Pop Knitting: Bold Motifs Using Color & Stitch

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"Celebrated author Britt-Marie Christoffersson has studied color and texture in knitting for more than 25 years. Pop Knitting showcases her intensive work, demonstrating how minimal ingredients can be combined in seemingly endless ways to create striking, graphic knitted fabrics. Using a variety of innovative stitch manipulation techniques, this book explores how to construct highly textured fabrics and gorgeous knitted strandwork. You'll also learn how to create knitted fabrics with holes, pleats, double-fabrics, and more. Knitters of all skill levels will love the projects and inspiration Christofferson presents and the aesthetic masterpiece of Pop Knitting will have the most advanced knitters eager to experiment. Bright color dominates throughout this exuberant book, making simple patterns boldly stand out. Discover vibrant color, in-depth instruction, and artful inspiration that have ruled Christoffersson's work and life. Pop Knitting promises revolutionary knitting results. "--

Paper Made!: 101 Exceptional Projects to Make Out of Everyday Paper

Publishers Weekly (03/05/2012):
Repurposing diva Terry transforms trash to treasure, fashioning newspaper, wallpaper, or plain old paper headed for the garbage into beads or bangles or headboards. A merchandise manager for Anthropologie and a crafter, Terry has transformed playing cards into lampshades, and an abandoned roll of raffle tickets into a coffee-table conversation piece. An avalanche of catalogues can become a cavalcade of crafts: the aRing around the Rosy Vasea is constructed of pages woven from advertising usually destined for refuse. Paper maps become passport covers or origami birds on a string for a childas nursery. The process may appear tedious at times, with instructions to cut 100 paper strips, but they are well worth the payoff of drink umbrellas from paper scraps and papier-mache pinatas bursting with treats. Family heirloom letters fashioned into a bridal barrette may not be to everyoneas taste, but with a gum wrapper or 200, you can be a jeweler on a budget. (Apr.) Copyright 2012 Reed Business Information.
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Custom Knits Accessories: Unleash Your Inner Designer with Improvisational Techniques for Hats, Scarves, Gloves, Socks and More

"Custom Knits Accessories "is the third book in the Custom Knits series by acclaimed designer Wendy Bernard. While the first two books focused on techniques for customizing top-down sweaters, this one showcases the ever-popular quick-knits: hats, scarves, gloves, mitts, socks, and more. Each of Bernard's 25 sassy-chic patterns offers specific ideas for customization--from switching out yarns to personalizing fit and style details--and fun, glamorous photographs show off the finished pieces. Also included are formulas for knitting all types of accessories without a pattern, using a single body measurement as a starting point. In true Custom Knits style, Bernard encourages knitters to unleash their inner designer every step of the way.
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Gemstone Settings: The Jewelry Maker's Guide to Styles & Techniques

If there ever was a book subtly designed to seduce readers into a jewelry-making career British artist Young's is it. And if slipcased with her first book, The Workbench Guide to Jewelry Techniques (2010), it would be half of an excellent map to the workings and how-tos of the business. Its four sections Introduction to Design, Gemstone Directory, Techniques Directory, Reference are packed with information. The first sets the stage by zeroing in on contemporary practices, inspirations, and outsourcing, with lots of jeweled examples (who could resist one tongue-in cheek beauty called Glue Ring, in which Philip Sajet carves the ring's shank from rock crystal, molds the stone in gold, then joins the two with adhesive?). More than 30 groups of gemstones, from the hardest (diamond) to artificial stones, are the focus of section two; expect lengthy but highly instructive blurbs to include information on availability, synthetics, and care. By far the largest and most critical set of information is the third section's presentation of five different types of techniques, which are not only explained but also extraordinarily well illustrated. Section four is filled with data about conversions, stone shapes, templates for settings, a glossary, and lists of suppliers and services, further reading, and galleries, fairs, and organizations. Glorious color photographsa real visual distraction to those just being introduced to the artpopulate every page of this tome. Sparkling, and with substance.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2012, American Library Association.)
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More Fabric Art Collage: 64 New Techniques for Mixed Media, Surface Design & Embellishment Featuring Lutradur(r), Tap, Mul Tex

In this follow-up to her bestselling first book, Fabric Art Collage 40+ Mixed Media Techniques, Rebekah Meier inspires you even more to stretch the boundaries of fabrics, papers, and fibers. Explore more than 60 new surface-design techniques with 7 richly layered projects. Learn how to combine creative processes like resists and image transfers with unique surfaces, embellishments, and found objects to create dimensional works of art. Transform everyday materials such as batting and foil into something even more extraordinary than you ever dreamed was possible! Mixed-media artists at any skill level will find something fresh and fascinating to try.
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Baby Times: 24 Handmade Treasures for Baby & Mom

Everything the modern baby needs (and mommy too) for party time, playtime, quiet time, or go time.Stitch up some of these imaginative and practical designs, and the days will be a little easier for both mom and baby. Marcea Owen and Janice Liljenquist, founders of Abbey Lane Quilts, bring you 24 projects including quilts, bibs, diaper bags, soft toys, and so much more, using fresh, modern fabrics. Choose from a variety of unique colorways, embellishments, and skill levels. Get creative with coordinating projects to make great gift sets get more oohs and aahs at every baby shower!
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Hat Shop: 25 Projects to Sew, from Practical to Fascinating

The latest installment in our popular Design Collective series features over 25 hat projects from contemporary designers all over the world, each hand-selected for their freshly sewn flair and skilled millinery work. Ladies and gents, boys and girls what will you tip from the top of your head? A bonnet, a cap, a cloche, a tam? Projects include other adornments for your crown, such as headbands, fascinators, and scarves. From playful to practical, sassy to sophisticated, there is something for everyone to make and wear any day, every day.
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