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|author=Victoria and Albert Museum
|title=Patchwork and Quilting: A Maker's Guide
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crafts
|summary=Patchwork is 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 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 Korean jogakbo and then delivers fifteen projects inspired by the V&A collections.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500293260</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Eilidh Muldoon
|summary=When you give a small gift, it's often difficult to wrap it appropriately. If you wrap a small object, it looks ''insignificant'' and if you've gone to the trouble of finding the appropriate gift for someone that's the last thing you want. If you pad it out a little, it ends up looking like a game of pass the parcel. You can, of course, buy a gift box but they're expensive for what they are and they're hardly individual. The answer lies in ''The Colouring Book of Beautiful Gift Boxes: Christmas''. The cover price is £9.99, so that works out at less than 42p for each of the 24 boxes which - as you're colouring it - will be unique.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857638033</amazonuk>
}}
