Crafts & Hobbies - Reference

Thrown is a beginner's guide to making ceramics using a pottery wheel. Beginning with the basics, this book will teach you how to create a collection of 20 stylish homewares from construction to completion with a professional finish including decoration, glazing and firing techniques....

From the tulip fields of Netherlands to your garden flower patch, tulips are loved the world over. Jane Eastoe's passion for gardening and Rachel Werne's spectacular photography combine to showcase these gorgeous bulbs and show that anyone can grow and enjoy tulips at home....

A beautifully illustrated step-by-step guide to twisting, weaving and wrapping wire jewellery. In Twisted, wire artist Nadja Shields encourages you to twist, wrap and weave your way to a treasure trove of stunning jewellery. Featuring 15 step-by-step projects, you can use copper, steel, silver...

Learn how to knit--from a simple square to an entire sweater!"This valuable debut guide from Stark tells beginners all they need to know to get started knitting."-- Publishers Weekly"This book's bright colors plus the ease of following Stark's instructions just might result in converts...

Sew like a pro with any fabric or material! Discover how the right fabric, from the ordinary to the intricate, can transform any project! The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Fabrics & Unconventional Materials provides the essential information to cut, pin, sew, and finish a wide...

★☆★ Are you ready to start decluttering your home and life but don't know where to start? ★☆★★☆★ This book will provide the answers! ★☆★Modern living comes with its own set of problems. Because we have more money now than ever before, we tend...

"An essential addition to the knitter's bookshelf." --Library Journal (starred review) The ultimate knitting reference, from the world's most recognized knitting magazine, gets a thorough update--including 1,600 color images and brand-new sections with techniques and designs! First published in 1989, Vogue Knitting The Ultimate...

Created by industry leader Vogue Knitting, this book offers 90+ pages of special colorwork paper that features stitch outlines rather than rectangles--so knitters can grasp what their finished project will actually look like. Knitters who enjoy creating their own colorwork patterns now have a...

From the world's most-recognized knitting magazine, and a leader in the industry, comes the ultimate guide to learning how to knit for absolute beginners. Anyone can learn to knit--and who better to explain the essentials than the trusted authorities at Vogue Knitting? Here is...

The most trusted on-the-go knitting reference of the past 20 years gets a thorough update, featuring the many advances made in knitting since its original publication. A companion to the completely updated and revised edition of Vogue Knitting: The Ultimate Knitting Book, this quick...

With more than 800 knitting patterns--including 100 that are brand new--covering everything from knit and purl to colorwork, this is the most comprehensive knitting stitch dictionary ever published. A companion volume to Vogue Knitting: The Ultimate Knitting Book, this ultimate stitch dictionary compiles the...

In Walk, quilt teacher Jacquie Gering shares a comprehensive set of walking foot quilting basics that provides a solid foundation for quilting with ease, quality, and creativity. Free motion not for you? How about some "forward motion" quilting with the walking foot? It's time...

Wet felting is an incredible textile art form that offers enormous opportunity for genuine creativity and innovation. This beautiful book is a complete guide to the process, from the basic techniques through to using embellishment materials to decorate your felt and resists to structure...

Wood Identification & Use is an indispensable guide to the world's most valuable natural resource.More than 200 species of wood are included in this lavishly illustrated book. Each species is described in detail with color photographs and information on its properties, seasoning requirements, uses...

Master the art of carpentry and create timeless handcrafted pieces with this essential guide to working with wood. Discover essential woodworking techniques - from basic to more advanced types of wood joints, finishing, woodturning, and furniture restoration - in this hands-on, instructive carpentry manual....

"Not gonna lie, this is probably the coolest journal you'll ever see. . . . Wreck This Journal is here to inspire you." --Buzzfeed A spectacular coloring and painting edition of the incredible journal that started it all, in celebration of the tenth anniversary...