Kyuuto! Japanese Crafts!: Lacy Crochet

Kyuuto! Japanese Crafts!: Lacy Crochet
Author: Chronicle Books
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2007-12-13
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780811860581

Kyuuto! = Cute! Savvy crafters know that today's hippest designs hail from Japan. But it's near to impossible to find translated patterns. Or at least it used to be. With Lacy Crochet, we're proud to present one of the first two books in our brand new Kyuuto! Japanese Crafts line. Lacy Crochet offers 22 patterns for delicate accessories sweetlyrendered for the home and wardrobe. This book enjoyed huge success on its home shores. The pages burst with quirky color photographs, step-by-step directions, and helpful technical illustrations. At last, the appeal of authentic Japanese contentwith the ease of English instruction. Stay tuned for more in coming seasons!

Kyuuto! Japanese Crafts!: Amigurumi

Kyuuto! Japanese Crafts!: Amigurumi
Author: Chronicle Books
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007-12-13
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780811860826

Kyuuto! = Cute! Savvy crafters know that today's hippest designs hail from Japan. But it's near to impossible to find translated patterns. Or at least it used to be. With Amigurumi, we're proud to present the one of the first two books in our brand new Kyuuto! Japanese Crafts line. Amigurumi features small knit and crocheted creatures so cute you could cry. This book enjoyed huge success on its home shores. The pages burst with quirky color photographs, step-by-step directions, and helpful technical illustrations. At last, the appeal of authentic Japanese content with the ease of English instruction. Stay tuned for more in coming seasons!

Amigurumi!

Amigurumi!
Author: Elisabeth A. Doherty
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2007
Genre: Crocheting
ISBN: 9781600590177

Kyuuto! Japanese Crafts!: Woolly Embroidery

Kyuuto! Japanese Crafts!: Woolly Embroidery
Author: Chronicle Books
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 94
Release: 2008-04-02
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780811860864

We translated the cutest Japanese patterns we could find to bring you the appeal of authentic Japanese content with the ease of English instruction. The result is such a treat. With Woolly Embroidery, learn how to add stunning designs to clothes and home accessories using simple crewel, stump work, canvas work, and other embroidery techniques. And it's so easy to pick up. If you can sew a button, you can embroider—it doesn't involve any complicated patterns or grids, just forgivingly freeform stitching. All you need is a needle and some wool thread. Helpful illustrations explain more than 30 decorative stitches so you can follow the instructions and color guides exactly or improvise your own motifs. With dozens of photographs to inspire, you'll want to embellish everything in your world-handbags, couch cushions, a sewing kit case, and so much more.

Pom Pom Animals

Pom Pom Animals
Author: Trikotri
Publisher: Nippan Ips
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-06-21
Genre: Animals in art
ISBN: 9784865051261

Teaches you how to make bears, rabbits, sheep, cats, dogs, squirrels, birds and more, with easy-to-understand instructions and step-by-step photos

Kyuuto! Japanese Crafts

Kyuuto! Japanese Crafts
Author: Saori Yamazaki
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2008-04-02
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780811860666

Say hello to your new best pals. These felted friends hail from Japanhomeland of all things cute. Inside this book, you'll find over 25 translated patterns that combine the appeal of authentic Japanese content with the ease of English instruction. Cheerful photographs, step-by-step directions, and helpful how-to illustrations make it easy to whip up both water- and needle-felted projects. There's no knitting involved; simply treat raw wool fibers with either a felting needle or water and detergent to create these little creatures. Cute and cuddly, they're also useful! An elephant cozy warms a teakettle; a whimsical bird mobile adorns a nursery; wee mouse pincushions hold your needles; while piglets, giraffes, zebras, or sheep carry all your gear in handy totes and pouches. Practice with these projects and then adapt the techniques to design your own personal stable of felted friends.

New Crewel

New Crewel
Author: Katherine Shaughnessy
Publisher: Lark Books (NC)
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2012
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781600597954

Provides thirty crewelwork designs that focus on circular-pattern motifs, and introduces five new stitches while providing a CD of downloadable motifs for ten inspirational projects.

Stars Without Number (Perfect Bound)

Stars Without Number (Perfect Bound)
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2010-11-21
Genre:
ISBN: 9781936673018

Stars Without Number is a science fiction role-playing game inspired by the Old School Renaissance and the great fantasy and science-fiction games of the seventies and eighties. * Compatible with most retroclone RPGs * Helps a GM build a sandbox sci-fi game that lets the players leave the plot rails to explore freely * World building resources for creating system-neutral planets and star sectors * 100 adventure seeds and guidelines for integrating them with the worlds you've made * Old-school compatible rules for guns, cyberware, starships, and psionics * Domain rules for experienced characters who want to set up their own colony, psychic academy, mercenary band, or other institution

Crochet Every Way Stitch Dictionary

Crochet Every Way Stitch Dictionary
Author: Dora Ohrenstein
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2019-05-07
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1683355164

This illustrated crochet stitch dictionary features 125 stitches plus handy shaping techniques and endless inspiration for creative crocheters. In Crochet Every Way Stitch Dictionary, designer Dora Ohrenstein offers detailed instructions for 125 beautiful stitch patterns. Plus, she explains how to increase and decrease each stitch pattern in three different ways—without shaping, with shaping at the edges, and with internal shaping. This hefty collection, ranging from lace and filigree to shells and textured stitches, is loaded with beautifully photographed swatches of each pattern, plus charted and text instructions. Ohrenstein’s focus on shaping techniques makes it possible to explore an array of variations without a pattern.

The New Crewel

The New Crewel
Author: Katherine Shaughnessy
Publisher: Lark Books
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2005
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781579906801

One look at these pages and you know that this isn't your grandmother's crewel, but a hip, contemporary update that will have everyone reaching for a needle and thread. And these projects are easy, too, because crewel has no counting, no grids, and no cross-stitch--just beautiful free-form embroidery. Dive right in, guided by a basics chapter that explains how to do the different stitches, ranging from French knots to laid filling. Novices will swiftly move on to the 30 practice designs, all accompanied by easy-to-follow instructions and diagrams, and a dozen lovely projects. Make a card or keepsake scrapbook embellished with stitched motifs, colorful totes, table runners, and an elegant tryptich.