In this collection of 29 projects, woodworkers of all skill levels are taught several variations of chip carving—the timeless art of decorating a wood surface by removing chips of wood with short triangular-shaped cuts—including basic chip carving, line carving, shallow-chip carving, and highly stylized European chip carving. Featuring patterns from a host of preeminent chipcarvers—such as Barry McKenzie, Dennis Moor, Darrell Jannsen, and Roger Strautman—this handy guidebook includes Christmas ornaments, a beautiful line-carved birdhouse, a handsome chip-carved chess set...
This 10 page collection includes detailed directions for 13 small, but elegant crocheted pageminders to grace each day's reading. You will receive complete instructions for: Antique Lace, Bowtie, Entwining Scallops, Fancy Fans, Lacy Bells, Lacy Shells & Picots, Lotus Buds, Medallions, Peacock Bookmark, Ruffled Hearts, Victorian Window Panes, and Violets in Lace. These bookmarks make wonderful gifts for friends who enjoy reading or just to keep for yourself.
Norma Vally's Kitchen Fix-Ups: More than 30 Projects for Every Skill Level
The DIY trend for women involves more than knitting and sewing: today more women are tending to their homes, and they're not just sewing curtains and arranging flowers. They're installing new toilets, laying ceramic floors in the kitchen, and drywalling the den. With 23 percent of all power tool purchases in 2004 made by women, and the number of unmarried females owning homes climbing by nearly 4 million owners from 1994 to 2002, when it comes to home repair, maintenance, and improvement, these sisters are doing it for themselves.
Not Your Mama's Felting: The Cool and Creative Way to Get it Together
The art of felting, the process of working wool fibers together to form felt, is the ultimate in craft creativity because no two items turn out exactly alike. The first book to cover knitted or crocheted felting, needle felting, and wet felting, Not Your Mama's Felting will have you creating fashions, accessories, and gifts that will have your non-felting friends asking, "How did you do that?" Fun and funky.
Not Your Mama's Beading: The Cool and Creative Way to String 'Em Along
We go where no beading book has gone before and offer up projects that are absolutely wearable and that your brown-nosing cube-mate can only covet. If, like any self-respecting do-it-yourself gal, you still have a secret but slavish devotion to personal adornment, look no further. Choose one of more than thirty super-cool designs, get the basics, and whip up something you can't find in even the most exclusive Rodeo Drive boutiques.
