Add style and glamor to your home with stylish accessories. Sew-It-Yourself Home Accessories offers 21 simple and beautiful projects to create with natural cotton. Each project can be completed in just one weekend.
Traditional needlecrafts are as popular as ever as more and more of us are seeking to 'make do and mend' as a way of saving money. However, making beautiful and original handmade items is a great way to add style and glamour to your home - and can be fun too. As part of a series, "Love...Sewing" contains a collection of 25 wonderful projects - all of which are really easy to create. Soft furnishings are an essential part of any home - colour, texture and pattern add warmth and comfort. Using simple sewing techniques and bright, fresh fabrics, this book shows you how to create a range of soft furnishings and other items, from cushions, throws and bags to a cot quilt, table linen and even a blind. All the projects have clear step-by-step instructions and photographs taking you through the various stages, making them straightforward and simple, even for the beginner. A basics section at the front of the book takes you through all the essential techniques, from simple hems and seams to piping and buttonholes.
• 25 step-by-step jewelry projects for necklaces, chokers, bracelets, cuffs, brooches, earrings, and rings. • Perfect for beginners—all the projects can be created in a matter of hours. • Great step-by-step photographs show the reader exactly what to do. • Projects use readily available semi-precious beads and stones: pearls, Swarovski crystals, and gems, along with silver- or gold-plated findings and wire. • Stunning designs, simple techniques. • Individual day and evening pieces that will brighten up any outfit.
Gift cards are simple and inexpensive to make, and use such a wide range of craft techniques that there is something for all levels of experience and taste. Over 20 step-by-step projects incorporate a myriad of papercrafts, and materials used include organza, beads, flowers, feathers and many others, to produce stylish cards for every occasion.
This book teaches all the skills home sewers need to make beautiful, stylish projects. Shows how to make inspirational soft furnishings to enhance every room of the house. Comprehensive presentation of both basic and advanced techniques. Each method is explained with clear step-by-step instructions and photographs, then applied to a range of pretty contemporary projects. Beautifully styled and exquisitely detailed.
Patchwork, appliqué, and whole-cloth stitching—3 quilting styles and 20 great projects. Ready, Set, Quilt provides new quilters with 20 easy accessories and home accents to make by hand or machine. The early chapters teach the basics of hand- and machine-quilting techniques and introduce all the essential tools and materials. Later chapters give a new twist to the traditional quilting techniques of patchwork, appliqué, and whole-cloth stitching. Readers will be inspired by what they can create with just a little imagination and a few, simple, fabric shapes. Projects include coverlets, pillows, wallhangings—and even an appliquéd nightshirt and blue-jean jacket. Ready, Set, Quilt provides first-time quilters with an introduction to three of the most popular quilting techniques—and a range of easy and inspiring projects to try out their skills. The spiral, stand-up format makes it easy for readers to follow the instructions while they work on each project. This book has clear written instruction and step-by-step sequences, inspiring photographs of finished objects (on models in the targeted age group), and a helpful glossary of specialty terms.
This lavish book is a collection of hundreds of practical craft techniques, inspirational ideas and fabulous designs. An introduction to each craft details all the materials and equipment that are needed to get started. Easy methods for making and decorating card and scrapbook page backgrounds follow, and there are tips on choosing design themes, putting tints and patterns together, and using embellishments to personalize each design. Many versatile craft techniques are featured such as papercraft, stamping, stencils, paint techniques, working with airdrying clay, simple sewing and embroidery.This is the ultimate sourcebook for all crafters.
“There’s plenty of variety in both style and technique here, making this an appropriate choice for crafters looking to sample different methods for beading.” —Library Journal Discover the amazing versatility of beadwork in this scintillating selection of more than thirty projects that you can make in just one weekend. From jewelry and clothing to home accessories and embroidered textiles, there’s something here for every taste and level of ability. Projects include lampshades, decorative candles, fringed throws, embroidered table runners, tassel covers, embellished scarves, hair accessories, and more. Big Book of Weekend Beading teaches an exciting variety of methods, from general beadwork to stringing, bead embroidery, and wirework. Simple projects at the start of each section give beginners an instant taste of success, leading them on to try larger-scale projects and more impressive techniques. The projects and techniques are designed and written by a team of experienced bead crafters, each one an expert in her field. “A first-class instruction manual for a popular pastime that is sweeping the nation, a perfect activity for quiet winter weekends.”—The Midwest Book Review “If you enjoy using beads or want to learn how to do beading, the Big Book of Weekend Beading by Jean Powers is the perfect place to start.”—Kelly’s Thoughts on Things
From the kitchen to the children's room and the home office, Storage Solutions shows how to create almost 40 designer storage items. The detailed instructions are illustrated clearly in specially commissioned step-by-step photographs. Introductory advice on basic needlecraft and DIY techniques guides the reader through any additional skills needed to complete the projects, and a comprehensive template section provides detailed diagrams with measurements for professional results.
200 step-by-step techniques and projects with 1100 photographs - a comprehensive course in making cards, envelopes, invitations, tags and papers in a host of different styles.
Jewellery has made a spectacular comeback on the fashion catwalks and is now to be seen in all the popular highstreet stores. This fantastic collection shows just how easy it is to make your own individual necklaces using simple techniques and the fabulous range of beads that are now readily available; from seed beads in all the colours of the rainbow to semi-precious stone chips to iridescent crystals. There are designs for single and multi-strand necklaces, looped chains, chokers and lariats; the designs are simple and sophisticated or brash and beautiful. The basic techniques section at the start of the book works through a basic strung necklace and is followed by twenty beautiful designs. Each of these is shown in full step-by-step detail and each one is made and photographed in five different colourways to give a fantastic choice of colours, designs and styles for all occasions.
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