HOT Flashes of Inspiration: Featuring Cool Quilted Projects From Warm Women
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RSN: Raised Embroidery: Techniques, projects and pure inspiration (Royal School of Needlework Guides)
This practical, contemporary guide to the exciting and varied world of raised embroidery is written by Kelley Aldridge, an expert teacher with the Royal School of Needlework. Part of a new series showcasing the RSN’s traditional techniques, technical excellence and contemporary flair, it contains a complete grounding in raised embroidery stitches and techniques, three beautiful projects and galleries of inspiring work.
The book features an introduction to the RSN and its prestigious heritage. It reveals the history and context of raised embroidery and showcases galleries of inspiring raised embroidery work. This is primarily a practical, instructional guide that offers a complete grounding in the techniques you need for raised embroidery: it contains a comprehensive stitch guide and leads the reader through each technique using clear step-by-step photography and easy-to-follow expert guidance. The book contains three beautiful projects that put these techniques into practice and showcase additional advanced techniques.
Global Style Jewelry: Inspiration and Instruction for 25 Exotic Beaded Jewelry Projects
Around the World in 25 Designs!
Travel-loving jewelry designer Anne Potter takes you on a world tour of some of the most interesting and inspiring places in Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Follow along with her as she explores the people, art, architecture, and culture of each region and the aspects that inspire her jewelry designs. Without ever leaving the comfort of your own home you can:Craft a colorful tile bracelet that mimics the trencadÃs mosaics of Gaudì.Hand dye beads to create a stunning neckpiece inspired by ancient Incan knotted quipus.Weave simple yet striking beaded earrings inspired by the motifs of Persian kilim carpets.Upcycle colorful tin to create a gorgeous necklace that calls to mind the work of Senegalese metal sculptors.Join antique brass filigree pieces into a unique hand bracelet that evokes the patterns of traditional Indian henna tattoos.Detailed instructions and step-by-step photos demonstrate a wide range of jewelry-making techniques, including stringing, beadweaving, wirework, macramé, metal stamping, and chain maille. Whether you’re an armchair traveler or a dedicated globe trekker, Global Style Jewelry will be your trusty guide to many dynamic and diverse places and projects.
Loose Leaf: Plants – Flowers – Projects – Inspiration
Showstopping floristry and plant installations, with projects to recreate at home
Exploding off the page with astonishing beauty and style, here are some of the world’s best in contemporary floral sculpture and installation to inspire your own creations at home. Alongside the superb photography of Wona Bae’s work, readers are offered 12 practical projects to try themselves.
Beginning with basic information on the types of flowers, sticks, and foliage that work together in a design, the book then takes readers through a themed selection of contemporary flower and foliage schemes to inspire their creativity when it comes to tackling their own installations. The DIY projects range from seasonal wreaths and hanging plants, to terrariums and earth-inspired headpieces.
Loose Leaf’s philosophy is that plants and flowers are essential for our health and well-being, both mental and physical, and this book shows the many ways we can bring the beauty of nature into our homes in truly stylish and inventive ways.
RSN Appliqué: Techniques, projects and pure inspiration (Rsn: Royal School of Needlework)
This contemporary guide to the art of appliqué is endorsed by the Royal School of Needlework (RSN), and written by Kate Cross, one of their trained experts and teachers. It is the first in a new series designed to showcase the traditional techniques, technical excellence and contemporary flair of the RSN, and provide practical guidance and inspiration.
The book features an introduction to the RSN and its prestigious heritage. It reveals the history and context of appliqué and showcases galleries of inspiring appliqué work from around the world. But as well as featuring a rich selection of inspiring appliqué pieces, this is primarily a practical, instructional guide that offers a complete grounding in all essential appliqué techniques: it contains a comprehensive stitch guide and leads the reader through each technique using clear step-by-step photography and easy-to-follow expert guidance. It shows the reader how to knot thread and start stitching correctly, how to create a design, transfer it onto fabric, frame up a slate frame, build up, cut away, apply a variety of edges and apply fabric, as well as basic ribbonwork, goldwork, shadow work and silk shading. The book contains four beautiful projects that build in difficulty and put these techniques into practice.
Meaningful Making: Projects and Inspirations for Fab Labs and Makerspaces
A learning revolution is in the making around the world. Enthusiastic educators are using the new tools and technology of the maker movement to give children authentic learning experiences beyond textbooks and tests. The Stanford University FabLearn Fellows are a group of K-12 educators working at the forefront of this movement in all corners of the globe. They teach in Fab Labs, makerspaces, classrooms, libraries, community centers, and museums-all with the goal of making learning more meaningful in the modern world.
In this book, the 2014-2015 FabLearn Fellows share inspirational ideas from their learning spaces, assessment strategies and recommended projects across a broad range of age levels. Illustrated with color photos of real student work, the Fellows take you on a tour of the future of learning, where children make sense of the world by making things that matter to them and their communities. To read this book is to rediscover learning as it could be and should be-a joyous, mindful exploration of the world, where the ultimate discovery is the potential of every child.
Modern Roots – Today’s Quilts from Yesterday’s Inspiration: 12 Projects Inspired by Patchwork from 1840 to 1970
Discover the antique roots of modern quilting, and take a peek inside Bill Volckening’s quilt collection (from the 1840s to 1970s). Patterned for the first time with full instructions, 12 antique and vintage projects invite you to remake them in your own style with modern techniques, rotary cutting tools, and templates. Learn to appreciate the handwork and character of yesterday’s quilts from an expert who has collected and studied them for more than 25 years.
Making Metal Jewelry: Projects, Techniques, Inspiration
A favorite book with crafters is now reissued with a fresh new layout!
No soldering is required to make these metal necklaces, rings, bracelets, and earrings; they’re cold-connected, using such easy-to-learn skills as piercing, sawing, riveting, and joining. So even beginning jewelers can get completely professional results. Work with a variety of metals in sheets, wires, and tubes. Create your own chains, ear wires, clasps, and other findings from wire jump rings. Learn metal texturing and finishing techniques such as chasing, etching, and adding a patina. Find out how to make simple settings for pearls, beads, and stones. Then set your creativity free on projects like a Circle Brooch with Thorn Clasp, Layered Cuff Bracelet, and Polka Dot Tube Earrings.
Quilt Local: Finding Inspiration in the Everyday (with 40 Projects)
For Heather Jones, inspiration can be anywhere. For her debut book, Quilt Local, she designed a collection of 20 quilts, each inspired by objects and places close to home—country roads, cityscapes, street signs—the landscape of her existence. Then, in a fascinating exercise in color theory and design play, she reworked each one in a second palette to show what a striking difference just a few basic changes can make.
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Pattern by pattern, Jones takes readers behind the scenes of her process, sharing photographs of her sources of inspiration, sketchbook pages, and the finished quilts. In addition, she offers an accessible lesson in color theory as it applies to quiltmaking.
Product Features
- STC-91768
- 9781617691768
- Brand New Item / Unopened Product
- Abrams Publishing