The ultimate guide to today’s hottest craft trend! Learn how to personalize your world with Sublimation Crafting! Join creative crafter, author, and sublimation expert Cori George as she demystifies this fast-growing art form and provides all the essentials needed to kick-start your sublimation journey. You’ll get an easy-to-understand overview of sublimation, learn about the printers and supplies needed, and master the art of transferring images onto blank canvases to create vibrant items to keep, give, or sell. • Unintimidating Guidance: Craft with confidence as this guide empowers you to navigate sublimation crafting with ease, without technical jargon or confusion. • Essential Tools Demystified: Gain a comprehensive understanding of the tools that drive sublimation, including printers and heat presses, unlocking the potential for limitless creativity. • Step-by-Step Mastery: Follow expert instructions for safe and effective techniques, ensuring that every project you undertake showcases your skill and creativity. • 18 Dynamic Projects: Elevate your crafting journey with 18 projects that span a spectrum of items, including a T-shirt, mug, mouse pad, photo panel, sequined pillow, flag, photo slate, glass cutting board, wood sign, and zippered pouch, as well as wine bags, coasters, stickers, earrings, patches, and even a trio of tumblers! • Downloadable Art Files: Access a treasure trove of more than 30 downloadable art files that make customization and creativity seamless. It’s the definitive guide to sublimation crafting with no fussy instructions or technical jargon—just solid techniques and gorgeous craft projects from a trusted expert!

Bind: hardback

Pages: 168

Dimensions: 196 x 241 mm

Publication Date: 28-04-2024

Learn to make embroidery a way to treasure your life as you create three personal projects supported by the guidance, stories, and advice of 14 modern crafters. Modern society has put a premium on producing, and sometimes that hustle culture (Instagram likes! Etsy sales!) can drain some joy from crafting. This book helps embroidery fans abandon that notion and, instead, realize that life is about treasuring what's important. • Interviews with 14 creative stitchers—from business owners to accomplished artists—make readers feel embraced by community. • Each artist shares photos of their creations, encouraging readers to incorporate empowering concepts into their stitching. • Three step-by-step projects, personalized to the reader's own preferences, teach how to 1. use your threads to treasure and display your life’s meaningful special objects. For instance, a special token of a favorite moment like a seashell, an event ticket, or a trinket from childhood. 2. use your threads to treasure your worn and well-loved things, like your favorite garment, with mending and adornment (while also treasuring our environment). 3. use your threads to treasure your small everyday moments—sit still, breathe deeply, and enjoy the making process—by creating a daily practice. Modern society has put a premium on producing, and sometimes that hustle culture (Instagram likes! Etsy sales!) can drain some joy from crafting. This book helps embroidery fans abandon that notion and, instead, realize that life is about treasuring what's important.

Bind: hardback

Pages: 168

Dimensions: 203 x 254 mm

Publication Date: 28-04-2024

A comprehensive how-to reference that teaches dry textile surface design techniques for making custom cloth, including appliqué, embroidery, layering, and more. Learn surface design for textiles, to create rich and personally expressive fabric surfaces. Projects by expert Susan Brandeis (author of the bestselling The Intentional Thread) help novices and experienced professionals experiment with each method. • Covers dry techniques in detail: how to add color, pattern, and images to fabrics using cutting, piecing, layering, building, and embellishing. • Includes both machine stitching and hand stitching. • What's the "Cumulative Cloth"? A single cloth that readers add to with each chapter's techniques, eventually creating a piece of art. • Serves as a go-to reference to check technical procedures and safety guidelines (many methods require caution). • Wet techniques are covered separately in the author's coordinating book, The Cumulative Cloth, Wet Techniques.

Bind: hardback

Pages: 344

Dimensions: 216 x 279 mm

Publication Date: 28-05-2024

Featuring the work of dozens of talented artists, this richly illustrated and redesigned sequel to Purchia and Rooney's Fairy Homes & Gardens further spurs the imagination with images and stories of more than 50 new fairy dwellings. Fairies―those mythical sprites of folktales and daydreams―are an enduring source of fascination to humans. Designing, creating, and maintaining fairy dwellings and gardens has become popular as an artistic endeavor, family activity, or form of meditation. Published in 2014, Purchia and Rooney's Fairy Homes & Gardens has transported thousands of readers to the magical realm of fairy gardening. In the ensuing years, fairy homes and gardens have become much more than a fleeting trend, establishing a perennial pastime for people of all ages. A treasure trove of ideas, this inspiring follow-up features • images and stories of more than 50 new projects that encompass a wide variety of fairy dwellings―communities, cottages, houses, castles, chalets, and other serendipitous structures; • creations by more than two dozen of the most talented and innovative artists creating fairy environments; • a special chapter on fairy accessories, including furniture, doors, swings, and the other creature comforts fairies appreciate; • an appendix spotlighting plants that are ideal for incorporation into fairy gardens; and • a foreword that tells the story of Florence Griswold Museum's wildly popular Wee Faerie Garden event. Appealing to fairy enthusiasts and nature lovers of all ages, this book provides bold inspiration to help readers embark on a creative and relaxing pursuit that takes them directly into the world of fairy magic.

Bind: paperback

Pages: 144

Dimensions: 171 x 203 mm

Publication Date: 28-04-2024

A comprehensive look at the history, elements of construction, and all the steps in furniture design from an expert in the industry. Elements of Furniture Design is a resource of information gathered from 30 years of working as a professional furniture designer. These elements of design are essential, and there is no other resource where they are available in one place. The reader will gain a comprehensive knowledge of how furniture is designed, and can use this information to create new and exciting design concepts. This knowledge is provided in four sections: • A brief history and quick designer references (woods, veneers, woodjoinery, comfort, architectural references, and drawing tools) • Illustrating furniture construction • Historic ornament used on furniture (molding, turning, carving) • The typical design process with a new client The work of cabinetmaker Thomas Day (a free man of color in the South in the mid-1800s) is used to tie the story together, and the reader will learn trade secrets of furniture design that have been lost to outsourcing and offshore manufacture.

Bind: hardback

Pages: 256

Dimensions: 216 x 279 mm

Publication Date: 28-05-2024

Inside this moving true story, John Furniss, more famously known today as "The Blind Woodsman," along with his wife, inspiration, and fellow artist Anni — fondly called "Honeybee" by John — share their amazing story with the mission to help and inspire others to pursue their own creative passions, regardless of the challenges they may face. Despite being blind, John is now a highly skilled woodworker creating incredible pieces of art in complete darkness, inspiring millions of viewers on TikTok with his achievements. Although John's creative outlet revolves around woodworking, as a motivational speaker for blindness awareness, drug abuse prevention, and suicide prevention in schools, his overall mission is to help others find true happiness despite what life throws at you. Learn how John and Anni met, as John shares his life experiences from a young teen and all the challenges he faced. Be inspired by stunning images of John's work, while poignant messages make you laugh and smile along the way. The Blind Woodsman is a compelling true story that will give hope and inspiration to those dealing with disabilities, mental health struggles, addiction, chronic illness, and the anxieties and stresses in our everyday lives.

Bind: paperback

Pages: 192

Dimensions: 152 x 228 mm

Publication Date: 07-05-2024

Don't throw your fabric scraps away! Kelly Young will teach you how to make structured improvisational quilts. She starts by blending the old concept of an improv quilt with a newer structured way to do it with tips and techniques on how to get started, how to prepare your fabrics and choose which method you would like to use--panel, strip, or block. Then she offers three ways to organize your quilt: by color, grabbing and sewing, and creating your improv as the background. Projects include Grand Bazaar, Precarious, Detour, Bloom Chicka Boom, Regatta and more! Perfect for confident beginners and experienced quilters.

Bind: paperback

Pages: 88

Dimensions: 213 x 276 mm

Publication Date: 14-05-2024

Inside this book, you'll find 100 incredible full-size scroll saw patterns — all heartfelt designs that focus on the hobbies, people, and pets we love! From talented scroll saw artist Jean-Bernard Germe comes this exciting collection of scroll sawing patterns perfect for beginners and intermediate scroll sawyers. Each completed and free-standing project is truly special in its own way, making for perfect keepsakes or gifts made from the heart! Patterns include a couple holding hands, a person relaxing on a lounge chair, a family with kids, a child with a pet parrot, a person running, and other personalized silhouettes of people, families, pets, hobbies, and more. These beginner-friendly projects are approachable for any scroll sawyer of any skill level and can be made with scrap wood in a short amount of time. High-quality patterns like these are a scroll sawyer's bread and butter, and this book is very pattern heavy while still including introductory material for beginners. Comprehensive opening sections include wood, material, and tool selection, using the patterns, and applying a finish. Spark inspiration, further your skills, and use up your scraps, with this fun scroll saw pattern book, Easy-to Make Wooden People & Pets with Personality!

Bind: paperback

Pages: 96

Dimensions: 203 x 254 mm

Publication Date: 28-05-2024

The Klinkhåmer Special is probably the most popular fishing fly in the world today. It floats on the end of fly lines on salmon, trout or grayling rivers, from Britain to USA, and Scandinavia to Mongolia. This year marks the fly's 40th anniversary and to celebrate the occasion, its creator Hans van Klinken has at last written his long-awaited first book. Flyfishers for salmon, trout, grayling and coarse species will for the first time learn from Hans himself the secrets behind his miracle Klinkhåmer Special which has caught its fans hundreds and hundreds of fish: the thinking behind the design, the testing, the variations, the reasons for its remarkable success. Full instructions for tying Hans' most important flies are included in his engaging and revealing account of his life in flytying and fishing.

Bind: hardback

Pages: 352

Dimensions: 216 x 276 mm

Publication Date: 01-06-2024

A respected fiber artist teaches a technique that allows weavers to create shaped and three-dimensional tapestries, on any kind of loom. Designed for adventurous weavers of all skill levels who love a new challenge, this is the first book on the intriguing pulled warp technique. Used through the decades by a handful of weavers to create 3-D tapestries, and also to make flat tapestries that bend and curve, pulled warp helps weavers achieve exciting results. Susan Iverson, a professional weaver who has spent years researching and using this technique, is known for her skillful teaching style. • Clear, easy-to-follow instructions enable weavers to use pulled warp innovations in their own work. • Includes the technical and designing details that creative weavers want • Beautiful examples woven by Susan Iverson demonstrate what pulled warp has to offer. • Can be used in several ways: as an intensive workshop-like experience, an inspiration for weavers at any level, and a source of technical ideas to try • Directly relevant to weavers at any stage, since Iverson shares how the technique has had an impact on different phases of her weaving career. Designed for adventurous weavers of all skill levels who love a new challenge, this is the first book on the intriguing pulled-warp technique. Used through the decades by a handful of weavers to create 3-D tapestries, and also to make flat tapestries that bend and curve, pulled warp helps weavers achieve exciting results. Susan Iverson, a professional weaver who has spent years researching and using this technique, is known for her skillful teaching style. • Clear, easy-to-follow instructions enable weavers to use pulled-warp innovations in their own work. • Includes the technical and designing details that creative weavers want • Beautiful examples woven by Susan Iverson demonstrate what pulled warp has to offer. • Can be used in several ways: as an intensive workshop-like experience, an inspiration for weavers at any level, and a source of technical ideas to try • Directly relevant to weavers at any stage, since Iverson shares how the technique has had an impact on different phases of her weaving career. This teaches tapestry weavers how to utilize a unique weaving technique to create shaped 3-D tapestries, which can be a new direction for most weavers. The author/artist is well-known and well-respected in the weaving community. Enjoy the technique that lets you create 3-D, angled, or curved tapestries without cutting or stitching For adventurous weavers of all skill levels who love a new challenge; any type of loom can be used The actual warp-pulling step in the making process is dramatic and adds a "wow" aspect to your textile

Bind: hardback

Pages: 176

Publication Date: 28-02-2024