Needlework

This title presents the only how-to guide to focus specifically on customising crocheted sweaters, to create the perfect fit for every body type. Ranging from simple to more sophisticated, the 10 basic patterns selected by expert Dora Ohrenstein, offer...

This practical guide shows you the range of possibilities that you can explore and enjoy when making and sampling with hand stitch and mixed media. Packed with colour, ideas and enthusiasm, it looks at the potential of recycled products and explains how...

Stumpwork is a highly decorative and imaginative embroidery technique, which typically uses raised and padded stitches that are rich in texture. This practical book explains how to create your own piece of stumpwork embroidery. Beginning with an...

Vogue Knitting Lace collects more than 40 lace accessories, shawls, sweaters, and dresses from Vogue Knitting magazine for a diverse collection that will leave knitters breathless. Delicate yet bold, lace is one of knitting's most beloved and beautiful...

Best in Show: Knit Your Own Cat offers the unique opportuity to knit yourself a cat. There are 25 different breeds included, from a charming moggy to a sleek Siamese, a precious Persian to a loving long hair. With Sally Muir and Joanna Osborne's designs...

Prepare to be bewitched by this original collection of fantasy-inspired designs from one of the cross stitch world's favourite designers, Joan Elliott. A wealth of imaginative designs, including wizards, witches, dragons and unicorns, are intricately...

This comprehensive knitting manual has everything you need to start knitting. It includes a wide range of techniques, including lace, cables, textured patterns, colourwork, beaded knitting and embellishment, all accompanied by fully-illustrated...

With instructions for 21 basic embroidery stitches and 6 projects, all in Laura's signature colourful, whimsical style, you'll transform a flat, plain surface into a joyful, design-packed art piece. Stitch on wool, felt, or silk, and enjoy the simple...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681889351Author Weldon OwenFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Weldon OwenPublisher Weldon Owen

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648564072Author Shelley HusbandFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Shelley HusbandPublisher Shelley HusbandWeight(grams) 440g

The Textile Museum in Bloenduos, located in northern Iceland, houses a unique and fascinating collection of hand-knitted Icelandic mittens, dating back centuries. Drawn by the weight of history and the wealth of traditional motifs on display in their...

Summer wardrobe essentials with a traditionally nautical feel and lovely fresh stripes, textures and lace featuring throughout.Book InformationISBN 9781916244511Author Quail StudioFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Quail PublishingPublisher Quail...

This title features 15 lovely and fun projects to make, varying in complexity. It includes clear, easy-to-follow knitting patterns and a comprehensive illustrated techniques section. It is full of fascinating facts you didn't know about woodland...

Crochet fantastic animal-themed blankets, pillows and more with this colorful collection of crochet animal blocks. Using simple crochet intarsia and applique techniques you can stitch one block for a pillow front, book bag or toy bag, join four for a...

The new edition of bestselling knitting classic Best in Show, combining the best of Joanna Osborne and Sally Muir's dog designs. With over 15 knitting patterns for popular dog breeds, including a Labrador, Poodle,...

Parent's Guide to Children's Media Award Winner"This is the best how-to-knit book for kids I've seen in a long time." -Knitty In fifteen easy projects, from bouncy bean bags to a rolled-edge sweater, author and knitting expert Melanie Falick teaches kids...

A collection of bright, bold and beautiful knitting patterns based on Honsestrikk, a Danish knitting movement from the 1970s which broke away from traditional knitting rules. Honsestrikk, which loosely translates as 'chicken stitch' was influenced by...

Stuffed toy crochet patterns like you've never seen before ; weird and wonderful creatures in crochet! Irene Strange is bored of bunnies and has had enough of elephants. It's not that they're not cute, but with the amazing biodiversity on our planet,...

Create unique projects with all types of embellishments - like lace, linens and hankies, trims and ribbons, buttons, and treasured pieces - with ideas, techniques, and a 100+ stitch library to inspire.About the AuthorChristen Brown has been creating with...

Crochet everything you need to make your very own mini farm! There are cute and quirky animals to make, including a friendly cow, a happy pony, a pig, a sheep and a naughty goat, plus a barn and fences, grass and food for the animals, a wheelbarrow,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648349785Author Shelley HusbandFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Shelley HusbandPublisher Shelley HusbandWeight(grams) 299g

Whether you're already a fan of the sweet knitted wonders designed by Norwegian moms Hanne and Torunn or you're a newcomer, you're in for a beautiful, Scandinavian-style treat. Here are 40 new patterns for soft and easy garments for children, all focused...

Make a statement--and smash the patriarchy, one stitch at a time--with these 40 feminist-themed cross-stitching patterns! Crafty activists will love this snarky book with its 40 irreverent, vintage-inspired cross-stitch patterns. Whether you want to...

Embroider a menagerie of 30 adorable animals! From a sweet giraffe and a happy cat to a sly little red fox and a friendly hedgehog, Cute Critters features step-by-step instructions and dozens of easy-to-use patterns to create embroidery hoops for all...

Bring nature with you wherever you go with these 35 beautiful projects, all incorporating floral motifs. Divided into three chapters, the book begins with Starting Out, where you will find a Tote Bag, Egg Cosies and some adorable Floral-edged Jam Pot...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906487430Author Kim HargreavesFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Kim HargreavesPublisher Kim Hargreaves

The first pattern book for making unique, customizable African American crochet dollsFrom American Girl Dolls to Barbie, there's something special about having your own doll, and even more so, having a doll that looks like you. And it's not just about...

In Crochet Every Way Stitch Dictionary, designer Dora Ohrenstein does what no crochet author has done before: She offers detailed instructions for how to create 125 stitch patterns, plus she explains how to increase and decrease each stitch pattern in...

With 200 Embroidered Flowers, modern hand embroidery expert, Kristen Gula of Gulush Threads, shows you how to create all different types of floral & plant motifs with a stitch library of only SEVEN common embroidery stitches! This colorful hand...

Arounna Khounnoraj's Embroidery is a modern guide to this ancient craft.Arounna will show you how to master the art of the decorative stitch through clear step-by-step instructions that demystify the embroidery stitches and teach you how to apply them...

A collection of simple and cute mascots that can be made with felt fabric. This book contains s large number of various mascots such as sweets, matryoshka dolls, houses and vehicles, rabbits, cats, animals in zoos and aquariumsBook InformationISBN...

Landscapes have long provided a source of inspiration for artists and makers. From the sharp concrete edges of buildings and frosted hedgerows to seaweed strewn beaches and eroded cliffs, there is so much we can take from the environment around us...

Michael Powell provides twenty mini cross stitch designs, each accompanied by a full-colour chart, key and general instructions. Each of Michael's unique, quirky contemporary designs measures approximately 31/2 x 31/2in (9 x 9cm), though the designs come...

Amigurumi Animals at Work brings together 14 delightful animal patterns from the designers at amigurumipatterns.net. The result of a challenge to create an animal in their work outfit, this volume features a mole who searches his underground tunnels to...

A practical and inspirational guide to help embroiderers and textile artists make the most of sketchbooks to inform their creative work. The artist's sketchbook offers an exciting platform to explore a host of mixed media techniques. Using a combination...

RE-ISSUE This beautiful and delicate work is a form of whitework embroidery. It incorporates surface stitches, pulled fabric, drawn thread, needlelace and needleweaving, and is embroidered on garments and linen. All works are based on the 'Tree of...

Encourages the reader to tap into the hidden creativity that lurks within - to entice the true beginner with easy starting points that will then lead on to exploring other techniques and expermenting with what they learn, free from too many rules and...

The Penguin Knitting Book by James Norbury is a charming how-to-knit classic packed with delightfully vintage advice.Knitting fills a fascinating page in the human story. I know of no home-craft that enjoys the universal popularity of hand-knittingJames...

A collection of 100 patterns for teeny tiny crochet amigurumi - microgurumi - by Steffi Glaves, author of 100 Micro Crochet Motifs. This is amigurumi crochet on a tiny scale - make the smallest fruit and veg, sealife creatures and wizards and dragons -...

'Stash' is a crochet term for leftover or oddball yarn and 'Stash-Busting' is finding a project that uses these small amounts of yarn. In this amazing book you will find over 40 designs all made with small amounts of different sizes of yarn for home,...