Kirstie's Homemade Home

Kirstie's Homemade Home
Author: Kirstie Allsopp
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2011-07-21
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1444724169

'This book is packed with achievable ways to transform your house into a home that reflects you and the things you value, plus lots of gorgeous craft projects to try yourself. Welcome to my world.' Kirstie Allsopp Be inspired to create a home that reflects you and the things that you love with the help of Kirstie's Homemade Home. Nothing compares with the pleasure and satisfaction of making something yourself and Kirstie shows just how easy it can be. Drawing on the advice and enthusiasm of a host of craft experts, Kirstie shows how to personalise your home and create your own gifts with simple and practical step-by-step projects. From stencilling wallpaper and sewing your own cushions and quilts, to making candles and soap and icing a cake, Kirstie's Homemade Home includes everything you need to get to get you started. Packed with advice on how to find a style that reflects you as well as Kirstie's own little black book of shops and websites that have helped her to transform her own home, Kirstie's Homemade Home is for everyone who loves car boot sales and antiques and values the art of the homemade.

Kirstie's Vintage Home

Kirstie's Vintage Home
Author: Kirstie Allsopp
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2012-10-11
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1444758047

Transform your home from shabby to chic, with the help of Kirstie Allsopp. Looking to the past for inspiration and embracing vintage style to create something unique and beautiful, Kirstie continues her love affair with everything handmade. Re-using, restoring and upcycling, Kirstie shows how to transform vintage fabrics, furniture and other everyday things into modern day treasures using a range of crafting skills and techniques. From distressing a mirror and decoupage to making a memory quilt with vintage fabric, the book is packed with practical techniques that can be adapted to suit your own objects and furniture. Accompanying a new Channel 4 series, Kirstie's Vintage Home contains everything you need to create your own vintage look at home.

Dried Flower Embroidery

Dried Flower Embroidery
Author: Olga Prinku
Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2021-09-30
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1787136833

Dried Flower Embroidery celebrates the craft of flowers on tulle. Discover how to create beautiful displays of your favourite everlasting blooms, grasses and foliage. Starting with the basics, Olga takes you step-by-step through how to master this craft – from techniques for drying flowers to making your own frames and embroidering onto tulle, using nature as your thread and drawing inspiration from the natural world. Expand your creativity and go on to create lovely designs of your own. Featuring a collection of 16 projects from wall hangings to homewares and wearables – suitable for beginners and seasoned professionals alike – Olga inspires you to bring a touch of nature indoors, as she offers a fresh and modern approach to the craft of embroidery. Presented through exquisite photography, Dried Flower Embroidery shows you how to create botanical artworks to display in your own home. Discover the joy of embroidering with dried flowers and make your own natural art with this irresistible book – a must-have for lovers of floral arrangements and interiors alike.

Crochet at Work

Crochet at Work
Author: Kate McCully
Publisher: GMC Publications
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781784946142

Crochet at Work contains 20 fun, customisable dolls to crochet - you choose the skin and hair color, hair style, gender and outfit. Each doll has been dressed in clothing that reflects an aspirational career, so they're perfect for adults wanting to crochet for little ones who say, When I grow up, I want to be a...'. Once you've learned the basic principles and techniques involved in crocheting the dolls, you can create any outfit you like. With a comprehensive tools, materials and techniques sections, illustrated with helpful photographs, beginners will be able to enjoy the projects as much as experienced crocheters.

Big Little Felt Universe

Big Little Felt Universe
Author: Jeanette Lim
Publisher: Lark Books (NC)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Felt work
ISBN: 9781600596759

This irresistible collection of felt work features a super-cute Asian-inspired aesthetic. Twelve "sets" include more than 60 projects, from fruits and a felt knife for "slicing" them to a show-stopping birthday cake with decorations and detachable candles.

Paper Dandy's Horrorgami

Paper Dandy's Horrorgami
Author: Marc Hagan-Guirey
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-09-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781780675930

Paper Dandy's Horrorgami features 20 kirigami (cut-and-fold) designs based around haunted houses and scenes from horror films by the creator of the successful Horrorgami blog and exhibition. Each project features step-by-step instructions and a template that you remove from the book. You then follow the lines on the template, cutting and folding to make your own kirigami model. All you need is a scalpel, a cutting mat and a ruler. Clear cutting tips help you with the tricky stages and give you an order in which to complete your work, while photos of the finished model show you the final design. Suitable for folding experts and beginners alike, Paper Dandy's Horrorgami makes the perfect Halloween activity.

Making Winter

Making Winter
Author: Emma Mitchell
Publisher: LOM Art
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-10-05
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781910552650

Making Winter will encourage you to banish winter blues and embrace the frosty months by cosying up with Emma Mitchell's nature-inspired collection of crafts.

Making Simple Needle Felts

Making Simple Needle Felts
Author: Steffi Stern
Publisher: Crafts and Family Activities
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-01-08
Genre: Felt work
ISBN: 9781907359972

The book contains chapters on techniques, materials, tools, and accessories. There is a chapter on fairies, angels, and people, and the rest of the book is organised by season; it brims with all kinds of treasures, such as pumpkins, gnomes, strawberries, baubles, birds, bees, snails, flowers, the Nativity, mice, and mermaids. All the projects in the book are doable for a beginner. Some aimed at little fingers (no needles involved) and beginners, and some are aimed at those with more experience.

Everything Alice

Everything Alice
Author: Hannah Read-Baldrey
Publisher: Quadrille Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Alice (Fictitious character : Carroll)
ISBN: 9781844009725

With Everything Alice there will never be a dull moment in your own personal wonderland.

Kirstie's Christmas Crafts

Kirstie's Christmas Crafts
Author: Kirstie Allsopp
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2013-09-26
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 144478076X

Hand-make your perfect Christmas with Kirstie Nothing shows how much you love someone more than a handmade gift, card or decoration. And the pleasure is just as much in the planning and making as it is in giving and receiving. In this ultimate celebration of Christmas, Kirstie has brought together over 50 of her favourite festive projects to make, bake and create.