Download E-books Lace Style: Traditional to innovative, 21 inspired designs to knit PDF

By Ann Budd, Pam Allen

With an emphasis on leading edge designs that diversity from uncomplicated to advanced, this number of modern knitting tasks contains clothing and components for girls. that includes initiatives with a feeling of favor that might attract knitters of every age, it comprises designs for socks, hats, sweaters, attire, and shrugs. A uncomplicated primer on knitting lace that's heavily associated with the tasks within the publication contains details on how you can knit lace, picking out yarn and needles, sorts of raises and reduces, analyzing charts, uncomplicated how one can in attaining a lacy influence, how one can contain lace designs in knitting styles, and data on blockading. each one trend has particular step by step directions, lavish way of life images, and many element pictures. skilled knitters searching for proposal and rookies attempting lace knitting for the 1st time will locate every little thing had to knit lace with self belief.

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Download E-books Playing with Books: The Art of Upcycling, Deconstructing, and Reimagining the Book PDF

By Jason Thompson

In those pages, Jason Thompson has curated an intensive and inventive diversity of either available upcycled crafts made of books and publication pages and an awesome gallery that comprises thought-provoking and gorgeous works that rework books into art.

The content material contains a wide variety of recommendations and step by step tasks that deconstruct and rebuild books and their elements into specified, upcycled gadgets. The ebook combines in equivalent degree bookbinding, woodworking, paper crafting, origami, and cloth and ornamental arts ideas, besides a hefty dose of experimentation and fun.The attractive high-end presentation and beautiful images make this e-book a pleasant, must-have quantity for any book-loving artist or art-loving e-book collector.

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Download E-books Weaving Country Baskets PDF

By Maryanne Gillooly

on account that 1973, Storey's kingdom knowledge announcements have provided sensible, hands-on directions designed to assist readers grasp dozens of kingdom dwelling abilities speedy and simply. There at the moment are greater than a hundred and seventy titles during this sequence, and their impressive recognition displays the typical wish of nation and town dwellers alike to domesticate own independence in daily life.

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Download E-books Mixed Metals: Creating Contemporary Jewelry with Silver, Gold, Copper, Brass, and More PDF

By Danielle Fox

Using stringing and wireworking innovations obtainable to novices, this combined steel jewellery consultant additionally bargains boutique-style designs that might captivate the more matured beader. without metalworking required, particular directions are supplied for 30 specified tasks incorporating a variety of metals comparable to silver, gold, copper, brass, PMC, and extra. thoughts for distressing steel - similar to utilizing liver of sulfur, different patinas, and hammering - are incorporated, in addition to rules for blending metals and utilizing pretend metals. history details is given on each one kind of steel, from universal homes to procuring suggestions, care, and cleansing.

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Download E-books Art Journal Kickstarter: Pages and Prompts to Energize Your Art Journals PDF

Kickstart your artwork journaling trip today!

With back-to-back magazine pages from greater than a hundred artwork journaling lovers, you are going to embark on an exploration packed with top-notch ideas and the type of magazine fodder that your inventive soul has been yearning! So soak it up and observe the tales in the back of each one artist's own pages.

Look inside of for creativity at each turn!

  • 140+ unique artwork magazine pages
  • Dozens of journaling prompts
  • Time-tested advice
  • Unbelievable inspiration
  • Mixed-media secrets
  • Funky materials
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allow your artwork journaling transformation commence at the present time as you discover the easy ideas that would take you to the subsequent point on your creative journey!

So cross forward. commence journaling your way!

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Download E-books Simply Modern Jewelry: Designs from the Editor of Stringing Magazine PDF

By Danielle Fox

Aimed at the amateur beader, this entire creation to creating jewellery starts off with “Bead purchasing 101” - an outline of simple beads and the way to tell apart among bead types and colours. Thirty tasks are provided in a step by step demeanour with full-color illustrations to simplify ideas reminiscent of stringing, crimping, and the right kind use of bounce earrings. the entire designs replicate a contemporary sensibility for developing trendy, boutique-quality jewellery.

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Download E-books Art Making, Collections and Obsessions: An Intimate Exploration of the Mixed-Media Work and Collections of 35 Artists PDF

By Lynne Perrella

This huge layout, full-color, inspirational e-book is ready how artists use their collections to make art. The gallery-style structure permits readers to determine what artists gather, and the ensuing awesome art they make from it. The booklet positive aspects the collections and the art of thirty-five significant mixed-media artists. The paintings comprises journals, assemblages, altered books, in addition to jewellery items, and particular descriptions of the fabrics and methods used, plus assistance and insights into utilizing strange fabrics and collections.

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Download E-books Stitch Encyclopedia: Crochet: An Illustrated Guide to the Essential Crochet Stitches PDF

By Bunka Gakuen

This gorgeously illustrated sew advisor for crochet is as undying because the craft itself. The narrow quantity offers the basic stitches for needlecraft in basic, easy-to-follow colour illustrations. The encyclopedic, dip-in, dip-out process is well-suited for newbies seeking to construct a beginning of sew concepts in addition to pro crafters who will love holding those good-looking reference publications on their cabinets. Classically designed and packaged as gorgeous jacketed paperbacks the sew Encyclopedias (Crochet, Embroidery, and Knitting) make a memorable present for crafters and visible beginners and will be loved separately or as an enticing set.

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Download E-books Collaborative Art Journals and Shared Visions in Mixed Media PDF

By L. K. Ludwig

<p class="MsoHeader" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">Using numerous codecs, collaborative paintings tasks bring about splendidly advanced items, and infrequently give you the glue among artists inside of a group. Heavy on visible proposal, Collaborative artwork Journals and Shared Visions in combined Media covers quite a few organizational buildings for collaborative paintings tasks, deals directions and assistance for organizing such ventures, and comprises interviews with organizers and members of collaborative initiatives, in addition to a fit smattering of thoughts together with tips on how to create books that may be additional to as they shuttle and the way to plan a number of binding constructions for various paper projects.

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Download E-books Colored Pencil Collage: Nature Drawing and Painting for Mixed Media PDF

Easy coloured pencil suggestions in your nature-inspired mixed-media collages!

Discover the attractive bits of nature throughout you and study designated how you can contain them into your mixed-media collages with assistance from Colored Pencil Collage. you are going to research the entire fundamentals you can use coloured pencils on your nature work. then you definitely will perform growing and arranging beautiful designs and compositions. ultimately, 17 university tasks exhibit mixed-media innovations for numerous surfaces in addition to that includes in-depth guideline for developing life-like nature drawings. even if it is feathers, butterflies, flora or leaves, you may be encouraged to appear to mom nature for destiny projects!

  • 28 classes train composition, layout and coloured pencil techniques
  • 17 mixed-media projects
  • 21 drawing templates that will help you get started

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