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[[Category:New Reviews|Crafts]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca Jones0811771741|title=The Colouring Book of Cards and Envelopes: Unicorns and RainbowsInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=54

|summary=IMelissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby''ve gives us a problem with many colouring books for children: some initial effort goes into collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the colouring'long, but cosy afternoons in front of the chances fire' variety. The projects are that little will be kept on a longdivided by the time they'll take to complete -term basis less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and it's not particularly satisfyingmore than twenty hours. How much better would it be if All the colouring produced something which could be sent to someone elseprojects are attractive, who would appreciate that it's unique modern and that effort and care has gone into the card? useable. How much better to give a child something like I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects'The Colouring Book of Cards and Envelopes: Unicorns and Rainbowsbut that'' than an ordinary colouring book which will soon be discarded?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788000897</amazonuk>s me being picky.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Matilda Tristram1635866243|title= My Year in Small Drawings: Notice, Draw, AppreciateThe Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook|author=Kristina McGrath and Sarah Walworth |rating= 4.5|genre= Crafts|summary=In recent years there has been an upsurge in the publication of 'interactive' booksI quickly discovered that putting words and numbers on a page wasn't enough. Creating a pattern that was correct, designed to spark our creativityclear, concise, and consistent required a great deal of trial and error, patience, and perseverance. Colouring books '' (Introduction byFrancoise Danoy) A friend recently showed me a knitting pattern for adults, as well as my teenage daughterwhich she's current favourited paid good money. The first line of the instructions began: ''Wreck This Journal,Cast off 100 stitches...'' It was clear that no good could come of this - the instructions didn' seek to tap into our creative sidet get any better - and (finally) PayPal obliged with a refund when the seller refused as she couldn't afford the repayment. The pattern looked pretty, whilst promoting mindfulness but the creator didn't have the basic knowledge and relaxation. By actively encouraging us skills to slow down and look at the world around us, books like these enable us her 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 popularconnect with her knitters. I was intrigued, therefore, at the idea behind She should have read ''My Year in Small Drawings,The Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook'' 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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Thomas Flintham1529507987|title=Around the World Colouring The Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)|rating=4.5

|summary=Colouring books are I love ''The Repair Shop''. It's my go-to programme when I want to be cheered up. After a useful way for children to relaxhard day, develop manual dexterity and explore colourthere's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. You see, but the value is in the dash to appeal what these possessions are worth to the child so many miss people who own them and the opportunity memories they hold. No expense appears to be gently educational ''spared and the experts spend as much time and'' to still appeal effort as is required to achieve the youngdesired result. The two are not mutually exclusive! Look for instance Regular viewers know the experts and they're all brilliant at this colouring book: explaining what itis they'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 stickersre doing. You'll see grey shapes - and that's the signal to get stickering!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788000005</amazonuk>But how did they start?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gavin Rutherford and Tanya Batrak0760379912|title=Rainforest Masks: Ten 3D Rainforest Masks to Press Out and MakeSuper Easy Quilting for Beginners|rating=4.5|genre=Crafts|summaryauthor=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 Editors 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 Quarry Books)

|summary=Bobby, I learned patchworking from necessity: old or outgrown clothes needed to be turned into something new and usable when I was in my U-Wing model, was feeling lonelytwenties. Sure, he had It would be a while before it became a pleasure rather than a few select critters from Harry Potter on his shelf, chore but nothing else from his worldI've never felt completely at home with quilting. Luckily, now he has I needed something a companionlittle more stylish than my usual buttons or knots. Unluckily, however, it's 'Super Easy Quilting for Beginners'' seemed like a baddy – one of the AT-ST Scout Walkers those nasty Empire people like to use good place to stride around and attack the good rebelsstart. But that asideSo, how did it is a very handsome companion.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405285389</amazonuk>stack up?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim Hopgood0760379874|title=Doodle Dogs: Best in ShowSuper Easy Knitting for Beginners|author=Carri Hammett

|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrafts|summary=I learned to knit in the nineteen-fifties: it wasn''Doodle Dogs'' introduces t a wide variety of artistic styles through the idea of choice, it was a dog show! requirement. Girls learned to knit and to embroider and boys did wood and metal work. Tim Hopgood shows us different kinds My knitting wa accompanied by a lot of dogs, all of which can be created very easily, criticism and you soon find quite a few tears: it was a long time before I realised that doodling a dog can there 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 lot more detailed, booklet published by Patons which gave all the basics and interestingsome patterns. I've been looking for something simple to recommend to people who'd like to master the skill. So, than you perhaps previously appreciated!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509820817</amazonuk>how did ''Super Easy Knitting For Beginners'' work out?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=The British Museum0760373531|title=OrigamiCozy Knits: 30 Hat, Poems Mitten, Scarf and PicturesSock Projects from Around the World|author=Sue Flanders

|summary=Sometimes Just occasionally you find encounter a delight book of a bookknitting patterns that seems to meet your every need. On an afternoon when Right now, it was unseasonably 's bitterly cold and decidedly wet we're in the sandwich filling between two storms: I discovered ''Origamineed socks, scarves, Poems hats and Pictures'' mittens. They have to look stylish, keep me warm and I was transported to Japanbe so cheerful that they make me feel better. As the title suggests weIf that sounds like a lot to ask, have a look at ''Cozy Knits''re looking at three celebrated arts and crafts: the ancient art of paper folding, haiku poetry it has thirty designs for those necessary items and painting. Idon'll confess t think that it there was the origami one of them which caught my attention, but I was surprised couldn't see myself wearing. We start with an introduction by the extent to Nancy Bush which gives some of the rest history of the book caught my imaginationknitting. We begin with something very simpleIt's not essential but it's a nice extra.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0760373558|title=Nordic Knits|author=Sue Flanders|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=I was so delighted by Sue Flanders' [[Cozy Knits: a boat 30 Hat, Mitten, Scarf and in case youSock Projects from Around the World by Sue Flanders|Cozy Knits]] that I didn're worried, t need any persuading at all the entries have a degree of difficulty (from to pick up her 'simple' through to Nordic Knits'tricky') . This delivers forty-four patterns inspired by textiles and local traditions from Norway, Sweden and this one is at Iceland. There are a few sweaters or jackets but the lowest levelmajority of patterns are for smaller items such as mittens, gloves, hats and bags. All are bright and cheerful and very cosy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857639382</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Warner Brothers1635864070|title=Harry Potter Colouring Book Celebratory Edition: The Best of Harry Potter colouringKnit 2 Socks in 1|author=Safiyyah Talley

|summary=Imagine pages If you've ever started knitting a pair of socks, finished the first one and pages either got bored by the idea of images from doing the same thing all over again, or started on the Harry Potter books second sock and films lost the first before you finished it, this is the book for you . Where is it that single socks go to colour as hide? Safiyyah Talley has developed a system that allows you wish. You ''might'' have seen some of the images before - I know I have - as they've appeared to knit two socks in the ''Harry Potter Colouring Book'', ''Harry Potter Magical Creatures Colouring Book''one, divide them up and have a perfectly finished pair of socks. Sounds good? It''Harry Potter Magical Places s clever and Characters Colouring Book'', but there are several exclusive neverwell-beforethought-seen images which will please the collector of Harry Potter memorabilia. 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 bookout.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783708255</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alice Bowsher1529393930|title=Lift-the-Flap and ColourMaking a Living: OceanHow to Craft Your Business|author=Sophie Rochester|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrafts|summary=When you think about it, it's quite startling that oceans cover most of our planet and they're home to nearly half of all species, apart from humans. We don't know Starting a lot about the oceans either - less than 5% of the area creative business has never been explored, but it is an area of outstanding beautyeasier. With Alice Bowsher's ' ''Lift-the-Flap and Colour: OceanIf not now, when?'' I know that I' children as young as two have the opportunity to do m not alone in having wondered whether or not I could turn my hobby into a little exploration and to colour their own picturesbusiness. The flaps are There's a stroke lot of geniusmotivation to do so: when we look at the sea we see little I make more items than the movement we can sensibly use and there are a lot of people who have been delighted to accept what I make as gifts. Selling would offset the watercosts, but how different which can be quite considerable and it would could be if you could see fun to do, couldn't it? But where to start? What do I need to think about? Well, the first thing anyone who is considering turning a crafting hobby into a little of what business should do is going on underneathto read ''Making a Living''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809294</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kiki Ljung1635862353|title=Build a ... ButterflyThe Sandalmaking Workshop|author=Rachel Corry

|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrafts|summary=A sandal-making workshop? I love butterflies: theycouldn're one of the delights of my garden and t really believe it, mainly because I's d always thought that you'd need more equipment than the average home was likely to be able to contain but I was intrigued. Rachel Corry started sandal making accidentally - a pleasure when there are children there small fire destroyed some of her shoes. One pair had come apart and they she could see a butterfly close up, possibly for how the first time, as it rests on a flowersandal was constructed. Kiki Ljung has given us the opportunity Then she realised that she couldn't afford to learn about butterflies and also replace all her shoes. Could she combine these two facts to build create a 3D model of our own. new and worthwhile craft? The book is primarily aimed at the five She showed quite a few people her first pair and they all either wanted to eight year old age group, but I have know how to confess that I had do it - or if she'd make them a great deal of fun building my own painted ladypair. I learned quite a bit too!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809154</amazonuk>A new career was born.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Katie Scott and Kathy Willis1783784350|title=Botanicum Activity BookThis Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain's Knitted History|author=Esther Rutter|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionHistory|summary=Children It was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in her office job, writing to people she'd never met and adults who enjoyed [[Botanicum (Welcome To preparing spreadsheets. The Museum) by Katie Scott job frustrated her and Kathy Willis]] are even her knitting did not soothe her mind. January was going to love be a time for making changes and she decided that she would travel the length and breadth of the British Isles with occasional forays abroad, discovering and telling the story of wool's history and how it had made and changed the landscape. She'd grown up on a sheep farm in Suffolk - 'Botanicum Activity Book'a free range child on the farm'. Don't be misled by the suggestion that the book is aimed at the seven-plus age group: thereand learned to spin, knit and weave from her mother and her mother's plenty friend. This was in here for anyone who is still capable of holding a pen or pencilher blood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783706791</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DKChou_Make|title=Forest Life Make 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 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>}}{{newreviewPlay: Nativity|author=DK|title=Sharks and Other Sea CreaturesJoey Chou|rating=45

|summary=Never before have I found much cause always feel a slight disappointment for children at Christmas when they're presented with a tree to point out the sort of lower-case, almost-decorate with a-subtitle wording on the front box of ornaments and a booknativity scene (sometimes quite precious, so it's Not To Be Played With) which is set up Somewhere Safe. I say Where's the imagination, the creativity, the sense of pride in that because very little of this is about sharks – so if you ? How much better to have a youngster intending to come here and learn all child create their bloodthirsty imagination own nativity scene, which they can hold, then they may well be disappointed. play with? If you take it on board that the That'other sea creaturess exactly what they get with Joey Chou' make up the bulk of the book, then all well and good. And even better, if you expect yourself to s ''makeMake and Play Nativity'' the bulk of said creatures…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241274389</amazonuk>.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucasfilm099334030X|title=Star Wars Art of Colouring The Force AwakensCan You Draw the Dragosaur?|author=Peter Lynas and Charlie Roberts

|summary=Without giving any spoilers away, the end You're going to get a hint of what this book''The Force Awakens'' sees a character and their peace interrupteds about very quickly. While said person probably has The Force to give them some restful easeWhen you see the title page, you never know 'll find out what else they usedthe book's called and that it's been written by Peter Lynas. They may, for one, have dabbled in colouring-in books, and their much-lauded effect Then we move on to who has done the mind – that of calming it, illustration - and providing there's a meditative, simple yet creative task for itgap. Whether that is the case or not, ''You'' are going to put your name there are books set in the . It's ''Star Warsyour'' universe responsibility to provide the pictures for people this book about one of the largest creatures ever to join in in that way – and this roam the earth. There's some help available, but your name is on the best I've seen.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405285796</amazonuk>title page - and you have work to do!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Katrina Pallant and Kate Rhodes1635860334|title=Star Wars Make and DoWhy We Quilt|author=Thomas Knauer|rating=34

|summary=For I've often wondered about the right young mind, their favourite franchises just don't end with watching them once or twice story that patchwork quilting began as a way for women (and myth would have it that's it. Given great characters they will want was always women) to make an extra blanket out of material which would otherwise go to write them into their own stories, or re-enact their dramas in the playgroundwaste. If things get a bit more sedateThis undoubtedly ''did'' happen but when you think about it, some you need an awful lot of them can be convinced material to sit diligently working on craft projects, which is where this book comes inmake a quilt and the time could have been better spent if all that was required was bedding. It latches on Like Thomas Knauer, I've come to the biggest names in the Star Wars universe, conclusion that it began as an art and allows you to either draw or create them, or both. But while the 'why don't you?' spirit is strong has largely continued down that same road with this one, I remain unconvinced fluctuations in popularity over the results will please everyoneyears.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405279974</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Korn1419726625|title=Why We The Mitten Handbook: Knitting Recipes to Make Things and Why It Matters: The Education of a CraftsmanYour Own|author=Mary Scott Huff

|genre=AutobiographyCrafts|summary=I love mittens - they'My intuition from the day re so convenient and much easier to get onto (and off) cold hands than a pair of fiddly gloves. They're not something you regularly see in shops, so I first picked up a hammer was knew that making things with a commitment to quality if I wanted new pairs I would lead have to a good lifeknit them myself. Well, actually,that' Peter Korn writes. As an aimless, free-spirited University s my rationalisation of Pennsylvania studentthe situation: in truth, he moved I love knitting mittens. They have just enough technique to Nantucket Island to earn the rest make them satisfying, plenty of his college credits through independent study quick work and happened to be offered a carpentry job. That arbitrary job choice at the age pair of twenty would come to define the rest of his careerwarm mittens in a few days. Manual labour was all new to him Patterns, but 'though - where do you get them from the start there was a mind/body wholeness to carpentry that put it way ahead of what I imagined office work to be.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784705063</amazonuk>?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Warner Brothers1621137775|title=Harry PotterHandbag Workshop: Magical Artefacts Colouring BookDesign and Sew the Perfect Bag|author=Anna M Mazur

|summary=With a big production film you can be almost overwhelmed by all that's there to seeI love handbags, but what most I resent paying the prices demanded by manufacturers of us forget is that in the film-maker's archive theregood's an awful lot which we never get to seebags. Additionally, I often find a bag I like but the colour/shape/size/capacity/internal layout isn't ''Harry Potter: Magical Artefacts Colouring Bookquite'' what I had in mind, so I end up spending rather a lot of money and compromising. The solution is packed with stunning pieces of artwork from the Warner Brothers archiveto make my own bags and whilst I was confident about sewing fabric bags, I was nervous about using leather, giving you the chance not least because leather isn't very forgiving when it comes to colour the magic of J K Rowlingmistakes and it's wizarding worldusually more expensive than fabric. There are the props from the Harry Potter films: an enchanted map, a piece of jewellery that can turn back time, vials full of liquid memories and newspapers with moving photosI needed help. What Anna Mazur's ''The Handbag Workshop'' came to me free through NetGalley in return for an inventive brain that woman has!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783705922</amazonuk>unbiased review.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucasfilm1632506386|title=Star Wars Rogue OneThe Knitter's Dictionary: Art of ColouringKnitting Know-How from A to Z|author=Kate Atherley|rating=3.54

|summary=Colour me happy that I''Rogue One: A Star Wars Story'' is aroundve been knitting for well over sixty years, following patterns of varying complexity with success. While I've not had knit Aran sweaters, socks by the chance of seeing it yet, dozen and I'm dead chuffed it takes place at currently knitting blankets for a central point of the main arc of films' storylines, and not some nebulous place elsewhere in [[Star Wars: Galactic Atlas by Emil Fortune and Tim McDonagh|that galaxy far, far away]]charity to sell. Yes, it does do what the There hasn'new trilogyt been an occasion when I' did, ve been stuck and people have much more gloss and many more technologies than the films set after it, but what is not often come to like? Well, the expected expenditure on tie-in books and articles, I guess – several hundred pounds on ''oneme'' for help when ''they've' collector's card is a little steepbeen stuck. But seeing as I handily mentioned colouring above, in the vernacular, why not take it literally and use this large format paperback, promising Would a knitter''100 Images s dictionary really be of any help to Inspire Creativity''me?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405286377</amazonuk> I was surprised by just how much I got out of it.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Jarvis1440248850|title=British Airways Colouring BookModern Patchwork Home: Dynamic Quilts and Projects for Every Room|author=Vivika DeNegre (Editor)

|summary=Over the past couple of years we've seen The problem with a lot of colouring books: flowers, patterns, fantasy creatures, characters and settings craft which is largely based on traditional designs is that what results from television showsyour labours is also traditional, films and books and lots more, but I can't recollect that we've ever before had one which featured a ''company''. Mind or - depending upon what light you, British Airways, is rather special; iconic and rather more long lasting than most passing celebritiesshine on it - old-fashioned. It Vivika DeNegre has curated a collection of patterns from today''heritage'' and ''tradition''s top designers. The As a word of warning, if you read ''British Airways Colouring BookModern Patchwork Magazine'' is based on exclusive posters, photographs and artwork from the companyyou may well find that there's archives and nothing new in the 46 images allow book, but if you're new to the reader magazine this could well prove to recreate these as they wish. There's be a bonus too: on the facing page of each image there's a potted history. I passed delightful collection from the book to someone with an interest in BA and he found the book interesting and informative ''without'' even thinking of doing any colouringback catalogue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144566612X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca JonesPallant_Star|title=The Colouring Star Wars Millennium Falcon Book of Cards and Envelopes: A Year of CelebrationsMega Model|author=Katrina Pallant and Neal Manning

|summary=I enjoy colouring: I find it relaxing and satisfying, but most colouring books have one big snag for me. When you've finished, what use is what you've done? If I'm investing quite a bit One of time in producing something, I like it to be useful. I'm a bit the unexpected results of making a puritan about such matters! It was therefore something of a relief when I found ''The Colouring Book of Cards rough-and Envelopes: A Year of Celebrations'' - and before anyone starts to be pedantic about ready sci-fi film back in the title1970s, you do get to colour was that George Lucas left a whole generation capable of spelling Millennium. In amongst all the envelope too; in fact you colour iconic inventions for the inside film, his design team left him – and the outside us – with a very loveable, very fast and all four faces of the cardsvery asymmetrical space ship. There are even some stickers for you to seal How is it balanced when the envelope.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857638564</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jody Revenson|title=Incredibuilds: Buckbeak: Deluxe Model and Book Set (Harry Potter)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=The general perception cockpit is stuck out one side? What is that dish-like array doing on what seems to become a leading British actoract as the top? And where can you get your own? Well, you need beyond the fillip rarity and great cost of Eton or somesuch education. But you don't have to be an actor to make a great film. ''Gravity'' for instance has extended scenes where the only thing natural is the performers' faces – everything elseLego model, even their bodies, was made in Britain by people using computers. The eight ''Harry Potter'' films, also made in the UKI can at least provide one answer to those three pertinent questions, needed a lot of computing power as well, but also a lot of craftsmen with their hands on tools and a keen eyethat answer is… here. 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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jody RevensonMcLelland_Press|title=Incredibuilds: Aragog: Deluxe Model and Book Set (Harry Potter)|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Aragog the giant spider, don't you know, took six man years just to build, and weighed a ton. After countless trial models and pieces of visual design work, he could finally be constructed, and he stretched across eighteen feet of the studio floor. Or, conversely, he is about seven inches long and seven wide, and you put him together in a day or two, for the cost of this book-and-gift set Press Out and some craft paints.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707240</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jody Revenson|title=IncredibuildsDecorate: House-Elves: Deluxe Book and Model Set (Harry Potter)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=How do you create a house-elf like Dobby? Well, you have a tennis ball on a string, and point actors so they look at it, and say their lines to a pretty-much empty space. You then film Toby Jones doing the elf'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 Potter'' films. You can throw in a few puppets, and now and again a gifted small person, particularly at the end of film #7… Or, of course, you can get this gift set, and press the wooden parts out, muckle them together – and lo and behold, a six inch tall Dobby for your windowsill.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707070</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewUnicorns|author=Vladimir Aleksic and Kate Ware|title=Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol: A Colouring ClassicMcLelland

|summary=It's the weekend and I'A Christmas Carol'' has always ve been my favourite book by Charles Dickensindulging myself. Perhaps it's the fact that itThere's something about a unicorn which appeals to me and a novella rather than the usual brick little bit of research into a bookof press-out unicorns, but the plotting has always clouds and rainbows seemed tighter and like the story more fast moving. I also like ideal way to idea of Ebenezer Scrooge not so much getting his comeuppance as his seeing the error of his waysspend a Saturday morning. I've read You get twenty designs in the book and seen numerous film adaptations - now Ithey're all decorated with pink foil: even if you don't want to add any further colouring they've had re still going to look great, but because the pages are a substantial card you have the opportunity to do some relaxing colouring of scenes from the classic storyuse crayons, felt tips or even paints to add your own personal touch. Was it fun?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848695411</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Bonnie BurtonV&A_Embroidery|title=Crafting with FeminismEmbroidery: 25 Girl-Powered Projects to Smash the PatriarchyA Maker's Guide|author=Victoria and Albert Museum

|summary=For far too long it has been accepted that men will have free choice as to what they do and that women will somehow accommodate and adjust around them. ItIn ''Embroidery: A Maker's been a hard fight to Guide'' we get to where we are now - and there's still a way brief introduction to gothe craft by James Merry, particularly when you read the [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/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 Davisembroidery artist, but information on the cause cantools you't always be moved forward by being deadly seriousll need, no matter how serious materials you can utilise and a guide to the cause: sometimes what stitches you need is a little 'll be using. If you'whimsy'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 could be an ideal starting point. We might take There are over 230 glorious photographs (of items from the V&A collections) and illustrations covering 15 styles of embroidery and giving all the cause seriously, but we doninformation and designs you't take ourselves too seriouslyll need for 15 projects. And besides, what's better than to unleash your creativity?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594749272</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca JonesV&A_Patchwork|title=The Colouring Book of Cards Patchwork and Quilting: A Maker's Guide|author=Victoria and Envelopes - ChristmasAlbert Museum|rating=4.5

|summary=Have Patchwork is a magical craft: you ever opened can take relatively small pieces of material and turn them into another piece of material with an entirely different pattern. Quilting converts a Christmas card topper and had a sense of deja vu? It might be that you've already had backing fabric with some wadding in between into a couple just like this one (it's one fabric of the more popular ones being sold by M&S this yearan entirely different weight...) or you recognise it Combine the design which a major charity sold ''last'' Christmas - two crafts 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 lovelyhave something more than magical, occasionally fashionable but not everyone has the skills and if you buy them they're a frightening pricealways deeply satisfying. But I've just discovered a relaxingwhere to start, satisfying way when there are so many different styles of producing individual cards at a reasonable price: both crafts? One answer is to read ''The Colouring Book of Cards Patchwork and EnvelopesQuilting: ChristmasA Maker's Guide''which looks - as the cover says - at styles from Italian trapunto to Korean jogakbo and then delivers fifteen projects inspired by the V&A collections.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857637266</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Molly Manners and Alex WorrallBM_Origami|title=The Mindless Colouring Book: Art Therapy Exclusively Available to Anyone with £8.99|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=Can I let you into a secret? Promise not to tell anyoneOrigami, but I do wonder if a lot of adult colouring books are not just a little bit too ''worthy''. They're all very intricate Poems and rewarding when you've finished, but I was chatting to someone recently who mentioned that it might take generations to complete her colouring book. I mean, where's the ''fun'' in that? When I relax I want to have a good time, enjoy myself and feel better at the end of it. A good laugh wouldn't go amiss. Anyone disagree with that? I thought not.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722958</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewPictures|author=Sarah Walsh|title=The Colouring Book of Beautiful Gift Boxes: Christmas British Museum

|summary=When Sometimes you give find a small gift, it's often difficult to wrap it appropriatelydelight of a book. If you wrap a small object, On an afternoon when it looks was unseasonably cold and decidedly wet I discovered ''insignificantOrigami, Poems and Pictures'' and if you've gone I was transported to Japan. As the trouble of finding the appropriate gift for someone thattitle suggests we's the last thing you want. If you pad it out a little, it ends up re looking like a game of pass at three celebrated arts and crafts: the parcel. You can, ancient art of coursepaper folding, buy a gift box but they're expensive for what they are haiku poetry and they're hardly individualpainting. The answer lies in ''The Colouring Book of Beautiful Gift Boxes: Christmas'I'. The cover price is £9.99, so ll confess that works out at less than 42p for each of it was the 24 boxes which - as you're colouring it - will be unique.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857638033</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Zoe Ingram|title=Press Out and Colour: Birds|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=Ten beautiful birds origami which start life as detailed line illustrations by Zoe Ingram are then coloured in by anyone of any age who is capable of having reasonable control of a felt-tip pen or a crayon. You've got to remember to do both the back and the front and whilst it would be nice if they matched it's in no way essential. If you're skillful, so much the bettercaught my attention, but I was surprised by the designs are decorated with foil which catches the light and gives that sheen extent to which you see on the edges rest of birds' feathers. When you've finished colouring you gently press the pieces out from the pagebook caught my imagination. I experimented We begin with pressing them out first something very simple: a boat and then colouring, but the pieces were easier to colour actually in the page.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857637673</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Kelsey Elam|title= 100 Simple Paper Flowers|rating= 5|genre= Crafts|summary=case you''100 Simple Paper Flowers'' is an easy-to-follow guide to creating impressive floral artworks that could almost be mistaken for re worried, all the real thing. Whether it is a craft project, something to brighten up entries have a room, or a full-on display for a big event, the book has plenty degree of styles and designs to fit the occasion. And unlike real flowers, your paper creations will never die.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782403086</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Elisabetta Stoinich|title=Emily Brontedifficulty (from 's Wuthering Heights: A Colouring Classic|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=simple'through to 'Wuthering Heights'tricky' ) and this one is one of the classics which has stood the test of time. At at the time of its publication in December 1847 reviews were mixed, not least because of the start depictions of mental and physical cruelty and it certainly wasn't in line with how Victorians felt that life should be lived. But the book hung in there and before long it was considered superior to Emily Bronte's sister Charlotte's ''Jane Eyre''lowest level. There have been films, adaptations and now - a colouring book. 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>