75 BOOKS Bookstand Stock your shelves with the latest craft-related book releases THE BIG BOOK OF HAPPY CRAFTS By Lucia Mallea £27.99 9780764367113 Schiffer Publishing Join internationally renowned artist and content creator Lucia Mallea on a fun and colourful crafting journey through 24 stylish projects. From stunning paper flowers and cheerful party decorations to DIY home décor and even stylish fashion accessories, you’ll learn how to elevate inexpensive craft supplies into stunning works of art like cake stands, flower curtains, parrot earrings, statement stars, and more. Each project includes frustration-free step-bystep instructions and gorgeous photos of the finished results. You’ll discover how to choose the right tools, master basic techniques, and add fun embellishments to your creations. We say: The best part? This book includes handy ready-to-go templates and a bonus pull-out project. So gather some friends and break out the glue gun – it’s time to craft yourself happy! STITCH WITH ONE LINE By Martina Unterfrauner & Nuray Hatun £20.99 9780764367588 Schiffer Publishing With these beginnerfriendly projects, turn one-line drawings - designs that capture the essence of an object - into embroidered art. Many stitchers and embroidery fans love the aesthetic of minimalism, and one-line designs appeal due to their perfect clarity and style. In the early 20th century, one-line drawings were made fashionable by no less a figure than Pablo Picasso. Here, crafters learn why one-line stitched designs are so powerful and how they work. We say: The projects range from easy to advanced, plus readers learn to make one-line designs from any interesting object they see. Crafting Sewing WILD YARN By Imogen Bright Moon £25 missing 9781849949019 Batsford Imogen Bright Moon is a British Romani textile artist who creates richly textured, highly tactile woven textile works from yarn that she spins and blends herself. In this elegantly designed book Imogen reveals the secrets of her practice. In evocative, engagingly written text accompanied by sumptuous images of her work in her studio throughout the year. She explains: • How to choose raw fibres for use in your work: the author’s are ethically sourced from various ecologically responsible sources, including a rescue flock of sheep on the South Downs. • How to put together different types of fibres – raw sheep’s wool, plant fibres such as hemp, soya and wild silk, alpaca hair and much more – to create richly textured yarn. • The delicate art of blending naturally occurring pigments, working with shade and tone to create subtle and nuanced colours, a process that Imogen likens to a painter mixing paints on a palette. • The principles of hand-spinning, from a simple single spun thread to more complicated yarns such as triple-chain ply yarn, using a traditional floor spindle. • How to skein, soak and wet-finish your yarn, and how to store your yarn stash. • Ideas for taking your yarn into finished craft and art projects, with details of the author’s own work. We say: This book is ideal for weavers, textile artists and anyone seduced by the joys of yarn. Creating
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