Make Spectacular Books: Fabulous Fabric, Skewer & Folded Books
Handcrafted books let families remember the special times forever. Now Sue Astroth shows exactly how to Make Spectacular Books, for every theme and occasion! Three unique technique plus lots of savvy variations offer endless variety. Great for scrapbookers, paper crafters, quilters, even beginners and kids, these 22 fun projects make it easy to create a special memory. * Make a family treasure today! * Three exciting techniques, endless possibilities! * Pockets, accordion fold-outs, tabs, closures...so many great choices! * Great family craft or cherished gift
Not only sweet-tooths and chocolate lovers will appreciate this book. Creating your own elegant and successful sweets and chocolate is one of the most satisfying tasks a cook can undertake, and this book is filled with brilliant ideas, helpful hints and great recipes to see you on your way.
Drying foods yourself allows you to choose the best, tastiest varieties you can buy or pick fresh from the garden. Home drying also lets you enjoy dried fruits and vegetables the grocery stores don’t carry. Dried berries make wonderful additions to winter muffins. Dried tomatoes perk up a pot of baked beans. Backpackers let lightweight dried vegetable mixes simmer into tempting soups. And the foods you dry yourself cost a lot less than the ones you buy.
Patchwork-the piecing together of many different fabrics-is back! And it's making a splash on fashion runways, in the hottest magazines, and on the coolest indie craft blogs. No wonder, because patchwork gives stitchers an exciting way to make use of their old fabric scraps; in effect, they're designing new material by creating original combinations of patterns. Thanks to a pool of talented designers and this new entry in the popular Pretty Little series, anyone can pick out some fabrics and get started.
A perfect gift for young people going off to school or setting up a house for the first time, for adults suddenly forced to take responsibility for a modicum of cleanliness, or for experienced housekeepers who want to learn short-cuts and money-savers, this is the book that helps people get off to a clean start!
