Paper Quilling: Stylish Designs and Practical Projects to Make in a Weekend
Quilling, or paper filigree, is the art of rolling, scrolling, fringing, and shaping narrow strips of paper, and then arranging the shapes to make designs. This book shows how very easy, inexpensive, and immensely versatile this reemerging craft is. 87 color photos. Manipulate paper to create a delicate butterfly and intricate gift cards. This beginner's book introduces you to paper quilling (also known as paper filigree) -- the art of rolling scrolling, fringing, and shaping narrow strips of paper, and arranging the shapes into designs.
Needles & Notions: Paper-Pieced Patterns With a Sewing-Room Theme
Create paper-pieced quilts for yourself or a favorite stitching pal and showcase a subject you both love--sewing! Delightful pictorial sewing-room blocks in both 4" and 6" sizes are provided, along with a larger block depicting a traditional Sunbonnet Sue busy at work on her latest quilt. Turn blocks into small wall quilts with multiple borders, or make a sewing room sampler quilt using all 13 block designs.
Sewing for Plus Sizes: Creating Clothes that Fit and Flatter
The goal of all plus-size design is to emphasize your positive attributes and modify or distract from those you feel are less desirable." Deckert is herself a plus-sized woman and a custom clothier with more than 30 years of sewing experience. Given that most clothing manufacturers have never learned to design attractive, well-fitting clothes for women who wear a size 14 or larger, the woman who wants to achieve style beyond size must sew her own clothes.The goal of all plus-size design is to emphasize your positive attributes and modify or distract from those you feel are less desirable." Deckert is herself a plus-sized.
P. O. Ackley one of America's leading technical experts, shows the average gun owner what he can and cannot do safely and adequately at home. "This is certainly not intended to be any sort of gunsmithing book, a brand to which I would most strenuously object," he says. "Home Gun Care and Repair grows out of, and fulfills the need for adequate advice about, the gun owner's desire to make minor repairs, adjustments, and improvements not requiring great technical skill and large investments in time and tools."
Stimulating and instructional, this resource for scroll-sawyers and woodworkers goes beyond the usual basics manual, offering a wider range of patterns and useful finishing information. The vision-expanding projects—from such masters as Patrick Spielman and Kerry Shirts—help intermediates take that next step and become accomplished artists. Among the beautiful, skill-enhancing options are decorative scrollwork; “painting” with wood, using segmented and stained pieces; and scrolling and sculpting. Craft graceful ornamental birds with elaborately scrolled feathers, and suspend them from wire. A quick and easy Jumping Jack Santa toy will help make Christmas merry.
