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[[Category:New Reviews|Crafts]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Vladimir Aleksic and Kate Ware0811771741|title=Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol: A Colouring ClassicInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman

|summary=Melissa Leapman's ''A Christmas CarolInstaKnits for Baby'' has always been my favourite book by Charles Dickensgives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Perhaps itSome will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the fire's variety. The projects are divided by the fact that ittime they's a novella rather ll take to complete - less than the usual brick of a bookfive hours, five to ten hours, but the plotting has always seemed tighter ten to twenty hours and the story more fast movingthan twenty hours. I also like to idea of Ebenezer Scrooge not so much getting his comeuppance as his seeing All the error of his waysprojects are attractive, modern and useable. Iperhaps show my age when I wonder about 've read the book and seen numerous film adaptations social-media- now Iworthy projects' but that've had the opportunity to do some relaxing colouring of scenes from the classic storys me being picky. Was it fun?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848695411</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Bonnie Burton1635866243|title=Crafting with Feminism: 25 Girl-Powered Projects to Smash the PatriarchyThe Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook|author=Kristina McGrath and Sarah Walworth |rating=4.5

|summary=For far too long it has been accepted ''I quickly discovered that men will have free choice as to what they do putting words and numbers on a page wasn't enough. Creating a pattern that women will somehow accommodate was correct, clear, concise, and consistent required a great deal of trial and error, patience, and adjust around themperseverance. It's been ' (Introduction byFrancoise Danoy) A friend recently showed me a hard fight to get to where we are now - and thereknitting pattern for which she's still a way to go, particularly when you read d paid good money. The first line of the [httpinstructions began://www''Cast off 100 stitches.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home'' It was clear that no good could come of this -news/philip-davies-feminists-cakethe instructions didn't get any better -and-eat-it-tory-mp-mens-rights-conference-anti-women-comments-a7187351(finally) PayPal obliged with a refund when the seller refused as she couldn't afford the repayment.html views] of people such as Member of Parliament Philip Davis The pattern looked pretty, but the cause cancreator didn't always be moved forward by being deadly serious, no matter how serious have the cause: sometimes what you need is a little 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=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=I love ''whimsyThe Repair Shop''. We might take the cause seriously, but we donIt't take ourselves too seriouslys my go-to programme when I want to be cheered up. And besidesAfter a hard day, whatthere'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 unleash your creativitythe 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?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594749272</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca Jones0760379912|title=The Colouring Book Super Easy Quilting for Beginners|author=Editors of Cards and Envelopes - ChristmasQuarry Books|rating=54

|summary=Have you ever opened a Christmas card I learned patchworking from necessity: old or outgrown clothes needed to be turned into something new and had a sense of deja vu? usable when I was in my twenties. It might would be that youa while before it became a pleasure rather than a chore but I've already had never felt completely at home with quilting. I needed something a couple just like this one (it's one of the little more popular ones being sold by M&S this year...) stylish than my usual buttons or you recognise it the design which a major charity sold ''last'' Christmas - and which they started selling off at half price in the Boxing Day Saleknots. Either way, you don't feel particularly 'Super Easy Quilting for Beginners'special''. An embroidered card is lovely, but not everyone has the skills and if you buy them they're seemed like a frightening pricegood place to start. But I've just discovered a relaxingSo, satisfying way of producing individual cards at a reasonable price: ''The Colouring Book of Cards and Envelopes: Christmas''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857637266</amazonuk>how did it stack up?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Molly Manners and Alex Worrall0760379874|title=The Mindless Colouring Book: Art Therapy Exclusively Available to Anyone with £8.99Super Easy Knitting for Beginners|author=Carri Hammett|rating=4.5

|summary=Can I let you into learned to knit in the nineteen-fifties: it wasn't a secret? choice, it was a requirement. Promise not Girls learned to knit and to tell anyone, but I do wonder if embroider and boys did wood and metal work. My knitting wa accompanied by a lot of adult colouring books are not just criticism and quite a little bit too ''worthy'few tears: it was a long time before I realised that 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. They're The turning point was a booklet published by Patons which gave all very intricate the basics and rewarding when yousome patterns. I've finished, but I was chatting been looking for something simple to recommend to someone recently people who mentioned that it might take generations 'd like to complete her colouring bookmaster the skill. I meanSo, wherehow did 's the 'Super Easy Knitting For Beginners'fun'' in thatwork out? 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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Walsh0760373531|title=The Colouring Book of Beautiful Gift BoxesCozy Knits: Christmas 30 Hat, Mitten, Scarf and Sock Projects from Around the World|author=Sue Flanders

|summary=When Just occasionally you give encounter a small gift, it's often difficult book of knitting patterns that seems to wrap it appropriatelymeet your every need. If you wrap a small objectRight now, it looks ''insignificant's bitterly cold and we' re in the sandwich filling between two storms: I need socks, scarves, hats and if you've gone mittens. They have to the trouble of finding the appropriate gift for someone look stylish, keep me warm and be so cheerful that's the last thing you wantthey make me feel better. If you pad it out a little, it ends up looking that sounds like a game of pass the parcel. You canlot to ask, of course, buy have a gift box but theylook at 're expensive for what they are and they're hardly individual. The answer lies in Cozy Knits''The Colouring Book of Beautiful Gift Boxes: Christmasit has thirty designs for those necessary items and I don't think that there was one of them which I couldn't see myself wearing. The cover price is £9.99, so that works out at less than 42p for each We start with an introduction by Nancy Bush which gives some of the 24 boxes which - as youhistory of knitting. It're colouring s not essential but it - will be unique's a nice extra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857638033</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Zoe Ingram0760373558|title=Press Out and Colour: BirdsNordic Knits|author=Sue Flanders

|summary=Ten beautiful birds which start life as detailed line illustrations I was so delighted by Zoe Ingram are then coloured in Sue Flanders' [[Cozy Knits: 30 Hat, Mitten, Scarf and Sock Projects from Around the World by anyone of Sue Flanders|Cozy Knits]] that I didn't need any age who is capable of having reasonable control of a felt-tip pen or a crayonpersuading at all to pick up her ''Nordic Knits''. You've got to remember to do both the back This delivers forty-four patterns inspired by textiles and the front local traditions from Norway, Sweden and whilst it would be nice if they matched it's in no way essentialIceland. If you're skillful, so much the better, There are a few sweaters or jackets but the designs majority of patterns are decorated with foil which catches the light for smaller items such as mittens, gloves, hats and gives that sheen which you see on the edges of birds' feathersbags. When you've finished colouring you gently press the pieces out from the page. I experimented with pressing them out first All are bright and cheerful and then colouring, but the pieces were easier to colour actually in the pagevery cosy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857637673</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kelsey Elam1635864070|title= 100 Simple Paper Flowers|rating= 5|genre= Crafts|summary=''100 Simple Paper Flowers'' is an easy-to-follow guide to creating impressive floral artworks that could almost be mistaken for the real thing. Whether it is a craft project, something to brighten up a room, or a full-on display for a big event, the book has plenty of styles and designs to fit the occasion. And unlike real flowers, your paper creations will never die.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782403086</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewKnit 2 Socks in 1|author=Elisabetta Stoinich|title=Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights: A Colouring ClassicSafiyyah Talley

|summary=If you''Wuthering Heights'' is one ve ever started knitting a pair of socks, finished the classics which has stood first one and either got bored by the test idea of time. At doing the time of its publication in December 1847 reviews were mixedsame thing all over again, not least because of or started on the start depictions of mental and physical cruelty second sock and lost the first before you finished it certainly wasn't in line with how Victorians felt that life should be lived. But , this is the book hung for you. Where is it that single socks go to hide? Safiyyah Talley has developed a system that allows you to knit two socks in there one, divide them up and before long it was considered superior to Emily Bronte's sister Charlottehave a perfectly finished pair of socks. Sounds good? It's ''Jane Eyre''. There have been films, adaptations clever and now well-thought- a colouring bookout. 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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chellie Carroll1529393930|title=Bram Stoker's DraculaMaking a Living: A Colouring ClassicHow to Craft Your Business|author=Sophie Rochester|rating=45

|summary=There's no choice in the matter - you're going back to Transylvania in the late nineteenth centuryStarting a creative business has never been easier.'' ''If not now, to follow Draculawhen?'' I know that I's attempts to move to England m not alone in search of new blood and to spread the undead cursehaving wondered whether or not I could turn my hobby into a business. Only this time you're not reading Bram StokerThere's classic, but using pens a lot of motivation to do so: I make more items than we can sensibly use and crayons in this colouring classic full there are a lot of bloodthirsty vampires, gothic patterns, dramatic landscapes and nightmarish figurespeople who have been delighted to accept what I make as gifts. It's eerieSelling would offset the costs, which can be quite considerable and itcould be fun to do, couldn's dramatic and 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 business should do is to read ''Making a Living''s great good fun.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184869329X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Kidby1635862353|title=Terry Pratchett's Discworld Colouring BookThe Sandalmaking Workshop|author=Rachel Corry

|summary=It was Sir Terry Pratchett whose chose Paul Kidby as artist for A sandal-making workshop? I couldn't really believe it, mainly because I'The Last Worldd always thought that you'' and d need more equipment than the covers average home was likely to be able to contain but I was intrigued. Rachel Corry started sandal making accidentally - a small fire destroyed some of her shoes. One pair had come apart and she could see how the ''Discworld'' novels from 2002 onwards and it sandal was a marriage made in heaven, with the one complementing the otherconstructed. Kidby himself says Then she realised that designing the characters with pencil and paint she couldn''challenged and amused him beyond measuret afford to replace all her shoes.'' The writing conjured clear imagery and it was his job Could she combine these two facts to capture the humour create a new and richly-textured stories on paper. worthwhile craft? Kidby and Pratchett shared interests in nature, folklore, science and history as well as She showed quite a love of Monty Python and the bizarre few people her first pair and they all either wanted to know how to my eyes at least the result do it - or if she'd make them a pair. A new career was more, far more, than the sum of the partsborn.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473217474</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=LucasFilm1783784350|title=Star WarsThis Golden Fleece: Colouring By NumbersA Journey Through Britain's Knitted History|author=Esther Rutter|rating=45|genre=CraftsHistory|summary=I've never had any talent as an artist: I once earned the comment from an art teacher that I would struggle to draw a straight line with a ruler, but it's something I've always wanted to be able to do. For a while It was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in my teens I was seduced by oil-painting-by-numbers kitsher office job, which promised to allow me writing to produce paintings of horses grazing in the fields or boats at anchor in the harbour. In fact all I ''really'' produced was a mess - literally 'people she'd never met and'' artisticallypreparing spreadsheets. I've had slightly more success with adult colouring books, providing that they didn't require too much skill, although I The job frustrated her and even her knitting did succeed in establishing that Benedict Cumberbatch would not look good [[Sherlock: The Mind Palace: The Official Colouring Book by Mike Collins|with a spray tan]]soothe her mind. If I January was going to produce anything worth looking at then I needed be a great deal time for making changes and she decided that she would travel the length and breadth of help the British Isles with shading.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405284781</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Coco Balderrama occasional forays abroad, discovering and Laura Coulman|title=David Bowie: Starman: A Colouring Book|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=David Bowietelling the story of wool's death in January 2016 came as a shock to me: we were much of an age history and how it had made and he'd always seemed so ''vital''changed the landscape. But his final album, She''Blackstar'', seemed to foretell his death and was d grown up on a commercial success, coming sheep farm in at number one in the UK Top 100 Albums Chart, and the ''David Bowie IsSuffolk - '' exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum is the most successful exhibition ever staged by the V&A. But what of a more relaxing memory of free range child on the man who was part genius and part chameleon?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0859655504</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Danielle Kroll and Nghiem Ta|title=Pattern Play: Cut, Fold and Make Your Own 3D Animal Models|rating=4|genre=Childrenfarm's Non-Fiction|summary=Here's a neat idea for you. Provide pages with animal prints on one side - only by animal prints, I mean the sort of colours and pattern which you see on animalslearned to spin, not paw prints! Some are subtle knit and others are rather more in-your-face. On the reverse of these printed pages provide a cutting line so that you can cut weave from her mother and fold the paper and it becomes a 3D model of an animalher mother's friend. Provide some stickers which replicate faces, tails or beaks - or whatever else you feel needs highlighting - and number these so that they get into the right placeThis was in her blood. All you need to add to the mix is a pair of scissors, parental supervision if necessary for the cutting, a little imagination and you have hours of fun.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807321</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin HandfordChou_Make|title=Where's WallyMake and Play: The Colouring BookNativity|author=Joey Chou

|summary=Are you looking I always feel a slight disappointment for something relaxing, easy children at Christmas when they're presented with a tree to complete decorate with a box of ornaments and a nativity scene (sometimes quite precious, so it's Not To Be Played With) which will allow your mind to wander freely as you gently colour in a pleasing design? is set up Somewhere Safe. Do you want to indulge your Where's the imagination and use , the colours which tempt you at creativity, the moment, content sense of pride in that it will not affect the finished creation? Would you like large spaces How much better to have a child create their own nativity scene, which you they can shade in large swoops as it pleases youthen play with? Are you aiming for a soothing finished product which is easy on the eye? Sorry: youThat's exactly what they get with Joey Chou's ''Make and Play Nativity''ve got the wrong book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406367303</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Serge Bloch099334030X|title=3, 2, 1... Can You Draw!the Dragosaur?|author=Peter Lynas and Charlie Roberts

|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrafts|summary=I canYou't drawre going to get a hint of what this book's about very quickly. IWhen you see the title page, you'll find out what the book's called and that it've never s been able to drawwritten by Peter Lynas. A blank sheet of paper Then we move on to who has done the illustration - and there's a pencil frightens megap. I thought I was probably a little bit old to change my ways but then I discovered ''3, 2, 1... Draw!You'' and are going to put your name there might have been a movement within the tectonic plates of my brain. It's a drawing book which isn't about blank pages: it's your'' responsibility to provide the pictures for this book about imagination and inspiration, with one of the first encouraged and the second delivered by largest creatures ever to roam the barrow loadearth. IThere've just had more fun than I thought possible with pencil s some help available, but your name is on the title page - and paperyou have work to do!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807240</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Various Artists1635860334|title=Doctor Who: The Colouring BookWhy We Quilt|author=Thomas Knauer

|summary=Colouring books I've often wondered about the story that patchwork quilting began as a way for adults are all the rage at the moment, but one women (and myth would have it that it was always women) to make an extra blanket out of the problems with popularity is that the books do tend material which would otherwise go to become a bit, well, waste. This undoubtedly ''sameydid''. Once happen but when you've coloured in one peacock's tailthink about it, it's not easy you need an awful lot of material to get inspiration for another and there's make a limit to the number of flowers, patterns quilt and mystical beasts which you can attach to the fridge doortime could have been better spent if all that was required was bedding. WeLike Thomas Knauer, I've seen all sorts of variations, such come to the conclusion that it began as mindfulness, but what we really want is something ''fresh'' an art and has largely continued down that same road with a bit of something extra to get fluctuations in popularity over the brain cells going. Welcome ''Sherlock: The Mind Palace''years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940430</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Natasha Slee and Becca Stadtlander1419726625|title=Style GuideThe Mitten Handbook: Fashion From Head Knitting Recipes to ToeMake Your Own|author=Mary Scott Huff

|summary=In I love mittens - they''Style Guide: Fashion from Head re so convenient and much easier to Toe'' we have a guided tour through fashion from the eighteen nineties to about 2010, taking get onto (and off) cold hands than a decade or so at a time and exploring several aspects pair of each decadefiddly gloves. For instance the period 1890 to 1914 is divided into ''The Belle Epoque'They're not something you regularly see in shops, ''Out and About'' and ''The Orient''so I knew that if I wanted new pairs I would have to knit them myself. Each division has a picture to be coloured but rather than being a picture of ''one'' garmentWell, actually, therethat's a montage my rationalisation of garments and accessories from the periodsituation: ''The Orient '' has eight different pictures - of the triangle bagin truth, a fur-trimmed shawlI love knitting mittens. They have just enough technique to make them satisfying, kimono, pleated gown, a folding fan, a Ballet Russes costume plenty of quick work and slippers and finally a turban. On the reverse pair of each picture is warm mittens in a keyfew days. The article is numbered on the main picture and in the corresponding key Patterns, though - where do you'll find some historical information and some colour details.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807348</amazonuk>get them from?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Axel Scheffler, Emily Gravett et al1621137775|title=Draw It! Colour It! CreaturesHandbag Workshop: Design and Sew the Perfect Bag|author=Anna M Mazur

|summary=Christmas is a time I love handbags, but I resent paying the prices demanded by manufacturers of joy and goodwill to all men'good' bags. Additionally, I often find a bag I like but it can also be the colour/shape/size/capacity/internal layout isn't ''quite'' what I had in mind, so I end up spending rather a time lot of bad weather, of being stuck in the house money and feeling like you have nothing to docompromising. The holiday period can need filling solution is to make my own bags and for a crafty kid there are loads of activities that can be done simply by whilst I was confident about sewing fabric bags, I was nervous about using paper; including creating their own decorations or making the best letter they can for Father Christmasleather, not least because leather isn't very forgiving when it comes to mistakes and it's usually more expensive than fabric. I needed help. If only there was a handy book that contained loads of great Christmas crafting ideas Anna Mazur's ''The Handbag Workshop'' came to me free through NetGalley in one placereturn for an unbiased review.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782402470</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amber Anderson1632506386|title=The Little Book of ColouringKnitter's Dictionary: Animal KingdomKnitting Know-How from A to Z|author=Kate Atherley|rating=3.54

|summary=After I've been knitting for well over sixty years , following patterns of doing craft work which must be ''useful'', varying complexity with success. I've discovered knit Aran sweaters, socks by the relaxing benefits of colouring. dozen and I'm doing it currently knitting blankets for a charity to please me: it doesnsell. There hasn't need to be perfect or functional. No one but me is going to judge the finished article. All it needs is to be done, slowly, peacefully and at my own pace. The choice of colours is mine been an occasion when I've been stuck and mine alone. If I want people have often come to drop the finished page into the paper recycling then that's my prerogative. It's sheer indulgence on paper, lasts longer than a bottle of wine and does me more good'' for help when ''they've'' been stuck. WhatWould a knitter's not dictionary really be of any help to love about colouringme?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784296457</amazonuk> I was surprised by just how much I got out of it.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anastasia Catris1440248850|title=Colour Me MindfulModern Patchwork Home: BirdsDynamic Quilts and Projects for Every Room|author=Vivika DeNegre (Editor)

|summary=About half The problem with a century ago I mentioned to someone craft which is largely based on traditional designs is that colouring was relaxing and enjoyable and received a lecture what results from your labours is also traditional, or - depending upon what light you shine on my lack of creativity and willingness to use what other people had drawn for my own ends. I still did colouring it - at a time when there were considerable pressures in my life over which I had no control old- but it was just that it became my guilty secretfashioned. Now colouring is mainstream and there's Vivika DeNegre has curated a considerable range collection of design books to choose patterns fromtoday's top designers. Orion have published three by Anastasia Catris: this As a word of warning, if you read ''Modern Patchwork Magazine'' you may well find that there's nothing new in the book, {{amazonurl|isbn=1409163067|title=Colour Me Mindful: Underwater}} and {{amazonurl|isbn=1409163083|title=Colour Me Mindful: Tropical}}. So, how do they stand out but if you're new to the magazine this could well prove to be a delightful collection from the crowd?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409163105</amazonuk>back catalogue.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eglantine de la Fontaine et alPallant_Star|title=My Magical Oasis: Art Therapy Colouring Star Wars Millennium Falcon Book for Creative Mindsand Mega Model|author=Katrina Pallant and Neal Manning

|summary=It's not often I can review One of the unexpected results of making a book rough-and mention how it changes your brain-ready sci-fi film back in the 1970s, but was that's apparently the effect George Lucas left a whole generation capable of spelling Millennium. In amongst all the colouring-in-iconic inventions for-adults phenomenon. There's a science behind it all that attests how alpha wavesthe film, his design team left him – and us – with a slightly more childlikevery loveable, accepting, relaxed form of brain activity, are used by our bonces very fast and very asymmetrical space ship. How is it balanced when we colour – and the cockpit is stuck out one side? What is that dish-like array doing on what seems to act as opposed to the bravertop? And where can you get your own? Well, thinking, active beta waves they're something beyond the mind could do more rarity and great cost ofthe Lego model, especially in this kinetic, plugged-in, 24/7 lifestyle. So whereas I normally review books can at least provide one answer to help my readers make their mind upthose three pertinent questions, and that answer is… here I'm mentioning this volume because it allegedly would change your mind.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0859655350</amazonuk>

{{newreviewplainFrontpage|isbn=McLelland_Press|title=The Creative Colouring Book for Grown-UpsPress Out and Decorate: Unicorns|author=Kate McLelland

|summary=Johanna Basford was not It's the first, weekend and nor was she an overnight success. If youI're salivating over the ''Enchanted Forest'', having finished her ''Secret Garden'', you are one of those many people ve been 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). The hobby is rapidly killing off Sudoku as the pastime of choice for many – either on the train or sitting with half an ear to the soapsmyself. ItThere's fun, it opens the mind something about a unicorn which appeals to other thoughts in quite me and a little bit of research into a meditative waybook of press-out unicorns, clouds and it needs no instructions – much rainbows seemed like, again, Sudoku, even if newspapers persist in telling us them even when nobody on earth is left the ideal way to need themspend a Saturday morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782433287</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lucy Engelman|title=Field Guide: Creatures Great and Small (Field Guides)|rating=4.5|genre=Crafts|summary=Call me fuddy-duddy, but I have never seen You get twenty designs in the need to review a book via video – and they're all decorated 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 for one pink foil: even if you don't want to share opinions by old-fashioned written word. That is, of course, until now, and the phenomenon that is building rapidly – that of mature add any further colouring-in books. Here at the Bookbag we can easily prove wethey've read every word of the books by being eloquent, informative and opinionated about what we examinere still going to look great, but even I admit four paragraphs regarding because the pages are a picture book we ourselves substantial card you have the opportunity to finish off may leave some members of our audience wanting use crayons, felt tips or even paints to see the resultsadd your own personal touch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780635X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewplainFrontpage|isbn=V&A_Embroidery|title=Gorgeous Colouring Book for Grown-UpsEmbroidery: A Maker's Guide|author=Victoria and Albert Museum

|summary=So, when I mentioned on Facebook that I had In ''Embroidery: A Maker's Guide'' we get a nice new grown-up colouring book brief introduction 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 grown-up colouring! They had tales of how tricky it was to stay inside of the linescraft by James Merry, how long one picture could takeembroidery artist, and how relaxing information on the whole thing is. I dug out my old tin of pencilstools you'll need, materials you can utilise and settled down a guide to give it a trythe stitches you'll be using.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782434461</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Paula Briggs|title=Drawing Projects for Children|rating=5|genre=Crafts|summary= If you're just thinking about starting embroidery and not certain which type will suit you best or someone who'Drawing Projects for Children'' is a beautiful, full-colour guide that encourages children s experienced in one area but wanting to use a range of materials to create stunning and thought-provoking artwork. As the author points branch out, the end result is not always as important as the journey and this book helps children to move away could be an ideal starting point. There are over 230 glorious photographs (of items from the more traditional, or 'safe' type V&A collections) and illustrations covering 15 styles of drawing styles embroidery and indulge in a little more experimentation giving all the information and risk taking. The book is ideal designs you'll need for parents to use with their children, but each chapter is a self-contained lesson plan that facilitators and teachers can use with groups15 projects.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908966742</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hannah DaviesV&A_Patchwork|title=The Big Beautiful Colouring BookPatchwork and Quilting: A Maker's Guide|author=Victoria and Albert Museum

|summary=Although I have two Patchwork is a magical craft: you can take relatively small children, it's been pieces of material and turn them into another piece of material with an entirely different pattern. Quilting converts a long time since I just sat topper and did any colouring by myselfa backing fabric with some wadding in between into a fabric of an entirely different weight. Usually I am tasked with drawing various family membersCombine the two crafts and you have something more than magical, or vehicles, or animalsoccasionally 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 then we colour them in together. This time I sat quietly by myself with a pack of my sonQuilting: A Maker's new colouring pencils, Guide'' which looks - as the cover says - at styles from Italian trapunto to Korean jogakbo and I quite happily passed a couple of hours colouring in!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780553498</amazonuk>then delivers fifteen projects inspired by the V&A collections.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna WeltmanBM_Origami|title=This is Not a Maths BookOrigami, Poems and Pictures|author=The British Museum

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