Thanks to the easy to follow tutorial beginning the book, even someone attempting to knit a hat for the first time will be able to effortlessly walk through the steps of circular knitting in no time. This must-have book will appeal to knitters of all skill levels. These 15 fun to knit and fun to wear hats will make it hard to decide where to begin but then you will be eager to keep going and once you knit the final hat you will want to start all over again! Ideal for the novice knitter ready to learn how to work seamlessly in the round on circular and double-point needles and is interested specifically in making beanies and hats. This book also will appeal to the more experienced knitter looking for new projects and ideas.

: Designing Handcrafted Gifts and Cards
An exquisite paper art book featuring quilling techniques for cards and gifts.

With a focus on simple, elegant projects, the The Art of Paper Quilling offers paper crafters a complete technique guide along with step-by-step project ideas for making beautiful framed pieces, cards, gifts, and more.
The designs are all built upon simple rolled coils of paper that when grouped together, form intricate flowers, graceful butterflies, and delicate scrollwork.
Quilled designs can be framed or used to embellish greeting cards, books and journals, and many types of simple paper structures.

: 52 Experiments, Investigations, and Explorations in Metal
Full of jewelry techniques.
The 52 projects range over all the common metal techniques, and always with the author's emphasis on mixed media, are created with careful, craftman-like care.
For those readers who equate fine jewelry with precious metals and rare, expensive gemstones, she is able to open a few eyes with her use of copper, Tagua nut, fiber, and ribbon and even road signs!
The ideas range widely, and really spark imagination, plus for those who want to learn how to make these marvelous pieces, the directions are written in a clear, logical manner.

Bite-Size Recipes for Miniature Meals
This book is full of ideas for "meals in a bite".
It is well written with yummy recipes and is especially well illustrated.
The photographs are beautiful and make the recipes even more appealing!

Spellbinders Nestabilties, Basics and Beyond is a showcase of stunningly detailed paper craft project sets. Sets include cards, party favors, gift wrap, invitations, package toppers, ornaments and much more! Also included is a helpful chapter focused on techniques used, with an array of options to inspire you to easily create dazzling items for your special moments and obtain more value from your Nestabilities. There are projects for every skill level of designer for a variety of significant events: Happy Birthday, Winter Holidays, Sweet Baby and Life Moments. You'll love the Contemporary and Fun, Sophisticated and Elegant, and Vintage/Shabby Chic styles of design in each chapter. Easy-to-follow instructions, thorough materials lists and professionally styled photos will make recreating these stylish sets an enjoyable experience while expanding your crafting skills.

: Creative Ideas to Dress Up Greeting Cards, Gift Packages & More
Make one-of-a-kind cards for life’s special moments -- birthday cards, thank you cards, wedding cards and more. Let your creativity shine; your friends and family will feel so special! Learn how to make paper flowers, homemade gift-wrapping and more. You could even use these paper craft ideas to make embellishments for scrapbooking!
In addition to close-up how-to photos, the 33 projects in this paper craft book come with detailed step-by-step instructions. It’s easy to make handmade cards and paper craft projects that really stand out from the crowd!
Skill Level: Beginner to Intermediate

: More Sketches for Creative Layouts and Cards
Becky Fleck's easy-to-use sketches feature traditional and digital layouts, greeting cards, mini albums and home decor items. Learn new techniques and methods with step-by-step instructions.

Now you can learn basic convex and concave metal forming techniques with expert step-by-step instructions.
Join master metalsmith and toolmaker Bill Fretz in 8 watch-and-learn lessons for everything you need to know to get started forming your own metal jewelry.
Master the basics and boost your skills as you learn the ins and outs of planishing, raising, using stakes, and more!
Watch 90+ minutes of exciting hammering and forming essentials on your own time.
This ultimate metalsmithing resource allows you to start and stop when it’s convenient for you.
Get a front-row seat to this master metal-jewelry making class you can watch again and again!

This book showcases a variety of techniques, including weaving, coiling, wrapping, texturing, and forging, and offers new ideas for creating truly amazing combinations with both silver and copper wire.

Inside you’ll discover:
* basic techniques as well as beginning cold metalwork tips
* 25 contemporary and dazzling projects, from bracelets and necklaces to pendants, cuffs, and rings
* Detailed step-by-step photography and illustrations

The author emphasizes wire weaving as a signature technique. She encourages you to use a variety of materials, such as beads and stones, to showcase the gorgeous details of your wire pieces. Perfect for new and experienced wireworkers alike, Weave, Wrap, Coil groups projects by level of difficulty, with each level utilizing three to four of the important techniques.

Now you can take your metal-forming skills to the next level with expert step-by-step instructions.
Join master metalsmith and toolmaker Bill Fretz in 8 watch-and-learn lessons for everything you need to know to create your own intricately formed metal jewelry.
Master complex techniques and boost your skills as you learn the ins and outs of forming inside curves in pierced forms, soldered joints, twisted shapes, and much more.

Organize, Visualize, Create! Includes information on basic page formats, album types & sizes, photo storage & organization, journaling, photography,and how to tell a story in pictures.

: Sketches For Creative Layouts
By referring to the sketches in this book, readers can select photos, papers and embellishments to bring pages together quickly and easily. Helpful resource information such as a supply list and photo sizes are featured on each card, along with page information cross-referencing. Also included is a deck of laminated cards with a thumbnail of many of the sketches in the book along with corresponding finished layouts. Sprial-bound. 128 pages.

This is not a step-by-step book.
Instead it is a book of inspirations for any scrapbooker. Each page has 2 page layouts bursting with colors and themes.
Each layout is different from the next and they contain different scrapbooking materials.

Dare to create layouts that break common scrapbooking "rules". Use less than perfect photos, make custom stamps, flock letters, create pom-poms and emboss paper.

: Scrapbooking The Relationships That Make Life Fun
Friendships of all types play a huge role in the lives of scrapbookers but those friendships are very rarely documented in their scrapbooks because they often take a backseat to photos of the kids, vacations, etc.
In this book, authors inspire readers to take a look at all aspects of friendship and create great pages about those special people in their lives.
With the help of some of their friends - 10 accomplished scrapbook designers - the authors present over 100 different fun, silly and heart-touching layouts along with prompts to get readers to think about and document their own unique friendships.

: Add Meaningful Journaling To Your Layouts
The purpose of scrapbooking is to preserve a memory or tell a story, yet journaling is a hurdle for most scrapbookers - this book teaches readers how to use their voice in their scrapbook pages.
The focus of Your Words, Your Story is helping scrapbookers find their voice.
The author Michele Skinner guides readers through the writing process by providing examples of various forms of journaling that go beyond the simple quote or heavily embellished paragraph that can overshadow a scrapbook page's story.
Over 100 layouts provide great design ideas and also give examples as to the various types of writing that can be used for journaling.
She provides encouragement for scrapbookers to find their own inner voice, and sidebars contain prompts to spark the creative storyteller inside every scrapper.

: Making The Most Of Your Scrapbooking Time
Here's the real secret: Scrapbooking does not have to be time-consuming. With The Busy Scrapper, readers will learn these valuable time-saving techniques: buying only what you need; organizing to keep supplies and photos handy; using time-saving tools; scrapping with page kits; changing your favorite layout designs and much more! The Busy Scrapper will inspire readers to take action and over 90 layouts provide ideas on how to implement the tips and techniques suggested.

This inspiring reference book includes great, precise definitions of an encyclopedic range of card-making terms and, more importantly, hundreds of card images from a wide range of artists.
Processes such as thermal embossing and stenciling are explained in short how-tos, an interesting history of card-making timeline is presented, and extensive card-sentiment suggestions are offered in the appendix.
The colorful cards, presented in a clean layout on bright white pages, are what make this wonderful volume an absolute delight and treasure-trove for artists and lay folk alike who are looking for ideas to personalize their cards and correspondence.

(Inside of this book is same as ISBN978-1-60059-029-0.
Note: The cover of a book and ISBN are different.)

: Using Paper Punches to Create Beautiful Flowers
Cherry blossoms, forsythia, marigolds, and petunias: Who would have imagined you could recreate such gorgeous blooms with just paper and craft punches?
You can—and this accessible new craft will appeal to anyone with a creative bent.
Using her own original, unique techniques, the author offers 40 beloved flowers to make for decorating gifts and home décor.
She teaches the simple basics, including paper manipulation, gluing, and coloring, and presents her flowers as colorfully as they’re found in nature.
From A (Amaryllis) to Z (Zinnia), there’s a bountiful bouquet of blooms to choose from!
Photographs document every step, and a visual template of the punches accompanies each flower.
A dozen sample projects range from picture frames to wreaths.

This is a nicely laid out book and good for beginners.
The photos are beautiful and there are some additional ideas for cards on each page.

: 38 Paper Animals to Copy, Cut & Fold
In origami, a flat piece of paper is folded to create a dimensional object. Similarly, in traditional Japanese kirigami, paper is folded, cut, and unfolded to reveal complex patterns—like a paper snowflake. Here, author Hiroshi Hayakawa has ingeniously combined these two techniques to create a charming menagerie of 38 animals, from flocks of sheep and swirling dragons to stampeding ostriches and pandas in a bamboo grove.

Full-size templates are provided to photocopy onto the card stock of your choice.

:Experimenting with Hook, Yarn & Stitch
There are sections on fiber and yarn, stitch definition, drape versus structure, and even how to work with challenging yarns. Dora teaches the reader how to use swatching to determine the best stitch patterns and hook size for a particular yarn. The concepts are illustrated with excellent photographs. This is not primarily a pattern book, but includes several great patterns that put the theory taught in the book into practice.

: 1 Easy Pattern = 26 Adorable Dresses for Girls
The 26 projects, all captivatingly photographed, feature a range of structural adaptations and styles. Some have pockets, others have sleeves, and still more have embellishments such as appliqué, piecing, embroidery, and quilting. And there aren’t only dresses, but also jumpers, smocks, tops, and skirts. The book includes the full pattern, with children’s sizes from three to eight.

: Projects Stitched on Tartans, Tweeds & Other Toasty Fabrics
The projects range from a sumptuous gathered wool handbag, a beautifully stitched eyeglass case, a fun and quirky wooley bird mobile, wool earrings, an obi styled belt, an adorned wool capelet, a draft dodger (to keep the cold from under your doors out), stylish pillows, pencil holders (aka a container) to footstool covers.
This book contains 23 projects crafted from a variety of wools.
The instructions are well thought out and well illustrated.
Discover the pleasures of quilting and sewing with rich, colorful wools!

: Knit & Crochet Projects for the Eco-Conscious Stitcher
More than just new cute and trendy patterns. Fun and educational about yarns, help you navigate threw expensive options and know what you are buying is benefiting more than just your finished product.