A charming assortment of one-of-a-kind miniature boxes in a variety of shapes for all skill levels. Julia S. Pretl offers crafters her original method for creating decorative beaded boxes and lids in a wide range of surface designs and shapes. Working only with cylinder and seed beads, needle and thread, crafters can create an impressive array of clever and colorful miniature containers. With step-by-step illustrations and easy-to-follow word graphs and patterns, Pretl leads the reader through the techniques for creating rectangular, square, and stacked boxes.
Step-by-step instructions for one standard model provide the groundwork for 16 elaborate basket designs in this introduction to basket carving. Carvers learn how to use their scroll saws and the provided base pattern to create basket "levels" that, when glued together, form the base for a complete basket. This set of fundamental principles provides the jumping-off point for hundreds of basket designs. Patterns include small and large market baskets, a candy dish, and a tissue box. This new edition includes four new projects.
Celtic Woodcraft: Authentic Projects for Woodworkers
Celtic knot work and other designs of early Ireland are immensely popular, so it's about time that someone created a woodworking title featuring these powerful images. Bennett, a self-taught woodworker who hopes to encourage beginners, here offers a collection of 20 projects appropriate for woodworkers of every skill level. This reviewer has not been so excited about a new project book in years; the designs are beautiful and so diverse that they should appeal to nearly everyone.
In this book, she returns to her core territory, with a fabulous new collection of new ideas for 0-3 year olds, the key time when knitters pick up their needles and get to work. There are designs for baby blankets, first sweaters and cardigans, bootees and more unusual items, as well as lots of ideas for ultra-wearable, ultra-stylish kit for toddlers. To help even inexperienced knitters create these designs, each pattern includes extra info on the key stitches and techniques required, watchpoints and an estimated degree of difficulty and time required to knit it.
Easy Knits: Over 25 Simple Designs for Babies, Children and Adults
Would you like to knit something gorgeous for a new baby, but don’t have weeks to spend on it? Or are you relatively new to knitting and looking for a simple, foolproof design that will give you great results? Easy Knits is a fantastic collection of over 25 simple designs for babies, children and adults.
