Creativity

Ready to explore walking foot machine quilting with Leah Day? This quilting style is perfect for beginning quilters using a home machine. Expand your skills with seven quilt projects ranging from easy bed quilts to a stunning wholecloth baby quilt.No longarm machine? No problem! With Explore Walking Foot Quilitng with Leah Day, you'll learn a new approach to using your home sewing machine and its walking foot with absolute ease.Inside you'll find:- Tailored advice on auditioning and choosing the right design for your quilt- Instructions for 30 different walking foot quilting designs- Seven detailed patterns for quilts, including one show-stopping wholecloth quilt pattern - Leah's tips and troubleshooting tricks for quilters of all skill levelsMahcine Quilting Teacher of the Year, Leah Day, walks you step by step through the process of mastering walking foot quilting on your home machine.Explore Walking Foot Quilting with Leah Day will help you:- Take your machine quilting up a notch, without the challenges of free motion quilting- Easily decide when to mark quilting designs or confidently skip that step- Get to the root of pesky problems like skipping stitches and thread breaks that pop up when machine quilting- Handle any quilt - even large size quilts - with ease- Piece, baste, machine stitch, and bind quilts with confidenceIn Chapter 1, you'll learn all the basics to walking foot quilting including how set up your sewing machine and select the right needles and thread for successful machine quilting.There's a lot of layers that go into a quilt like preparing fabric, piecing, and basting which can effect your quilting experience. Learn three methods for auditioning quilt designs so you know where your favorite designs will work best on the quilt.Speaking of designs, we'll explore 30 quilting designs that work great for walking foot quilting. Each design is stitched into a quilt square so you can see the stitches clearly and read the instructions to understand how to quilt them in a variety of quilting styles.Your exploration of walking foot quilting would not be complete without several fun quilt projects to piece and quilt. Leah Day's book contains seven beautiful quilt patterns, including a specially designed walking foot wholecloth quilt. Two Quilt-As-You-Go quilt patterns are also included because quilting block by block will be much easier on your home machine.While walking foot quilting is the easiest form of machine quilting, you still may run into issues along the way. We cover troubleshooting with pictures of what can really happen if your machine isn't threaded correctly or you're using materials it just doesn't like.We'll round out our exploration of walking foot quilting with finishing techniques. Learn how to connect blocks together quilt-as-you-go style and how to bind both straight edge and curved edge quilts easily.No matter your skill level or opinion about walking foot quilting, you really need to give this style of quilting a try. There is an amazing variety of textures and quilting designs ready for you to quilt so let's begin our machine quilting adventure and explore walking foot quilting together.Leah Day's mission is to empower and encourage quilters of all skill levels to piece and quilt their own quilts. Since 2009 she has shared free designs, quilting tutorials, and articles on quilting on the Free Motion Quilting Project (www.FreeMotionProject.com) that have insired quilters from around the world. Leah has written many books on quilting that include How to Piece Perfect Quilts and 365 Free Motion Quilting Designs. For more information visit www.LeahDay.com

A reference and project book for both beginning and experienced quilters. It contains information on making traditional quilts, including selecting and caring for fabric, choosing equipment and supplies, calculating yardage, and selecting the piecing technique for the best result.

Welcome to your Enneagram Coloring Book, a whole new way to understand the Enneagram. You have the freedom to use this book however you desire, to color whichever pages most attract you, and to intuitively learn more about the Enneagram emotionally, mentally, and kinesthetically. There are pages on the Enneagram symbol and origins, the 9 Enneagram types, the spiraling Enneagram of consciousness, the Enneagram system as a whole and, finally, the Enneagram of transformation. In addition, here are ways coloring can contribute to your life: Mindfulness, Calmness, Anxiety reduction, Relaxation, Focus, Centering, Stress relief, Meditation, Fun, Creativity. Show us how you color, use and enjoy this book: #ColorMeEnneagram

Originally published in 1890, this classic handbook provides a wealth of information on the processes of making and keeping of pure cider, and remains of interest and use to the cider maker or enthusiast today. The comprehensive guide provides expertise on the properties of cider, apple varieties, technical apparatus, and features a chapter dedicated to old-fashioned cider making methods. Contents include: Cider Making; Chapter 1 - introductory; Chapter 2 - The Properties of Cider; Chapter 3 - Apple Juice; Chapter 4 - Apples, Varieties, and Tests; Chapter 5 - Apparatus for Cider-Making; Chapter 6 - Straining and Filtering; Chapter 7 - Fermentation; Chapter 8 - Pasteurization; Chapter 9 - Old Method of Cider-Making. We are republishing this vintage work in a modern and affordable edition, complete with a newly written introduction and featuring reproductions of the original diagrams.

In this book Arthur Sanger gives sound instructions and advice on the fine art of making Cabochon jewelry.It is not intended to teach all the techniques involved in jewelry making just those associated with Cabochon and some general practices. It is presumed that readers will have some experience in the use of small hand tools, soldering torches, etc.

Illustrated with useful diagrams, this unusual guide provides practical instructions to build several traditional outdoor play aid for children, including the classic roundabout, helter skelter and toboggan. A must-have for any woodworking or wood-craft enthusiast. Contents include: Woodworking - Outdoor Play Aids - A Garden Swing - How to Make a Small Roundabout - Constructional Details - Constructing A toboggan. This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before, and the content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience. We are republishing this classic text in a high quality, affordable edition, and it comes complete with a newly written introduction.

This vintage book is comprehensive and beginner-friendly guide to making wooden toys, with directions for making puppets, a rocking horse, model buildings, and much more. Making wooden toys can be a cost-effective and rewarding process for both parent and child. Profusely illustrated and full of simple instructions, this timeless volume is highly recommended for anyone with an interest in hand-making toys from wood, and would make for a fantastic addition to family collections. Contents include: "Toy Farm", "Toy Station", "Toy Garage", "Desk and Chair", "Rocking Horse", "Puppet Theatre", "Puppets", and "Toy Shop". Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on the history of toys.

Originally published in 1878, this classic book contains a wealth of information on the subject of making fireworks, and will prove to be a very interesting read for anyone with an interest in the history of the subject. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

An edited volume mapping the history of the book, from the Ancient World through to the rapidly changing world of the book in the second decade of the 21st century.

This exciting new title from acclaimed chip carver, Tatiana Baldina, will show you how to create geometric patterns out of single pieces of timber.

A gorgeous celebration of the artistry, design, and traditional craftsmanship of timber-frame buildings, from an internationally renowned architect and contemporary practitioner of the craft.

The iconic, must-have guide for modern handcraft artisans, Blacksmith's Craft has been teaching the fundamentals of blacksmithing since 1952 for good reason. Traditional tools and techniques of the craft will never change and learning the classic cornerstones of the trade is crucial to fully understanding the behavior of iron and steel. The first in its series, this facsimile volume of the seminal British textbook includes 37 lessons, crisp photography, descriptive captions, and all the timelessly essential knowledge a beginner needs to practice and become a skilled blacksmith, from understanding the parts of the hearth, blast, and anvil to creating T-shaped pocket welds. With the modern resurgence in interest, Blacksmith's Craft is the primary, go-to source to learn the skills, tools, methods, and techniques from inside a blacksmith forge.

The definitive guide to all the crochet techniques and stitches necessary to create stunning contemporary crochet projects, like the ten included here.Learn how to stitch stunning contemporary crochet projects using traditional techniques with a twist such as filet crochet or more recent techniques such as corner to corner crochet. All the key crochet techniques and stitches including Tunisian, tapestry, corner to corner, overlay, mosaic, filet, color pooling, and crochet embroidery are featured, as well as instructions on how to use the exciting, new yarns that are available.As well as step by step instructions and photography, there are patterns for over ten cutting edge modern crochet makes for you and your home. Choose from a cowl, blanket, wrap, bag, rug and many more.

A comprehensive reference for contemporary quilters, with ten projects included.Learn how to create stunning modern quilts with the Modern Quilt Bible: the ultimate reference guide to patchwork and quilting techniques. Author of Beginner's Guide to Quilting Liz Betts explains over one hundred techniques used by designers to create eye-catching modern quilts.Try your hand at improv piecing, free motion quilting, playing with scale, curved piecing, and much more. There are featured quilts from the world's best modern quilt designers and ten unique quilted projects using a range of modern quilt techniques so you can practice your newfound skills.

Witness paintings change from bad to good as well-loved master watercolorist and teacher Charles Reid shows you how to correct problems to create fresh, spontaneous works, while offering an intimate inside glimpse into his processes.

The easiest to follow and most comprehensive balloon sculpting treasury available, this amazing book features over 100 unique designs: a dog, princess hat, classic cartoon characters, many more.

Sixteen crafts projects in the zakka style, applying a variety of techniques including quilting, wool applique and embroidery.

This book provides 35 cute bird projects for you to create out of felt. Projects include: kingfisher, hummingbird, flamingo, parrot and parakeet.

Raconteur‿The Storyteller‿s Collection, an award-winning quilt, is your next take-anywhere project. Sew a collection of miniature pieced hexagons, making the king-size quilt your next long-term project, or pick and choose from 359 block designs to make a project of any size! A mix of hand-stitched and machine-pieced blocks are organised in 59 collections. Full-size foundation paper patterns are included when possible, with tips for English paper piecing.Â

Sew seventeen projects, from bags and accessories to home decor. Learn how easy it is to work with cork fabric from the designer behind Sallie Tomato, Jessica Kapitanski.

Instructions and projects that celebrate the diverse beauty and creative possibilities of macramé and knots Every day for a year, artist Windy Chien learned to tie a new kind of knot and then shared the results on Instagram—revolutionizing knot art and reinventing her life and career in the process. In The Year of Knots, Chien describes how her knot-making project led her on a path of discovery. The book combines projects, tutorials, and transformative personal stories, all aimed at inspiring readers to make knotting—and creativity in general—part of a meditative daily practice. The knots in the book are gorgeously documented step-by-step for the many knot- and macramé-obsessed readers out there wanting to try it themselves. Knotted projects abound: a necklace, a key chain, a dog leash, along with wall hangings and a hanging light. At the heart of the story is the simple, empowering idea that a single year is all the time you need to make a life-changing creative leap.