After having their children Ros Badger, a knitwear designer, and Elain Scott, a businesswoman, quickly realized that there was a demand for well-made, stylish children's knitwear. Ros had worked for many years with leading fashion companies, designing and producing hand knits for, among others, Better Jackson and U2. Elain ran a knitwear company in the 1980's and has worked as an accounts manager for other design companies. As Little Badger they launched their first mail order catalogue in Spring 1996. With Little Badger, these two talented women have combined their experience to create a unique style. Their influences range from contemporary fashion trends to 1940s and 50s knitting patterns and from the outset they have used only the best quality natural mater ials in their designs. Ros's knitwear make great play of updated traditional knitting techniques combined with a modern colour palette.
After raising their own children, businesswoman Elaine Scott and designer Ros Badger realized there was a demand for well-made, stylish hand knitwear. The two soon joined forces to create Little Badger. This book features some of their favorite and most successful designs together with new patterns for sweaters, hats, blankets, mittens, and leggings. Charming color photographs illustrate the text.
Knitting is cool again. Knitting groups are springing up everywhere and those of us who perhaps learned to knit as children and then forgot about it are now rediscovering the joys of sitting down with friends, some beautiful yarn and a pair of nice chunky needles. Contemporary knitting queen Ros Badger has created more than 20 really simple projects for gorgeous on-trend accessories - gloves, socks, scarves, bags, and even knitted jewelry. For those new to knitting, Ros provides all the information you need to get started, with an overview of yarns, terminology and step-by-step instructions on how to knit. All the projects in the book are made with just two stitches (either knit or purl) and most use simple squares, oblongs or tubes for super-easy knitting. Gorgeous photography by top lifestyle photographer Yuki Sugiura captures the sheer pleasure of knitting what you wear.
Chock full of practical, thoughtful advice from seasoned crafters, Homemade contains over one hundred craft projects that require you to look no further than your very own home. As economic and environmental factors start to play a greater role in consumer decision-making, Ron Badger and Elspeth Thompson suggest an alternative to buying. Taking everyday objects from around their homes, they transform these objects into beautiful works of art, which reflect the love and care they put into their projects. Divided into seasons, Homemade provides a year’s worth of activities to improve your home. It gives sound advice on how to restore a garden table, make a patchwork wall, cook delicious pumpkin soup, and more. It also includes a section on homemade basics, which details how to sew, knit, and crochet using a variety of patterns! Homemade is the perfect gift for a friend interested in crafting, or a delightful treat for you and your family. With advice from Badger and Thompson, little additions to your home—like summer troughs full of flowers and natural cleaning products—will make all the difference. Your home and your family will thank you.
Knitting is the new yoga Why is it so fashionable? it's therapeutic, relaxing, creative, and it looks good Knitwear has been in the doldrums but now no longer. Everyone's doing it, and everyone wants something that has been hand-knitted. Give your mind and outlet to relax and create something beautiful to wear, give as a gift, or pass on as a family heirloom. This fully illustrated technique book includes all you need to know - from basic casting-on techniques, stitching, and understanding patterns, to adding embellishments and embroidery, and professional finishing off your methods. projects include: scarves and shawls, floor cushions, ponchos, baby hat, ski hat, beanie, bag, dogcoat, baby bayette, and chil's sweater.
Making it yourself rather than buying it off the shelf has never been trendier. Whether driven by eco considerations and anti-consumerism or by the desire to own or give something personal rather than uniform, many more of us are getting out the knitting needles and sewing kit, and taking pleasure in lavishing some TLC on our homes, our friends, our children and ourselves. Homemade is packed full of ideas for things to make that make life that little bit better. From crocheted coat-hangers to cordials and cupcakes, from cushion covers made from vintage blankets, old shirts cut up to make summer bunting or beautifully simple decorating ideas for an old-fashioned Christmas tree, here are over a hundred ways of adding individuality to your home and to the things you give. You'll save some money along the way - and using materials you have to hand not only saves the cash, it also means building a little bit of your history, whether from a favourite worn-out skirt or pebbles you've collected on holiday, into the things that surround you. While the book is practical and project-based, covering everything from knitting gloves to making natural moth repellents and devising the most gorgeous hand-made gift wrapping, it is also aspirational and chic - a key requirement is that the finished result has to look better and more desirable than a shop-bought version. Many of the ideas are incredibly simple and can be done in minutes; some are more of a labour of love; all have clear instructions and gorgeous accompanying photographs that cannot fail to inspire you to get going and add some homemade glamour to your home and your life.
Making it yourself rather than buying it off the shelf has never been trendier. From crocheted coat-hangers to cordials and cupcakes, 'Homemade' is packed full of ideas for things to make that make life that little bit better.
Why is it that, when children play, some behave like butterflies, flitting around among the flowers of the activities on offer, landing for a moment before moving on to the next attractive flower (activity) while others behave with the single minded concentration of bees? As children grow and learn, they acquire skills through play and practical activities. This recently acquired learning is tenuous and is secured through practice, repeating the skills in different contexts, with different people. Only then will learning be 'hard wired' for life. It is now evident that where children are able to select resources, play companions and activities for themselves, they can practise emerging skills and concepts by selecting the resources they need and using them in ways which are unique to them. This book, written by a group of experts in early years practice, explores the place and purpose of child-intitiated learning in high quality early years practice. Child-initiated learning is a key feature of the Early Years Foundation Stage.
Festivals are now the mainstay of almost everyone's summer celebrations. No matter what your musical taste, fashion tribe or food preference, there is a festival out there to appeal to everyone. What all of the festivals now have in common are designated craft areas, where festival goers can explore and develop their creativity. From the teenager attending their first music event who wants fast ideas to express their personality to the newer breed of couples and families who make arts or literary festivals into their family holiday but still want to reflect their sophisticated tastes, whether that is hippy chick or Bedouin beauty. Festival Fabulous will show you how to 'get the look', with easy-to-make hair accessories, tutus, a bird winged poncho or welly socks. Shot on location at a number of festivals, the photography immerses you in the festival world, capturing the style and spirit. Most of the projects are easy to achieve, with the aim being to inspire even the novice maker to embrace the spirit of creativity and give craft a go.
Written for students, graduates and academics from the disciplines of film, media and related subjects, and for those from other disciplines who want to break into the media, this book is a virtual career coach and an employability course all in one package. A practical handbook, it offers encouragement, advice, information and case studies to help students to make the most of the opportunities in this very competitive career world. The book can be used as a textual support for careers modules and PDP (Personal Development Planning), graduate workshops, on-line courses and as a departmental or careers library resource. Equally, it works effectively as a self-help guide to enable individuals to focus on their career / life development.
Animal Welfare in a Pandemic explores the impact of COVID-19 on a wide array of animals, from those in the wild to companion and captive animals. During the height of the pandemic, a range of animals were infected, and many died, but this was hard to predict, even using up-to-date bioinformatics. Lockdowns around the world had, and continue to have, a major effect on animals’ welfare, influencing pet ownership and care, as well as impacting on the work of conservation institutes due to the lack of visitors and funding and lack of tourist presence in the wild which impacted on anti-poaching efforts. Some of the vast amount of personal protection equipment (PPE) that was distributed was discarded, creating both dangers and occasional opportunities for wild animals. With the rollout of human vaccines, some countries started developing animal vaccines, only some of which were deployed. In summary, the pandemic had a wide-ranging influence on animal welfare around the world. This is reviewed to highlight what can be learned to protect and enhance animal welfare in future epidemics/pandemics, and contribute to a genuinely One Health approach where the health and welfare of both humans and animals are considered holistically. This book is authored by members of the University of the West of England, Bristol, who span a range of expertise in Biological Sciences, Social Sciences, Animal Welfare, and Ethics.
The heart of this book is its fully annotated, critical editions of the surviving work of Richard Edwards, one of the most influential poets and dramatists writing in England before Shakespeare. Ros King's extensive introduction, identifying the holes in the documentary evidence that might accommodate this important but now little known writer, rewrites the history of pre-Shakespearean drama, illustrates new approaches to sixteenth-century prosody and to the modernisation of dramatic poetry, and re-evaluates the public role of theatre and poetry during a particularly turbulent period in English history.While it will be essential reading for specialist scholars, it will also be of much wider interest. The introduction is highly accessible which makes it an appropriate text-book for students in a field where few textbooks are available. It will appeal to the current appetite among the reading public for biography, while the play, poems and songs are themselves very appealing.
At twelve years old, Cordelia Arbuthnot has two major worries. One is whether she should be fancying boys yet. The other is whether her long surname will make it too expensive to have gold lettering at the bottom of her soon to be famous books. Cordelia longs to be a famous writer, but not like her aunt. Everyone loves her aunt's books, but Cordelia is determined to write something far more interesting and complex...
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