Following the huge success of last year's MAKE!, Cath Kidston has now put together a treasure trove of fabulous simple projects for stitchers to get their needles into - bags, clothes, soft toys - and all designed to be made with her popular printed fabrics. Cath has also included a length of a unique fabric specially printed for the book.

Featuring 32 must-know crafts, this 416-page hardback book includes step-by-step instructions for different techniques, catering for those ranging from first-time dabblers to the more adventurous crafters. It also includes illuminating glossaries, a full rundown of essential tools and materials, professional tips and handy UK resources.

Beads have been used for decoration for centuries. Available in a huge array of colours, shapes and sizes, they are beautiful, adaptable, and easy to work with. These practical projects show how you can add detail, texture, colour and originality to garments and accessories by incorporating beads into your knitting, crochet and needlework. Learn traditional and contemporary techniques such as ...

A guide to basic stitching techniques, from threading a needle to simple tips for machine sewing. It introduces you to a range of needlecrafts including applique, patchwork, hand sewing and sashiko.

Helps Cath Kidston fans to make their own projects and gifts using Cath's own motifs. This book is divided into chapters on different techniques - stencilling, applique, embroidery and patchwork. It includes a collection of 30 projects (among them bags, cushions, clothes and stationery) as well as ideas for how to use the patterns.

Helps to expand your sewing creativity with freestyle machine embroidery. This title demonstrates how to create quirky, fun and memorable pictures and motifs.

Explains how to create everything from openwork and lace through to woven and hairpin crochet. Useful for both the highly experienced and the absolute beginner, this book takes you through the basic techniques to a project section that provides guidance for making colourful and stylish garments for you to wear.

Offers a way to use up scraps of yarn or practice using novelty yarns to decorate clothing, hats, bags and belts, embellish home accessories, or make a beautiful bouquet as an unusual display piece. This work allows you to choose from simple spiral roses, pretty poppies, elaborate layered blooms, and fabulous felted flowers.

A collection of 25 quick-and-easy step-by-step projects. All the projects are sewn by hand using accessible fabrics and actual-size templates. The projects include snowmen, mice, penguins, reindeer and other cute Christmas characters. This work includes quick and simple Christmas cards, hearts, tree decorations and gift bags.

Helps to create beautiful iris folded cards, gift sets and ornaments for all your Christmas celebrations. This title includes project instructions, close-up photos, easy-to-use folding diagrams and a few basic tools that make it easy for you to create these projects.

Artist's Mailing Cards are a growing trend in the world of mixed media art. This book contains a selection of some of the best designs, with contributions from a number of well-known textile designers.

Combining the techniques with paper decoupage and adding beads, ribbons and shiny stars, this book contains numerous ideas for embellishing the designs for use as greetings cards suitable for Christmas, birthdays, birth congratulations and much more.

Offers twelve practical quilt projects. This book includes designs that come with a colour styled photograph, comprehensive making instructions and diagrams.

Presents twenty hand-knitted cakes. This title includes a selection of muffins, fairy cakes, carrot cake, scrumptious gateaux and more.

From bunnies and bears to Russian dolls and robots, this book helps you discover a range of 20 knitted characters.

Whether you want to make a lovely quilt to pass down through generations or a fireside blanket for winter nights, this work offers the information with charts and detailed instructions for 25 projects, and 10 extra ideas for ways of using the same instructions to make larger or smaller items.

Stuffed animals have never been cuter or put to better use. This title features six different stuffed animals that hug their own fleece blankets in an appealing manner. It includes blankets that are made from fleece and are trimmed with crochet stitches.

Suitable for those interested in sewing needs, this book provides various techniques: from machine-stitching a buttonhole and attaching a collar, to altering patterns and building a basic sewing kit. It shows hand and machine stitches and techniques. It features 25 stylish projects, for the home and to wear.

A contemporary take on gorgeous things to make

Adding dimension and movement in your card designs is a great way to improve the overall look of your handmade cards. This book includes more than 140 inspiring projects that show a wide variety of popular paper folding techniques used by some of the best card designers.