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[[Category:New Reviews|Crafts]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Katrina Pallant and Neal Manning0811771741|title=Star Wars Millennium Falcon Book and Mega ModelInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=4.5
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|summary=One Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of the unexpected results knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of making a rough-and-ready sci-fi film back in the 1970s'long, was that George Lucas left a whole generation capable cosy afternoons in front of spelling Millenniumthe fire' variety. In amongst all The projects are divided by the iconic inventions for the filmtime they'll take to complete - less than five hours, his design team left him – and us – with a very loveablefive to ten hours, very fast ten to twenty hours and very asymmetrical space shipmore than twenty hours. How is it balanced when the cockpit is stuck out one side? What is that dish-like array doing on what seems to act as All the top? And where can you get your own? Wellprojects are attractive, beyond the rarity modern and great cost of the Lego model, useable. I perhaps show my age when I can at least provide one answer to those three pertinent questions, and wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that answer is… here's me being picky.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405285222</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate McLelland1635866243|title=Press Out The Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook|author=Kristina McGrath and Decorate: UnicornsSarah Walworth |rating=4.5
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|summary=It's the weekend 'I quickly discovered that putting words and Inumbers on a page wasn've been indulging myselft enough. There's something about Creating a unicorn which appeals to me pattern that was correct, clear, concise, and consistent required a little bit great deal of research into a book of press-out unicornstrial and error, patience, clouds and rainbows seemed like the ideal way to spend perseverance.'' (Introduction byFrancoise Danoy) A friend recently showed me a Saturday morningknitting pattern for which she'd paid good money. You get twenty designs in The first line of the book and theyinstructions began: ''Cast off 100 stitches...''re all decorated with pink foil: even if you don It was clear that no good could come of this - the instructions didn't want to add get any further colouring theybetter - and (finally) PayPal obliged with a refund when the seller refused as she couldn're still going to look greatt afford the repayment. The pattern looked pretty, but because the pages are a substantial card you creator didn't have the opportunity basic knowledge and skills to use crayons, felt tips or even paints enable her to add your own personal touchconnect with her knitters. She should have read ''The Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788002172</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joey Chou1529507987|title=Make The Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Play: NativitySonia Albert (Illustrator)|rating=4.5
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|summary=I always feel a slight disappointment for children at Christmas love ''The Repair Shop''. It's my go-to programme when they're presented with a tree I want to decorate with be cheered up. After a box of ornaments and a nativity scene (sometimes quite precioushard day, so itthere's Not To Be Played With) which is set up Somewhere Safenothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. Where's You see, the imagination, value is in what these possessions are worth to the creativity, people who own them and the sense of pride in that? memories they hold. How No expense appears to be spared and the experts spend as much better time and effort as is required to have a child create their own nativity scene, which achieve the desired result. Regular viewers know the experts and they can then play with? That's exactly re all brilliant at explaining what it is they get with Joey Chou's ''Make and Play Nativity''re doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788000064</amazonuk> But how did they start?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Victoria and Albert Museum0760379912|title=Embroidery: A Maker's GuideSuper Easy Quilting for Beginners|author=Editors of Quarry Books
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|summary=In ''EmbroideryI learned patchworking from necessity: A Maker's Guide''we get a brief introduction old or outgrown clothes needed to the craft by James Merry, embroidery artist, information on the tools you'll need, materials you can utilise be turned into something new and usable when I was in my twenties. It would be a guide to the stitches youwhile before it became a pleasure rather than a chore but I'll be usingve never felt completely at home with quilting. If you're just thinking about starting embroidery and not certain which type will suit you best I needed something a little more stylish than my usual buttons or someone who's experienced in one area but wanting to branch out this book could be an ideal starting pointknots. There are over 230 glorious photographs (of items from the V&A collections) and illustrations covering 15 styles of embroidery and giving all the information and designs you'll need 'Super Easy Quilting for 15 projectsBeginners'' seemed like a good place to start.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500293279</amazonuk> So, how did it stack up?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Victoria and Albert Museum0760379874|title=Patchwork and Quilting: A Maker's GuideSuper Easy Knitting for Beginners|author=Carri Hammett
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|summary=Patchwork is I learned to knit in the nineteen-fifties: it wasn't a choice, it was a magical craft: you can take relatively small pieces of material requirement. Girls learned to knit and to embroider and boys did wood and turn them into another piece of material with an entirely different patternmetal work. Quilting converts My knitting wa accompanied by a topper lot of criticism and quite a few tears: it was a backing fabric with some wadding long time before I realised that there was pleasure to be had in between into a fabric of an entirely different weightthe skill. Nearly seventy years later it's the only thing that keeps my hands at all supple. Combine The turning point was a booklet published by Patons which gave all the two crafts basics and you have something more than magical, occasionally fashionable but always deeply satisfyingsome patterns. But where I've been looking for something simple to start, when there are so many different styles of both crafts? One answer is recommend to read people who'd like to master the skill. So, how did 'Patchwork and Quilting: A Maker's GuideSuper Easy Knitting For Beginners'' 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>work out?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eilidh Muldoon0760373531|title=Gift Boxes to Colour Cozy Knits: 30 Hat, Mitten, Scarf and Make: A Year of CelebrationsSock Projects from Around the World|author=Sue Flanders
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|summary=Have Just occasionally you ever tried wrapping encounter a small giftbook of knitting patterns that seems to meet your every need. Right now, or those handmade sweets or biscuits youit've prepared for a friend? Its bitterly cold and we's not easy is it? If you use wrapping paper re in the gift tends to lose ''presence'' sandwich filling between two storms: I need socks, scarves, hats and once you start mittens. They have to use glass jars the gift becomes really quite expensive look stylish, keep me warm and less easy to transportbe so cheerful that they make me feel better. Do you find colouring relaxing and rewarding but somehow it feels just If that sounds like a lot to ask, have a little bit look at ''tooCozy Knits'' indulgent if all you do is turn to the next page : it has thirty designs for those necessary items and start colouring I don't think that? Would you get more out there was one of it if you could use what youthem which I couldn've coloured for a practical purpose? t see myself wearing. The ideal solution to both problems is ''Gift Boxes to Colour and Make: A Year We start with an introduction by Nancy Bush which gives some of the history of Celebrationsknitting. It's not essential but it' by Eilidh Muldoons a nice extra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788000099</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre|title=Pug-a-Doodle-Do!|rating=4.5|genre=Crafts|summary=I was reading a book so utterly different to this the other day, it has to bear mention. 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 fill-in-bits-yourself entries in the Wimpy Kid and Dork Diaries series (such as [[Dork Diaries: How to Dork Your Diary by Rachel Renee Russell|this one]]) let you interact with the franchise, and also to create your own content. There was some weird high-falutin' academic language to describe such books – but you know what? I say (redacted) to that – let's just hang it and have fun. And this book, spinning off from the four books this partnership has so far been responsible for, is certainly a provider of that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192764047</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rebecca Jones|title=The Colouring Book of Cards and Envelopes: Unicorns and Rainbows|rating=5|genre=Crafts|summary=I'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 and it's not particularly satisfying. How much better would it be if the colouring produced something which could be sent to someone else, who would appreciate that it's unique and that effort and care has gone into the card? How much better to give a child something like ''The Colouring Book of Cards and Envelopes: Unicorns and Rainbows'' than an ordinary colouring book which will soon be discarded?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788000897</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|authorisbn= Matilda Tristram0760373558|title= My Year in Small Drawings: 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>}}{{newreviewNordic Knits|author=Thomas Flintham|title=Around the World Colouring BookSue Flanders
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|summary=I have been having the most tremendous fun making rainforest maskswas so delighted by Sue Flanders' [[Cozy Knits: you know 30 Hat, Mitten, Scarf and Sock Projects from Around the effect World by Sue Flanders|Cozy Knits]] that you get when a really talented face artist does a young childI didn's face and you t need any persuading at all to pick up her ''seeNordic Knits'' the tiger? . WellThis delivers forty-four patterns inspired by textiles and local traditions from Norway, this is an even better result Sweden and it's in 3DIceland. All There are a few sweaters or jackets but the creatures majority of patterns are, for smaller items such as you would expectmittens, from the rainforest regions of the worldgloves, but there's decidedly more here than the usual suspectshats and bags. You get a green iguana, toucan, jaguar, emperor tamarin, blue morpho butterfly, red-eyed tree frog, Brazilian tapir, giant otter, blue-All are bright and-yellow macaw cheerful and the emerald tree boavery cosy. Never heard of some of them? Well, don't worry: the book is gently educational, with a paragraph telling you just enough about the creature.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782404430</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emil Fortune and Neal Manning1635864070|title=Star Wars: Imperial Assault Activity Book and Model (Star Wars Construction Books)Knit 2 Socks in 1|author=Safiyyah Talley
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|summary=BobbyIf you've ever started knitting a pair of socks, my U-Wing model, was feeling lonely. Surefinished the first one and either got bored by the idea of doing the same thing all over again, he had a few select critters from Harry Potter or started on his shelfthe second sock and lost the first before you finished it, but nothing else from his worldthis is the book for you. LuckilyWhere is it that single socks go to hide? Safiyyah Talley has developed a system that allows you to knit two socks in one, now he has divide them up and have a companionperfectly finished pair of socks. Unluckily, however, itSounds good? It's a baddy – one of the ATclever and well-thought-ST Scout Walkers those nasty Empire people like to use to stride around and attack the good rebels. But that aside, it is a very handsome companionout.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405285389</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim Hopgood1529393930|title=Doodle DogsMaking a Living: Best in Show|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=''Doodle Dogs'' introduces a wide variety of artistic styles through the idea of a dog show! Tim Hopgood shows us different kinds of dogs, all of which can be created very easily, and you soon find that doodling a dog can be a lot more detailed, and interesting, than you perhaps previously appreciated!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509820817</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewHow to Craft Your Business|author=The British Museum|title=Origami, Poems and PicturesSophie Rochester
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|summary=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 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 the book caught my imaginationStarting a creative business has never been easier. 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857639382</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Warner Brothers|title=Harry Potter Colouring Book Celebratory Edition: The Best of Harry Potter colouring|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=Imagine pages and pages of images from the Harry Potter books and films for you to colour as you wish. You ''might'' have seen some of the images before - I know I have - as they've appeared in the ''Harry Potter Colouring Book''If not now, when?''Harry Potter Magical Creatures Colouring Book'', and ''Harry Potter Magical Places and Characters Colouring Book'', but there are several exclusive never-before-seen images which will please the collector of Harry Potter memorabilia. If you're 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 book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783708255</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kiki Ljung1635862353|title=Build a ... ButterflyThe Sandalmaking Workshop|author=Rachel Corry
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrafts|summary=A sandal-making workshop? I love butterflies: theycouldn're one of the delights of my garden and t really believe it, mainly because I's d always thought that you'd need more equipment than the average home was likely to be able to contain but I was intrigued. Rachel Corry started sandal making accidentally - a pleasure when there are children there small fire destroyed some of her shoes. One pair had come apart and they she could see a butterfly close up, possibly for how the first time, as it rests on a flowersandal was constructed. Kiki Ljung has given us the opportunity Then she realised that she couldn't afford to learn about butterflies and also replace all her shoes. Could she combine these two facts to build create a 3D model of our own. new and worthwhile craft? The book is primarily aimed at the five She showed quite a few people her first pair and they all either wanted to eight year old age group, but I have know how to confess that I had do it - or if she'd make them a great deal of fun building my own painted ladypair. I learned quite a bit too!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809154</amazonuk>A new career was born.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Katie Scott and Kathy Willis1783784350|title=Botanicum Activity BookThis Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain's Knitted History|author=Esther Rutter|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionHistory|summary=Children It was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in her office job, writing to people she'd never met and adults who enjoyed [[Botanicum (Welcome To preparing spreadsheets. The Museum) by Katie Scott job frustrated her and Kathy Willis]] are even her knitting did not soothe her mind. January was going to love be a time for making changes and she decided that she would travel the length and breadth of the British Isles with occasional forays abroad, discovering and telling the story of wool's history and how it had made and changed the landscape. She'd grown up on a sheep farm in Suffolk - 'Botanicum Activity Book'a free range child on the farm'. Don't be misled by the suggestion that the book is aimed at the seven-plus age group: thereand learned to spin, knit and weave from her mother and her mother's plenty friend. This was in here for anyone who is still capable of holding a pen or pencilher blood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783706791</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DKChou_Make|title=Forest Life Make and Woodland Creatures|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=This book knows that if you're going to learn about forest life and the animals, plants and trees in it, then you're only going to be itching to go and explore the woods for yourself. It's for a very young audience, so always expects an adult hand to guide you – but provides a warm companion itself through several quick and easy tasks, and a few lessons. The balance between carrot and stick, or duty and reward, is great – but what exactly is the edutainment going to provide, and what will it demand of us?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241273110</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewPlay: Nativity|author=DK|title=Sharks and Other Sea CreaturesJoey Chou|rating=45
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|summary=Never before have I found much cause always feel a slight disappointment for children at Christmas when they're presented with a tree to point out the sort of lower-case, almost-decorate with a-subtitle wording on the front box of ornaments and a booknativity scene (sometimes quite precious, so it's Not To Be Played With) which is set up Somewhere Safe. I say Where's the imagination, the creativity, the sense of pride in that because very little of this is about sharks – so if you ? How much better to have a youngster intending to come here and learn all child create their bloodthirsty imagination own nativity scene, which they can hold, then they may well be disappointed. play with? If you take it on board that the That'other sea creaturess exactly what they get with Joey Chou' make up the bulk of the book, then all well and good. And even better, if you expect yourself to s ''makeMake and Play Nativity'' the bulk of said creatures…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241274389</amazonuk>.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucasfilm099334030X|title=Star Wars Art of Colouring The Force AwakensCan You Draw the Dragosaur?|author=Peter Lynas and Charlie Roberts
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|summary=Without giving any spoilers away, the end You're going to get a hint of what this book''The Force Awakens'' sees a character and their peace interrupteds about very quickly. While said person probably has The Force to give them some restful easeWhen you see the title page, you never know 'll find out what else they usedthe book's called and that it's been written by Peter Lynas. They may, for one, have dabbled in colouring-in books, and their much-lauded effect Then we move on to who has done the mind – that of calming it, illustration - and providing there's a meditative, simple yet creative task for itgap. Whether that is the case or not, ''You'' are going to put your name there are books set in the . It's ''Star Warsyour'' universe responsibility to provide the pictures for people this book about one of the largest creatures ever to join in in that way – and this roam the earth. There's some help available, but your name is on the best I've seen.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405285796</amazonuk>title page - and you have work to do!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Katrina Pallant and Kate Rhodes1635860334|title=Star Wars Make and DoWhy We Quilt|author=Thomas Knauer|rating=34
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|summary=For I've often wondered about the right young mind, their favourite franchises just don't end with watching them once or twice story that patchwork quilting began as a way for women (and myth would have it that's it. Given great characters they will want was always women) to make an extra blanket out of material which would otherwise go to write them into their own stories, or re-enact their dramas in the playgroundwaste. If things get a bit more sedateThis undoubtedly ''did'' happen but when you think about it, some you need an awful lot of them can be convinced material to sit diligently working on craft projects, which is where this book comes inmake a quilt and the time could have been better spent if all that was required was bedding. It latches on Like Thomas Knauer, I've come to the biggest names in the Star Wars universe, conclusion that it began as an art and allows you to either draw or create them, or both. But while the 'why don't you?' spirit is strong has largely continued down that same road with this one, I remain unconvinced fluctuations in popularity over the results will please everyoneyears.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405279974</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Korn1419726625|title=Why We The Mitten Handbook: Knitting Recipes to Make Things and Why It Matters: The Education of a CraftsmanYour Own|author=Mary Scott Huff
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|genre=AutobiographyCrafts|summary=I love mittens - they'My intuition from the day re so convenient and much easier to get onto (and off) cold hands than a pair of fiddly gloves. They're not something you regularly see in shops, so I first picked up a hammer was knew that making things with a commitment to quality if I wanted new pairs I would lead have to a good lifeknit them myself. Well, actually,that' Peter Korn writes. As an aimless, free-spirited University s my rationalisation of Pennsylvania studentthe situation: in truth, he moved I love knitting mittens. They have just enough technique to Nantucket Island to earn the rest make them satisfying, plenty of his college credits through independent study quick work and happened to be offered a carpentry job. That arbitrary job choice at the age pair of twenty would come to define the rest of his careerwarm mittens in a few days. Manual labour was all new to him Patterns, but 'though - where do you get them from the start there was a mind/body wholeness to carpentry that put it way ahead of what I imagined office work to be.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784705063</amazonuk>?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Warner Brothers1621137775|title=Harry PotterHandbag Workshop: Magical Artefacts Colouring BookDesign and Sew the Perfect Bag|author=Anna M Mazur
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|summary=With a big production film you can be almost overwhelmed by all that's there to seeI love handbags, but what most I resent paying the prices demanded by manufacturers of us forget is that in the film-maker's archive theregood's an awful lot which we never get to seebags. Additionally, I often find a bag I like but the colour/shape/size/capacity/internal layout isn't ''Harry Potter: Magical Artefacts Colouring Bookquite'' what I had in mind, so I end up spending rather a lot of money and compromising. The solution is packed with stunning pieces of artwork from the Warner Brothers archiveto make my own bags and whilst I was confident about sewing fabric bags, I was nervous about using leather, giving you the chance not least because leather isn't very forgiving when it comes to colour the magic of J K Rowlingmistakes and it's wizarding worldusually more expensive than fabric. There are the props from the Harry Potter films: an enchanted map, a piece of jewellery that can turn back time, vials full of liquid memories and newspapers with moving photosI needed help. What Anna Mazur's ''The Handbag Workshop'' came to me free through NetGalley in return for an inventive brain that woman has!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783705922</amazonuk>unbiased review.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucasfilm1632506386|title=Star Wars Rogue OneThe Knitter's Dictionary: Art of ColouringKnitting Know-How from A to Z|author=Kate Atherley|rating=3.54
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|summary=Colour me happy that I''Rogue One: A Star Wars Story'' is aroundve been knitting for well over sixty years, following patterns of varying complexity with success. While I've not had knit Aran sweaters, socks by the chance of seeing it yet, dozen and I'm dead chuffed it takes place at currently knitting blankets for a central point of the main arc of films' storylines, and not some nebulous place elsewhere in [[Star Wars: Galactic Atlas by Emil Fortune and Tim McDonagh|that galaxy far, far away]]charity to sell. Yes, it does do what the There hasn'new trilogyt been an occasion when I' did, ve been stuck and people have much more gloss and many more technologies than the films set after it, but what is not often come to like? Well, the expected expenditure on tie-in books and articles, I guess – several hundred pounds on ''oneme'' for help when ''they've' collector's card is a little steepbeen stuck. But seeing as I handily mentioned colouring above, in the vernacular, why not take it literally and use this large format paperback, promising Would a knitter''100 Images s dictionary really be of any help to Inspire Creativity''me?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405286377</amazonuk> I was surprised by just how much I got out of it.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Jarvis1440248850|title=British Airways Colouring BookModern Patchwork Home: Dynamic Quilts and Projects for Every Room|author=Vivika DeNegre (Editor)
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|summary=Over the past couple of years we've seen The problem with a lot of colouring books: flowers, patterns, fantasy creatures, characters and settings craft which is largely based on traditional designs is that what results from television showsyour labours is also traditional, films and books and lots more, but I can't recollect that we've ever before had one which featured a ''company''. Mind or - depending upon what light you, British Airways, is rather special; iconic and rather more long lasting than most passing celebritiesshine on it - old-fashioned. It Vivika DeNegre has curated a collection of patterns from today''heritage'' and ''tradition''s top designers. The As a word of warning, if you read ''British Airways Colouring BookModern Patchwork Magazine'' is based on exclusive posters, photographs and artwork from the companyyou may well find that there's archives and nothing new in the 46 images allow book, but if you're new to the reader magazine this could well prove to recreate these as they wish. There's be a bonus too: on the facing page of each image there's a potted history. I passed delightful collection from the book to someone with an interest in BA and he found the book interesting and informative ''without'' even thinking of doing any colouringback catalogue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144566612X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca JonesPallant_Star|title=The Colouring Star Wars Millennium Falcon Book of Cards and Envelopes: A Year of CelebrationsMega Model|author=Katrina Pallant and Neal Manning
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|summary=I enjoy colouring: I find it relaxing One of the unexpected results of making a rough-and satisfying-ready sci-fi film back in the 1970s, but most colouring books have one big snag was that George Lucas left a whole generation capable of spelling Millennium. In amongst all the iconic inventions for me. When you've finishedthe film, what use is what you've done? If I'm investing quite his design team left him – and us – with a bit of time in producing somethingvery loveable, I like very fast and very asymmetrical space ship. How is it to be useful. I'm a bit of a puritan about such matters! It was therefore something of a relief balanced when I found ''The Colouring Book of Cards and Envelopes: A Year of Celebrations'' the cockpit is stuck out one side? What is that dish- and before anyone starts like array doing on what seems to be pedantic about act as the title, top? And where can you do get to colour the envelope too; in fact you colour your own? Well, beyond the inside rarity and the outside and all four faces great cost of the cards. There are even some stickers for you Lego model, I can at least provide one answer to seal the envelopethose three pertinent questions, and that answer is… here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857638564</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jody RevensonMcLelland_Press|title=IncredibuildsPress Out and Decorate: Buckbeak: Deluxe Model and Book Set (Harry Potter)Unicorns|author=Kate McLelland|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrafts|summary=The general perception is that It's the weekend and I've been indulging myself. There's something about a unicorn which appeals to become me and a little bit of research into a leading British actorbook of press-out unicorns, you need clouds and rainbows seemed like the fillip of Eton or somesuch educationideal way to spend a Saturday morning. But You get twenty designs in the book and they're all decorated with pink foil: even if you don't have want to be an actor add any further colouring they're still going to make a look great film. ''Gravity'' for instance has extended scenes where , but because the only thing natural is pages are a substantial card you have the performers' faces – everything elseopportunity to use crayons, felt tips or even their bodies, was made in Britain by people using computers. The eight ''Harry Potter'' films, also made in the UK, needed a lot of computing power as well, but also a lot of craftsmen with their hands on tools and a keen eyepaints to add your own personal touch. What better way to start training the young reader into that side of things, than with tasking them with making a, er, hippogriff?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707232</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jody RevensonV&A_Embroidery|title=IncredibuildsEmbroidery: Aragog: Deluxe Model A Maker's Guide|author=Victoria and Book Set (Harry Potter)Albert Museum
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrafts|summary=Aragog In ''Embroidery: A Maker's Guide'' we get a brief introduction to the giant spidercraft by James Merry, embroidery artist, doninformation on the tools you't ll need, materials you know, took six man years just to build, can utilise and weighed a tonguide to the stitches you'll be using. After countless trial models If you're just thinking about starting embroidery and pieces of visual design work, he not certain which type will suit you best or someone who's experienced in one area but wanting to branch out this book could finally be constructed, and he stretched across eighteen feet an ideal starting point. There are over 230 glorious photographs (of items from the studio floor. V&A collections) Or, conversely, he is about seven inches long and seven wide, illustrations covering 15 styles of embroidery and giving all the information and designs you put him together in a day or two, 'll need for the cost of this book-and-gift set and some craft paints15 projects.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707240</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jody RevensonV&A_Patchwork|title=IncredibuildsPatchwork and Quilting: House-Elves: Deluxe Book A Maker's Guide|author=Victoria and Model Set (Harry Potter)Albert Museum
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrafts|summary=How do Patchwork is a magical craft: you create can take relatively small pieces of material and turn them into another piece of material with an entirely different pattern. Quilting converts a house-elf like Dobby? Well, you have topper and a tennis ball on backing fabric with some wadding in between into a string, fabric of an entirely different weight. Combine the two crafts and point actors so they look at ityou have something more than magical, and say their lines occasionally fashionable but always deeply satisfying. But where to a pretty-much empty space. You then film Toby Jones doing the elf's linesstart, and use that sound file and his facial expressions as basis for your CGI creation – the first major character when there are so many different styles of both crafts? One answer is to come from the digital realm in the read ''Harry PotterPatchwork and Quilting: A Maker's Guide' films. You can throw in a few puppets, and now and again a gifted small person, particularly ' which looks - as the cover says - at the end of film #7… Or, of course, you can get this gift set, styles from Italian trapunto to Korean jogakbo and press then delivers fifteen projects inspired by the wooden parts out, muckle them together – and lo and behold, a six inch tall Dobby for your windowsillV&A collections.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707070</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=BM_Origami|title=Vladimir Aleksic Origami, Poems and Kate WarePictures|titleauthor=Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol: A Colouring ClassicThe British Museum|rating=45
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|summary=Sometimes you find a delight of a book. On an afternoon when it was unseasonably cold and decidedly wet I discovered ''A Christmas CarolOrigami, Poems and Pictures'' has always been my favourite book by Charles Dickensand I was transported to Japan. Perhaps itAs the title suggests we's re looking at three celebrated arts and crafts: the fact ancient art of paper folding, haiku poetry and painting. I'll confess that it's a novella rather than was the usual brick of a bookorigami which caught my attention, but I was surprised by the plotting has always seemed tighter and the story more fast moving. I also like extent to idea of Ebenezer Scrooge not so much getting his comeuppance as his seeing which the error rest of his ways. I've read the book caught my imagination. We begin with something very simple: a boat and seen numerous film adaptations - now Iin case you've had re worried, all the opportunity to do some relaxing colouring entries have a degree of scenes difficulty (from 'simple' through to 'tricky') and this one is at the classic storylowest level. Was it fun?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848695411</amazonuk>
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