For beginning and advanced sewers, this book reveals simple ways to achieve a professional-looking tailored blazer, coat, or jacket. Pati Palmer is the CEO of Palmer/Pletsch Publishing and a designer and consultant for the McCall Pattern Company. She is the coauthor of Sewing with Sergers. Susan Pletsch is the author of Smart Packing for Today’s Traveler. They are the coauthors of Mother Pletsch's Painless Sewing, and they both live in Portland, Oregon.
Polymer Clay: Creating Functional and Decorative Objects
Vessels. Purses. Clocks. Pots. Furniture. Polymer clay can be used for much more than beads and dolls! Now, artists and crafters can learn how to unleash polymer clay's functional side with this comprehensive guide. Besides covering the basics, like tools and supplies, author and artist Jacqueline Gikow teaches readers in-depth techniques for making pinch pots, bowls, coiled containers, and crocheted objects. Chapters on covering existing containers, mold-making for vessels, free-form vessels, and constructed containers each include projects that reinforce the principles explored.
These ancient creatures from folklore have captured the modern imagination, including Tom Wolfe's. In this book he brings his creativity and skill to the task of creating a whole community of gnomes, bringing them to life from a block of wood. With each step illustrated in full color, Tom takes the carver cut-by-cut to a finished figure. The book includes a gallery and patterns for 5 other gnomes plus "gnome" accessories such as mushrooms and a cart. The gnomes are exciting projects, allowing the carver to add a little of his or her own creativity to the work.
With these instructions and color photographs showing the complete process for making 30 unique card designs, anyone can achieve professional-looking results at home. Design themes range from holidays (White Christmas, Cheery Easter Chicken) to romantic (Dove Love, Hawaiian Holiday, and Heart's Delight) and specialty cards for all occasions (Sail Away, Home Sweet Home, Sunny Days). Topics include using papers, beads, sequins, rubber stamps, wire and other materials, as well as folding, tearing, detail cutting, embossing and stenciling. Every step in the card-making process is explained and pictured, so crafters can achieve outstanding results every time.
In this compilation of projects and plans from Furniture & Cabinetmaking magazine, veteran craftsman Mark Ripley puts 20 years’ worth of practical tips, refreshing ideas, and innovative approaches on the page. The 24 fully-diagrammed and illustrated designs here offer something to furniture-makers of all abilities, from a simple dining-room table to the more complex breakfront bookcase. And these projects don’t require a lavishly-equipped shop: each design requires little more than a bench, a small bandsaw, two or three portable power tools, and a basic kit of hand tools.
