Layer Cake, Jelly Roll and Charm Quilts provides seventeen beautiful projects that show readers how to get the most from their precut fabric bundles. The projects range from smaller lap quilts to full-sized bed quilts, and each is made from one jelly roll, layer cake, charm pack, or a combination, making the quilts quick and economical. Using the latest fabrics, the authors provide a main quilt and an alternative colorway for added versatility. Simple...

Fiber Animals for the Backyard and Hobby Farm Raising backyard fiber animals is rising in popularity, as more and more people seek traditional textiles for yarn-focused crafts like knitting, crocheting, and weaving, as well as spinning, embroidery, needlepoint, needle felting, wet felting, and fiber dying. This book offers an essential reference for anyone who is considering their own production of animal fibers. Author and fiber farmer Chris McLaughlin...

Learn the nostalgic, easy-entry craft of spun cotton and make the perfect handmade decorations! Spun Cotton Crafts features more than 25 adorable step-by-step projects, organized by season, using affordable materials, including vintage Easter cake picks, crescent moon fairy lights, a Halloween cat, retro elves, a toadstool candy container, and so much more! Also included is a brief history of spun cotton, an insightful section on essential materials,...

Weave your way to inner peace! A complete and playful guide to wrapping an array of decorative mandalas, Easy String Mandalas is perfect for anyone seeking fun, simple, and creative crafts. Made with easy-to-find and affordable materials, this beginner-friendly guide features 53 mandala projects of varying sizes, shapes, colors, and designs. Complete with step-by-step instructions and coordinating illustrations for every project, also included are...

Sustainability meets DIY in this instructive guide to garment embroidery from designer and fiber artist Alexandra Stratkotter

Combining comprehensive instruction with photography and illustrations, The Embroidered Closet guides novice and experienced stitchers through the process of adorning and upcycling garments. Now more than ever, we are all pitching in to help the planet: This book offers a fun and satisfying avenue

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Move beyond granny squares and get ready for crocheted circles, triangles, hexagons, and stars. Edie Eckman opens up the door to crocheting creativity with more than 140 motifs of every shape and size. Embellish your clothing, linens, housewares, and bags with colorful patterns as you put odd yarn leftovers to good use. Step-by-step instructions and color photographs provide the building blocks to limitless possibilities. Best-selling author Edie...

With this beginner-friendly guide, "crafting with dye doesn't have to be messy or impossible to conquer"—but it "might turn into an all-consuming passion" (Booklist, starred review).
This modern introduction to indigo and fiber-reactive dye offers everything you need know to create stylish, richly colored and patterned pieces. Natural materials and classic techniques like shibori make these projects beautiful and accessible,...

In Crochet Every Way Stitch Dictionary, designer Dora Ohrenstein does what no crochet author has done before: She offers detailed instructions for how to create 125 stitch patterns, plus she explains how to increase and decrease each stitch pattern in three different ways-without shaping, with shaping at the edges, and with internal shaping. This hefty collection, ranging from lace and filigree to shells and textured stitches, is loaded with beautifully...

Rigid-heddle weaving is simple to learn, is easy to master, and offers a lifetime of possibilities to discover! Inventive Weaving on a Little Loom covers everything rigid-heddle weavers need to know about the craft, from the basics - how to select a loom, set it up, and get started - to a wide variety of fun techniques that yield beautiful results. Begin by exploring a variety of weave structures, including finger-manipulated laces, tapestry, and...

* La moda está al alcance de todos y coser se ha convertido en un verdadero placer: hilvanar una falda, transformar un pantalón, rehacer unas fundas, etc. * En estas páginas, presentadas con numerosas fichas técnicas, acompañadas de ilustraciones explicativas, encontrará las referencias al material necesario (aguja, hilo, tijeras, etc.), ejemplos para realizar cada ejercicio (botón cosido en plano, con enganche, chino, etc.), así como el grado...