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Spin Infinite Yarns with One Amazing Tool

Portable and productive, the hand spindle has been responsible for creating the world's yarn for millennia. In Respect the Spindle, veteran spinner and spindle aficionado Abby Franquemont teaches spinners old and new how to create incredible yarn with this amazing, yet simple tool.

Many contemporary spinners view the hand spindle as a beginner's tool, suited to learn the basic steps of spinning before moving on to a spinning wheel. In Respect the Spindle, Abby emphasizes the spindle's importance and its use in making yarn in advanced ways for high-end to novelty cloth.

The perfect how-to book for any spinner with a growing collection of spindles or even just a dowel, Respect the Spindle includes:

• Step-by-step photography with detailed illustrations, making the spindle spinning techniques clear to even the novice spinner.
• Techniques from the basics, such as getting started on the spindle, to more specialized techniques, such as using the spindle to make specific kinds of yarn faster than imagined.
• Profiles of spindle spinners from various traditions are presented in sidebars throughout the book, which introduce heartwarming and historical fiber stories from around the world.
• Five simple projects give spinners practice in creating a variety of yarns and patterns.
• And more!

Binding Paperback
Number Of Pages: 136
ISBN: 139781596681552
Author/Designer: Abby Franquemont

500 unusual cross-stitch patterns blend gorgeous French vintage with a charming contemporary simplicity.

Enter this deliciously vintage universe of 500 patterns and add a touch of nostalgia to your stitchwork.

Re-create designs from 1800s and 1900s fashion houses and milliners’ catalogs.
Take your cross stitch on a bon voyage into the past with traveling motifs like trunk labels of exotic destinations and railroad advertising posters.
Other sections of patterns feature tea and coffee motifs, and daily life in vintage terms. 
Many of the designs include multiple scenes and motifs, offering you hundreds of components to use in a myriad of ways.
Throughout, be inspired by "mood boards" of completed motifs, along with photos of projects that will show off your creations in daily life.

 

Size: 9.0in x 11.0in  |  Pages: 192  |  115 color images & patterns
Binding: Hardback
ISBN: 9780764354793

Say welcome to Spring with Rico Design's Ricorumi Charming Spring pattern book! Update your home décor with these beautiful amigurumi crochet decorations that you can make for your home using little 25g balls of Ricorumi DK cotton yarn in fresh and more sophisticated colors. Among the spring crew are stylish hens, a cute bunny, patterned Eater eggs, as well as 'free-style' Easter wreath.

Ricorumi books use British crochet terminology.

Celebrate the magic of Christmas with these crochet figures for your Christmas decoration! Rico Design's Ricorumi Christmas book brings you accessories for a great ambience at home such as Christmas praline and Santa star to decorate the Christmas tree, sparkling candles to spread magical mood and the sweet gingerbread house to decorate the table with the festive turkey. The highlight: The Dala horse in traditional Christmas colors is a stylish eye-catcher at the family party!

Ricorumi books use British crochet terminology.

n this Ricorumi booklet “Christmas Crib - Nativity Scene” you will be shown how to crochet cute figures for a nativity scene. From Mary and Joseph with the baby Jesus to the angel, shepherd and the three wise men, there are all models to equip a cute Christmas nativity scene. As always, with the easy-to-understand instructions and detailed illustrations, all models can be easily crocheted.

12 models on 24 pages
Language: English
Format: 24x21cm
Publisher: Rico Design GmbH & Co. KG

Would you like to create your own cute little amigurumi scene? Here comes Ricorumi Elf World; featuring a very busy cat and plenty of accessories! Choose your scene from collecting acorns, a birthday party, cake baking in a cozy kitchen, a comfortable lounge, getting ready for Christmas, a winter forest and a snowy garden.

Ricorumi books use British crochet terminology.

This set of 7 tiny stuffies will bring a smile, no matter the weather! Sun, moon, stars, raindrops, and a cheerful pastel rainbow are written to work as either teething rings or as a mobile. All patterns are suitable for beginners.

Teething rings call for a wooden ring to wrap around. For the mobile, you'll want a metal ring (for hanging toys from), bells, and a pompom maker kit.

Yarn to make these patterns is also available from Ricorumi. Visit the yarn page!

Ricorumi books use British crochet terminology.

Ricorumi Funny Fall by Rico Design is full of Autumn fun! This crochet booklet has designs and instructions to create eight different mini amigurumi, including Fox, Raccoon, Squirrel, Snail, Toadstool, Garland, Hedgehog, and Acorn Bag. Make yourself a fun new friend for fall!

Ricorumi books use British crochet terminology.

Cute, cuter, kawaii - welcome to Rico's colourful kawaii world! If you like amigurumis, you will love this booklet! Whether funny little fruits with faces, imaginative dinosaurs, a duck dad with his chicks, the happy bunny or the slumbering fox – the characters, which seem very different at first glance, have one thing in common: They are all designed in kawaii style and therefore are so cute, that you would like to start crocheting straight away. All designs delight with playful details such as sewn-on cheeks, cute faces and well thought-out shapes. The earthy and pastel colors of popular Ricorumi yarn are crocheted in the equally cute 25g ball.

Ricorumi books use British crochet terminolog

This super-cute set of six animal patterns offers two options - just the heads as an accessory on a teething ring, or heads and bodies to put on a mobile or give as stuffed toys.

Teething rings call for a wooden ring to wrap around. For the mobile, you'll want a metal ring (for hanging toys from), bells, and a pompom maker kit. 

Includes:
Cockatoo
Bunny
Koala
Llama
Teddy
Unicorn

Ricorumi books use British crochet terminology.

This set of 5 adorable creatures are waiting to be your friend! All patterns are suitable for beginners.

Patterns included:

Unicorn

Teddy Bear

Puppy

Rabbit (floppy-eared version)

Rabbit (shorter-eared version)



Yarn to make these patterns is also available from Ricorumi. Visit the yarn page!


Ricorumi books use British crochet terminology.

In Rico's new pattern booklet, we take you to the sea. Let a fresh sea breeze blow into your house with our beautiful figures such as lighthouses, seagulls, fish and a cute seal. Ricorumi Maritime uses Ricorumi in classic coastal colours. As an atmospheric home decoration, let these modern models instantly bring that beach feeling into your four walls.

Ricorumi books use British crochet terminology.

Find colorful drinks and sweet pastries from an American bakery in Rico Design's new Ricorumi book "New York Bakery".

In addition to vanilla milkshakes and classics such as donuts and blueberry cupcakes, there is also a rainbow slushie and delicate macarons. The unusually decorated figures are all crocheted using the Ricorumi Nilli Nilli chenille variant. The soft, shiny yarn structure gives the sugar-sweet models an extra portion of candy look. With the easy-to-understand instructions and detailed illustrations, all models are, as always, very easy to crochet.

Ricorumi books use British crochet terminology.

- 8 models to crochet

- 24 pages in softcover

- Size: 24x21cm

- Publisher: Rico Design GmbH & Co. KG

Now it's getting really colorful! These new Ricorumi characters shine in bright rainbow colors. In addition to the rainbow garland, rainbows with and without faces and a cloud, there are toucans, flowers, a bunny and a summer ice cream cone. All models will spread good mood in your own home and are also perfect as a cheerful gift idea. Tip: Of course you can crochet every model in your favorite colors.

Ricorumi books use British crochet terminology.

Ricorumi booklet "Rainbow Weirdos" features funny figures in all the colors of the rainbow. The different shapes of the crazy Weirdos are crocheted using Ricorumi Dk and Ricorumi Nilli Nilli. Many of the figures are crocheted using both Ricorumi variants; which makes them very lively and shows once again that the two qualities are perfectly coordinated in terms of color.
A large white cloud serves as a cute bag for the Rainbow Weirdos. With the easy-to-understand instructions and detailed illustrations, all models are, as always, very easy to crochet.

Ricorumi books use British crochet terminology.

- 20 pages in softcover

- Size: 24x21cm

- Publisher: Rico Design GmbH & Co. KG

 

Attention crochet fans! There is a new Ricorumi universe! In this issue we combine our classics Ricorumi DK and Ricorumi Spray DK with Ricorumi Nilli Nilli, which is a matte yet shiny chenille yarn. The result is a vibrant underwater world with octopods, squid, starfish, anemones, fish, sea slugs, mussels, and corals. Create your own little natural history collection of exciting sea creatures!

13 models on 24 pages
Language: English
Format: 24x21cm
Publisher: Rico Design GmbH & Co. KG

A FLAME TREE NOTEBOOK. Beautiful and luxurious the journals combine high-quality production with magnificent art. Perfect as a gift, and an essential personal choice for writers, notetakers, travellers, students, poets and diarists. Features a wide range of well-known and modern artists, with new artworks published throughout the year.

BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED. The highly crafted covers are printed on foil paper, embossed then foil stamped, complemented by the luxury binding and rose red end-papers. The covers are created by our artists and designers who spend many hours transforming original artwork into gorgeous 3d masterpieces that feel good in the hand, and look wonderful on a desk or table.

PRACTICAL, EASY TO USE. Flame Tree Notebooks come with practical features too: a pocket at the back for scraps and receipts; two ribbon markers to help keep track of more than just a to-do list; robust ivory text paper, printed with lines; and when you need to collect other notes or scraps of paper the magnetic side flap keeps everything neat and tidy.

THE ARTIST. The Royal School of Needlework is known worldwide for exceptional technical tuition in the art of hand embroidery; the conservation and restoration of historic embroidered textiles and prestigious embroidery commissions, created in its Embroidery Studio at Hampton Court Palace. The large Wall of Wool in vibrant rainbow colours is invaluable to the expert studio embroiderers who can use it to match the textiles they are restoring or conserving perfectly.

THE FINAL WORD. As William Morris said, "Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."

Product details
Notebook / blank book, Decorated cover, ruled pages, pocket ribbon and magnetic closure, 176 pages, 1 illustrations
ISBN: 9781804173107
Series: Flame Tree Notebooks
Dimensions: 210 x 148 x 17 mm

Learn how to make 20 modern-vibe projects using the technique of pulling wool strips.

Related to punch needle rug hooking, this process has similar traditional roots, but wool strips provide a different form of expression and a unique look.

Whether you're a complete beginner, an established fan of punch needle rug hooking, or at the intermediate level, this teaching from expert Katie Kriner offers 20 projects for honing your skills, and the designs are a variety of styles, including rustic, primitive, chic, and modern.

• First, enjoy learning about this craft's antique origins, then understand what tools and materials you'll need for creating and working with strips of wool.

• To get you started on the craft itself, Katie teaches 3 simple projects and 2 basic finishing techniques.

• This lets you create the 17 "next step up" projects, such as pillows, wall hangings, floor rugs, bags, holiday decorations, tea cozy, wine tote, and footstool.

• Learn various techniques for finishing and binding, mounting, backgrounds, assembling pieces, beading, and more.

Make the projects as they're taught, or use them as springboards for customizing and expressing your own design style.

Size: 8.5in x 10.0in  |  Pages: 128  |  180 color photos

It is time to get excited for the new 7 Fashion-Forward Knits for Men & Women Pattern Book featuring Jody Long's Alba Yarn. This incredibly versatile collection will make your imagination run wild with possibilities for using Alba in your next project. The publication features the following complete knitting patterns: 

• Harris
  
• Orkney
• Skye
• Bute
• Faroe Hate
• Shetland Cowl
• Arran

Softcover
43 pages
Designer: Jody Long
Copyright 2019

More information on individual patterns is available at Knitting Fever. 

Thoughtful Projects for a Handmade Year                                                                       by Hannah Thiessen

Slow Knitting introduces crafters to a process of more mindful making through five basic tenets: source carefully, make thoughtfully, think seasonally, experiment fearlessly, and explore openly. Now, this seasonal approach encourages knitters to delve deeper into those concepts, applying them to everyday making through a series of essays, projects, and patterns that explore the life of a knitter throughout the year. Organized similarly to a seasonal planting guide or farmer’s almanac, each chapter and section is designed to identify and encourage small ways that knitters may begin to employ noticeable change: organizing your yarn stash, carving out time for knitting, and starting on that baby blanket in a timely manner. The ideas explored here add up to a fuller, more mindful year, all through the joyful experience that is knitting.

Size: 7" x 9.25"                                                                                                              Pages: 192                                                                                                                  Format: Hardcover                                                                                                        ISBN: 9781419740435

Create sustainable clothing that fits you perfectly and makes you feel wonderful when wearing it.

Even if you've never done it before, making your own clothing can be easy and fun—and sustainable, if you use recycled fabrics! You’ll find clear how-tos on techniques and instructions for 50 garments to make. They use only five paper patterns, customizable from XS to XXL. The patterns are full size and ready to use: four sheets (39" by 27" each), folded and conveniently stored in handy gusseted pockets inside the book's covers.

There are plenty of projects perfect for beginners, with easy photo-rich instructions. And as you get more confident, you'll take on the higher-beginner-level creations. Here are patterns for shirts, pants, skirts, dresses, and jackets with variations for each. Or make an evening gown, overalls, jumpsuits . . . there's plenty of fashion fun you'll love.

Included is a section on how to give your old favorites a new life so you can wear them longer—mending is only the start of the options.

This guide emphasizes that you don’t need a lot of fancy tools or training to begin to sew; with the how-to here and these ingenious projects, as long as you have a sewing machine, you're ready to go. Learn how to cut out a pattern, machine-stitch, and hand-stitch. For some of the patterns you'll cut out the pieces following a template, and for others, you’ll draft the pieces yourself from your own measurements.

Feel good about upcycling your wardrobe—and your extra blankets, sheets, or curtains. Most of all, keep your creativity flowing in everything you wear.

Size: 8.5in x 11.0in | Pages:240 | 400 color images plus patterns in storage pockets
Binding: Hardback
ISBN: 9780764366130

Add Shadow Weave to your repertoire with Susan Kesler-Simpson's easy-to-follow instructions.

Susan's approach is to first break down the structure of Shadow Weave so that any level weaver can understand how alternating light and dark threads in both warp and weft can present a dominant motif outlined with an identical shadow. She walks you through how the structure builds and weaves, and once you comprehend how the weave structure works, you will be able to weave any of the 25 project patterns in the book. You will also have the knowledge to transform other drafts to Shadow Weave, or to design your own Shadow Weave pattern.

Potential for creating designs in textiles can be seen even in the physical properties of cloth. The simple fact that cloth tightly compressed into wrinkles or folds resists the penetration of dye is an opportunity—an opportunity to let the pliancy of textiles speak in making designs and patterns.


People around the world have recognized this opportunity, producing resist designs in textiles by shaping and then securing cloth in various ways before dyeing. Yet in no other country has the creative potential of this basic principle been understood and applied as it has in Japan. Here, in fact, it has been expanded into a whole family of traditional resist techniques, involving first shaping the cloth by plucking, pinching, twisting, stitching, folding, pleating, and wrapping it, and then securing the shapes thus made by binding, looping, knotting, clamping, and the like. This entire family of techniques is called shibori.


Designs created with shibori processes all share a softness of outline and spontaneity of effect. Spontaneity is shibori’s special magic, made possible by exploiting the beauty of the fortuitous things that happen when dye enters shaped cloth.


Usually it is in response to the fact that a craft is being lost that the need for preserving and documenting it arises. The motivation behind this book is no exception, but the authors have gone far beyond simple documentation. Extensive research and experimentation have led to the revival here of shibori techniques that were once well known but have now been largely forgotten in Japan. In addition to more conventional techniques, the work of contemporary fiber artists in Japan and abroad in shibori textile art and wearable art is presented, to suggest the extent of the creative innovation possible.


The 104 color and 298 black-and-white plates include a photographic Gallery of Shibori Examples, based on Japan’s largest collection of traditional shibori fabrics. Included also are a detailed guide to basic natural dyes used in Japan, the making and care of an indigo vat, and a list of suppliers in North America, as well as a glossary and bibliography. Now available in paperback, this full documentation of one of the world’s most inventive and exciting dyeing techniques continues as a classic in the textile field.
Published by Kodansha International
Feb 21, 2012 | 304 Pages | 8-1/4 x 11-3/4 | ISBN 9781568363967

Mandy Southan takes the art of Shibori, in which fabric is bound, clamped or stitched before dyeing, and goes beyond the traditional blue and white to create fabrics in a fabulous array of colours, patterns and textures. Clear step by step photographs and instructions demonstrate how to use acid dyes and cold water reactive dyes in a variety of creative ways. Mandy then demonstrates shibori techniques such as binding, hand painting, capping, stitching, folding and clamping, pole winding and pole wrapping can be used to create truly wonderful dyed fabrics.

Paperback, 96 pages. 

Shibori is the Japanese term (from the word meaning “to squeeze or wring”) for the dye-resist technique of binding, clamping, or gathering the cloth so that the dye cannot reach certain parts. The result is the most powerful of combinations a carefully structured design with the organic freedom of the unpredictable.

One of the richest textile traditions in the world, shibori has been used in Japan, Africa, India, and South America for centuries to create vibrant color, bold patterns, and intricate motifs. In recent years, a resurgence of the art has revealed its full potential. Janice Gunner’s book is aimed at quilters, embroiderers, and textile artists who want to master the techniques of shibori and find ways to use the fabric for a range of textile applications.

The book begins with the historical and cultural background of shibori; then goes on to explain, with clear, step-by-step instructions and diagrams, how to make a wide range of exquisite fabrics. Gunner covers many different techniques, including tied-resist, stitched-resist, wrapped-resist, clamp-resist, folded-and pleated-resist, as well as immersion, space and indigo dyeing. Stunning examples of finished shibori pieces appear throughout the book, both to inspire and guide; and practical advice is given on incorporating shibori textiles into the reader’s own quilted and embroidered work.
Published by Kodansha America
Sep 01, 2010 | 128 Pages | 8-1/2 x 10-7/8 | ISBN 9781568363806

These beautifully designed crocheted hats are just the thing for getting you noticed on a cold winter’s day. There are 15 easy projects, from beanies to berets, all clearly presented and beautifully photographed. Even those with no previous crocheting experience will be whipping up stylish hats in next to no time.

At the back of the book the basic crochet techniques are clearly explained, including how to add a lining for extra cosiness. Sizes are included for children and adults so all the family can have their own handmade hat.

Author: Vanessa Mooncie
Format: Paperback
Size: 254 x 200 mm
Pages: 144
ISBN: 9781784945404

Sock Yarn, it's not just for socks! Affordable, sturdy, and available in endless colorful variations, sock yarn inspires creativity and passion among knitters. Now you can choose from more than 100 patterns that use your sock-yarn single skeins in fresh and exciting projects: caps, gloves, scarves, shawls, bags and more! This book includes beautiful pictures and step-by-step instructions for more than 100 different projects. Softcover: 287 pages. Imported.

Written and Photographed by local artist.

Can a sweater, when made with love as a gift, be magic? Momma mouse and her sweet daughter Flora think so! In this imaginative story, a hand knit purple sweater narrates her journey from ball of yarn to birthday present. The journey is filled with doubts from others, as well as her own, her anxiety about her life with a new family, and ultimately discovering appreciation and love.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0C47J8WHH
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published (May 3, 2023)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 39 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8389353503
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.5 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.25 x 0.1 x 8.25 inches