have a degree of difficulty (from 'simple' through to 'tricky') and this one is at the lowest level.
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