The most complete guide to sewing basics People are always looking for ways to cut expenses and be creative and stylish at the same time. Learning to sew is a great way to arm yourself with the skills to repair and create clothing and furnishings for yourself and your family for little to no cost. But learning how to sew and how to choose the tools and supplies to begin sewing can be confusing.
Hip Handbags: Creating & Embellishing 40 Great-Looking Bags
All the techniques for making a uniquely personal purse are right here. Forty projects offer a wide variety of fabulous choices, featuring great fabrics and design options, including novelty threads, raffia ribbon, straps made of jeweled necklaces and bracelets, beautiful yet easy embroidery, and more. Crafters who really want to start from scratch will find 25 simple sewing projects, all originating from seven basic patterns, ranging from a flat folding purse to an oval pocketbook made from iridescent ruched silk.
The variety of realistic, three-rail trackwork and trend toward reasonably-sized layouts makes simplistic, tabletop plans of the past unsuitable for today’s toy train operators. In this book, you’ll find 16 realistic, themed layout plans, each including track diagrams, wiring schemes, and a list of suggested equipment.
Beads and Threads: A New Technique for Fiber Jewelry
What beautiful, showpiece necklaces you can make following the instructions in this book - wearable art in the most exciting sense. The materials and tools needed are inexpensive and readily available, the work portable, the results striking. When you wear the necklaces you make, they elicit admiration and praise. The book opens with an exciting gallery of the work done by Helen Banes and many of her students. Once your appetite is whetted by what you have seen, then Diane Fitzgerald explains how the neckpieces are made and presents you with 19 projects for making your own.
Learn How to Crochet Flowers with 5 Free Crochet Flower Patterns
Crochet flowers inspire creativity. You can use them to personalize hats, bags, sweaters, and more. They are quick and easy to whip up and a resourceful use of those luscious yarn scraps you just can't bear to toss. I've been creating a bouquet's worth of these vibrant, blossoming embellishments and they're just waiting to be attached to finished pieces.
