To execute excellent designs, you need accurate pattern drafting and quality sewing, and Professional Sewing Techniques for Designers, Third Edition gives aspiring designers these skills.
First published in 1880, this vintage book contains a series of papers on the subject of riding horses on roads, with chapters on avoiding accidents, proper care and maintenance of both horse and carriage, trips for horse control, notes on shoeing, and much more.
Make Your Quilts Look Like Antiques with Authentic Period Quilting Designs * Over 300 historically accurate quilting designs, organized into four time periods to make it easy to find the right designs for your quilt * Essential reference guide for anyone interested in vintage and antique quilts * Designs for all skill levels, from beginner to advanced * Use for hand or machine quilting You've created a beautiful quilt top in the style of your favorite era.
This definitive book covers the operation, care, repair, and restoration of all kinds of wood windows, along with chapters on weather-stripping, repainting, and refinishing.
Put Down the Ruler and Free Your Inner Applique Artist * Create 8 expressive applique quilts with this foolproof, no-rules approach * Make your quilts as precise or freewheeling as you want them to be * Use fabric color and value to make your applique come alive Who says beautiful applique has to be fussy?
Frosted Fun for Creative Crafters * Make adorable cupcakes with fabric, yarn, felt, and paper, plus many mouth-watering cupcake recipes to taste while you create * Fun for the whole family - enjoy these quick and easy projects with your children * Sprinkle your creations with buttons, beads, sequins, embroidery threads, and paper embellishments Help yourself to hours of creative play with these charming cupcakes to craft and bake.
Make These Tiny Treasures in A Lot Less Time * Make 24 beautiful miniature quilts, each in a day or less, with techniques that dramatically speed up your paper piecing * Stitch a whole quilt with perfectly matched seams and points from a single foundation * Learn innovative methods that make paper piecing much faster and easier * Choose the right fabrics to make your miniature sparkle * Get started right away with 12 full-size foundations Do you love miniature quilts, but not the hours and hours it takes to make them?
Whether your character is jumping for joy or grappling with an opponent, this book provides all the essential techniques to draw more lifelike action figures in the classic Japanese manga style.
New from the Royal School of Needlework (RSN), this contemporary guide to the art of applique is written by Kate Cross, one of their trained experts and teachers.
Bring the ancient beauty of Chinese knots into any craft practice, and learn the many uses this intricate art form can have in your own home and style.
Learn Foundation Piecing from the Experts * A foundation is any material used to piece on or with-fabric, interfacing, paper, batting, or flannel * Contributing artists include Carol Doak, Judy Mathieson, Ruth B.
Oceanography has moved into the spotlight of urgent social concern, because of the oceans' impact on issues such as global climate change, biodiversity, and even national security.
Paper-Piece Dozens of Blocks You Never Could Before * Revolutionary single-foundation technique makes those hard-to-piece blocks easy to assemble with perfect accuracy * Paper piece Attic Window and Jewel blocks with no Y-seams!
Brett Green, one of the hobby's leading names, provides a comprehensive introduction to all of the basic techniques and materials needed to build scale aircraft, from opening the kit box to displaying the finished model, all in one clear and easy-to-follow expert guide.
Custom Painting Übungsbuch für EinsteigerDas "Custom Painting Übungsbuch für Einsteiger" richtet sich an Airbrush-Anfänger, die die Grundlagen der Maltechnik bereits beherrschen und nunmehr die ersten Schritte in die Welt der Fahrzeug- und Helmbemalung, des sogenannten "Custom Paintings", wagen möchten.
From vividly colored underwater photographs of Australia's Great Barrier Reef to life-size dioramas re-creating coral reefs and the bounty of life they sustained, the work of early twentieth-century explorers and photographers fed the public's fascination with reefs.
An engaging variety of mentally stimulating activities that keep children away from the TVAs the parent of young children, it's hard to find a moment for yourself.
When it comes to using paper in your quilt designs, there are two techniques you can use -- English paper piecing (EPP), or foundation paper piecing (FPP).
First entering service in 1941 the legendary 'all-wooden' Mosquito was one of the best twin-engined aircraft of its size to see action in World War II.
This gorgeous guide to metal clay jewellery, written by designer and author Natalia Colman, shows you how to create 20 beautiful pieces of jewellery from silver, copper and bronze clays.
This vintage book contains a collection of recipes for making a variety of interesting beverages, with clear and practical directions for mixing all kinds of cocktails, sours, egg nog, sherry cobblers, coolers, absinthe, crustas, fizzes, flips, juleps, fixes, punches, lemonades, and more.
Baskets made of baleen, the fibrous substance found in the mouths of plankton-eating whalesa malleable and durable material that once had commercial uses equivalent to those of plastics todaywere first created by Alaska Natives in the early years of the twentieth century.
