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[[Category:New Reviews|Crafts]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elisabetta Stoinich0811771741|title=Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights: A Colouring ClassicInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman
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|summary=Melissa Leapman's ''Wuthering HeightsInstaKnits for Baby'' is one gives us a collection of the classics which has stood the test of timeknits from toys to blankets. At Some will be quick knits - others are of the time of its publication 'long, cosy afternoons in December 1847 reviews were mixed, not least because front of the start depictions of mental and physical cruelty and it certainly wasnfire't in line with how Victorians felt that life should be livedvariety. But The projects are divided by the book hung in there time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and before long it was considered superior to Emily Bronte's sister Charlotte's ''Jane Eyre''more than twenty hours. There have been filmsAll the projects are attractive, adaptations modern and now useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media- a colouring bookworthy projects' but that's me being picky. 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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1635866243|title=The Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook|author=Chellie CarrollKristina McGrath and Sarah Walworth |rating=4.5|genre=Crafts|summary=''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=Bram StokerThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)|rating=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 Dracula: A Colouring Classicnothing 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 effort as is required to achieve the desired result. Regular viewers know the experts and 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
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|summary=There's no choice in the matter - you're going back to Transylvania in the late nineteenth century, to follow Dracula's attempts to move I learned patchworking from necessity: old or outgrown clothes needed to England in search of be turned into something new blood and to spread the undead curseusable when I was in my twenties. Only this time youIt would be a while before it became a pleasure rather than a chore but I're not reading Bram Stoker's classic, but using pens and crayons in this colouring classic full of bloodthirsty vampires, gothic patterns, dramatic landscapes and nightmarish figuresve never felt completely at home with quilting. I needed something a little more stylish than my usual buttons or knots. It's eerie, it's dramatic and itSuper Easy Quilting for Beginners''s great seemed like a good funplace to start.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184869329X</amazonuk> So, how did it stack up?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Kidby0760379874|title=Terry Pratchett's Discworld Colouring BookSuper Easy Knitting for Beginners|author=Carri Hammett
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|summary=It was Sir Terry Pratchett whose chose Paul Kidby as artist for ''The Last World'' and the covers of I learned to knit in the nineteen-fifties: it wasn''Discworld'' novels from 2002 onwards and t a choice, it was a marriage made in heaven, with the one complementing the otherrequirement. Kidby himself says that designing the characters with pencil Girls learned to knit and to embroider and paint ''challenged boys did wood and amused him beyond measuremetal work.'' The writing conjured clear imagery My knitting wa accompanied by a lot of criticism and quite a few tears: it was his job a long time before I realised that there was pleasure to capture be had in the humour and richly-textured stories on paperskill. Kidby and Pratchett shared interests in nature, folklore, science and history as well as a love of Monty Python and Nearly seventy years later it's the bizarre and to only thing that keeps my eyes hands at least the result all supple. The turning point was more, far more, than a booklet published by Patons which gave all the sum of basics and some patterns. I've been looking for something simple to recommend to people who'd like to master the partsskill.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473217474</amazonuk> So, how did ''Super Easy Knitting For Beginners'' work out?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=LucasFilm0760373531|title=Star WarsCozy Knits: Colouring By Numbers30 Hat, Mitten, Scarf and Sock Projects from Around the World|author=Sue Flanders|rating=45
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|summary=I've never had any talent as an artist: I once earned the comment from an art teacher Just occasionally you encounter a book of knitting patterns that I would struggle seems to draw a straight line with a rulermeet your every need. Right now, but it's something bitterly cold and we're in the sandwich filling between two storms: I've need socks, scarves, hats and mittens. always wanted They have to look stylish, keep me warm and be able to doso cheerful that they make me feel better. For If that sounds like a while in my teens I was seduced by oil-painting-by-numbers kitslot to ask, which promised to allow me to produce paintings of horses grazing in the fields or boats have a look at anchor in the harbour. In fact all I ''really'' produced was a mess - literally Cozy Knits'': it has thirty designs for those necessary items andI don't think that there was one of them which I couldn' artisticallyt see myself wearing. I've had slightly more success We start with adult colouring books, providing that they didn't require too much skill, although I did succeed in establishing that Benedict Cumberbatch would not look good [[Sherlock: The Mind Palace: The Official Colouring Book an introduction by Mike Collins|with a spray tan]]Nancy Bush which gives some of the history of knitting. If I was going to produce anything worth looking at then I needed It's not essential but it's a great deal of help with shadingnice extra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405284781</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Coco Balderrama and Laura Coulman0760373558|title=David Bowie: Starman: A Colouring BookNordic Knits|author=Sue Flanders
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|summary=David BowieI was so delighted by Sue Flanders's death in January 2016 came as a shock to me[[Cozy Knits: we were much of an age 30 Hat, Mitten, Scarf and heSock Projects from Around the World by Sue Flanders|Cozy Knits]] that I didn'd always seemed so t need any persuading at all to pick up her ''vitalNordic Knits''. But his final album, ''Blackstar''This delivers forty-four patterns inspired by textiles and local traditions from Norway, seemed to foretell his death Sweden and was Iceland. There are a commercial successfew sweaters or jackets but the majority of patterns are for smaller items such as mittens, coming in at number one in the UK Top 100 Albums Chartgloves, hats and the ''David Bowie Is'' exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum is the most successful exhibition ever staged by the V&Abags. But what of a more relaxing memory of the man who was part genius All are bright and cheerful and part chameleon?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0859655504</amazonuk>very cosy.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Danielle Kroll and Nghiem Ta1635864070|title=Pattern Play: Cut, Fold and Make Your Own 3D Animal ModelsKnit 2 Socks in 1|author=Safiyyah Talley
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrafts|summary=HereIf you's ve ever started knitting a neat idea for you. Provide pages with animal prints on pair of socks, finished the first one side - only and either got bored by animal printsthe idea of doing the same thing all over again, I mean or started on the sort of colours second sock and pattern which lost the first before you see on animalsfinished it, not paw prints! Some are subtle and others are rather more in-your-face. On this is the reverse of these printed pages provide a cutting line so that book for you can cut and fold the paper and . Where is it becomes that single socks go to hide? Safiyyah Talley has developed a 3D model of an animal. Provide some stickers which replicate faces, tails or beaks - or whatever else you feel needs highlighting - and number these so system that they get into the right place. All allows you need to add to the mix is knit two socks in one, divide them up and have a perfectly finished pair of scissors, parental supervision if necessary for the cutting, a little imagination socks. Sounds good? It's clever and you have hours of funwell-thought-out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807321</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Handford1529393930|title=Where's WallyMaking a Living: The Colouring BookHow to Craft Your Business|author=Sophie Rochester
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrafts|summary=Are you looking for something relaxing, easy to complete and which will allow your mind to wander freely as you gently colour in ''Starting a pleasing design? Do you want to indulge your imagination and use the colours which tempt you at the momentcreative business has never been easier.'' ''If not now, content that it will not affect the finished creation? Would you like large spaces which you can shade in large swoops as it pleases you? Are you aiming for a soothing finished product which is easy on the eyewhen?''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Serge Bloch1635862353|title=3, 2, 1... Draw!The Sandalmaking Workshop|author=Rachel Corry
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrafts|summary=A sandal-making workshop? I cancouldn't draw. really believe it, mainly because I've never been d always thought that you'd need more equipment than the average home was likely to be able to drawcontain but I was intrigued. A blank sheet Rachel Corry started sandal making accidentally - a small fire destroyed some of paper and a pencil frightens meher shoes. I thought I One pair had come apart and she could see how the sandal was probably a little bit old to change my ways but then I discovered ''3, 2, 1constructed... Draw! Then she realised that she couldn'' and there might have been a movement within the tectonic plates of my braint afford to replace all her shoes. It's Could she combine these two facts to create a drawing book which isn't about blank pages: it's about imagination new and inspiration, with the worthwhile craft? She showed quite a few people her first encouraged pair and the second delivered by the barrow loadthey all either wanted to know how to do it - or if she'd make them a pair. I've just had more fun than I thought possible with pencil and paper!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807240</amazonuk>A new career was born.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Various Artists1783784350|title=Doctor WhoThis Golden Fleece: The Colouring BookA Journey Through Britain's Knitted History|author=Esther Rutter|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionHistory|summary=In my youth colouring books were popular for children: they helped It was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in her office job, writing to teach some valuable skills. But teachers, 'experts', thought that they stifled creativity and once youpeople she'd mastered being able to stick within the lines they were whisked away as being 'childish' never met and you were restricted to artistic completion of maps in geography or illustrations of experiments in sciencepreparing spreadsheets. The fact that colouring could be relaxing job frustrated her and fun had been forgotteneven her knitting did not soothe her mind. Fortunately times have changed: adults are encouraged January was going to relax be a time for making changes and she decided that she would travel the length and breadth of the British Isles with one of occasional forays abroad, discovering and telling the hundreds story of colouring books now available wool's history and how it had made and Ichanged the landscape. She'd grown up on a sheep farm in Suffolk - ''m delighted to see a resurgence of free range child on the idea for not just the youngest children but for those whofarm'' - and learned to spin, knit and weave from her mother and her mother're a bit older toos friend. This was in her blood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141367385</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mike CollinsChou_Make|title=SherlockMake and Play: The Mind Palace: The Official Colouring BookNativity|author=Joey Chou
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|summary=Colouring books I always feel a slight disappointment for adults are all the rage children at the moment 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 too easy to forget that adults are not Not To Be Played With) which is set up Somewhere Safe. Where's the only ones who benefit from imagination, the calmingcreativity, soothing therapy the sense of colouring or the improvement pride in hand-eye co-ordination that? How much better to have a child create their own nativity scene, which comes they can then play with practice. ? ChildrenThat's picture books have tended to be flimsier and not put together exactly what they get with quite such panache or by such well-known names, but we now have a childrenJoey Chou's colouring book to bridge the gap. ''Draw It! Colour It! CreaturesMake and Play Nativity'' has projects from 43 artists, well known in the field of children's book illustration, all packed together in a stylish book with flaps so that you're not going to lose your place.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447290704</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Hollis099334030X|title=Practical Landscape Painting: Materials, Techniques & Projects|rating=4.5|genre=Art|summary=Almost any of us can visit Can You Draw the countryside and capture the view in our memory or on our camera with comparatively consummate ease. However capturing it in paint is more difficult and yet something some of us (me included) dream of. It was therefore with great excitement that I picked up this compact book of seven lessons in landscape painting. As I believe (with good evidence) that I have the artistic ability of a house brick, it would be a challenge but I also have a dream to follow.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782402802</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDragosaur?|author=Teal Triggs and Daniel Frost|title=The School of Art: Learn How To Make Great Art With 40 Simple Lessons|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Written with an interesting approach, this book treats the reader as a new art student to The School of Art. The five professors of the school take the student through 40 different lessons, looking at a huge range of ideas right from how to draw a line, perspective and proportion, composition Peter Lynas and aesthetics. Aimed probably at senior school children it could, however, also be used by older primary children who are particularly interested in art, and if you were working through the book with your child then a younger child could also try out some of the lesson ideas and suggestions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806112</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lydia Crook|title=Christmas Paper PlayCharlie Roberts
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|summary=Christmas is a time of joy and goodwill You're going to all men, but it can also be get a time hint of bad weatherwhat this book's about very quickly. When you see the title page, of being stuck in you'll find out what the house book's called and feeling like you have nothing to dothat it's been written by Peter Lynas. The holiday period can need filling Then we move on to who has done the illustration - and for there's a crafty kid gap. ''You'' are going to put your name there are loads of activities that can be done simply by using paper; including creating their own decorations or making . It's ''your'' responsibility to provide the best letter they can pictures for Father Christmas. If only there was a handy this book that contained loads about one of great Christmas crafting ideas in one placethe largest creatures ever to roam the earth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782402470</amazonuk> There's some help available, but your name is on the title page - and you have work to do!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amber Anderson1635860334|title=The Little Book of Colouring: Animal KingdomWhy We Quilt|author=Thomas Knauer|rating=3.54
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|summary=After years of doing craft work which must be ''useful'', I've discovered often wondered about the relaxing benefits story that patchwork quilting began as a way for women (and myth would have it that it was always women) to make an extra blanket out of colouringmaterial which would otherwise go to waste. IThis undoubtedly ''did'm doing it to please me: it doesn't need to be perfect or functional. No one happen but me is going to judge the finished article. All when you think about it needs is to be done, slowly, peacefully and at my own pace. The choice you need an awful lot of colours is mine material to make a quilt and mine alonethe time could have been better spent if all that was required was bedding. If Like Thomas Knauer, I want 've come to drop the finished page into the paper recycling then conclusion that's my prerogative. It's sheer indulgence on paper, lasts longer than a bottle of wine it began as an art and does me more goodhas largely continued down that same road with fluctuations in popularity over the years. What's not to love about colouring?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784296457</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anastasia Catris1419726625|title=Colour Me MindfulThe Mitten Handbook: BirdsKnitting Recipes to Make Your Own|author=Mary Scott Huff
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|summary=About half a century ago I mentioned love mittens - they're so convenient and much easier to someone that colouring was relaxing get onto (and enjoyable and received off) cold hands than a lecture on my lack pair of creativity and willingness to use what other people had drawn for my own endsfiddly gloves. I still did colouring - at a time when there were considerable pressures They're not something you regularly see in my life over which shops, so I had no control - but it was just knew that it became my guilty secretif I wanted new pairs I would have to knit them myself. Now colouring is mainstream and thereWell, actually, that's a considerable range my rationalisation of design books to choose fromthe situation: in truth, I love knitting mittens. Orion They have published three by Anastasia Catris: this bookjust enough technique to make them satisfying, {{amazonurl|isbn=1409163067|title=Colour Me Mindful: Underwater}} plenty of quick work and {{amazonurl|isbn=1409163083|title=Colour Me Mindful: Tropical}}a pair of warm mittens in a few days. SoPatterns, how though - where do they stand out you get them from the crowd?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409163105</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eglantine de la Fontaine et al1621137775|title=My Magical OasisHandbag Workshop: Art Therapy Colouring Book for Creative MindsDesign and Sew the Perfect Bag|author=Anna M Mazur|rating=4.5
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|summary=It's not often I can review a book and mention how it changes your brainlove handbags, but that's apparently I resent paying the effect prices demanded by manufacturers of the colouring-in-for-adults phenomenon'good' bags. ThereAdditionally, I often find a bag I like but the colour/shape/size/capacity/internal layout isn't ''quite's a science behind it all that attests how alpha waves' what I had in mind, so I end up spending rather a slightly more childlike, accepting, relaxed form lot of brain activity, are used by our bonces when we colour – money and as opposed compromising. The solution is to the bravermake my own bags and whilst I was confident about sewing fabric bags, thinkingI was nervous about using leather, active beta waves theynot least because leather isn't very forgiving when it comes to mistakes and it're something the mind could do s usually more of, especially in this kinetic, plugged-in, 24/7 lifestyleexpensive than fabric. So whereas I normally review books to needed help my readers make their mind up, here I. Anna Mazur's ''The Handbag Workshop''m mentioning this volume because it allegedly would change your mindcame to me free through NetGalley in return for an unbiased review.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0859655350</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewplainFrontpage|isbn=1632506386|title=The Creative Colouring Book for GrownKnitter's Dictionary: Knitting Know-UpsHow from A to Z|author=Kate Atherley
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|summary=Johanna Basford was not the firstI've been knitting for well over sixty years, and nor was she an overnight following patterns of varying complexity with success. If youI're salivating over ve knit Aran sweaters, socks by the dozen and I'm currently knitting blankets for a charity to sell. There hasn't been an occasion when I've been stuck and people have often come to ''me'Enchanted Forest'for help when ', having finished her 'they'Secret Gardenve'', you are one of those many people indulging in the new/old hobby of adult colouring-in (adult perhaps only because her titles smack more of soft erotica than colouring-in books)been stuck. The hobby is rapidly killing off Sudoku as the pastime Would a knitter's dictionary really be of choice for many – either on the train or sitting with half an ear any help to the soaps. me? It's fun, it opens the mind to other thoughts in quite a meditative way, and I was surprised by just how much I got out of it needs no instructions – much like, again, Sudoku, even if newspapers persist in telling us them even when nobody on earth is left to need them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782433287</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucy Engelman1440248850|title=Field GuideModern Patchwork Home: Creatures Great Dynamic Quilts and Small (Field Guides)|rating=4.5|genre=Crafts|summary=Call me fuddy-duddy, but I have never seen the need to review a book via video – with Youtube and other sources becoming full of people giving their thoughts about the latest hot release the idea has never appealed to me, when there are also countless ways Projects for one to share opinions by old-fashioned written word. That is, of course, until now, and the phenomenon that is building rapidly – that of mature colouring-in books. Here at the Bookbag we can easily prove we've read every word of the books by being eloquent, informative and opinionated about what we examine, but even I admit four paragraphs regarding a picture book we ourselves have to finish off may leave some members of our audience wanting to see the results.Every Room|amazonukauthor=<amazonuk>184780635X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewplain|title=Gorgeous Colouring Book for Grown-UpsVivika DeNegre (Editor)
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|summary=SoThe problem with a craft which is largely based on traditional designs is that what results from your labours is also traditional, when I mentioned or - depending upon what light you shine on Facebook that I had a nice new grownit -up colouring book to review, I discovered a secret little group of friends who all confessed (instantly and with glee) that they have succumbed to the new relaxation craze of grownold-up colouring! fashioned. They had tales Vivika DeNegre has curated a collection of how tricky it was to stay inside of the lines, how long one picture could take, and how relaxing the whole thing ispatterns from today's top designers. I dug out my old tin As a word of pencilswarning, and settled down to give it a try.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782434461</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Paula Briggs|title=Drawing Projects for Children|rating=5|genre=Crafts|summary=if you read ''Drawing Projects for ChildrenModern Patchwork Magazine'' is a beautiful, full-colour guide you may well find that encourages children to use a range of materials to create stunning and thought-provoking artwork. As there's nothing new in the author points outbook, but if you're new to the end result is not always as important as the journey and magazine this book helps children could well prove to move away be a delightful collection from the more traditional, or 'safe' type of drawing styles and indulge in a little more experimentation and risk taking. The book is ideal for parents to use with their children, but each chapter is a self-contained lesson plan that facilitators and teachers can use with groupsback catalogue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908966742</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hannah DaviesPallant_Star|title=The Big Beautiful Colouring Star Wars Millennium Falcon Bookand Mega Model|author=Katrina Pallant and Neal Manning
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|summary=Although I have two small childrenOne of the unexpected results of making a rough-and-ready sci-fi film back in the 1970s, it's been was that George Lucas left a long time since I just sat and did any colouring by myselfwhole generation capable of spelling Millennium. Usually I am tasked with drawing various family members, or vehicles, or animalsIn amongst all the iconic inventions for the film, his design team left him – and then we colour them in together. This time I sat quietly by myself us – with a pack of my son's new colouring pencilsvery loveable, very fast and I quite happily passed a couple of hours colouring in!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780553498</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Anna Weltman|title=This very asymmetrical space ship. How is it balanced when the cockpit is stuck out one side? What is Not a Maths Book|rating=5|genre=Art|summary=I have that dish-like array doing on what seems to admitact as the top? And where can you get your own? Well, I wasn't a huge fan beyond the rarity and great cost of maths at school. Maybe if I'd had this book when I was a childthe Lego model, I would have been. 'This is not a Maths Book' cleverly bridges the gap between maths and art and teaches kids how can at least provide one answer to make beautiful patterns and shapes by using mathematical principles. We learn about parabolic curves, Pascal's triangle, the stomachionthose three pertinent questions, tesselation and 3D drawingsthat answer is… here. Because the pages are interactive and hands-on, kids are learning the rules of maths without realising it. After all, there is no reason why maths shouldn't be fun!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782402055</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mariko NakamuraMcLelland_Press|title=Sew JapanesePress Out and Decorate: Unicorns|author=Kate McLelland
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|summary=It's the weekend and I wouldn't normally find the idea of childrenve been indulging myself. There's clothes with something about a national theme appealing as it's all too easy for them unicorn which appeals to look like fancy dress me and a little bit of research into a book of press-out unicorns, clouds and kids can be all too picky about something rainbows seemed like that. If you're going to put the effort into making something then you want it ideal way to be worn! But - I took one look at those two kids on spend a Saturday morning. You get twenty designs in the cover of 'Sew Japanese' - book 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 ''all decorated withpink foil: even if you don't want to add any further colouring they're still going to look great, but because the pages are a substantial card you have the opportunity to use crayons, felt tips or even paints to add your own personal touch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909397407</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David EsterlyV&A_Embroidery|title=The Lost CarvingEmbroidery: A Journey to the Heart of MakingMaker's Guide|author=Victoria and Albert Museum
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|genre=AutobiographyCrafts|summary=Bouncing between his studio in upstate New York and In ''Embroidery: A Maker's Guide'' we get a brief introduction to the sites of various English sojournscraft by James Merry, embroidery artist, woodcarver David Esterlyinformation on the tools you's seems ll need, materials you can utilise and a guide to the stitches you'll be an idyllic existenceusing. Yet it If you're just thinking about starting embroidery and not certain which type will suit you best or someone who's not all cosy cottages experienced in the snow and watching geese and coyotes when he looks up from his workbenchone area but wanting to branch out this book could be an ideal starting point. There is an element are over 230 glorious photographs (of hard-won retreat items from the trials V&A collections) and illustrations covering 15 styles of life in this memoir, but at embroidery and giving all the same time there is an argument for the essential difficulty of the artistinformation and designs you'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 ll need for Esterly15 projects.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649191</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Excavate! Dinosaurs: Paper Toy PaleontologyV&A_Patchwork|authortitle=Jonathan Tennant, Vladamir Nikolov Patchwork and Charlie Simpson|rating=5|genre=ChildrenQuilting: A Maker's Non-FictionGuide|summaryauthor=I believe that it is now an established worldwide fact that dinosaurs are awesome. I have checked the latest edition of Nature Victoria and it would appear that this is definitely the case. Dinosaurs are without doubt the coolest creatures to have roamed the Earth. Do you know what makes them really great? The fact that that left fabulous fossils and brilliant bones behind. Any kid would love the chance to dig up some old bones and build their own dinosaur.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1612125204</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Beautiful Patterns|author=Various AuthorsAlbert Museum
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|summary=If Patchwork is a magical craft: you are going to make can take relatively small pieces of material and turn them into another piece of material with an entirely different pattern. Quilting converts a colouring book aimed at adults I say do it 100% topper and go all out. You can keep your minimalist landscapes or your naïve animals; give me a page packed to the gills backing fabric with something that needs filling some wadding inbetween into a fabric of an entirely different weight. This can make a creative colouring book for grownups feel Combine the two crafts and you have something more like a military operationthan 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 least you will have fun doing it styles from Italian trapunto to Korean jogakbo and improve your skillsthen delivers fifteen projects inspired by the V&A collections.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782432787</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=BM_Origami|title=The Paint BookOrigami, Poems and Pictures|author=Miri FlowerThe British Museum
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|summary=Craft blogger Miri Flower challenges bored children everywhere with her lovely new series Sometimes you find a delight of art books, which utilise basic materials that can be found in most homesa book. On an afternoon when it was unseasonably cold and decidedly wet I discovered ''The Paint BookOrigami, Poems and Pictures'' outlines seventy simple projects which encourage kids to get crafty and creative with paints. It's going I was transported to get messy, so house-proud parents turn away nowJapan...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>071123583X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|As the title=The Pencil Book|author=Miri Flower|rating=5|genre=Crafts|summary=Summer is almost over. Gone are the carefree days playing outdoors in the sunshine with friends. Here come the rainy days suggests we're looking at three celebrated arts and dark evenings, heralding the inevitable cry ofcrafts: ''I'm bored!''. Author and craft-blogger Miri Flower (fantastic name!) comes to the rescue ancient art of harassed parents everywhere with her new series of art books which encourage children to utilise simple materials to create fun games paper folding, haiku poetry and artworkpainting. I''The Pencil Book'' sees ll confess that it was the humble pencil takes centre stageorigami which caught my attention, with seventy projects but I was surprised by the extent to keep kids engaged and amusedwhich the rest of the book caught my imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0711235848</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Pauline Brown|title=The Complete Guide to Quilting TechniquesWe begin with something very simple: Essential Techniques and Step-by-Step Projects for Making Beautiful Quilts|rating=5|genre=Crafts|summary=''Quilting'' is a generic term covering patchwork, quilting itself and appliqué. All three require different skills boat and in case you'll find them re worried, all covered to the entries have a greater or lesser extent in this gorgeous book. Theredegree of difficulty (from 'simple's an introduction covering the origin of the skills - patchwork developing amongst the pioneer women of early America for whom it was an essential way of keeping their families warm, as did quilting and for much the same reason. Appliqué is rather more decorative and luxurious and the original appliqué quilts were made through to commemorate special occasions. Don't think that quilting tricky') and this one is a craft mired in at the past though - over my lifetime I've seen numerous developments and tried many of them for myselflowest level.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401679</amazonuk>
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