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[[Category:New Reviews|Crafts]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Matilda Tristram0811771741|title= My Year in Small Drawings: Notice, Draw, Appreciate|rating= 4.5|genre= Crafts|summary=In recent years there has been an upsurge in the publication of 'interactive' books, designed to spark our creativity. Colouring books InstaKnits for adults, as well as my teenage daughter's current favourite: ''Wreck This Journal,'' seek to tap into our creative side, whilst promoting mindfulness and relaxation. By actively encouraging us to slow down and look at the world around us, books like these enable us to take time out of our busy lives and just enjoy the present moment. And this method must be working, because they are proving incredibly popular. I was intrigued, therefore, at the idea behind ''My Year in Small Drawings,'' which invites readers to create a visual diary of the world around us by creating a series of small pictures on a given subject.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782405348</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBaby|author=Thomas Flintham|title=Around the World Colouring Book|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Colouring books are a useful way for children to relax, develop manual dexterity and explore colour, but in the dash to appeal to the child so many miss the opportunity to be gently educational ''and'' to still appeal to the young. The two are not mutually exclusive! Look for instance at this colouring book: it's got page upon page of pictures to colour (with just a little narrative to set the scene) with the added attraction of four pages of stickers. You'll see grey shapes - and that's the signal to get stickering!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788000005</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Gavin Rutherford and Tanya Batrak|title=Rainforest Masks: Ten 3D Rainforest Masks to Press Out and Make|rating=4.5|genre=Crafts|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 child's face and you ''see'' the tiger? Well, this is an even better result and it's in 3D. All the creatures are, as you would expect, from the rainforest regions of the world, but there's decidedly more here than the usual suspects. You get a green iguana, toucan, jaguar, emperor tamarin, blue morpho butterfly, red-eyed tree frog, Brazilian tapir, giant otter, blue-and-yellow macaw and the emerald tree boa. Never heard of some of them? Well, don't worry: the book is gently educational, with a paragraph telling you just enough about the creature.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782404430</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Emil Fortune and Neal Manning|title=Star Wars: Imperial Assault Activity Book and Model (Star Wars Construction Books)Melissa Leapman
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|summary=Bobby, my U-Wing model, was feeling lonely. Sure, he had Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a few select critters collection of knits from Harry Potter on his shelf, but nothing else from his worldtoys to blankets. LuckilySome will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, now he has a companioncosy afternoons in front of the fire' variety. Unluckily, however, itThe projects are divided by the time they's a baddy – one of the ATll take to complete -ST Scout Walkers those nasty Empire people like less than five hours, five to use ten hours, ten to stride around twenty hours and attack more than twenty hours. All the good rebelsprojects are attractive, modern and useable. But I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that aside, it is a very handsome companion's me being picky.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405285389</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim Hopgood1635866243|title=Doodle Dogs: Best in ShowThe Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook|author=Kristina McGrath and Sarah 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 and adults who enjoyed [[Botanicum (Welcome To The Museum) by Katie Scott and Kathy Willis]] are going to love the ''Botanicum Activity Book''. Don't be misled by the suggestion that the book is aimed at the seven-plus age groupI learned patchworking from necessity: there's plenty in here for anyone who is still capable of holding a pen old or pencil.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783706791</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=DK|title=Forest Life and Woodland Creatures|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=This book knows that if you're going outgrown clothes needed to learn about forest life be turned into something new and the animals, plants and trees usable when I was in it, then you're only going to be itching to go and explore the woods for yourselfmy twenties. It's for would be a very young audience, so always expects an adult hand to guide you – but provides while before it became a warm companion itself through several quick and easy tasks, and pleasure rather than a few lessons. The balance between carrot and stick, or duty and reward, is great – chore 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=ChildrenI'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 bookve never felt completely at home with quilting. I say that because very needed something a 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 disappointedmore stylish than my usual buttons or knots. If you take it on board that the 'other sea creatures' make up the bulk of the book, then all well and Super Easy Quilting for Beginners'' seemed like a goodplace to start. And even betterSo, if you expect yourself to ''make'' the bulk of said creatures…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241274389</amazonuk>how did it stack up?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucasfilm0760379874|title=Star Wars Art of Colouring The Force AwakensSuper Easy Knitting for Beginners|author=Carri 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
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|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 '' are going to put your name there. It's ''your'' responsibility to provide the elfpictures for this book about one of the largest creatures ever to roam the earth. There's linessome help available, but your name is on the title page - and use you have work to do!}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1635860334|title=Why We Quilt|author=Thomas Knauer|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=I've often wondered about the story that sound file and his facial expressions patchwork quilting began as basis a way for your CGI creation – the first major character women (and myth would have it that it was always women) to make an extra blanket out of material which would otherwise go to come from the digital realm in the waste. This undoubtedly ''Harry Potterdid'' films. You can throw in happen but when you think about it, you need an awful lot of material to make a few puppets, quilt and now and again a gifted small person, particularly at the end of film #7… time could have been better spent if all that was required was bedding. Or, of course, you can get this gift setLike Thomas Knauer, I've come to the conclusion that it began as an art and press has largely continued down that same road with fluctuations in popularity over the wooden parts out, muckle them together – and lo and behold, a six inch tall Dobby for your windowsillyears.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707070</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Vladimir Aleksic and Kate Ware1419726625|title=Charles Dickens' A Christmas CarolThe Mitten Handbook: A Colouring ClassicKnitting Recipes to Make Your Own|author=Mary Scott Huff
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|summary=I love mittens - they're so convenient and much easier to get onto (and off) cold hands than a pair of fiddly gloves. They'A Christmas Carol'' has always been my favourite book by Charles Dickensre not something you regularly see in shops, so I knew that if I wanted new pairs I would have to knit them myself. Perhaps it's the fact Well, actually, that it's a novella rather than my rationalisation of the usual brick of a booksituation: in truth, but the plotting has always seemed tighter and the story more fast movingI love knitting mittens. I also like They have just enough technique to idea make them satisfying, plenty of Ebenezer Scrooge not so much getting his comeuppance as his seeing the error quick work and a pair of his wayswarm mittens in a few days. I've read the book and seen numerous film adaptations Patterns, though - now I've had the opportunity to where do some relaxing colouring of scenes you get them from the classic story. Was it fun?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848695411</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Bonnie Burton1621137775|title=Crafting with FeminismHandbag Workshop: 25 Girl-Powered Projects to Smash Design and Sew the PatriarchyPerfect Bag|author=Anna M Mazur
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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 themI love handbags, but I resent paying the prices demanded by manufacturers of 'good' bags. It's been Additionally, I often find a hard fight to get to where we are now - and there's still a way to go, particularly when you read bag I like but the [http:colour/shape/www.independent.co.uksize/newscapacity/uk/home-news/philip-davies-feminists-cake-and-eat-it-tory-mp-mens-rights-conference-anti-women-comments-a7187351.html views] of people such as Member of Parliament Philip Davis, but the cause caninternal layout isn't always be moved forward by being deadly serious, no matter how serious the cause: sometimes what you need is a little ''whimsyquite''what I had in mind, so I end up spending rather a lot of money and compromising. We might take the cause seriouslyThe solution is to make my own bags and whilst I was confident about sewing fabric bags, I was nervous about using leather, but we donnot least because leather isn't take ourselves too seriouslyvery forgiving when it comes to mistakes and it's usually more expensive than fabric. And besides, whatI needed help. Anna Mazur's better than ''The Handbag Workshop'' came to unleash your creativity?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594749272</amazonuk>me free through NetGalley in return for an unbiased review.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca Jones1632506386|title=The Colouring Book of Cards and Envelopes Knitter's Dictionary: Knitting Know- ChristmasHow from A to Z|author=Kate Atherley|rating=54
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|summary=Have you ever opened a Christmas card and had a sense I've been knitting for well over sixty years, following patterns of deja vu? varying complexity with success. It might be that youI've already had a couple just like this one (it's one of the more popular ones being sold knit Aran sweaters, socks by M&S this year...) or you recognise it the design which dozen and I'm currently knitting blankets for a major charity sold to sell. There hasn't been an occasion when I've been stuck and people have often come to ''lastme'' Christmas - and which they started selling off at half price in the Boxing Day Sale. Either way, you donfor help when 't feel particularly 'they'specialve''been stuck. An embroidered card is lovely, but not everyone has the skills and if you buy them theyWould a knitter're a frightening price. s dictionary really be of any help to me? But I've was surprised by just discovered a relaxing, satisfying way how much I got out of producing individual cards at a reasonable price: ''The Colouring Book of Cards and Envelopes: Christmas''it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857637266</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Molly Manners and Alex Worrall1440248850|title=The Mindless Colouring BookModern Patchwork Home: Art Therapy Exclusively Available to Anyone with £8.99Dynamic Quilts and Projects for Every Room|author=Vivika DeNegre (Editor)
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|summary=Can I let 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 into shine on it - old-fashioned. Vivika DeNegre has curated a secret? collection of patterns from today's top designers. Promise not to tell anyoneAs a word of warning, but I do wonder if a lot of adult colouring books are not just a little bit too 'you read 'worthy'Modern Patchwork Magazine'. They're all very intricate and rewarding when youmay well find that there've finisheds nothing new in the book, but I was chatting to someone recently who mentioned that it might take generations if you're new to complete her colouring book. I mean, where's the ''fun'' in that? When I relax I want magazine this could well prove to have be a good time, enjoy myself and feel better at delightful collection from the end of it. A good laugh wouldn't go amiss. Anyone disagree with that? I thought notback catalogue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722958</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah WalshPallant_Star|title=The Colouring Star Wars Millennium Falcon Book of Beautiful Gift Boxes: Christmas and Mega Model|author=Katrina Pallant and Neal Manning|rating=4.5
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|summary=When you give One of the unexpected results of making a small giftrough-and-ready sci-fi film back in the 1970s, it's often difficult to wrap it appropriately. If you wrap was that George Lucas left a small object, it looks ''insignificant'' and if you've gone to the trouble whole generation capable of finding spelling Millennium. In amongst all the appropriate gift iconic inventions for someone that's the last thing you wantfilm, his design team left him – and us – with a very loveable, very fast and very asymmetrical space ship. If you pad How is it balanced when the cockpit is stuck out a little, it ends up looking one side? What is that dish-like a game of pass array doing on what seems to act as the parcel. You top? And where canyou get your own? Well, beyond the rarity and great cost of coursethe Lego model, buy a gift box but they're expensive for what they are and they're hardly individual. The I can at least provide one answer lies in ''The Colouring Book of Beautiful Gift Boxes: Christmas''. The cover price is £9.99to those three pertinent questions, so and that works out at less than 42p for each of the 24 boxes which - as you're colouring it - will be uniqueanswer is… here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857638033</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Zoe IngramMcLelland_Press|title=Press Out and ColourDecorate: BirdsUnicorns|author=Kate McLelland
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|summary=Ten beautiful birds It's the weekend and I've been indulging myself. There's something about a unicorn which start life as detailed line illustrations by Zoe Ingram are then coloured in by anyone appeals to me and a little bit of any age who is capable research into a book of having reasonable control of a feltpress-tip pen or out unicorns, clouds and rainbows seemed like the ideal way to spend a crayonSaturday morning. You've got to remember to do both the back and get twenty designs in the front book and whilst it would be nice if they matched it's in no way essential. If re all decorated with pink foil: even if youdon't want to add any further colouring they're skillful, so much the betterstill going to look great, but because the designs pages are decorated with foil which catches the light and gives that sheen which a substantial card you see on have the edges of birds' feathers. When you've finished colouring you gently press the pieces out from the page. I experimented with pressing them out first and then colouringopportunity to use crayons, but the pieces were easier felt tips or even paints to colour actually in the pageadd your own personal touch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857637673</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kelsey ElamV&A_Embroidery|title= 100 Simple Paper FlowersEmbroidery: A Maker's Guide|author=Victoria and Albert Museum|rating= 54|genre= Crafts|summary=In ''100 Simple Paper FlowersEmbroidery: A Maker's Guide' is an easy-to-follow guide ' we get a brief introduction to creating impressive floral artworks that could almost be mistaken for the real thing. Whether it is a craft projectby James Merry, something to brighten up a roomembroidery artist, or a full-information on display for the tools you'll need, materials you can utilise and a big event, guide to the stitches you'll be using. If you're just thinking about starting embroidery and not certain which type will suit you best or someone who's experienced in one area but wanting to branch out this book has plenty could be an ideal starting point. There are over 230 glorious photographs (of items from the V&A collections) and illustrations covering 15 styles of embroidery and giving all the information and designs to fit the occasion. And unlike real flowers, your paper creations will never dieyou'll need for 15 projects.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782403086</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elisabetta StoinichV&A_Patchwork|title=Emily BrontePatchwork and Quilting: A Maker's Wuthering Heights: A Colouring ClassicGuide|author=Victoria and Albert Museum|rating=4.5
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|summary=''Wuthering Heights'' Patchwork is one a magical craft: you can take relatively small pieces of the classics which has stood the test material and turn them into another piece of timematerial with an entirely different pattern. At the time of its publication Quilting converts a topper and a backing fabric with some wadding in December 1847 reviews were mixed, not least because between into a fabric of an entirely different weight. Combine the start depictions of mental two crafts and physical cruelty and it certainly wasn't in line with how Victorians felt that life should be livedyou have something more than magical, occasionally fashionable but always deeply satisfying. But the book hung in where to start, when there and before long it was considered superior are so many different styles of both crafts? One answer is to Emily Bronteread 's sister Charlotte'Patchwork and Quilting: A Maker's Guide''Jane Eyre''. There have been films, adaptations and now which looks - a colouring book. But does as the book capture the nature of the landscape cover says - at styles from Italian trapunto to Korean jogakbo and then delivers fifteen projects inspired by the people who inhabited it a hundred and seventy years ago?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848693281</amazonuk>V&A collections.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chellie CarrollBM_Origami|title=Bram Stoker's Dracula: A Colouring ClassicOrigami, Poems and Pictures|author=The British Museum|rating=45
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|summary=ThereSometimes you find a delight of a book. On an afternoon when it was unseasonably cold and decidedly wet I discovered ''Origami, Poems and Pictures''s no choice in and I was transported to Japan. As the matter - youtitle suggests we're going back to Transylvania in looking at three celebrated arts and crafts: the late nineteenth centuryancient art of paper folding, to follow Draculahaiku poetry and painting. I's attempts ll confess that it was the origami which caught my attention, but I was surprised by the extent to move to England in search which the rest of new blood and to spread the undead cursebook caught my imagination. Only this time We begin with something very simple: a boat and in case you're not reading Bram Stoker's classicworried, but using pens and crayons in this colouring classic full all the entries have a degree of bloodthirsty vampires, gothic patterns, dramatic landscapes and nightmarish figures. Itdifficulty (from 'simple' through to 's eerie, ittricky's dramatic ) and it's great good funthis one is at the lowest level.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184869329X</amazonuk>
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