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Featuring photographs of sweaters, this title includes lightweight Spring and Summer designs. It is useful for beginning and intermediate knitters looking for complicated patterns.

"Mary had a little lamb", and so can any child, on a beautiful and bright knit! 30 charming intermediate-level projects give knitters a wonderful opportunity to delight their children with beloved nursery rhymes on handmade mittens, scarves, hats, vests or blankets. Each item, shown in colour photographs with charts, is worked in one piece and presents a shortened version of the rhyme along with an image that illustrates the playful words. Those new to working with colour will find helpful hints...

This book presents avant garde fine art fashion clothing that you would proudly wear anywhere! Here, from the cutting-edge magazine in textile arts, comes a book as dazzling and elegant as the clothes themselves, featuring one-of-a-kind designs from 40 leading artists in the field. Some weave and sew every piece themselves; others collaborate with dressmakers to produce breathtaking outfits often snapped up by movie stars, or displayed in museums.

Whip up a beautiful bag or pretty purse-these fun projects make it a snap to go from sewing room to shoulder! Customize these hot accessories to your favorite style with a range of easy techniques.

Vogue Knitting editors have gathered...45 sweater patterns....Among the designers represented are Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, Adrienne Vittaddini, and Missoni, among others. The oversize book is both very attractive and user friendly. Beautiful color photos are matched with clear instructions and graphs. Everything here looks fresh and modern, and each project is graded according to difficulty.--Booklist.

In Make Your Own Great Earrings, you'll find 45 handsome projects to make (or to use as inspiration for your own original creations). You'll soon be creating earrings from silver wire, beads, polymer clay, paper, found objects, even fabric. Easy-to-follow instructions, full-color photographs, step-by-step illustrations, and helpful designer tips provide you with all you need to get started. The projects use easy-to-find tools and materials, too.

Fascinated with beaded purses? Learn the art of bead knitting with this do-it-yourself book of illustrated and step-by-step techniques for creating a beaded purse. Basic knitting instructions and 15 contemporary and Victorian-era patterns provide a guide for the knitter. A gallery shows more ideas for variety.

A how-to guide about making jewellery for beginners containing 17 new and original jewellery projects. Includes detailed instructions and helpful step-by-step photographs for each project. There is an informative and comprehensive basics section which has all necessary diagrams or photographs to make the Projects. Techniques and projects include: Bead Stringing - Beaded Necklace on Silk, Multi-strand Bracelet, Wire Wrapping - Simple earrings/ Chandelier earrings/ Stone Pendant, Pearl Knotting -...

Celebrated designer Debbie Bliss knits the most adorable collection of baby wear ever! This title includes 15 original designs. Debbie, who lives in London, has designed for Baby Gap and Marks & Spencer. Fifteen original designs include everything from teeny garments for premature babies and sporty jumpers to special occasion outfits and accessories - and every one showcases Debbie's signature style. In addition, she leads readers through the entire process: size and shaping, yarn selection, col...

Fifty percent fancy dress and one hundred percent practical, these great patterns for knitted hats, mittens and slippers will keep babies and toddlers toasty - and parents and grandparents giggling - all winter! The designs are all from favourite baby-knit designer Debby Ware, and each makes the perfect knitted accessory for the little ones in your life. Here are twenty-five patterns that knit up in a snap for a wardrobe of irresistible hats, mittens and slippers to fit newborns, babies and todd...

The sewists are a new breed of designer-makers. From jewellery to bookbinding, felt craft to embroidery, screen-print to dressmaking, they encompass all areas of art and craft, and often combine techniques in new ways. Author and fellow sewist Josephine Perry has interviewed 19 designers about their working life and inspiration, and persuaded each one to part with a project for readers to make. Projects include a cameo brooch using freehand machine embroidery, a fun fur and felt creature, a ci...

Tassels are fashionable, fun and easy to make!  The 20 projects in this book include a wonderful variety of tassels, made using a range of easy techniques and a few inexpensive materials. Carolyn Schulz has put her jewellery-making expertise to good use to create gorgeous bag charms, decorative key fobs and fashionable jewellery. There are folk-inspired tassels created using colourful threads and frayed fabric strips, leather tassels and small, simple tassels combined with beads and ribbon used...

In Putting on the Dog, Melissa Kwasny explores the age-old relationship between humans and the animals that have provided us with our clothing: leather, wool, silk, feathers, pearls, and fur. From silkworms grown on plantations in Japan and mink farms off Denmark's western coast to pearl beds in the Sea of Cortes, Kwasny offers firsthand accounts of traditions and manufacturing methods-aboriginal to modern-and descriptions of the marvel and miracle of the clothing itself. What emerges is a fresh...

A collection of 8 extreme crochet patterns for accessories and homewares, made from super chunky yarns and gigantic crochet hooks. So max up your crochet to create a fabulous Hexie Rug with a smashing Pouffe, or perhaps a super-sized Cowl Scarf with Slouchy Beanie hat, or super-size a comfy blanket for a chilly evening with a charming Scotty-Dog cushion to go with it, plus there are patterns for a statement necklace and a hanging plant pot! Extreme crochet doesn't have to mean that everything yo...