Offers a range of fabric finishes that can be applied to any fabric - woven, knitted, crocheted, handmade, or purchased. This book presents various techniques with text, illustrations, and photographs of examples. It is suitable for weavers, knitters, sewers, quilters, embroiderers, and crocheters.

Teaches beginner and expert knitters how to elevate their projects to a professional level. This book helps a knitting enthusiast to create professional-looking designs by weaving new techniques into their knitted garments. It introduces proper shaping and sizing techniques, and provides the reader with a few seaming options.

Shares more than 150 one-of-a-kind embellishments for various types of garment edging. This work provides ideas that are simple but elegant, and also complex and extraordinary. It includes a bell-sleeve jacket with a Celtic knot closure, a stylish cable-hooded wrap that's textured with unusual patterns and bobbles, and more.

Practically every knitted project needs an edging. This book offers more than 300 unusual edge combinations and shapings that will add a special, unique touch to any knitted garment. The striking patterns will keep knitters of every level busy experimenting with different types of ties, loops, knots, braids, twists, bobbles and more. The topics explored in depth include: Unique ribs Cords ...

Compiled by Vogue's acclaimed knitwear designer and teacher, this collection of 350 knitted edgings, borders and trims, runs the gamut of styles and offers something for all tastes, all drawn from the 'Vogue Knitting' archives.

Instructing woodworkers on how to choose, prepare, and apply wood finishes, this reference provides easy-to-follow steps on how to minimize costly mistakes and ensure beautiful surfaces. It includes topics such as creating a test sample, sanding techniques, using wood putty and epoxy, employing pigments and dyes, and utilizing decorative methods.

A basic guide to the process of wood finishing. It features a discussion of tools and materials required; instructions to each technique; staining; dyes; glazing; rubbing out; whitewash; milk paint and varnish sealing; photographs of the steps; and tips and charts on avoiding mistakes.

From casting on and understanding patterns to creating intricate stitches and edgings, this book covers aspects of yarns, needles and knitting stitches. It explains over 85 stitches, with 250 illustrations for basic and advanced techniques.

Once again knitting is at the forefront of popular crafts and leisure time activities. Today, however, people turn to it not simply as a money-saving activity, but also as an opportunity to exercise their creativity, produce something original to wear or use, and do something relaxing and therapeutic away from the regular stresses and strains of modern life. Most patterns readily available to ...

This step-by-step pictorial reference covers all the modern and traditional techniques for colouring and finishing wood. Organised for quick access, the book makes it easy to find each technique.: - Tools - The Finishing Environment - Surface Preparation - Defects - Flat and Complex Surfaces - Colouring Wood - Glazes, Stains and Toners - Natural Dyes and Bleaches - Fillers and Sealers - Choosing .

Teaches woodworkers how to create a simple finish using only the products available from their local home centre, or woodworking store. This book explains the difference in the types of stains and finishes, and instructs readers on how to best use these products for successful results.

Briefly traces the history of knitting, discusses yarns, tools, and basic techniques, and tells how to design, make, finish, and care for knitware.

Whether your preferred medium is canvas or paper, wood or stone, this series of books for beginners demonstrates drawing, painting and design techniques for a variety of surfaces, materials and spaces. The titles in this practical series are suited to help readers become familiar with the most essential techniques of drawing, painting and design.

Covers everything you need to know to knit and crochet for the men and boys in your life - from what men will and won't wear, body types and fit issues, choosing colours and fibres and texture, to how to adjust and adapt patterns for men.

25 Years of Articles, Techniques, and Expert Advice. Practical, comprehensive and inspiring, this richly illustrated treasury presents invaluable workshops on beginner and expert techniques, as well as smart tips on the design process and beloved knitwear designer Elizabeth Zimmermann and daughter Meg Swansen's most memorable essays and seminars ever!

Linda Johansen takes her popular fabric-bowl technique a step further with fabric boxes, and you will not believe how fast, fun, and easy they are to make!

Offers guidance for novice knitters to become independent and advice for experienced knitters to take their projects to the next level. Written in a conversational style, this book presents a repair manual for knitters. It includes information, from the basics of what a stitch looks like to techniques for solving the toughest knitting problems.

This guide to wood finishing focuses on the finishes that amateur woodworkers use. It provides up-to-date information, including coverage of spray finishing and the new generation of water-based finishes, and answers to the most common finishing questions.

From needle sizes and yarn weights to dropped stitches, tight ribbing, chart reading and curling edges, this reference provides on-hand advice. It is written in a Q&A format.