Crafts & Hobbies

If you love fabric you will love this comprehensive reference book for sewers, dressmakers and quilters. It includes practical ideas for which prints and colours work well together, as well as 20 project ideas for accessories and home decor.

Create your own stunning jewellery items from a selection of over 20 diverse necklaces, bracelets, earrings and rings. Learn various beading and wirework techniques and use your own selection of beads or embellishments for a unique look. Includes projects to suit all styles and abilities, with handy difficulty levels attached to each design.

Provides step-by-step instructions for twenty-five knitted accessories projects, including socks, scarves, shawls, and hat sets.

Describes what to look for when purchasing tools, including features, quality and what sizes are best for specific chores. This book shows how to set up the tool for accuracy and then how to safely and productively use each type of hand, portable power and stationary woodworking tool.

An exploration of traditional British craftsmanship, accompanying the prime time BBC TV series presented by Monty Don. It celebrates various aspects of rural crafts including woodcraft, thatching, weaving, stone masonry, metalwork and glass making. It showcases some of Britain's leading master craftsmen.

Create beautifully textured jewelry that reflects your true self! &break;&break;The self-expressive elements we put into the works of art we make can be transferred to the jewelry we create. Colors, textures, symbolism and more make up the works created in our art journals. Author June Roman shares how ...

This essential guide to fashion is packed with over 100 inspirational, easy, and stylish ideas for customizing clothes.

Looking at the night sky, with his vault full of stars, you may not realise you are looking at a pattern with infinite threads and decorations, those imaginary lines that compose the constellations. First seen by ancient peoples, these animals or imaginary more or less big creatures shaping in the sky ...

Doodled Cats is packed with creative prompts, fun feline facts, and step-by-step doodling projects for the feline fanatic in you—the perfect book for on-the-go artists. In Doodled Cats, beloved artist and illustrator Gemma Correll provides inspiration and ideas for doodling a variety of different cat ...

30 quick and easy duct tape projects for the whole family!

Get caught up in the two most famous scary stories of all time depicted in LEGO bricks! Creep your way through the shadowy sets of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Bram Stoker's Dracula in this amazing brick adaptation. With one thousand color photographs, these stories and their monsters come alive in ...

The Dangerous Book for Men, not boys

Lose yourself in 20 spiral, tangle, and geometric pattern designs with a twist! Each page is coated in metallic foil to be scraped away to reveal the colour below.

An exploration of the special relationship between embroidery and gardening. This is a thorough re-working of the author's long-standing classic, "Embroidered Gardens". It aims to provide a source of inspiration for the modern embroiderer, and an informative text for the gardening enthusiast.

A collection of over 30 patchwork and quilting projects to decorate A home with country charm. It helps readers to experiment with a range of colours, embellishments and materials and discover techniques including applique, machine sewing and blocking.

Acclaimed LEGO artist Mike Doyle is back with more amazing LEGO art in Beautiful LEGO 2: Dark, a new collection of jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring LEGO creations.

Beautiful fancy-dress projects to make for infants, crawlers, and toddlers.

Discusses how to create triking pieces and helps readers see clothing options to pair with the jewellery to show them off at their finest with a how-to-wear sidebar accompanying at least half of the projects.

A travel-size book about fashion, friends and fun for kids. From colouring in to completing mazes, spotting the difference and using craft paper, it is full of fun and creative ways to keep busy, whether on the road or on holiday. It also includes a stencil sheet and stickers.

Provides contemporary paper and craft equipment ideas to suit crafters of various ages and experience. Traditional papercrafts such as Papier mache, decoupage, origami, and paper weaving are combined with modern cutting techniques, stitching ideas embellishments, and colours to create beautiful stationery, storage ideas and fashion accessories.