Felted Wool Fashions

Felted Wool Fashions
Author: Vivian Peritts
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2008
Genre: Clothing and dress
ISBN: 1402753101

This fabulous guide is brimming with ideas for recycling and restyling your aging wool knitwear--simply by felting, cutting, and combining them in innovative ways. Find out everything you need to get started, from choosing the right old sweaters to the simplest, most reliable method of felting. Photographs display piecing and cutting techniques for felted sweaters, machine and hand embroidery for added interest, and sewing techniques to finish off each project. Imaginative embellishments are also here, including fabulous felted flowers and three kinds of buttonholes. With more than 30 projects for capes, vests, shawls, slippers, scarves, hats, tote bags, purses, jewelry, jackets, and even a cute dog sweater. Crafters will soon be felting away!

Cozy Knits

Cozy Knits
Author: Sue Flanders
Publisher: Voyageur Press
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2022-02-15
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 076037354X

What is everyone’s favorite thing about hand knits? The coziness! This book offers 30 knitted patterns inspired by international knitting traditions for socks, sweaters, scarves, and hats. If you are a fan of cozy fair isle—it’s in here. If you are looking for a cozy Norwegian knit pattern—it’s in here—the cozier the better. These stylish projects are inspired by knitting traditions from around the world, such as Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, the British Isles, the Americas, and Asia. Each project is partnered with complete illustrated patterns, beautiful four-color photography, schematics and diagrams, and alternatives for yarns and needle weights and sizes to help you get the results you want. The patterns range from simple to more complicated, making this a great book to grow your craft. With Cozy Knits, create beautiful and gift-able cozy knits for friends and family—or even maybe just for yourself!

Design Your Own Crochet Projects

Design Your Own Crochet Projects
Author: Sara Delaney
Publisher: Storey Publishing
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2017-10-31
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1612126588

You love to crochet, but you’re tired of the granny square and other predictable projects. Let celebrated crochet teacher Sara Delaney help you expand your skills while showing you how to create custom-fit wearable accessories. Delaney’s unique, flexible formulas let crocheters of all levels easily design scarves, cowls, fingerless mitts, mittens, gloves, hats, and socks. With fill-in-the-blank templates and a stitch dictionary, you can use your favorite yarn and stitch pattern, and make accessories that fit perfectly. Delaney offers a starter course in the technique with 18 of her own original patterns, along with the formulas she used to create them. The companion online calculator helps create your customized patterns even more quickly!

Heartfelt: 25 Projects for Stitched and Felted Accessories

Heartfelt: 25 Projects for Stitched and Felted Accessories
Author: Teresa Searle
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2006-12-26
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780312362140

Felt and felted accessories are hot! Teresa Searle shows how knitted and recycled knitted felt can be transformed into a wide range of unique accessories using simple decorative embroidery techniques and appliqu�. The book starts with an introduction to the processes involved in the projects: -How to make felted knitting by hand or with a knitting machine -How to felt knitting and recycled sweaters in the washing machine -How to appliqu� felt motifs using your sewing machine and other simple machine techniques -How to hand-appliqu� using blanket stitch and other easy decorative stitches Then goes on to show step-by-step photos and complete directions for over 24 stunning projects including: Russian Hat & Pull-on Hat Bunny Slippers & Baby Coat Scarves & Mittens Handbags.& Purses 3-D Roses used for jewelry and other accessories With its full color photography and wide range of appealing projects this book will appeal to all the sewers, stitchers, crafters or quilters who want to learn how to make felted accessories and how to embellish. The smaller projects are easy to create- each project has a box indicating the time needed. In addition they present an opportunity to recycle pieces of flat knitting or sweaters by turning them into felted knitting and using the end results to create a wide variety of beautifully embellished projects for both adults and children.

Felt It! Stitch It! Fabulous!

Felt It! Stitch It! Fabulous!
Author: Katheryn Tidwell Bieber
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2009
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781600595455

Craft trendy flower pins, a matching scarf and mitten set, a snuggly little bear hat, a fully functional and attractive backpack and much more.

Feltmaking

Feltmaking
Author: Chad Alice Hagen
Publisher: Lark Books
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2002
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781579902520

It’s amazing that such simple materials—wool, soap, hot water—can result in fabric as infinitely varied in form and color as felt. The key is playful experimentation and this creative guide, which reveals exactly which wools to use, the effects of using hard versus soft water, and how to agitate the wool. Twenty colorful projects range from an inviting rug to a rolled Spiral Bracelet to slippers.

Nordic Knits

Nordic Knits
Author: Sue Flanders
Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN)
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2022-03-15
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 0760373558

Nordic Knits offers 44 authentic, Scandinavian-inspired patterns for hats, mittens, and gloves—including stylish, traditional projects from Sweden, Norway, and Iceland.

Nordic Felted Knits

Nordic Felted Knits
Author: Gerd Fjellanger
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Felt work
ISBN: 9781844482559

Make beautiful bags, stylish sweaters, warm scarves and hats, soft slippers and more, then add embroidery and beads. These stylish garments and accessories show off the wonderful qualities of felted knitting, with many ideas for individual touches.

Buy the Best of Ireland

Buy the Best of Ireland
Author: Mary Jean Jecklin
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publications
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2004
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781570984365

This guide to shopping in Ireland is organized by product--pottrty and china, crystal, jewelry, linens, food and drink,ect. Other more general information covers Value Added Tax, currency, terminology and slang.

Don't Throw It Out

Don't Throw It Out
Author: Lori Baird
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2007-12-26
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 9781594865770

Be Planet Friendly! What should you recycle, renew, and reuse? Practically everything! Is there a gadget graveyard in your house? Want to get the most mileage out of your electrical appliances? Tired of having to choose between paying high prices for repairs or good money for a cheap replacement? Well, no more! These savvy secrets help you make the most of your purchases-and your money-by making things last longer and work better. You'll discover: -More than a thousand ways to maximize the value of everything you own, from furniture and fishing reels, to cell phones and ceiling fans, to iPods and earrings, and much more -Practical, money-saving ideas for making things last longer-from giving batteries staying power to keeping a washing machine in top condition -Fix-it-fast tips for making simple, inexpensive repairs when belongings go on the fritz -Learn how to say good-bye to possessions when it's time, whether by recycling, donating, selling, or tossing Don't Throw It Out by Lori Baird and the Editors of Yankee Magazine is packed with ideas to help you extend the life of your treasured possessions and keep your still-usable household items out of the landfill when you've decided you no longer need them.