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A collection of projects to sew for your favourite little one.
Christmas is a sparkling time--and beads make the season glow even brighter. Everyone crafts at Christmas, and beautiful seed, crystal, felted, and lampwork beads are an easy way to add twinkle and shine to everything: ornaments, centerpieces, handmade gifts, and more. Anyone who can string or glue or stitch can make these contemporary, charming wreaths, holiday cards, one-of-a-kind stockings, and gift bags. Lavish, colorful photographs showcase the projects.
With their charming, simply irresistible projects, the Pretty Little series has made a huge splash with crafters. And this newest entry is sure to become one of the biggest hits ever, because every woman knows that you just can’t have too many darling, stylish purses! These 30 clever and adorable little carryalls range from cute cell phone cases and wallets to daytime purses and glam evening bags. They come from a pool of wildly creative designers, and showcase the latest trends in fabric, design, and embellishment: every one is unique, colorful, modern, and playfully feminine. Who wouldn’t love the sweet heart-covered pouch with a smiling face on the front, plus tiny felted hands and feet? Or the bold and bright petite wool tote that sports a bouquet of felt flowers? And that’s just the beginning of the crafting fun, because there’s so much more, including a vintage linen clutch featuring a pretty ruched front. Of course, as always, the entire book looks as stunning as the individual projects, with beautiful color photos throughout, plus patterns and templates.
Tempting topping, delicious cake, and a spectacular decoration to complete the pretty picture: that’s what makes a cupcake such a perfect delight—and why these 32 recipes will please young and old. These recipes are relatively easy to make, and use simple, readily available ingredients. The pages brim with helpful baking advice, including tips on incorporating nuts, working with decorative sugars, and even creating your own pastry bag. How about cupcakes decorated with sugar butterflies, Winter Spice Cakes with snowflakes, and sinfully good Chocolate Mousse Layered Cupcakes? With these recipes at hand, any amateur pastry chef can wow a crowd. A Selection of the Good Cook Book Club.
Art & Craft.
Adrienne Hargrove has always been aware that humans are fragile creatures walking an egg-shell thin line between innocence and deviance. Her own life is a chain of guilt from poor choices she’s made. But as a private investigator in the Deep South, she thought she had seen it all. That was before she was hired by Catriona Kirby, wife of Galen Kirby, a doctor in a small Louisiana town. Adrienne knew she was looking into the possibility the doctor was involved in a drug scam with the sheriff. She even knew there was a possibility the doctor was involved in the murder of an ex-girlfriend. What she never imagined was that Dr. Galen Kirby was a serial killer and deeply involved in a baby black market scheme. And in their wildest nightmares neither Adrienne nor Catriona could have imagined that he was producing his own babies to sell.
32 pretty little projects. In addition to chic covers for such everyday indispensables as music players, books, cell phones, and coffee cups, there are fabulous wraps for a sewing machine, a pint of sorbet, and even a French coffee press.
Presented on these exquisite pages are the most beautiful, most innovative quilts being designed today, all selected from the world-class 13th Biennial Quilt National Exhibition, a showcase for contemporary quilt artists who expand the traditional boundaries of the craft. Large, spectacular color photographs, and the artists’ deeply personal commentary on what inspired their work, give home quilters the opportunity to enjoy and refer to these quilts as often as they like.
Big names in the craft field have offered up their creative secrets for this collection of 60 new and highly creative approaches to card making. Full-page, full-colour photographs of each project offer inspiration while instructions are simple and clear.
Patchwork--the piecing together of many different fabrics--is back! And it’s making a splash on fashion runways, in the hottest magazines, and on the coolest indie craft blogs. No wonder, because patchwork gives stitchers an exciting way to make use of their old fabric scraps; in effect, they’re designing new material by creating original combinations of patterns. Thanks to a pool of talented designers and this new entry in the popular Pretty Little series, anyone can pick out some fabrics and get started. Thirty projects showcase a variety of creative ideas, including funky ornaments, a silk scarf, star pincushions, a yoga-mat carrier, and much more. An introduction teaches the basic techniques, and all the projects appear in full-color, close-up photos.