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|author= Bonnie Burton
|title=Crafting with Feminism: 25 Girl-Powered Projects to Smash the Patriarchy
|rating=4
|genre=Crafts
|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. It's been a hard fight to get to where we are now - and there's still a way to go, 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 Davis, but the cause can't always be moved forward by being deadly serious, no matter how serious the cause: sometimes what you need is a little ''whimsy''. We might take the cause seriously, but we don't take ourselves too seriously. And besides, what's better than to unleash your creativity?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594749272</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Rebecca Jones
|summary=I wouldn't normally find the idea of children's clothes with a national theme appealing as it's all too easy for them to look like fancy dress and kids can be all too picky about something like that. If you're going to put the effort into making something then you want it to be worn! But - I took one look at those two kids on the cover of 'Sew Japanese' - and I liked what I saw. There's a distinctive style but what comes across most of all is that they're clothes that kids can play ''in'' and feel comfortable ''with''.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909397407</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=David Esterly
|title=The Lost Carving: A Journey to the Heart of Making
|rating=4
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Bouncing between his studio in upstate New York and the sites of various English sojourns, woodcarver David Esterly's seems to be an idyllic existence. Yet it's not all cosy cottages in the snow and watching geese and coyotes when he looks up from his workbench. There is an element of hard-won retreat from the trials of life in this memoir, but at the same time there is an argument for the essential difficulty of the artist's life. 'Carvers are starvers,' a wizened English carver once told him. Certainly there is no great fortune to be won from a profession as obscure as limewood carving, but the rewards outweigh the hard graft for Esterly.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649191</amazonuk>
}}