Wonderful Ways with Washi: Seventeen Delightful Projects to Make with Handmade Japanese Washi Paper
Seventeen Delightful Projects to Make with Handmade Japanese Washi Paper is great book, fun crafts for children and adults alike very well instructions and great drawing.
Masterful Woodturning: Projects & Inspiration for the Skilled Turner
The fine points of sanding, finishing, indexing, and designing; detailed dimensional drawings; and projects of breathtaking intricacy. You’ll acquire the turning techniques necessary to shape 33 fabulous items, including a thread dispenser with a surprise hidden drawer; a tall handled urn of lovely lightness and fragility; and a music box with a carved ballerina doll.
Get ready for some fun! Try these unusual knitting techniques for stitching sweaters. Start at one cuff and knit to the other cuff. Or start at the shoulders and knit down to the waist. Or knit diagonally from corner to corner. Or knit a cable that goes from cuff to cuff and pick up stitches to knit up and down along the cable.
Clear, step-by-step illustrations show youngsters and other would-be artists how to use simple shapes to draw realistic likenesses of 30 different garden flowers, among them a sunflower, daisy, rose, morning glory, tulip, daffodil, poinsettia, Easter lily, pansy, jack-in-the-pulpit, bird of paradise, iris, and 18 other lovely blossoms.
