Creativity

A practical book celebrating the genre of landscape painting and includes a course of 50 lessons.

From falling leaves and Halloween decorations to an abundant cornucopia and a festive Thanksgiving collage, 31 images to color evoke the sights, sounds, and even the smells of autumn.

Making the Children's Year, with colour illustrations and new projects that bring it up to date, it will appeal to a new generation of people keen to engage children in creative play, the seasons and the joy of handcrafting.

The 'roaring twenties' were exciting years for women's fashion. The iconic image is of the young 'flapper' dancing the night away in a sparkling dress with fringes and tassels moving to the beat of the Jazz age. But, for all women in the post-war years of the 1920s, there was a new freedom in fashion as hemlines lifted and waistlines dropped. The simplified silhouette caused a boom in home dressmaking as women with basic sewing skills used tissue paper patterns to run up a new frock in the latest style. This practical book explains the background to these years and the trends in women's fashion, before introducing a range of garments that women would typically have worn. Suzanne Rowland gives a unique and detailed account of how to make vintage 1920s clothes for women based on the dress collections at the Royal Pavilion & Museums, Brighton & Hove, and Worthing Museum and Art Gallery. Fifteen detailed projects for garments and accessories include a pair of fashionably daring beach pyjamas, the wedding dress of a bride from East Sussex, and a simple striped frock suitable for wearing at a British seaside resort. Each project includes a detailed description of the original garment with an accompanying illustration alongside photographs of the original pieces. Scaled patterns are included with a list of materials and equipment required. Step-by-step instructions and close-up photographs are given for each stage of the making process with information about the original techniques used.

If you've always fancied taking up embroidery but didn't know where to start, this guide for the absolute beginner is for you. This simple-to-follow project-based book takes you through the basic techniques of this fun and creative craft.

This feel-good, humorous gift book captures Ross's matchless style.

An inspiring and accessible guide to painting beautiful snow scenes using easy-to-master techniques.

The fun, colourful templates are designed to resemble various kinds of spacecraft. Each paper plane comes with step by step folding instructions and tips for flight adjustments.

Gorgeous new colouring book from the creator of Birdtopia

Transform your photographs into matchless works of art with mixed-media techniques and quilting.

Learn how to draw kawaii (cute!) characters with this Kawaii Doodle Class! It's full of charming food and drink items, elements from nature, doodle monsters, and more!

Unlock the mystery and magic of sacred geometry to create mandalas using ancient design principles.   Pythagoras believed that mathematical truths shift the psyche closer to divine perfection. The Fibonacci sequence has been found to exist in patterns throughout nature. C. G. Jung thought that contemplating the mandala could unveil the unconscious. The designs here draw on the vast history and knowledge once thought esoteric, now available as tools for cultivating spiritual and psychological well-being. Create your own mandala based on geometry, numbers, and signs, or color a mandala as a meditative process to tap into your creativity and intuition.  However you use this guide, geometry can be a pathway to grasping who you are, where you belong, and what you are to do. Discover how this timeless practice can help you on your journey of self-realization!

One of two volumes in the new 'Maker's Guides' series, which introduces handcraft traditions from around the globe through artefacts from the V&A's world-class collections and step-by-step projects accessible to all.

Step-by-step instructions and symbol charts put these 100 creative new border designs within reach for beginning and advanced crocheters alike. Edie Eckman offers plenty of helpful design advice, including how to choose an appropriate border for each project and how to incorporate an element from the main stitch pattern into a new border design.

Christopher Hart has come up with cartoons to make you happy! From the important milestones in ones's life (graduation, falling in love, scoring the winning run) to adorable pets and unlikely animal buddies and from trips of a lifetime to everyday moments.

With this pocket-sized guidebook and your favorite Victorinox(R) Swiss Army Knife, you'll be ready to whittle wherever you go.

In Paint by Sticker: Travel, twelve vintage posters take us to the Taj Mahal, a canal in Venice, Monaco's Grand Prix, and other destinations from the golden age of travel. The original images are rendered in low-poly, a computer graphics style using geometric polygon shapes to create a 3D effect.

Making Winter will encourage you to banish winter blues and embrace the frosty months by cosying up with Emma Mitchell's nature-inspired collection of crafts.

Whether you need to draw a cat, a flying squirrel, or a sea horse, How to Draw Almost Every Animal is your ultimate go-to guide!

Timeless, classic quilts for the busy folks! Easily finish quilts on your home machine with quilt-as-you-go.

One of a knitter's favourite things to do is create something with sumptuous texture, and the tuck stitch, a simple technique that adds surface design to a knitted garment, is an excellent way to do just that. Tracy Purtscher has developed and perfected this technique in her exciting new book, Dimensional Tuck Knitting.

Vulvas are too often either crudely objectified or shrouded in mystery. No longer! The Post-Structuralist Vulva Coloring Book demystifies gender and interrogates your assumptions as you are drawn into its mesmerizing patterns, folds, and whorls. Color away the false binaries between male and female, words and text, inside and outside, art and nature. As you meditate on the sameness and difference of the vulvas on each page, you will question your interpellation into dominant systems of knowledge. By overwhelming the senses with vulvas, you can easily deconstruct the meaning and very existence of this social construct we call the "vulva" and the instructions for living that come with it. Quotations from post-structuralist philosophers accompany the art, and can be colored and even edited into new constructs and critiques. Perfect for the recovering graduate student who wants to deconstruct gender without being themselves dismantled by the tools of deconstruction.Printed on one side, with perforated pages so you can easily color and display your masterworks.

The Perfect Fit is at Your Fingertips! Why settle for boring store bought mittens and cold fingers, when you could knit the warmest, best fitting pair yourself? With Knit Mitts as your guide, you'll have the comprehensive information you need to create snug, warm, and practical mittens and gloves--right in the palm of your hand.

A complete guide for a beginning crocheter that teaches you how to crochet from the very first stitch and explains all tools, materials and stitches needed to get started. This book is also invaluable for intermediate to advanced crocheters as the book delves into experienced stitches and techniques needed.

A heartfelt sewing book from the creator of Tilda, Tone Finnanger. In this glorious celebration of her love of fabric, you'll find over 20 beautiful sewing, patchwork, applique and quilting projects that will bring colour and fun to your home.including quilts, pillows, pincushions, stockings, toys and accessories.

With a focus on natural ingredients, Natural Soap, Second Edition provides a wonderful range of recipes for bar and liquid soaps as well as creams, lotions and balms. The techniques section covers everything you need to learn about how to make soaps at home.

The 1940s were an iconic period of women''s dress history, with the familiar square shoulders, crepe tea dresses and seamed stockings paired with red lips, victory curls and head scarves. This book explains the period''s sewing techniques and makes a range of 1940s outfits to recreate the look of those vintage years. With detailed step-by-step instruction and over 300 photographs, it captures the style of the time and explains the impact of wartime austerity on the cut and construction of women''s dress.

Yarnitecture is specially written for knitters who want to spin their own custom designed yarn to fit their project, beginning with a beautifully prepared fleece batt. Readers will learn how to match yarns with knitting patterns and how to re-create a commercial yarn, as well as how to combine commercial and hand spun yarns in a single project.