From inspiration and project planning, to the author's signature hand-manipulated techniques, this title leads weavers through the steps of making exquisite bags using folk weaving techniques that evoke modern ideas in brilliant colors and textures.

Combines storytelling with a wide variety of innovative jewelry techniques. This book includes watercolor illustrations and design sketches. It helps to discover the secrets behind the innovative techniques for creating mixed-media jewelry with resin, PMC, polymer clay, and wire.

Japanese craft books are a hot trend with their unique design sensibility and clever projects. This title showcases that style with 10 handbags featuring clever construction, unique details, and simple sewing techniques. It includes a section on tips and techniques that shows how to give each bag a professional look and add embellishments.

Presents classic traditions of Norwegian colorwork techniques that help knitters confidently work on charted colorwork designs. This title includes such projects as the Lotus Blossom Vest, Kiss that Frog Vest, Counting Crows Pullover, Little Leopardess Pullover, and The Bees' Knees Cardigan.

Presents 12 endearing fabric and sock animals. This title helps to learn quirky embellishment techniques, from how to create a button nose or ribbon hair to hand-embroidered faces. It includes step-by-step illustrations and project instructions along with pattern templates that provide what the reader needs to make these 12 charming creatures.

Shares the author's secrets for success through a variety of techniques, exercises, and insider tips to inspire novice quilters and experienced textile artists to make art. This book helps you learn to understand, appreciate, and create works of art one step at a time. It simplifies the basic fundamentals of art.

Includes projects featuring vibrant stripes, zigzags, and geometric motifs. This title helps knitters learn: different uses of color and color patterns; how to combine lightweight yarns together to create fresh textures and colors; and, how to find inspiration in various landscapes, wildlife, textiles, and even the pottery of the high Andes.

A project book that focus on crochet. It features 19 designs by various crochet stars such as Doris Chan, Kathy Merrick, Robyn Chachula, and Annie Modesitt. It includes innovative and imaginative designs for all crochet tastes. It also includes stylish photography and step-by-step crochet instructions for various projects.

Offers 20 patterns that explore a variety of ways to play with color and build color confidence. This work encourages knitters to design outside the color wheel, and make unique color combinations work. It also explains how to change colors in crochet, stranding techniques, and how to work over yarn tails.

Features small projects designed for manageable amounts of handspun yarn. This book offers a variety of projects for advanced beginning knitters and spinners. It includes designs that make the most of a few hundred yards of handspun. It includes patterns such as hats, mittens, scarves, socks, bags, children's items, wraps, and home decor options.

Teaches techniques for integrating paper and cloth to create quilted mixed media art. This book offers step-by-step techniques for making basic paper-cloth, adding color and interest to the foundation with inks, stains, paints, and glazes, how to texturize, printmaking techniques, and effects. It also features a multi-contributor photo gallery.

Offers more than 30 projects for any occasion: birthday, anniversary, thank-you, get well, bon voyage, a new baby, Christmas, and more.

Offers 50 creative ideas for how to use chain as the key design feature. This book helps you learn how to stretch your beading materials by incorporating chain in your design. It offers a step-by-step guide to making easy, stylish and contemporary bracelets, necklaces, and earrings, each incorporating chain as an element of the design.

Features 17 projects from a collection of top jewelry artists, all shown with detailed step-by-step photography. This book provides information on mixing metals, techniques for distressing copper, simple metalwork, cold joins (cold join only), and creating unique wire components.

Portable and productive, the hand spindle has been responsible for creating the world's yarn for millennia. This title emphasizes the spindle's importance and use to make yarn in advanced ways for high-end to novelty cloth.

Helps to create sophisticated patchwork projects in the popular Japanese zakka style - the art of seeing the savvy in the ordinary and mundane - by combining linen and print fabrics using simple quilting techniques. This title offers a modern approach to this sewing technique that is suitable for beginning to intermediate sewers and quilters.

Develops knitters' skills and helps to deepen their understanding of how yarn becomes fabric. This knitting how-to book leads knitters of different levels over common obstacles that makes knitting seem difficult through gentle, targeted exercises and explanations broken down into layman's terms.

From the initial spark of inspiration to the sewing of the last seam, this title guides knitters through the knitwear design process. It offers knitters the foundation to take their own knitwear designs to the next level with confidence.

Showcases the author's classic jewelry style with 18 projects and traditional wireworking techniques using hard wire. This book offers an introduction to materials, supplies, and techniques that includes how to work with hard wire; when to use other tempers and why; and proper tool usage for producing specialized styles.

Gives wireworkers at various levels the information to make innovative, stylish and contemporary wire earrings. This book offers a selection of 101 wire earrings from top designers. It includes projects broken into beginner, intermediate, and advanced categories. It offers easy definitions of the important elements that make up earrings.