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Chris Franchetti Michaels
Teach Yourself VISUALLY Jewelry Making & Beading (Teach Yourself VISUALLY Consumer)
by Visual (Paperback)
You've probably coveted jewelry you've seen in artsy boutiques and fashion magazines or envied friends who have the perfect bling to accent everything. With this book, you'll learn to craft designs that are chic but inexpensive. With hundreds of detailed photos, this book covers tools and supplies, bead stringing and weaving, wire wrapping, and more. Terrific projects will get you started and inspire you to create your own jewelry and beadwork designs. Concise two-page lessons show you all the steps to a skill and are ideal for quick review Each skill or technique is defined and described Detailed color photos demonstrate each step Step-by-step instructions accompany each photo Helpful tips provide additional guidance
Editors of Readers Digest
Back to Basics
by Readers Digest (Hardcover)
Allan Bedford
The Unofficial LEGO Builder's Guide
by No Starch Press (Paperback) (Release Date: 2005-07-01)
What exactly is a slope? What's the difference between a tile and a plate? Why is it bad to simply stack bricks in columns to make a wall? The Unofficial LEGO Builder's Guide is here to answer your questions. Focusing on building actual models with real bricks, The Unofficial LEGO Builder's Guide comes with complete instructions to build several cool models but also encourages you to use your imagination to create your own fantastic creations. Inside, you'll learn: The best ways to connect bricks and creative uses for those patterns Tricks for calculating and using scale (it's not as hard as you think) The step-by-step plans to create a train station on the scale of LEGO people (a.k.a. "minifigs") How to build spheres, jumbo-sized LEGO bricks, micro-scaled models, and a mini space shuttle Tips for sorting and storing all of your LEGO pieces The Unofficial LEGO Builder's Guide also includes the Brickopedia, a visual guide to nearly 300 of the most useful and reusable ...
Kelly Rae Roberts
Taking Flight: Inspiration And Techniques To Give Your Creative Spirit Wings
by North Light Books (Paperback)
Stretch Your Wings * Learn to Soar * Take Flight In Taking Flight, you'll find overflowing inspiration--complete with a kindred spirit in author and mixed-media artist Kelly Rae Roberts. Join her on a fearless journey into the heart of creativity as you test your wings and learn to find the sacred in the ordinary, honor your memories, speak your truth and wrap yourself in the arms of community. Along the way you'll be inspired by: Step-by-step techniques--learn the most-loved mixed-media methods of the author and seven talented contributing artists, and combine them in fresh and unexpected ways. Thought-provoking prompts and quotes--along with encouraging stories, insights and gentle guidance for finding your bliss, whatever your art or craft. Plenty of eye candy--pages and pages of the author's endearing artwork, along with the varied works of the contributors. Of course, learning to fly isn't entirely a step-by-step process--sooner or later, you just need to take ...
Judith Durant
101 Designer One-Skein Wonders: A world of possibilities inspired by just one skein
by Storey Publishing, LLC (Paperback)
In 2006, Judith Durant delighted knitters everywhere with her collection One-Skein Wonders: 101 Yarn Shop Favorites. At last, knitters had a rich array of fun, festive patterns for all those yarn "orphans"— single skeins purchased on impulse or left over from long-finished projects. With knitters clamoring for even more of these imaginative patterns, Durant has tapped into a wide circle of knitwear designers across the country to compile a totally fresh collection of enchanting projects. Once again, the excitement of small-scale possibility will attract knitters of all skill levels. Like its predecessor, 101 Designer One-Skein Wonders offers patterns for small projects that can be completed with a single skein of yarn. These designer projects range from the adorable to the elegant. The book includes plenty of patterns for those never-can-have-enough items: hats, scarves, bags, and shawls. It also highlights the unexpected: a useful knitted notebook cover, a fun-to-wear mitered ...
Julia Harding, Darrell Gibbs
Sukie Iron-Ons
by Chronicle Books (Paperback)
This work includes a fantastic craft pad that let's you transfer popular Sukie designs onto you bags, T-shirts, anything!
Dover
Origami Fun Kit for Beginners (Dover Fun Kit)
by Dover Publications (Paperback)
This affordable kit has everything beginners need to master the age-old art of paperfolding, including three books by origami expert John Montroll. Birds in Origami shows how to create a swan, flamingo, duck, stork, and goose. Favorite Animals in Origami offers basic folds for a cat, elephant, seal, and other creatures; and Easy Origami features subjects ranging from an ultra-simple hat to a rabbit. The kit also contains sheets of primary colored, multicolored, and metallic paper. * 3 great starter books * 55 fun-to-do projects * Over 1,000 easy-to-follow illustrations * 96 sheets of authentic origami paper
Kay Gardiner, Ann Meador Shayne
Mason-Dixon Knitting Outside the Lines: Patterns, Stories, Pictures, True Confessions, Tricky Bits, Whole New Worlds, and Familiar Ones, Too
by Potter Craft (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2008-09-16)
Dear Fellow Knitter,Welcome! Come on in. Have a seat—we’ve been waiting for you.Ever since our first book, Mason-Dixon Knitting: The Curious Knitters’ Guide, we’ve been exploring techniques and ideas that we once thought were the sort of thing that only brilliant knitters could do.Our conclusion: We are all brilliant knitters! None of this is rocket science! If you can knit a garter stitch scarf, you’ve figured out the hard part. Now it’s time for the fun to start. You hold in your hands the result of our odyssey. It’s a new collection of 30 delicious projects that we hope will take you on your own knitting adventures.Decorating Yourself: A collection of beautiful things to make for your most demanding (and forgiving) client.The Fairest Isle of All: A simple, quick introduction to a sort of knitting you may not have considered, with surprising, modern projects.Covering the Small Human: Pint-sized knits, including baby hats, dreamy dresses, and a cool pullover for ...
Debbie Stoller
Stitch 'N Bitch Crochet: The Happy Hooker
by Workman Publishing Company (Paperback)
Lacy, sexy summer tops. Chic, cozy sweaters. Chunky, funky hats and colorfully crafty afghans—it all starts with the single, simple act of wrapping a hook around a strand of yarn. Then come the stitches, the flourishes, the unlimited creativity. Stylish, cheeky in tone, chock-full of information and inspiration, this is the indispensable guide. Learn the skills. Speak the lingo. Make the stuff. And give old granny square a chance.
Martijn Boogaarts, Jonathan A. Daudelin, Brian L. Davis, Jim Kelly, ...
The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Idea Book: Design, Invent, and Build
by No Starch Press (Paperback)
If you're serious about having fun with LEGO robotics, you've come to the right place. The team behind The NXT STEP blog--the authoritative online source for MINDSTORMS NXT information and advice--has packaged its considerable skills and experience in this book. Inside, you'll find some of the team's best ideas for creating cool and sophisticated models, including instructions for eight robots you can build yourself. Follow along with the MINDSTORMS NXT experts as they explain the fundamentals of programming and design, accompanied by CAD-style drawings and an abundance of screenshots that make it easy for you to master the MINDSTORMS NXT system. You'll get an overview of the NXT parts (beams, sensors, axles, gears, and so on) and clear instructions for combining them to build and program working robots. The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Idea Book delves into the complexities of the NXT programming language (NXT-G) and offers tips for designing and programming robots, using Bluetooth, ...