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First Time Felting: The Absolute Beginner's Guide
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First Time Felting: The Absolute Beginner's Guide $11.29 $13.29
With easy, step-by-step instructions from felting and fiber professional Ruth Lane, the fundamentals of felting are at your fingertips in this easy-to-use guide. First Time Felting includes all the information you need to enter the world of felting.• Advice about tools, supplies, and types of wool fibers• Detailed instructions on three felting methods: needle felting, wet felting, and nuno felting• Project tutorials to show off your skills, such as Three-Dimensional Figures and Mosaics
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First Time Knitting: The Absolute Beginner's Guide
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First Time Knitting: The Absolute Beginner's Guide $13.33 $15.69
Learning how to knit has never been simpler! Enjoy this beginner's guide that takes you by the hand like a personal instructor and teaches you how to knit. Filled with detailed descriptions of materials and tools, the easy step-by-step instructions for all the basic knitting techniques will have you creating projects like scarves, hats, and blankets in no time. Eight simple projects will introduce knitting skills like garter stitch, stockinette, knitted texture, and color techniques; skills you will use often as you continue to learn. With First Time Knitting, soon you will be knitting amazing gifts and projects with confidence.
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Making Trousers for Men & Women
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Making Trousers for Men & Women $15.29 $17.99
Comfortable, flattering pants can be challenging to make - but they're wonderful to wear. In this book, David Coffin provides his inventive, sure-fire methods for getting it right. With his characteristic precision and straight talk - and with the help of photographs, drawings, and a series of video sequences on the accompanying DVD - Coffin teaches the reader how to get great results, whether making a showcase garment or just whipping out an everyday pair.
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Merchant & Mills Workbook: A Collection of Versatile Sewing Patterns for an Elegant All Season Wardrobe
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Merchant & Mills Workbook: A Collection of Versatile Sewing Patterns for an Elegant All Season Wardrobe $19.45 $22.89
Make six classic garments and create a stylish multi-layered wardrobe from scratch.Full-size patterns are provided for a neat vest with a boxer back detail, an elegant bias-cut long-sleeved dress, a simple long gathered skirt with a drawstring waist, a batwing wrap top, an oversized drop-shoulder jacket and a pair of classic wide leg trousers. By choosing seasonal cloth, the versatility of these projects can be enjoyed from the first hint of spring to the end of winter.The aim of this book is to move beyond simplicity and dare the maker to develop new skills. With variations for tops, dresses, shorts and a coat, our precise step-by-step instructions and inspiring photography will enable you sew with confidence. The reward will be an all season, multi-layer wardrobe by your own hand. We hope you, the reader, are ready for this set of challenges and willing to pace yourselves through the more complicated garments.Full-size patterns for all six garments are included, ready to be traced off and put to good use immediately. Make fashion work.
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Sewing Shirts with a Perfect Fit: The Ultimate Guide to Fit, Style, and Construction from Collared and Cuffed to Blouses and Tunics
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Sewing Shirts with a Perfect Fit: The Ultimate Guide to Fit, Style, and Construction from Collared and Cuffed to Blouses and Tunics $15.29 $17.99
Do you long to get a perfect fit when sewing your own shirts and blouses? In Sewing Shirts with a Perfect Fit, author, teacher, and shirt-sewing expert David Page Coffin shows how you can easily transform the patterns included with the book into three different customized basic shirt silhouettes.Learn to work with any body shape for men or women to achieve unique, personalized, and well-fitted basic shirt patterns for yourself or anyone else. The book includes detailed explanations of essential techniques; clear, step-by-step photos; and basic patterns for sizes XXXS to XXXL that are included in a pocket behind the front cover.Discover unique fitting options for shirts and learn how to drape fabrics to create a wrinkle-free garment. With these techniques, you’ll understand how to get a great fit with almost no measuring for any and all body types, including plus-size and athletic figures.Using his couture-inspired draping methods on both standard and custom-shaped body forms (with great tips on how to make your own form), David then demonstrates how to adjust shoulder and side seams, necklines, sleeves, and armholes, and add darts or new seams to achieve the fit you want for each silhouette: loose, fitted, or tight.Once you've covered the fundamental concepts and techniques, put your knowledge into practice with the four distinctive, original step-by-step shirt design and construction projects. These projects offer a variety of classic shirt, shirt-jacket, and dress shirt styles you can make and perfectly fit with the included patterns.In this book you’ll also learn:• Correct ways to drape patterns in different fabrics for a great fit.• How to make a denim Western shirt with sleeve plackets and snaps.• Construction tips that will make your garments look more professional.• How to create a fitted wrapped shirtdress that can be any length.• Ways to position and reshape a yoke.Sewing Shirts with a Perfect Fit will give you the skills you need to get the right fit every time!
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A Modern Guide to Knifemaking
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A Modern Guide to Knifemaking $13.67 $16.09
Renowned survivalist Laura Zerra never leaves home without her knife. And in A Modern Guide to Knifemaking, she teaches you everything she's learned from her own intense wilderness experience about what makes or breaks a great knife.Inside you'll find:• Step-by-step instructions for both forging and stock removal.• Profiles of some of the great bladesmiths working today.• Tips and tricks to take your knifemaking to the next level.
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The Backyard Blacksmith: Traditional Techniques for the Modern Smith
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The Backyard Blacksmith: Traditional Techniques for the Modern Smith $16.56 $19.49
The Backyard Blacksmith shows you how -- with some patience and a working knowledge of metals, basic tools, and techniques -- blacksmithing can be easy to learn, and a rewarding hobby. Through instructions and illustrations, readers will learn to make simple tools and useful items, such as nails, hinges, and handles, and also an interesting mix of artful projects, such letter openers, door knockers and botanical ornaments.Written by an expert in blacksmith and metal artist, this book provides readers with a basic understanding of blacksmithing, including an explanation of tools like an anvil, an anvil stand, hammers, and tongs. Heating techniques like coal forging and fire tending are explained in detail, along with different types of metal like wrought iron, cast iron, and steel.The Backyard Blacksmith walks readers through step-by-step, illustrated projects including hooks, door and gate pulls, wall-mounted hooks, knockers, racks, and more. These expert blacksmithing lessons come to life with full-color photography to illustrate the steps and provide a better understanding of the text. With this book, beginning blacksmiths can learn to turn metal from its raw shape into something useful and beautiful to behold.
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How to Draw Inky Wonderlands: Create and Color Your Own Magical Adventure
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How to Draw Inky Wonderlands: Create and Color Your Own Magical Adventure $9.59 $11.29
A welcoming drawing guide for creating beautiful worlds and wondrous wildlife from bestselling artist Johanna BasfordThrough her bestselling coloring books and distinctive illustrations, Johanna Basford's beautiful forests, ocean depths, and hidden magical kingdoms have enchanted millions of people around the world. In this lovely and accessible guide, she shares the fun, simple, no-skills-needed secrets to creating your own wondrous realms through fanciful, expressive line drawing.With step-by-step exercises, inspiring prompts, and still plenty of pages to color, you'll be free to let your creativity run wild. How to Draw Inky Wonderlands invites you to develop your personal drawing style and master creating marvelous creatures and landscapes using only the pen or pencil in your hand and the wildest reaches of your imagination.
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First Time Garment Fitting: The Absolute Beginner's Guide
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First Time Garment Fitting: The Absolute Beginner's Guide $11.29 $13.29
In First Time Garment Fitting, sewing and design expert Sarah Veblen takes you by the hand and teaches you everything you need to know to adapt patterns so you can sew garments that fit just right.With detailed descriptions of essential tools and techniques, the easy step-by-step instructions will have you altering patterns and sewing tops, pants, and skirts that fit you to a T in no time. The projects introduce key skills you’ll use again and again for all your garment sewing.With First Time Garment Fitting, you’ll soon be sewing amazing clothing with confidence.
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Making a Life: Working by Hand and Discovering the Life You Are Meant to Live
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Making a Life: Working by Hand and Discovering the Life You Are Meant to Live $21.66 $25.49
Why do we make things by hand? And why do we make them beautiful?Led by the question of why working with our hands remains vital and valuable in the modern world, author and maker Melanie Falick went on a transformative, inspiring journey. Traveling across continents, she met quilters and potters, weavers and painters, metalsmiths, printmakers, woodworkers, and more, and uncovered truths that have been speaking to us for millennia yet feel urgently relevant today: We make in order to slow down. To connect with others. To express ideas and emotions, feel competent, create something tangible and long-lasting. And to feed the soul.In revealing stories and gorgeous original photographs, Making a Life captures all the joy of making and the power it has to give our lives authenticity and meaning.
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Mastering Hand Building: Techniques, Tips, and Tricks for Slabs, Coils, and More
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Mastering Hand Building: Techniques, Tips, and Tricks for Slabs, Coils, and More $16.56 $19.49
Finally, a comprehensive guide to hand building that includes more than just the basics. Take your skills - and your work - to the next level.In Mastering Hand Building, Sunshine Cobb covers all the foundational techniques for hand building. However, what pushes this book beyond the competition are the techniques offered in the chapters and projects that follow. From the coiled box to the soft slab casserole dish, readers will learn advanced construction as well as decorative techniques. With galleries featuring today's top working artists and information on developing content, Sunshine offers page after page of inspiration to hone your body of work.
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A Woman's Garden
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A Woman's Garden $13.67 $16.09
Led by beautiful photography, take an inspirational tour around the garden for helpful growing advice and step-by-step instructions for creating over 35 projects, edibles, and art from your garden. In A Woman’s Garden, the creative force behind LovelyGreens.com, Tanya Anderson, shares the great variety of ways you can use the power of plants for home and health. Gardens grow more than just pretty flowers. They grow well-being and a deeper connection with nature. Gardens can also produce plant material for creating homemade skincare, natural dyes, artisan crafts, delicious foods and beverages, and medicines—homegrown ways to create a wholesome lifestyle. Making things with your hands and heart, and then sharing the fruits of your labors with friends and family, is both satisfying and soul-stirring. Learn how to grow dozens of plants and then transform them into gorgeous items to nurture yourself or gift to others.  Visit the kitchen garden where you will find tips for growing your own produce and learn how to make a strawberry planter from a pallet. Embrace the joys of edible flowers—learn to make floral ice cubes and food featuring flowers, both savory and sweet. Enjoy the flavors and scents of culinary herbs, which you will learn to use to enhance cooking oils, drinks, and pasta. Grow and harvest plants and flowers to make skin care products such as herbal bath fizzies, lavender and alkanet soap, and more. Grow plants for herbal medicine, including chamomile for calming tea and calendula for healing minor cuts and scrapes. Cultivate an array of plants with uses around the home, including rosemary and citrus kitchen-cleaning spray and lavender for scenting linens. Brighten your world with plants for dyeing wool and cloth—learn methods for extracting color from a rainbow of different plants, including goldenrod, onions, and butterfly pea flower. Make a garden that overflows with creativity by crafting garden makes such as fossil imprint stepping-stones, papier-mache leaf lanterns, and pressed flower candles. In addition to a wealth of hands-on projects, you’ll take a trip around the globe and visit the gardens of 8 women, including Deanna Talerico from Homestead and Chill, Ashlie Thomas from The Mocha Gardener, Melissa Will from The Empress of Dirt, Rekha Mistry from Rekha’s Garden and Kitchen, Giovanna Becker from Herbstead, in addition to several others. Find inspiration, healing, health, and happiness right outside your own backdoor with A Woman's Garden.
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Make Thrift Mend: Stitch, Patch, Darn, Plant-Dye & Love Your Wardrobe
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Make Thrift Mend: Stitch, Patch, Darn, Plant-Dye & Love Your Wardrobe $13.67 $16.09
Slow fashion influencer Katrina Rodabaugh, bestselling author of Mending Matters, teaches readers how to mend, patch, dye, and alter clothing for an environmentally conscious, reimagined wardrobeSlow fashion influencer Katrina Rodabaugh follows her bestselling book, Mending Matters, with a comprehensive guide to building (and keeping) a wardrobe that matters. Whether you want to repair your go-to jeans, refresh a favorite garment, alter or dye clothing you already have—this book has all the know-how you’ll need. Woven throughout are stories, essays, and a slow fashion call-to-action, encouraging readers to get involved or deepen their commitment to changing the destructive habit of overconsumption. Rodabaugh has an engaged community (her kits are in high demand and her classes sell out quickly) and a proven ability to tempt sewists and nonsewists alike to take up needle and thread.
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Amazing Glaze: Techniques, Recipes, Finishing, and Firing
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Amazing Glaze: Techniques, Recipes, Finishing, and Firing $17.24 $20.29
Whether you look forward to glazing your work or are guilty of saying "I hate glazing!" Amazing Glaze is for you. Join author and Odyssey Clayworks founder Gabriel Kline on a journey that makes glazing less intimidating and more fun. Start in the "glaze kitchen" where you'll set yourself up for success, then move on to learning the tools and techniques for getting your glaze right every time. Along the way, Gabriel shares dozens of tried-and-true recipes and combinations for both mid-range and high-fire glazes.The recipes and foundational techniques of Amazing Glaze are just the beginning. Learn about layering with slip and underglaze, work with resists, and combine techniques to take your glazing above and beyond. Whether you're after crystalline effects, an elusive red, or a crash-course in applying decals it's all here. A variety of artist features and stunning gallery work from today's top artists will leave you inspired and ready to get glazing.
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Sticker Studio: Atlantis: A Sticker Gallery of the Deep Blue Sea
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Sticker Studio: Atlantis: A Sticker Gallery of the Deep Blue Sea $13.33 $15.69
Enter a fantastical underwater world through 600+ stickers!Whether you're an artist, decorator, or sticker collector, Chloe Standish's Sticker Studio: Atlantis will immerse you in creativity with more than 600 gorgeous, full-color stickers. This gallery of high-quality sticker art and sea-struck quotes dives deep to share the beauty, wonder, and peace of marine life--from spectacular shells, starfish, and coral to marvelous fish, turtles, and octopi. You'll even discover deep-sea mysteries held within messages in bottles, treasure chests, and abandoned anchors.- Use in creative projects--from collages to scrapbooks- Adorn home décor and personal items with ocean-themed art- Jazz up cards, letters, and wrapping paper- Cherish as an artistic keepsake with words of wisdom reminding you to seek beauty beneath the surface- Share as a gift with those who draw inspiration from the seaWith hundreds of stickers celebrating sea curiosities, Sticker Studio: Atlantis offers so much to explore and love!