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<!-- Pallant -->{{Frontpage|isbn=0811771741|title=InstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=4*[[image:Pallant_Star.jpg|leftgenre=Crafts|linksummary=https://wwwMelissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets.amazon Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the fire' variety.co The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours.uk/gp/product/1405285222?ie All the projects are attractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=UTF8&tag1635866243|title=thebookbag-21&linkCodeThe Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook|author=as2&campKristina McGrath and Sarah Walworth |rating=1634&creative4.5|genre=6738&creativeASINCrafts|summary=1405285222]]''I quickly discovered that putting words and numbers on a page wasn't enough. Creating a pattern that was correct, clear, concise, and consistent required a great deal of trial and error, patience, and perseverance.'' (Introduction byFrancoise Danoy)

A friend recently showed me a knitting pattern for which she'd paid good money. The first line of the instructions began: ''Cast off 100 stitches...'' It was clear that no good could come of this - the instructions didn't 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, but the creator didn't have the basic knowledge and skills to enable her to connect with her knitters. She should have read ''The Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook''.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529507987|title=The Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)|rating=[[Star Wars Millennium Falcon Book 4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=I love ''The Repair Shop''. It's my go-to programme when I want to be cheered up. After a hard day, there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. You see, the value is in what these possessions are worth to the people who own them and the memories they hold. No expense appears to be spared and the experts spend as much time and Mega Model by Katrina Pallant effort as is required to achieve the desired result. Regular viewers know the experts and Neal Manning]]they're all brilliant at explaining what it is they're doing. But how did they start?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0760379912|title=Super Easy Quilting for Beginners|author=Editors of Quarry Books|rating=4|genre=Crafts[[image|summary=I learned patchworking from necessity:4old or outgrown clothes needed to be turned into something new and 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.5star I needed something a little more stylish than my usual buttons or knots.jpg ''Super Easy Quilting for Beginners'' seemed like a good place to start. So, how did it stack up?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0760379874|title=Super Easy Knitting for Beginners|linkauthor=Category:{{{Carri Hammett|rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crafts=4.5|genre=Crafts]] One of |summary=I learned to knit in the unexpected results nineteen-fifties: it wasn't a choice, it was a requirement. Girls learned to knit and to embroider and boys did wood and metal work. My knitting wa accompanied by a lot of making criticism and quite a few tears: it was a rough-and-ready sci-fi film back long time before I realised that there was pleasure to be had in the 1970s, skill. Nearly seventy years later it's the only thing that keeps my hands at all supple. The turning point was that George Lucas left a whole generation capable of spelling Millennium. In amongst booklet published by Patons which gave all the iconic inventions basics and some patterns. I've been looking for something simple to recommend to people who'd like to master the filmskill. So, his design team left him – and us – with a very loveablehow did ''Super Easy Knitting For Beginners'' work out?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0760373531|title=Cozy Knits: 30 Hat, Mitten, very fast Scarf and very asymmetrical space ship. How is it balanced when Sock Projects from Around the cockpit is stuck out one side? What is World|author=Sue Flanders|rating=5|genre=Crafts|summary=Just occasionally you encounter a book of knitting patterns that dish-like array doing on what seems to act as the top? And where can you get meet your own? Wellevery need. Right now, beyond the rarity it's bitterly cold and great cost of we're in the Lego modelsandwich filling between two storms: I need socks, I can at least provide one answer scarves, hats and mittens. They have to those three pertinent questionslook stylish, keep me warm and be so cheerful that answer is… herethey make me feel better. [[Star Wars Millennium Falcon Book If that sounds like a lot to ask, have a look at ''Cozy Knits'': it has thirty designs for those necessary items and Mega Model I don't think that there was one of them which I couldn't see myself wearing. We start with an introduction by Katrina Pallant and Neal Manning|Full Review]]<br>Nancy Bush which gives some of the history of knitting. It's not essential but it's a nice extra.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate McLelland0760373558|title=Press Out and Decorate: UnicornsNordic Knits|author=Sue Flanders

|summary=ItI was so delighted by Sue Flanders's [[Cozy Knits: 30 Hat, Mitten, Scarf and Sock Projects from Around the weekend and World by Sue Flanders|Cozy Knits]] that Ididn't need any persuading at all to pick up her ''Nordic Knits''ve been indulging myself. There's something about a unicorn which appeals to me This delivers forty-four patterns inspired by textiles and a little bit of research into a book of press-out unicornslocal traditions from Norway, clouds Sweden and rainbows seemed like the ideal way to spend a Saturday morningIceland. You get twenty designs in the book and they're all decorated with pink foil: even if you don't want to add any further colouring they're still going to look great, There are a few sweaters or jackets but because the pages majority of patterns are a substantial card you have the opportunity to use crayonsfor smaller items such as mittens, gloves, felt tips or even paints to add your own personal touchhats and bags. All are bright and cheerful and very cosy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788002172</amazonuk>

{{Frontpage<!-- Chou -->*[[image:Chou_Make.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1788000064?ie=UTF8&tagisbn=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1788000064]]1635864070 ===[[Make and Play: Nativity by Joey Chou]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|linktitle=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Non-Fiction|Children's Non-Fiction]], [[:Category:Crafts|Crafts]] I always feel a slight disappointment for children at Christmas when they're presented with a tree to decorate with a box of ornaments and a nativity scene (sometimes quite precious, so it's Not To Be Played With) which is set up Somewhere Safe. Where's the imagination, the creativity, the sense of pride Knit 2 Socks in that? How much better to have a child create their own nativity scene, which they can then play with? That's exactly what they get with Joey Chou's ''Make and Play Nativity''. [[Make and Play: Nativity by Joey Chou|Full Review]]<br> {{newreview1|author=Victoria and Albert Museum|title=Embroidery: A Maker's GuideSafiyyah Talley

|summary=In ''Embroidery: A Maker's Guide'If you'we get ve ever started knitting a brief introduction to pair of socks, finished the craft first one and either got bored by James Merrythe idea of doing the same thing all over again, embroidery artist, information or started on the tools second sock and lost the first before you'll needfinished it, materials you can utilise and a guide to this is the stitches book for you'll be using. If Where is it that single socks go to hide? Safiyyah Talley has developed a system that allows you're just thinking about starting embroidery and not certain which type will suit you best or someone who's experienced to knit two socks in one area but 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) , divide them up and illustrations covering 15 styles have a perfectly finished pair of embroidery socks. Sounds good? It's clever and giving all the information and designs you'll need for 15 projectswell-thought-out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500293279</amazonuk>

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===[[Patchwork and Quilting: A Maker's Guide by Victoria and Albert Museum]]==='If not now, when?''

[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crafts|Crafts]], [[:Category:Art|Art]] Patchwork is a magical craft: you can take relatively small pieces of material and I know that I'm not alone in having wondered whether or not I could turn them my hobby into another piece of material with an entirely different patterna business. Quilting converts There's a topper and a backing fabric with some wadding in between into a fabric lot of an entirely different weight. Combine the two crafts and you have something motivation to do so: I make more items than magical, occasionally fashionable but always deeply satisfying. But where to start, when we can sensibly use and there are so many different styles a lot of both crafts? One answer is people who have been delighted to read ''Patchwork and Quilting: A Maker's Guide'' which looks - accept what I make as gifts. Selling would offset the cover says - at styles from Italian trapunto to Korean jogakbo costs, which can be quite considerable and then delivers fifteen projects inspired by the V&A collections. [[Patchwork and Quilting: A Maker's Guide by Victoria and Albert Museum|Full Review]]<br> {{newreview|author=Eilidh Muldoon|title=Gift Boxes it could be fun to Colour and Make: A Year of Celebrations|rating=5|genre=Crafts|summary=Have you ever tried wrapping a small giftdo, or those handmade sweets or biscuits youcouldn've prepared for a friend? It's not easy is t it? If you use wrapping paper the gift tends But where to lose ''presence'' and once you start to use glass jars the gift becomes really quite expensive and less easy to transport. ? Do you find colouring relaxing and rewarding but somehow it feels just a little bit ''too'' indulgent if all you What do is turn I need to the next page and start colouring thatthink about? Would you get more out of it if you could use what you've coloured for Well, the first thing anyone who is considering turning a crafting hobby into a practical purpose? The ideal solution business should do is to both problems is read ''Gift Boxes to Colour and Make: A Year of CelebrationsMaking a Living'' by Eilidh Muldoon.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788000099</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre1635862353|title=Pug-a-Doodle-Do!The Sandalmaking Workshop|author=Rachel Corry

|summary=A sandal-making workshop? I couldn't really believe it, mainly because I 'd always thought that you'd need more equipment than the average home was reading a book so utterly different likely to this the other day, it has be able to bear mentioncontain but I was intrigued. It was an exceedingly academic book about graphic novels and comics for the YA audience, and it featured an essay picking up on the way books like the fillRachel Corry started sandal making accidentally -in-bits-yourself entries in the Wimpy Kid a small fire destroyed some of her shoes. One pair had come apart and Dork Diaries series (such as [[Dork Diaries: How to Dork Your Diary by Rachel Renee Russell|this one]]) let you interact with she could see how the franchise, and also sandal was constructed. Then she realised that she couldn't afford to create your own contentreplace all her shoes. There was some weird high-falutin' academic language Could she combine these two facts to describe such books – but you know whatcreate a new and worthwhile craft? I say (redacted) She showed quite a few people her first pair and they all either wanted to know how to that – letdo it - or if she's just hang it and have fund make them a pair. And this book, spinning off from the four books this partnership has so far been responsible for, is certainly a provider of thatA new career was born.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192764047</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca Jones1783784350|title=The Colouring Book of Cards and EnvelopesThis Golden Fleece: Unicorns and RainbowsA Journey Through Britain's Knitted History|author=Esther Rutter

|genre=CraftsHistory|summary=IIt was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in her office job, writing to people she've a problem with many colouring books for children: some initial effort goes into the colouring, but the chances are that little will be kept on a long-term basis d never met and preparing spreadsheets. The job frustrated her and it's even her knitting did not particularly satisfyingsoothe her mind. How much better January was going to be a time for making changes and she decided that she would it be if travel the length and breadth of the colouring produced something which could be sent to someone elseBritish Isles with occasional forays abroad, who would appreciate that itdiscovering and telling the story of wool's unique history and that effort how it had made and care has gone into changed the card? landscape. How much better to give She'd grown up on a sheep farm in Suffolk - '' a free range child something like on the farm''The Colouring Book of Cards - and learned to spin, knit and Envelopes: Unicorns weave from her mother and Rainbowsher mother'' than an ordinary colouring book which will soon be discarded?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788000897</amazonuk>s friend. This was in her blood.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Matilda TristramChou_Make|title= My Year in Small DrawingsMake and Play: 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 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>}}{{newreviewNativity|author=Thomas Flintham|title=Around the World Colouring BookJoey Chou|rating=45

|summary=Colouring books are I always feel a useful way slight disappointment for children at Christmas when they're presented with a tree to relax, develop manual dexterity decorate with a box of ornaments and explore coloura nativity scene (sometimes quite precious, but in the dash to appeal to the child so many miss the opportunity to be gently educational it''and'' to still appeal to the youngs Not To Be Played With) which is set up Somewhere Safe. The two are not mutually exclusive! Look for instance at this colouring book: itWhere's got page upon page the imagination, the creativity, the sense of pictures pride in that? How much better to colour (with just have a little narrative to set the child create their own nativity scene) , which they can then play with the added attraction of four pages of stickers. ? YouThat'll see grey shapes - s exactly what they get with Joey Chou's ''Make and thatPlay Nativity''s the signal to get stickering!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788000005</amazonuk>.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gavin Rutherford and Tanya Batrak099334030X|title=Rainforest Masks: Ten 3D Rainforest Masks to Press Out Can You Draw the Dragosaur?|author=Peter Lynas and MakeCharlie Roberts

|summary=I have been having the most tremendous fun making rainforest masks: you know the effect that you You're going to get when a really talented face artist does a young childhint of what this book's face and about very quickly. When you ''seethe title page, you'll find out what the book' the tiger? Well, this is an even better result s called and that it's in 3Dbeen written by Peter Lynas. All Then we move on to who has done the creatures are, as you would expect, from the rainforest regions of the world, but illustration - and there's decidedly more here than the usual suspectsa gap. ''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'' are going to put your name there. Never heard of some of them? Well, donIt's ''your''t worry: responsibility to provide the pictures for this book is gently educational, with a paragraph telling you just enough about one of the largest creatures ever to roam the creatureearth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782404430</amazonuk> There's some help available, but your name is on the title page - and you have work to do!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emil Fortune and Neal Manning1635860334|title=Star Wars: Imperial Assault Activity Book and Model (Star Wars Construction Books)Why We Quilt|author=Thomas Knauer

|summary=Bobby, my U-Wing model, I've often wondered about the story that patchwork quilting began as a way for women (and myth would have it that it was feeling lonelyalways women) to make an extra blanket out of material which would otherwise go to waste. Sure, he had a few select critters from Harry Potter on his shelf, This undoubtedly ''did'' happen but nothing else from his world. Luckilywhen you think about it, now he has you need an awful lot of material to make a companionquilt and the time could have been better spent if all that was required was bedding. Unluckily, howeverLike Thomas Knauer, itI's a baddy – one of the AT-ST Scout Walkers those nasty Empire people like ve come to use to stride around and attack the good rebels. But conclusion that aside, it is a very handsome companionbegan as an art and has largely continued down that same road with fluctuations in popularity over the years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405285389</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim Hopgood1419726625|title=Doodle DogsThe Mitten Handbook: Best in ShowKnitting Recipes to Make Your Own|author=Mary Scott Huff|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrafts|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'Doodle Dogsre not something you regularly see in shops, so I knew that if I wanted new pairs I would have to knit them myself. Well, actually, that'' introduces a wide variety s my rationalisation of artistic styles through the idea of a dog show! situation: in truth, I love knitting mittens. Tim Hopgood shows us different kinds of dogsThey have just enough technique to make them satisfying, all plenty of which can be created very easily, quick work and you soon find that doodling a dog can be pair of warm mittens in a lot more detailedfew days. Patterns, and interesting, than though - where do you perhaps previously appreciated!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509820817</amazonuk>get them from?

{{Frontpage<!-- BM-->[[image:BM_Origami.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0857639382?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0857639382]] ===[[Origami, Poems and Pictures by The British Museum]]==isbn=1621137775 [[image:5star.jpg|linktitle=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crafts|Crafts]], [[Handbag Workshop:Category:Art|Art]] 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 Design 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 Sew 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. [[Origami, Poems and Pictures by The British Museum|Full Review]]<br> {{newreviewPerfect Bag|author=Warner Brothers|title=Harry Potter Colouring Book Celebratory Edition: The Best of Harry Potter colouringAnna M Mazur

|summary=Imagine pages and pages I love handbags, but I resent paying the prices demanded by manufacturers of images from the Harry Potter books and films for you to colour as you wish'good' bags. You ''might'' have seen some of the images before - Additionally, I know often find a bag I have - as they've appeared in like but the colour/shape/size/capacity/internal layout isn't 'Harry Potter Colouring Book'', ''Harry Potter Magical Creatures Colouring Bookquite''what I had in mind, so I end up spending rather a lot of money and compromising. The solution is to make my own bags and whilst I was confident about sewing fabric bags, I was nervous about using leather, not least because leather isn''Harry Potter Magical Places t very forgiving when it comes to mistakes and Characters Colouring Bookit'', but there are several exclusive never-before-seen images which will please the collector of Harry Potter memorabilias usually more expensive than fabric. I needed help. If youAnna Mazur're s ''The Handbag Workshop'' came to me free through NetGalley 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 bookreturn for an unbiased review.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783708255</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alice Bowsher1632506386|title=LiftThe Knitter's Dictionary: Knitting Know-the-Flap and Colour: OceanHow from A to Z|author=Kate Atherley

|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrafts|summary=When you think about itI've been knitting for well over sixty years, itfollowing patterns of varying complexity with success. I's quite startling that oceans cover most of our planet ve knit Aran sweaters, socks by the dozen and theyI're home m currently knitting blankets for a charity to nearly half of all species, apart from humanssell. We donThere hasn't know a lot about the oceans either - less than 5% of the area has been explored, but it is an area of outstanding beauty. With Alice Bowsheroccasion when I've been stuck and people have often come to ''me'' for help when 's 'they'Lift-the-Flap and Colour: Oceanve'' children as young as two have the opportunity to do a little exploration and to colour their own picturesbeen stuck. The flaps are Would a stroke knitter's dictionary really be of genius: when we look at the sea we see little more than the movement any help to me? I was surprised by just how much I got out of the water, but how different it would be if you could see a little of what is going on underneath.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809294</amazonuk>

{{Frontpage<!-- Ljung -->[[image:Ljung_Butterfly.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1847809154?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&campisbn=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1847809154]]1440248850 ===[[Build a ... Butterfly by Kiki Ljung]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|linktitle=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Modern Patchwork Home:Category:Children's Non-Fiction|Children's Non-Fiction]], [[:Category:Animals and Wildlife|Animals and Wildlife]], [[:Category:Crafts|Crafts]] I love butterflies: they're one of the delights of my garden and it's always a pleasure when there are children there Dynamic Quilts and they see a butterfly close up, possibly Projects for the first time, as it rests on a flower. Kiki Ljung has given us the opportunity to learn about butterflies and also to build a 3D model of our own. The book 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 lady. I learned quite a bit too! [[Build a ... Butterfly by Kiki Ljung|Full Review]]<br> {{newreviewEvery Room|author=Katie Scott and Kathy Willis|title=Botanicum Activity BookVivika DeNegre (Editor)

|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 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 shine on it - old-fashioned. Vivika DeNegre has curated a collection of patterns from today's top designers. As a word of warning, if you read 'Botanicum Activity Book'Modern Patchwork Magazine'. Don't be misled by the suggestion you may well find that there's nothing new in the book is aimed at , but if you're new to the magazine this could well prove to be a delightful collection from the back catalogue.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Pallant_Star|title=Star Wars Millennium Falcon Book and Mega Model|author=Katrina Pallant and Neal Manning|rating=4.5|genre=Crafts|summary=One of the sevenunexpected results of making a rough-and-plus age group: there's plenty ready sci-fi film back in here the 1970s, was that George Lucas left a whole generation capable of spelling Millennium. In amongst all the iconic inventions for anyone who the film, his design team left him – and us – with a very loveable, very fast and very asymmetrical space ship. How is it balanced when the cockpit is stuck out one side? What is still capable that dish-like array doing on what seems to act as the top? And where can you get your own? Well, beyond the rarity and great cost of holding a pen or pencilthe Lego model, I can at least provide one answer to those three pertinent questions, and that answer is… here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783706791</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DKMcLelland_Press|title=Forest Life Press Out and Woodland CreaturesDecorate: Unicorns|author=Kate McLelland

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Crafts|summary=This book knows that if youIt're going to learn about forest life and s the animals, plants weekend and trees in it, then youI're only going to be itching to go and explore the woods for yourselfve been indulging myself. ItThere's for something about a very young audience, so always expects an adult hand unicorn which appeals to guide you – but provides me and a little bit of research into a warm companion itself through several quick and easy tasksbook of press-out unicorns, clouds and rainbows seemed like the ideal way to spend a few lessonsSaturday morning. The balance between carrot You get twenty designs in the book and stickthey're all decorated with pink foil: even if you don't want to add any further colouring they're still going to look great, or duty and reward, is great – but what exactly is because the pages are a substantial card you have the edutainment going opportunity to provideuse crayons, and what will it demand of us?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241273110</amazonuk>felt tips or even paints to add your own personal touch.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DKV&A_Embroidery|title=Sharks Embroidery: A Maker's Guide|author=Victoria and Other Sea CreaturesAlbert Museum

|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrafts|summary=Never before have I found much cause In ''Embroidery: A Maker's Guide'' we get a brief introduction to point out the sort of lower-casecraft by James Merry, embroidery artist, almost-a-subtitle wording information on the front of tools you'll need, materials you can utilise and a 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 bookcould be an ideal starting point. I say that because very little There are over 230 glorious photographs (of items from the V&A collections) and illustrations covering 15 styles of this embroidery and giving all the information and designs you'll need for 15 projects.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=V&A_Patchwork|title=Patchwork and Quilting: A Maker's Guide|author=Victoria and Albert Museum|rating=4.5|genre=Crafts|summary=Patchwork is about sharks – so if a magical craft: you can take relatively small pieces of material and turn them into another piece of material with an entirely different pattern. Quilting converts a topper and a backing fabric with some wadding in between into a fabric of an entirely different weight. Combine the two crafts and you have a youngster intending 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 ''Patchwork and Quilting: A Maker's Guide'' which looks - as the cover says - at styles from Italian trapunto to come here Korean jogakbo and learn all their bloodthirsty imagination can hold, then they may well be disappointeddelivers fifteen projects inspired by the V&A collections. If }}{{Frontpage|isbn=BM_Origami|title=Origami, Poems and Pictures|author=The British Museum|rating=5|genre=Crafts|summary=Sometimes you take find a delight of a book. On an afternoon when it on board that was unseasonably cold and decidedly wet I discovered ''Origami, Poems and Pictures'' and I was transported to Japan. As the title suggests we'other sea creaturesre looking at three celebrated arts and crafts: the ancient art of paper folding, haiku poetry and painting. I' make up ll confess that it was the bulk origami which caught my attention, but I was surprised by the extent to which the rest of the bookcaught my imagination. We begin with something very simple: a boat and in case you're worried, then all well and good. And even better, if you expect yourself to the entries have a degree of difficulty (from 'simple'makethrough to 'tricky' ) and this one is at the bulk of said creatures…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241274389</amazonuk>lowest level.