This volume includes three full projects to use as practise.

    

    Topics covered include the range and use of tools and materials; fundamental blacksmithing processes; working at the anvil; drawing down, bending, upsetting, and spreading; hot cutting; punching; and finally, twisting and joining. Illustrated with over 200 diagrams and photographs, The Artist Blacksmith will provide an introduction to the beginner and valuable information for the more experienced smith looking to expand their workshop.

    In this new book, traditional classics, such as the famous Japanese crane, sit side by side with modern pieces designed by the world's most respected origamists.

    Sewing 911 to the rescue! In her many years as a professional seamstress, author Barbara Deckert has experienced countless glitches -- and lived to tell about them. With good humor and a practical approach to improving sewing skills, Deckert shares her secrets for salvaging projects, even when things have gone terribly wrong.-- Offers common-sense solutions the professionals use.-- Includes step-by-step instructions and more than 200 color photos.-- Enclosed spiral binding allows it to lie flat on the sewing table.

    Now the popular authors of The Joy of Quilting return with a back-to-basics approach that spotlights the easiest, fastest, and most beautiful quilts to make. Their fun, easygoing style will inspire you to get back to quilting's simple joys! · Step-by-step directions for 30 gorgeous, simply designed quilts show you how to eliminate unnecessary steps and streamline traditional techniques · Timesaving tips for rotary cutting, quick piecing, and block settings, plus fast finishing methods for borders and quilting, will guide you from start to finish in a snap · A special section on fabric selection leads you through building color schemes with the help of a color wheel, and offers ideas for using your favorite novelty fabrics With loads of expert advice for reducing the quiltmaking process to its most enjoyable essentials, you'll fall in love with quiltmaking--for the first time or all over again! From the authors of The Joy of Quilting!

    This book is printed individually on uncoated (non-glossy) paper with the best quality printers available. The printing quality of this copy will vary from the original offset printing edition and may look more saturated. The information presented in this version is the same as the latest edition. Any pattern pullouts have been separated and presented as single pages. If the pullout patterns are missing, please contact c&t publishing.

    Each mix fits into a quart jar. The book even includes tags complete with recipient directions with each recipe. Just cut it out, personalize and attach to the jar. Fun to make and affordable, gifts in a jar make great gifts for neighbors, teachers and friends!

    Plant-dyed wool offers great possibilities for creating scenes which stimulate the imagination.

    A range of simple, colourful designs should inspire both beginners and experienced doll makers alike. These dolls are old favourites, originating in Waldorf Steiner kindergartens where parents make dolls together.

    A Halloween How-To is packed with ideas for October 31. There are fifty great costumes you can make yourself, recipes for everything from fake blood to pumpkin soup, and lists of great movies, CDs, and spooky books. Lesley Bannatyne has even assembled a number of games drawn from early twentieth-century Halloween celebrations, and includes sample text for party invitations. (Our Halloween: Romantic Art and Customs of Yesteryear postcards are great to use with these ) One of the nation's foremost authorities on Halloween, Lesley Pratt Bannatyne has shared her vast knowledge of the holiday in television specials for New England Cable News, Nickelodeon, and the History Channel. She was an invited speaker at the Global Halloween Convergence in 2000, and has also served as guest lecturer at the St. Louis Museum of Art. For more than twenty years, Ms. Bannatyne also has been active in the theater. She currently is co-director of Invisible Cities Group and co-artistic director of the Studebaker Theater. Ms. Bannatyne resides in Somerville, Massachusetts, and has been named one of "Boston's 100 Interesting Women" by Boston Woman magazine. Ms. Bannatyne's first book, Halloween: An American Holiday, An American History (pb original) is also available from Pelican.

    Transform your home with thirty-five fabulous tailormade projects ranging from removable loose chair covers to a fabulous selection of scatter cushions.