1605 Books
"Home Sweet Sewn" is packed with projects, ideas and inspiration to add a unique homespun look to your interiors and accessories alike. It helps you to create fabulous projects that you will want, as well as need, with designs to reflect all aspects of your home and lifestyle, from cosy cushions and throws to an eye-catching apron. It also helps to explore a variety of easy-to-follow techniques, including patchwork, quilting, applique, rag rugging, embroidery and sewing with oilcloth. With designs to suit every season, these projects are guaranteed to be used and cherished day after day for years to come.
Projects included: Bat wings -- Thousand pyramids -- Snowballs -- Aunt Etta's diamond -- Soccer ball -- World without end -- Spring fling -- Job's trouble -- Block patchwork -- Tumbling blocks -- Desert rose -- Whirligig -- ZZZs.
Sectional designing
Make a forest of trees for a full-sized bed quilt, a stand of pines for place mats, or a tiny lone pine Christmas ornament. Includes the history of this enduring pattern and dozens of examples showing the amazing variety of strip-pieced, paper-pieced, and appliqued Pine Tree blocks. *Complete step-by-step illustrated instructions and yardages. *Includes 15 projects - fast and simple to masterpiece quality. *Contains a Walk in the Pine Forest gallery of quilts. *Traditional favorites: Log Cabin Pine, Pine Star, Redwood Forest, Territorial Trees, and more.
This book explains how to make 20 simple quilted flower inspired gifts, including cushions, bags, a wall hanging, a quilt, needlecases, greetings cards, a table runner, bunting and much more. Each project in this book is accompanied by a beautiful, full-colour styled photograph of the project together with a close-up detail; clear, step-by-step instructions; a list of the materials and equipment needed; and diagrams and templates where required. All the basic techniques are explained at the beginning of the book, making this an ideal book for beginners as well as more experienced stitchers looking for inspiration.
Geek meets craft in this fun collection of 25 kooky projects for geeks of any affiliation, from D&D dice earrings, Star Trek pillows, and Super Mario cross-stitch to Star Wars terrariums, a Morse code quilt, and much more! Organized by difficulty from "Not a Jedi Yet" to "Warp Speed," World of Geekcraft covers a range of popular crafting techniques including beading, quilting, appliqué, embroidery, and needle felting. Best of all, it's easy to get started with step-by-step instructions and handy templates included in the back of the book. With lots of photos and plenty of geekery throughout, this one-of-a-kind book shows that geek and craft go together like...pixels and cross-stitch!
People's Friend Pocket Novel
People's Friend Pocket Novel