This book is a wonderful reference for anyone with a little experience in Kumihimo braiding and moderate experience in beading.
The illustrations are beautiful and the technique diagrams easy to understand. Highly recommend this for bead and fiber artists wanting to expand their knowledge and ideas.

Karen DeSousa's second kumihimo book has more of everything. More braids. More patterns. More necklaces. More great tips for making and finishing beautiful braids. It's suitable for beginners and challenging enough for more experienced braiders. The book revisits the round braid (for beginners) and then pumps it up by adding seed beads and finishes without findings. The book includes the Laramie twist, the 16 bobbin Roundabout, a different round braid called the Top and Bottom Tango that lets you evenly space out beads and crystals, and the Color Tipped Swirl which puts an edge of color to a fabulous twist braid. If that weren't enough, the book then tells you how to turn these great braids into beautiful necklaces. Fun, elegant, artistic, great for all ages.

Let's make fake sweets motifs and accessories in a short time.

More than 360 ideas for beginners and others.

: Make Bracelets, Rings, Belts & More with Rainbow Loom(R), Cra-Z-Loom(TM) & FunLoom(TM)
With just a few simple tools and easy-to-follow patterns, you can create completely colorful and super stylish bracelets, earrings, belts, and more in just minutes.
Rubber band jewelry is great for parties, sleepovers, recess, bus rides, and any other place you can think of, and you can enjoy it alone or with friends.
Dazzle them at the mall with a Starburst Bracelet, be pretty in pink with a Flower Charm accessory, or hit the pool in style with a Toe Ring-and-Anklet.
The possibilities are endless. Totally Awesome Rubber Band Jewelry makes using your new loom a snap, with original projects not available anywhere else, plus more than 200 full color photos, step-by-step instructions, and dozens of diagrams.
All you need is a hook (a crochet hook will do), rubber bands in all the colors you love, plastic clips to connect your links, and a loom like Rainbow Loom® or Cra-Z-Loom™ to bring it all together.

This is a practical, detailed guide to the techniques of sewing with skins and furs.
From pre-sewing operations to finishing touches, here are illustrated instructions for every step in creating luxurious garments.

In this book, acclaimed fashion designer and artist Shabd Simon-Alexander shares her techniques for creating the innovative styles that make her own hand-dyed collection so popular.
Packed with Shabd’s design secrets, color guidance, expert tips on making each piece distinctly your own, and twenty-two step-by-step projects for garments, accessories, and home décor items, this book will soon have you creating sophisticated dresses, leggings, scarves, tees, and more. Once you experience tie-dye like this, you’ll never think of it the same way again!

A collection of beautiful blooms for embellishing garments, accessories and more. Showcases a lush bouquet of blossoms perfect for embellishing your favorite clothing or accessory. These lovely blooms are the perfect way to use up scraps or try a new yarn. All are shown full-size and in scale complete with stitched leaves and embroidered stems.

Full of great, detailed photos, this book shows everything you need to know to learn to knit in the first place or to brush up on particular skills.
The projects are beautiful, and none of them are very difficult.

: The Complete Guide to Sewing and Customizing Your Own Unique Bags
This is a lovely book, full of inspirational photos. But there is not enough instructions for each bag pattern.
Not recommended for beginners.

: Techniques and Projects Featuring Transfers, Stamps, Stencils, Inks, Paints, Mediums, and More
Polymer clay has grown and grown and grown in popularity since the publication of Donna Kato's best-selling The Art of Polymer Clay in 1997. And there have been so many technical advances, too. Now poly-diva Donna Kato presents an all-new look at one of crafters' all-time favorite mediums. The Art Of Polymer Clay Surface Effects begins with the essentials of polymer clay, including its working properties, plus tools, curing, safety recommendations, and color blending (with full information on the now-indispensable Skinner Blend). Photo-packed chapters focus on exciting projects—beads, bracelets, pins, pendants, and boxes–and showcase new techniques, including image transfers, surface treatments such as stencils, stamps, paints, and inks, sculpting, inclusions, special effects, and finishing. Finished pieces by some of the biggest names in polymer clay, including Kathleen Dustin, Pier Voulkos, and Nan Roche, plus Donna Kato herself, offer ideas and inspiration.

: Twist - Fold - Hammer - Weave - Wrap
This comprehensive guide to working with wire features the work of four artists, providing a great range of projects and ideas.
This book begins with general wire basics, with technique-specific basics introducing each chapter.
Unlike other wire books on the market, this book includes fresh, new looks in chapters on woven wire, textured wire, corrugated wire, heavy wire, and chain & wire.
This book also introduces strip wire, creating innovative projects that appeal to all different types of artists.

: 30 Flexible Beading Wire Jewelry Projects
Authors uses flexible beading wire as a key design element in creating these thirty fun and fashionable jewelry projects. By exposing the wire, jewelry pieces are bright and colorful, and the wire adds texture to the design. The pieces in this book create a universal appeal with the wire being just as important as the beads. All types of jewelry makers will enjoy these modern, up-to-date styles.

The author uses soutache and bead embroidery to develop unique-looking, colorful jewelry projects that appeal to all.
These projects combine stitched soutache with beautiful beads and findings for fabulous jewelry pieces.
Soutache and Bead Embroidery includes 18 one-of-a-kind projects, each showcasing a different technique and additional design suggestion, along with a gallery of inspiration to tempt jewelry designers at all levels.
From a simple pair of earrings to more complex necklaces, this book introduces soutache to beginners as well as fires the imagination of seasoned artists.

Everything You Wanted to Know but Couldn't Find Out About Shuttle Lace

. An inexpensive craft to begin and reasonably easy to work, tatting produces attractive and delicate items for a variety of uses. Learn how to tat, then progress to simple starter patterns, working with two threads, pearl tatting and tatting with three threads, tatting with beads, and many other forms and styles. Features over 100 designs, ranging from simple doodles to complex 3-D bouquets.

: Flora: Leaf, Flower, and Plant Designs for Polymer Clay

120 pages of full-color step-by-step project pictures, images, doodles and other fun stuff.

In this book, you will wander through leaf, flower and plant designs in the form of projects, techniques, creative nudgings, doodles, inspirational photos and more. Always more! I?m excited about the guest-artist spotlights in this book, as well as my quirky role as tour-guide for this romp though the flora! (you?ll see....)

Great for all skill levels, of course, and a good volume for artists who work in other media, since the emphasis in this book (and the others in this series) will be on technique, exploration, creativity and design, not just projects. Don?t worry, though, there are still plenty of projects.