Wise Craft Quilts

Wise Craft Quilts
Author: Blair Stocker
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2017-03-14
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1611803489

Infuse your quilts with love--how to add your personal story and more meaning to your handmade quilts. In Wise Craft Quilts, celebrated quilt designer and crafter Blair Stocker shares ways to use cherished fabrics to make quilts with more meaning. Each of the twenty-one quilts featured here gathers a special collection of fabric, outlines a new technique, and spins a story. By using special fabrics as the starting point for each project—from a wedding dress to baby’s first clothes, worn denim, Tyvek race numbers, and more—the finished quilt is made even more special. Create quilts that have a story to tell and you’ll find a whole new level of appreciation for what they represent in your life and the lives of the ones you love.

Crafting a Colorful Home

Crafting a Colorful Home
Author: Kristin Nicholas
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2015-01-20
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 161180129X

Knit, stitch, and paint your way to a more colorful and happy home with color expert and crafter Kristin Nicholas. Learn how to make your home sing through handmade crafts and a bold use of color. Kristin Nicholas, color expert and all-around master crafter, shares her secrets to selecting colors and patterns and explores the variety of crafts and decorating touches that have made her home so unique. Going room by room, Kristin uses her own 1751 farmhouse as a leaping-off point for craft projects perfect for every space. You'll find a range of step-by-step projects to make your home cozy and bright, including knit pillows, embroidered curtains, crocheted blankets, and painted lampshades. Along the way, Kristin also shares DIY techniques on refinishing furniture, faux finishing walls, mural painting, and recycling wool clothes. Full of inspiration, and with vibrant photographs throughout, this is a complete guide to creating a home that reflects your own handmade style.

Love Your Creative Space

Love Your Creative Space
Author: Lilo Bowman
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2020-06-25
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1617459186

A budget-friendly guide for needleworkers, quilters, and crafters to help you design the best workspace to let your creativity flow. Does your creative den leave you feeling overwhelmed or uninspired? Energize your crafting space with jazzy ideas for organization and accessibility! With over one hundred and fifty photos, this lookbook offers an endless visual parade of ideas to help your studio reach its full potential. Smart storage solutions, furniture, and accessories can help quilters, needle artists, knitters, and crafters keep their creativity on track! Whether you’re undergoing a radical reinvention or looking for tiny tweaks, you’ll finally be able to plan and organize your projects in a workspace that works for you. Inspired workspaces! Get a sneak peek inside creative studios of all sizes, designed on budgets large and small Keep creativity flowing and stay organized with smart systems in place Make your space accessible! Pursue your passion in spite of physical challenges

Craft of the Wise

Craft of the Wise
Author: Vikki Bramshaw
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2009
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1846942322

Bringing together both practical experience and innovative research, 'Craft of the Wise' communicates a balance of accepted Craft methods together with a wealth of information relating to the origins, beliefs and tools of this ancient Craft.

Wabi-Sabi Sewing

Wabi-Sabi Sewing
Author: Karen Lewis
Publisher: David and Charles
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2018-06-22
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1446376648

Twenty sewing projects for home décor and accessories inspired by the Japanese aesthetic that appreciates the beauty of imperfection. Capture the essence of Japanese style in your sewing with this collection of projects inspired by the wabi-sabi concept of “perfect imperfection.” This collection of twenty sewing projects for home decor and accessories is based on the popular Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi which celebrates the beauty in the ordinary and imperfect. The projects are grouped according to how we live, for example: living; sleeping; eating and exploring. Sewing and quilting expert and fabric designer, Karen Lewis, has used a limited palette of earthy tones and the best quality natural fabrics including linen, cotton, denim and wool to create a stunning collection of simple, sewn projects. Try out some simple wabi-sabi style sewing techniques such as hand piecing, sashiko embroidery, big stitch quilting, and visible mending to create unique items for your home whether it’s a full-sized bed quilt, simple coasters for your favorite mug or a stunning scarf to wrap up in.

Magical Herbalism

Magical Herbalism
Author: Scott Cunningham
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
Total Pages: 183
Release: 1986
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 0875421202

Practice an ancient magic that is both natural and beautiful - the magic of amulets and charms, sachets and herbal pillows, incenses and scented oils. This practical and poetic guidebook by SCott CUnningham has introduced over 100,000 readers to the practice of herbal magic. Magical Herbalism will teach you how to identify, gather, grow, dry and store herbs and use them for protection, divination, healing and love. Also included are: the magical names of herbs, flowers, trees and roots; a Witch's herbal; Herbal redes; a list of baneful herbs and flying ointments.

Wicca Craft

Wicca Craft
Author: Gerina Dunwich
Publisher: Citadel Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1991
Genre: Goddess religion
ISBN: 9780806512389

Traces the origins of Wicca and offers up a cauldron brew of spells, unusual recipes and fascinating Pagan lore. Also contains easy-to-follow rituals for the eight annual sabbats observed by Wiccans, an up-to-date listing of Pagan periodicals and sections on herbalism, tree magick and dreams. The author, a practising Witch, reveals the ancient secrets of magick and divination and offers her insights on Wiccan history, deities, tools, ethics and much more.

Craft Factory Wise Owl

Craft Factory Wise Owl
Author: Parragon Books Ltd
Publisher: Craft Factory
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-10-20
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781474819015

Make your new wise owl friend with all the pieces in this kit, then personalize your owl's story with pictures and friend facts in the activity book.

Cookie Craft

Cookie Craft
Author: Valerie Peterson
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2015-04-01
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1612126499

Beautifully decorated cookies are within reach for every home baker, thanks to the easy and practical methods developed by cookie-crafting enthusiasts Valerie Peterson and Janice Fryer. From rolling and cutting to flooding and piping, you’ll find dozens of techniques to turn plain cookies into fun treats for your next special occasion. With instructions for making stand-up cookies, tips on creating icing color palettes, and advice on freezing and shipping, the cookie fun never stops!

Modern Triangle Quilts

Modern Triangle Quilts
Author: Rebecca Bryan
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2017-01-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1617453145

Ready to take the triangle challenge? Choose from 70 pieced modern triangle blocks and 11 exquisite quilts that wow! Fourth-generation quilter Rebecca Bryan is back—this time with beautiful 3-sided blocks sewn from pieced stripes, chevrons, curves, and more. A dedicated graphic design chapter will help you choose a winning color palette, play up unexpected elements, and achieve balance and symmetry. Grab your favorite ruler and the full-size block templates to create equilateral, isosceles, and right triangles with ease. With no tricky seams, these sampler blocks are perfect to mix and match.