Crafts category: 13248 books
Died in the Wool
A Knitting Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2005
The first novel in Mary Kruger's "lively" (Publishers Weekly) knitting-themed mystery series set in coastal Massachusetts.
Ariadne Evans is the proud owner of her very own knitting shop. And she's just got herself in a stitch.
When Ariadne enters her knitting store one day to find longtime...
by Glenn W. Worthington
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2012
The author found an abandoned, 50-year-old grain silo and made it into a 5-story round house. In this true story he tells his challenges and triumphs in completing this difficult task of transformation without any blueprints. Numerous photographs from the project are shown so the reader can visualize this unique building project.
by Paul Westheim
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Un estudio ya clásico sobre el grabado, en el que se concentran 600 años de este arte de gran difusión popular tanto en Europa como en Asia; además, el autor complementó la primera edición con dos capítulos dedicados al grabado que se practica en México, además de agregar nuevas ilustraciones.
Watercolor
The Can Do Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Painting with the watercolor medium is a partnership. You bring to the process your ideas and images and the medium takes them to another place all together. You can fight the medium and try to contain it within set boundaries or you can work with it and find unexplored territory when it shows you other...
How to Draw Step-By-Step
With Special Kids
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
We are all different, but we all have similarities, even children with special needs. This book was written to raise awareness of the importance of all children. The story points out our similarities. We have pets, families, and a places we call home. All children are important. This book is a short...
The Curated Closet
A Simple System for Discovering Your Personal Style and Building Your Dream Wardrobe
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Is your closet jam-packed and yet you have absolutely nothing to wear? Can you describe your personal style in one sentence? If someone grabbed a random piece from your closet right now, how likely is it that it would be something you love and wear regularly?
With so many style and shopping...
by Sherry Stone Clifton, Anita Marie Giddings
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2010
The latest tips and techniques for working with pastels - in full color
Pastels offer bright colors, a great level of portability, and no drying time - plus they're relatively inexpensive and can be used to draw and paint on almost any surface. Pastels For Dummies covers the many aspects of...
by Jeremy Lee
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
How to Draw Portraits is a unique collection of techniques, terminology, and examples for the beginner and advanced graphite artist. Over one hundred illustrations support carefully reviewed explanations of elemental technique. Discover that you can draw with an eraser and simulate skin texture with...
Draw 50 Flowers, Trees, and Other Plants
The Step-by-Step Way to Draw Orchids, Weeping Willows, Prickly Pears, Pineapples and Many More...
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Draw 50 Flowers, Trees, and Other Plants shows artists of all levels how to draw with ease by following simple, step-by-step examples. Celebrated author Lee J. Ames shows you how to create a lush garden of roses, orchids, cacti, and a variety of fruit, as well as forests of towering firs, sequoias,...
Tim Gunn's Fashion Bible
The Fascinating History of Everything in Your Closet
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
In the beginning there was the fig leaf...
and the toga. Crinolines and ruffs. Chain mailand corsets. What do these antiquated items have to do with the oh-so-twenty-first-century skinny jeans, graphic tee, and sexy pumps you slipped into this morning? Everything! Fashion begets fashion, and...
One Zentangle A Day
A 6-Week Course in Creative Drawing for Relaxation, Inspiration, and Fun
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
One Zentangle A Day is a beautiful interactive book teaching the principles of Zentangles as well as offering fun, related drawing exercises. Zentangles are a new trend in the drawing and paper arts world. The concept was started by Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas as a way to practice focus and meditation...
by Lyrics Born, Eddie Colla, Jason Malig
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Prompted by the urging of tens of thousands of Lyrics Born fans on Twitter & Facebook, what started as an occasional humorous Tweet, has finally been developed into a book. “Yes, Bay Area” is a 2 year compilation of insightful musings on the rich, diverse, & often quirky culture of the San Francisco...
Drawing Made Easy: Dragons & Fantasy: Unleash your creative beast as you conjure up dragons, fairies, ogres, and other fantastic creatures
Unleash your creative beast as you conjure up dragons, fairies, ogres, and other fantastic creatures
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Drawing fire-breathing beasts and mysterious, magical creatures has never been so much fun-or so easy! In this 64-page how-to-draw book, fantasy artist Kythera of Anevern demonstrates how to draw dragons, fairies, ogres, merfolk, and everything in between! Readers will discover in-depth tips and techniques...
by Paula Deen
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
With its lush gardens, stately town houses, and sprawling plantations, Savannah is the epitome of old Southern style, and who better to give you the grand tour than Paula Deen, the city’s most famous resident and anointed Queen of Southern Cuisine?
In this gorgeous, richly illustrated book,...