"For fun, festive holiday décor and homemade gifts, look no further than Handmade Holiday: Festive Embroidery Patterns and Techniques for Christmas Crafting! With this book of lovely Christmas embroidery scenes, designed by professional needlework artist Aly Ploof, you can add a touch of holiday spirit to napkins, towels, garments, and other textiles. Embroidery is an age-old needlework skill that has been entertaining crafters and makers for generations....

"The best of Kari Hestnes's decades-long career in a single collection. Kari Hestnes has been a knit designer for almost 40 years--and she's a perennial fan favorite for her focus on gorgeous details and stunning embellishment, her flattering garment shaping, and her playful, vivid use of color. Now, she's revisited those four decades of challenging and endlessly rewarding work in order to bring together the best of the best, in one extraordinary...

"In Modern Japanese Embroidery Stitches, Japanese textile maven Noriko Tsuchihashi presents over 100 bold, textural motifs to stitch with thread, ribbon, beads and buttons using familiar stitches as well as a few lesser-known ones. Her detailed instructions and lovely suggestions on how to combine and display the finished pieces will inspire you!"--Amazon.com.

"Designer Ana Morais Soares has a great passion for color and crochet. In this book she presents eight vibrant designs, using the overlay mosaic technique. From easy to some more elaborate patterns, you have a choice to create beautiful blankets, adding color to your home and life. The blankets are worked up in gorgeous yarns packaging types using beautiful bright, soft, or warm color combinations"-- Provided by publisher.

"Mini Artists introduces young children to art through twenty fun and easy craft projects inspired by famous artworks. Each project has been prepared for children between the ages three and six years by author Joséphine Seblon, an art historian and mother of two young children. The benefits of art for young children are well known. Art stimulates curiosity, creativity, the imagination, and well-being. But being creative with young children can be...

"Colorwork expert Claire Goodale walks you through three distinctive styles--Tapestry, Intarsia and Fair Isle--introducing each technique through bright,contemporary patterns. With clear step-by-step photos, smart tips and straightforward directions, Claire shatters the myth that impressive colorwork pieces are complicated--or possible only in knitting. You won't believe how simple it is to pick up the essential skills to create unique designs." --...

Are you a pompom enthusiast looking for a new challenge, perhaps you want to learn something new, or just make that perfect pompom gift to really impress your friends and family? Not your average pompom crafting guide, the projects featured in this book go way beyond the miniature size of most pompom crafts. Perfect for animal lovers, these amazing creations are sculptural works of art, using traditional pompom-making and needle-felting techniques...

Create cute animal granny squares with this collection of over 30 animal granny square crochet patterns, including a rabbit, a cow, a sheep, a llama, a flamingo, a ladybird and more. Each motif features a 3D element and each pattern features full written instructions and chart, plus full guidance on all the crochet techniques needed.

"Connect to the wildlife of seven North American ecosystems by stitching these 52 beautifully accurate designs, from bears to manatees to prairie dogs and more. With this fun collection of projects in field-guide format, stitch your favorite animal, bird, fish, and plant species based on the ecosystems you love or live in. Organized according to seven North American ecosystems--desert, mountain, forest, waterways, prairie, ocean, and urban--the 52...

"An exciting book from Wendy Bernard, Knitted Gifts for All Seasons is packed with 30 new garments and accessories. Projects are organized by season and range from cozy slippers, mittens, and a pom-pom wreath to Fair Isle yoke-neck sweaters for the whole family. Embracing the full calendar year and a wide spectrum of reasons to gift knits, each project captures the season's essence through color scheme and project type, resulting in a well-rounded...