Suitable for crafters, this book is packed with patterns for hats, scarves, legwarmers, wraps, socks, and jewellery - which require only a single ball of yarn.

Provides readers with what they need to know about creating art with just your computer, scanner, printer, and a sewing machine. This title guides you through everything from choosing the right fabrics and equipment, through enhancing your images with the artistic elements of Photoshop and other software, to quilting your creation.

Examines age-old aphorisms in light of knitting.

Helps you learn how to create beautiful and unique patterns for articles ranging from winter-wear to items around the home.

Presents more than twenty projects to make or embellish home decor items, garments, accessories, gifts, and more. This title covers: the tools and materials that no stitcher should be without; basic stitching skills such as starting a thread, tying off, and finishing your piece; and, a myriad of embroidery, cross stitch, and needlepoint stitches.

Features a step-by-step workshop that teaches to adapt sweater patterns. This book illustrates how to adapt the same basic sweater pattern to many different styles, and introduces the elements of sweater design through increasingly challenging projects. It includes 10 projects on sweaters, coats, and vests as well as pullovers and jackets.

Providing various designs for knitters of various skill levels, this book contains swatches which are worked in updated yarns accompanied by instructions.

Give your bathroom a fabulous retro touch with the most iconic of bathroom accessories: the toilet roll cover. This work features 30 knitted and crocheted projects. It contains a comprehensive techniques section to get you started.

Offers an introduction to three super-simple crafts: rug hooking, punchneedle embroidery, and needle felting. This title features classic folk-art motifs such as cats, houses, birds, and stars in 13 designs. It also provides advice for all three crafts with Hooker's Hints sidebars.

From casual to formal, the kimono shape has endured for centuries as a staple form of dress for peasantry and nobility alike. For each kimono, this collection contains a knitted interpretation of a style or feature of traditional kimono.

Offers dozens of patterns for items that evoke the mystique of Harry Potter a Wizard Robe, an Invisibility Shawl, a Quidditch Sweater, Ron's Ragg Raglan, a Clock Blanket, and Harry Christmas Ornaments. This book features patterns, color photos of the finished projects, and illustrations of stitch patterns and design elements.

In a world where sheep-based knitting is the norm, do you feel left out? Are you knitting for someone who won't wear wool? This how-to guide teaches you about non-wool yarns, focusing on plant fibers including cotton, linen, hemp, soy, bamboo, Tencel, rayon, the new synthetics, and more.

Learn a variety of possibilities for creating the look you want for YOUR quilt Enjoy a glimpse into the graceful, elegant world of Joan Colvin Explore easy soft- and hard-edge techniques and colour blending to create new looks for any quilt Learn how to start with an image, choose techniques, and translate them into a quilt that's uniquely your own See how Joan creates the special effects in her .

This is Elly Sienkiewicz's second collection of her most popular Baltimore album quilt block patterns, plus new designs. It contains over 75 full-scale block and border patterns for Baltimore-style album quilts, fully annotated for history, symbolism and construction.

The perfect introduction to felt making, with 18 traditional and contemporary projects. This book will also inspire those more familiar with working with wool fibre.

Explores various techniques of felt making, from knit-and-shrink to wet felting, needlefelting, and recycled felting . This title contains 27 projects and photographs of more than 50 before-and-after felted yarn combinations.

Presents 27 projects designed to accentuate individual style to a wardrobe. Suitable for beginners and experts alike, this work includes advice on basic techniques, as well as a section of more complicated stitches. It includes projects ranging from lacy hoop earrings and beaded necklaces to elaborate ponchos and sleek eveningwear.

This primer uses clear, step-by-step instructions to teach the basics of knitting. Beginners will learn to master the techniques that are needed before starting a project and learn which choices result in successful garments. A natural progression of skills is taught, and each skill is punctuated by a knitting project, enabling first-time knitters to create simple scarves and sweaters. Patterns ..