Color by Kristin: How to Design Your Own Beautiful Knits

Embrace your inner artist! That’s the message woven all through this beautifully illustrated guide to knitting and designing with multiple colors. Renowned designer Kristin Nicholas shares her unique approach to combining colors and her secrets to creating stunning designs and even shows you how to design your own colorwork charts. Glossaries of edgings and interchangeable colorwork charts offer endless possibilities for creating one-of-a-kind knits. The 25+ colorful patterns include:

• an adorable patchwork baby afghan
• charming mother-daughter mittens
• comfy slipper socks for the whole family
• a zip-up cardigan any little one will love
• an eco-friendly tote to carry your knitting projects

Request Color by Kristin from the catalog.

Alabama Studio Style: More Projects, Recipes & Stories Celebrating Sustainable Fashion & Living

In Alabama Studio Style, Natalie Chanin, founder and creative director of the acclaimed fashion and lifestyle company Alabama Chanin, takes readers on a compelling journey of creativity, technique, and inspiration. Picking up where the celebrated Alabama Stitch Book left off, Alabama Studio Style is a craft and lifestyle book all in one.

Here Chanin shares many more of her stitching, stenciling, and beading methods and applies them to twenty extraordinary clothing and home décor projects, each made with organic or recycled materials and designed with “haute homespun” flair. Along with the company’s celebrated camisole and tank dresses, the featured projects include skirts, scarves, pillows, woven chair seats, and a stenciled scrap-wood table. Rounding out the book are recipes for three delicious party menus. Alabama Studio Style shows us that true style encompasses not only what we wear, how we decorate, and what we eat, but also how we care for our environment.

Request Alabama Studio Style from the catalog.

Delight in the Details: 40+ Techniques for Charming Embellishments and Accents

Delight in the Details will inspire you with more than 40 techniques for creating accents and embellishments that will provide a finishing touch to any papercraft project. 

Get creative with a variety of materials, from simple paper and fabric scraps to glitter, ink, modeling paste and vintage finds. 100 lovely projects - including greeting cards, scrapbook layouts, mini albums and home decor - showcase the techniques in fabulous form. Take a peak inside the author’s studio where pretty vintage details come to life.

Request Delight in the Details from the catalog.