Featuring page after page of beautiful, dynamic, full-color images, "The Big Book of Lofts" presents 48 creative and cutting-edge projects, showcasing concepts that today's most innovative designers have applied to lofts around the globe. From modern apartment complexes to traditional, family-sized spaces, this book presents a variety of projects involving one unit and single-family dwellings that are sure to catch the eye of any reader.
Chinese Ink Painting: Techniques in Shades of Black
Chinese brush painting, is admired and emulated by artists the world over. This beautiful and inspiring book shows painters of all interests and skill levels how to achieve the fluid, spontaneous style of this unique art form.
Through 12 step-by-step projects, readers will learn how to paint a range of popular subjects using traditional Chinese inks, brushes and papers. Projects gradually increase in difficulty, and feature such subjects as swallows, bamboo, wild orchids, plum blossoms, pandas, horses, peonies and more.
Fifty great-looking but straightforward scroll saw [projects, with ready-to-use patterns, are included in this collection. Fretwork jewelry boxes, unusual clocks, and many reproductions of antique pieces provide exciting challenges for beginning woodworkers.
Wooden Puzzles: 31 Favorite Projects & Patterns
Collecting the most popular designs produced by Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts magazine, this authoritative guide offers 28 creative and colorful patterns for upright and interlocking puzzles. Separated by skill level for easy selection, woodworkers will find pieces ranging in themes from animal to religion—including cuddly cats, Jonah and the whale, a wooly mammoth,...
This practical and innovative approach to quiltmaking techniques makes star patterns a snap! With the addition of a few strategic seams, this eight-point star is simpler to make, and quilters will appreciate the design flexibility of the interchangeable block system presented. Directions with complete yardage and cutting charts for over a dozen quilt projects are included, along with a special bonus section on creating Magic Stack-n-Whack(tm) stars to showcase in any of the settings.
