Books

27 Fabulous Projects From a Master Weaver                                     

by Tom Knisely

 Tom Knisely, author of bestseller Rag Rug Weaving and Handwoven Baby Blankets, has now turned his attention to one of the most popular categories of weaving: table linens. Placemats, runners, tablecloths, and napkins play a central role in creating the look of a dining room or kitchen table, and this book gives you the tools needed to realize your vision for these special items.
Tom has found inspiration from things as varied as china patterns, a classic Spode Christmas tree, and traditional weaving patterns such as Shadow Weave, Wheel of Fortune, and Star of Bethlehem. For each pattern, he outlines the materials you need, how to set up your loom, and the pattern to weave. Add your own dash of inspiration if you choose different colors, and make each piece your own.
The 27 patterns include simple weaves worked on 2- and 4-harness looms, as well as more complex weaves requiring more harnesses. Because Tom is at heart a teacher, he also chose each project with the thought that it should add to your weaving repertoire in some way. The techniques you learn as you work on the projects in this book are things that you can adapt and use down the road in future weaving.

Size: 11" x 8.5"                                                                                                             Pages: 88                                                                                                                  Format: Softcover                                                                                                          ISBN: 9780811765428

Narrow bands of woven tape were important to Americans in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, before the days of elastic and zippers. This book documents the fascinating American history of handwoven tape and offers patterns and instructions to enable today’s weavers to make it. Many Early American households had a tape loom for making the tape needed by the family, and this book offers a discussion of the people who wove tape, the patterns woven, and the types of looms used, along with over 280 color images. The book also gives step-by-step instructions for setting up a tape loom with warp threads, and explains how to weave your own tape. You can weave tape for similar practical uses as our forebears, or to create one-of-a-kind gifts and decorations like key chains, holiday garlands, or lanyards.

Hardcover | 207 pages

30 Needle Felted Animals to Make and Love

Craft a menagerie of miniature animals from simple materials! Author Makiko Arai's easy felting techniques are perfect for beginners or anyone who enjoys a relaxing handcraft. With a little wool roving and a felting needle in hand, you'll get step-by-step instructions to make 30 fuzzy friends, with a focus on shaping, color, and texture. Sculpt wire structures for stability, finish faces with lifelike expressions, and turn your creations into adorable pins you can take anywhere! From palm-size pups and curious cats to bunnies, deer, squirrels, and more, it's time to let your imagination run wild!

Feel all the fuzzies! Everything you need to know to make 30 wool felted friends
Get cozy with basic needle felting techniques, tools, and how-tos
From bears to bunnies―Follow step-by-step instructions for every animal

The Official Harry Potter Crochet Pattern Book                                                              by Lee Sartori

Conjure the magic of the Wizarding World with your crochet hook with this deluxe collection of more than 20 official patterns for toys, keepsakes, and costume replicas inspired by the Harry Potter films. A comprehensive, officially licensed guide to crocheting the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Harry Potter: Crochet Wizardry includes projects for every skill level and a wide range of stitches and techniques featuring yarn expertly matched to the true colors used in the films. Harry Potter: Crochet Wizardry also includes behind-the-scenes facts and quotes from the films, as well as concept art and film stills to inspire your creativity and relive favorite movie moments. With beautiful full-color photography, step-by-step instructions, and clearly presented charts and schematics, Harry Potter: Crochet Wizardry is the ultimate crocheter’s guide to the Wizarding World. 

Pages: 176                                                                                                                       Size: 8" x 10"                                                                                                             Format: Hardcover                                                                                                      ISBN: 9781647222604

By Tanis Gray

Discover even more knitting magic with a brand-new collection of knitting patterns inspired by the characters, creatures, and artifacts of the wizarding world. Featuring over 28 new projects pictured in gorgeous full-color photography, Harry Potter: Knitting Magic, Volume 2 includes patterns for toys, apparel, and costume replicas pulled straight from the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts films.

Featuring a variety of techniques including stranded colorwork, lace-knitting, double-knitting, and more, the projects range from simple patterns to more complex projects for knitters of all skill levels. Harry Potter: Knitting Magic, Volume 2 also includes fun facts, original costume sketches, film stills, and other behind-the-scenes treasures. Harry Potter: Knitting Magic, Volume 2 is the perfect gift for lovers of the original Knitting Magic and Harry Potter fans everywhere.

• INCLUDES 28 ALL-NEW PROJECTS: Perfect patterns for every fan and every skill level.
  
• SWEATERS TO SCARVES AND MORE: Knit an amigurumi Pickett, a Hogwarts Quidditch Sweater, a pair of Marauder’s Map–inspired socks, and many more clever creations.
  
• ALL-STAR DESIGNERS: Projects created by some of the most popular knitting influencers on Ravelry and Instagram.
  
• FOR EVERY KNITTER: Start with easy projects and level up to more complex creations.
  
• INSPIRING IMAGES: Beautiful full-color photos of every project.
  

Channel the magic of the Harry Potter films from the screen to your needles with the ultimate knitter’s guide to the Wizarding World. Featuring 28 magical knits pictured in gorgeous full-color photography, this book includes patterns for clothing, home projects, and keepsakes pulled straight from the movies—and even includes a few iconic costume pieces as seen on-screen. With yarn suggestions based on the true colors used in the films, projects range from simple patterns like the Hogwarts house scarves to more complex projects like Mrs. Weasley’s Christmas sweaters. A true fan must-have, this book also includes fun facts, original costume sketches, film stills, and other behind-the-scenes treasures. Harry Potter: Knitting Magic is sure to have fans everywhere summoning needles, conjuring yarn, and practicing their best knitting wizardry.

Hardcover | 207 pages

Selection of the Crafters’ Choice Book Club
Beautiful natural dyes from plants found in the wild or grown in your own backyard.

As more and more crafters are discovering, dyeing your own fabric can yield gorgeous colors. Now master dyer Rebecca Burgess identifies 36 plants that will yield beautiful natural shades and shows how easy it is to make the dyes. Pokeweed creates a vibrant magenta, while a range of soft lavender shades is created from elderberries; indigo yields a bright blue, and coyote brush creates stunning sunny yellows.

Gathering Color explains where to find these plants in the wild (and for those that can be grown in your backyard, how to nurture them) and the best time and way to harvest them; maps show the range of each plant in the United States and Canada. For the dyeing itself, Burgess describes the simple equipment needed and provides a master dye recipe. The book is organized seasonally; as an added bonus, each section contains a knitting project using wools colored with dyes from plants harvested during that time of the year. With breathtaking color photographs by Paige Green throughout, Gathering Color is an essential guide to this growing field, for crafters and DIYers; for ecologists and botanists; and for artists, textile designers, and art students.

Page Count 192 pages
Publisher Artisan
ISBN-13 9781579654252

Create Irresistible Amigurumi Masterpieces with These 40 Adorable and Easy-to-Follow Patterns

Crocheting has never been so cute! With patterns for everything from mermaids and the Loch Ness monster to jellyfish, teapots and cinnamon rolls, these cuddly amigurumi plushes are guaranteed to charm, making them an enchanting addition to a child’s toy collection, a perfect handmade gift or a whimsical way to brighten your home.

Best of all, each project requires little or no sewing, allowing them to come together quickly and easily. Beginners will learn the basics behind amigurumi stitches, and experts will enjoy trying out new techniques and designs, making this an appealing collection for crafters of every skill level.

Each addictive project will have you reluctant to put down the crochet hook, and the impressive variety of patterns means you won’t have to.

Discover 30 fabulous patterns with Hoooked recycled textile yarns. From snuggly blankets, floor ottomans, lounge cushions, baskets, bags and sweaters. All projects can be made quickly and easily by following the step-by-step knit and crochet instructions and numerous illustrations. So grab your needles, be inspired and get Hoooked.

The perfect guidebook for beginners, Hot Girl Crochet offers 15 super cool and easy projects from Danish contemporary crochet star Rose Svane so you can learn howto crochet your own clothes, accessories, and homeware.

Rose built her popular brand off stylish crocheted clothing and accessories that earned her international attention, Instagram fame, and customers like Internet icon Emma Chamberlain, Maddie Ziegler, and Meadow Walker. Her designs have been featured in Cosmopolitan and copied by people all over the world.

In Hot Girl Crochet, Rose shares step-by-step instructions to re-create her signature crocheted looks at home. Readers can make:

A bucket hat
A crocheted bikini
A checkered lampshade
A leftover yarn sweater
A cross-body bag
A beach skirt
Featuring the woven, dreamy look that Rose is known for, each project can be customized and brought to life by beginners and practiced crafters alike.

Includes Color Photographs

This is the perfect guide for the absolute beginner. If you have little or no experience of crocheting, this book will introduce you to the basics and guide you through the initial stages of the craft. Each new technique is clearly explained and illustrated, and then followed by a stylish project to make, so you can put your newly acquired knowledge into practice.

Expert Beth Smith teaches you everything you need to know to spin your own yarn, from choosing a spinning wheel to every stage of preparing your fiber, plying, winding off, and finishing. Fully illustrated step-by-step instructions make it simple and easy!

The only how-to book on Navajo weaving told by Navajo weavers!

Navajo blankets, rugs, and tapestries are the best-known, most-admired, and most-collected textiles in North America. There are scores of books about Navajo weaving, but no other book like this one. For the first time, master Navajo weavers themselves share the deep, inside story of how these textiles are created, and how their creation resonates in Navajo culture.

Want to weave a high-quality, Navajo-style rug? This book has detailed how-to instructions, meticulously illustrated by a Navajo artist, from warping the loom to important finishing touches.
Want to understand the deeper meaning? You'll learn why the fixed parts of the loom are male, and the working parts are female.
You'll learn how weaving relates to the earth, the sky, and the sacred directions.
You'll learn how the Navajo people were given their weaving tradition (and it wasn't borrowed from the Pueblos!), and how important a weaver's attitude and spirit are to creating successful rugs.
You'll learn what it means to live in hózhó, the Beauty Way.
Family stories—told by Lynda Teller Pete and Barbara Teller Ornelas, fifth-generation Navajo weavers who have been weaving since they were young girls—from seven generations of weavers lend charm and special insights. Characteristic Native American humor is not in short supply. Their contribution to cultural understanding and the preservation of their craft is priceless.

Size: 7.0in x 9.0in  |  Pages: 152  |  200 Color Photos, 40 B/W Illustrations, Four-color Interior
Binding: Spiral bound
ISBN: 9781734421705

With Color and Weaving Effects: 576 Drafts and Samples plus 5 Practice Projects    by Tom Knisely

Join expert weaver and teacher Tom Knisely in his exploration of Huck Lace!
"Lace Weaves" are best described as loom controlled warp and weft floats on a Plain Weave ground fabric. The term "Color and Weave Effects" refers to a careful arrangement of light and dark colored threads in the warp and weft that weave into beautiful patterns. Log Cabin is probably the best known color and weave pattern. Combining Huck with Color and Weave orders opened the door to astonishing pattern possibilities. He then came up with four color arrangements: Light and Dark, Complimentary Colors, Monochromatic, and Triadic colors. With 144 patterns and four color themes for each pattern, that's 576 patterns. Each pattern includes the full draft and a woven sample for reference.

Tom also includes full details for five projects that are perfect for weaving Huck: dish towels, mug rugs, baby blanket, and two scarves.

Huck Lace Weaving Patterns with Color and Weave Effects is an essential resource that you will turn to for inspiration and guidance again and again.

• Historical background on ikat with gorgeous visual references.
  
• Instruction in warp, weft, and double ikat techniques, written and illustrated in clear sequential steps.
  
• Instructions to build ikat wrapping boards.
  
• An addendum on painted "faux" ikat using dye pastes and brushes.
  
• Acid and indigo dye system recipes and procedures.
  
• Compelling projects with detailed instruction taking you from undyed yarn to woven ikat cloth.
  
• A gallery of contemporary ikat created by a range of diversely talented dyers and weavers.
  
• All this and more is waiting for you in Ikat: The Essential Handbook to Weaving with Resists.
  

The secret to knitting great-fitting hats and shaping elegant sleeves lies in using the right increase or decrease techniques. Approachable and insightful, Judith Durant provides clear instructions and step-by-step photographs that showcase swatches for each technique. From working shaped lace to adjusting necklines, you’ll soon have a go-to strategy for successfully tackling knitting challenges of all shapes and sizes.

by Noreen Crone-Findlay

Open the door to the possibilities of what you can weave on your frame loom!

A comprehensive guide to the frame loom, this book introduces the weaver to the basics of frame loom weaving and also more advanced techniques. Learn how to weave tapestries for wall hangings or handbags, lace for scarves and market bags, geometric shapes for alpacas and dolls, modules to sew together to make larger items, and so much more. Patterns for various weaves such as houndstooth and checkerboard are included, as well as instructions on how to adapt other weaves to the frame loom.

Photo-illustrated step-by-step instructions are given for all techniques and 20 unique projects from home decor items to pouches and bags, scarves and other wearables, stuffed toys, bookmarks, and more. Looms used in the book are 6-inch, 8-inch, and 10-inch sizes, but the instructions are adaptable to any size loom. Once you know the basics, you can use your woven modules to create whatever you imagine!

Size: 11.07" x 8.55"                                                                                                      Pages: 196                                                                                                                  Format: Softcover                                                                                                          ISBN: 9780811738729

Here's the book we all need!

My latest knitting book, InstaKnits for Baby, is 1 collection of 30 fresh, easy-to-knit, and social media-worthy projects for the adorable littles in our lives, from newborns to 24 months of age. Only have 5 hours? 10? 15? No problem! Even more exciting, nearly half of them take less than five hours to stitch.

To make the book easy to use, the projects are arranged in chapters based on the time commitment needed to finish them. You can tackle most of these designs using only basic knitting skills, but if something looks unfamiliar, refer to the handy Resources section in the back of the book. Photos demonstrate nearly every technique from the cast-on to the bind-off and all the fun stuff in between.

The first guide taking punch needle crafters to intermediate and advanced levels with expertly explained techniques, exciting projects, and inspiring examples by 26 Oxford Certified Instructors.

For punch needle lovers who want to reach the next level of skill and enjoyment with their craft, Amy Oxford, the inventor of the craft's standard tool (the Oxford Punch Needle) and founder of the Oxford Rug Hooking School, provides instructions and artistic inspiration. In these pages, a combination of teaching, examples, and projects give makers a perfect mix for building their skills and for punching up their excitement.

• Teaches next-level skills with designs to punch as you learn, such as
—using novelty yarns with the Seashell Project,
—sculpting with the Sweater Letter,
—shading with Shaded Leaves,
—punching with fabric strips with the Flower Project, and
—two-color beading stitch with the Perfectly Paisley Project.

• Amy welcomes 26 guest instructors throughout who offer examples of their works that highlight the techniques, from shading with handpainted yarn to succeeding with narrative designs.

 • For each technique and project, shows and explains variations (created by different punchers and in different colorways).

 • Gorgeous image galleries of works in a wide range of styles show combinations of the book's techniques and include the artists' comments, tips, and insights.

 • An unusual source of inspiration: photos of the capstone projects that were designed and punched by today's top punch needle artists, as the final step to qualify for their Oxford Teacher Certifications.

“A wonderful follow up . . . Expands the possibilities of punch needle . . . This book is the perfect next step in offering the knowledge and inspiration you need for your next punch needle project.” --Arounna Khounnoraj of Bookhou, author, Visible Mending

“Amy Oxford is a gifted and generous teacher, and together with Louise Kulp, they have created a book that both expresses their passion for punch needle and gives clear easy to follow instructions to people who want to grow their rug hooking skills and become more creative with the art form.” --Deanne Fitzpatrick, www.hookingrugs.com

“This book is like being given a private tour of your favorite designers’ creative dream projects. If you’ve mastered the basics of punch needle and are wondering what else you can do with this delightfully satisfying medium, these unique and thoughtful projects will inspire hours of next-level dreaming and doing . . . clever, colorful projects invite us to further explore the gorgeous possibilities of this fun and practical craft.” --Alicia Paulson, founder, Posie Gets Cozy; author, Embroidery Companion

“Where would we punchers be without Amy Oxford? . . . I am grateful to her for sharing her vast knowledge, and just like in her previous book I am finding there is even more to learn about this craft I so love.” --Sallie Dale, founder, The Urban Acres

Size: 8.5in x 9.88in  |  Pages: 240  |  350 color images
Binding: Hardback
ISBN: 9780764367571

Discover the Full Potential of the Rigid-Heddle Loom

Rigid-heddle weaving is simple to learn, easy to master and offers a lifetime of possibilities! Learn the basics of how to select a loom, set it up and get started to a wide variety of fun techniques that yield beautiful results.

Mattson's needle-felted landscapes explore fresh territory and help you master the method behind needle-felted landscapes.

See how you can master and create felt landscapes with this beautiful resource for beginners and practicing artists alike.

Enjoy inspiration from 50 fascinating photos of the artist's original works, together with five step-by-step tutorials for a satisfying introduction to basic landscapes.
Mattson, who creates entirely dry-felted textiles with a simple handheld tool, shares her one-of-a-kind painterly, impressionistic approach of blending and layering techniques guided by color theory and an understanding of the fibers. 
Learn how wool works as a material, how to make the best use of tools as you work with the dry-felting-only techniques, and the color and composition basics you need for planning successful landscapes in wool.
The projects include Vibrant Fields, Thunderhead, Moon Shadow, Birch Lake, and Lone Oak.

Size: 8.5in x 11.0in  |  Pages: 128  |  250 color images
Binding: Hardback
ISBN: 9780764361265

Over 45 Distinctive Scandinavian Patterns

Delightful, personalizable handknit children's accessories from Jorid Linvik.

Indulge the kids in your life with their favorite things. Bestselling knit designer Jorid Linvik (author of knitting's popular "Big Book" series) makes it easy with handknit patterns for hats, mittens, gloves, and socks that will fit little heads, hands, and feet just right. With over 40 delightful projects, overflowing with Jorid's undeniable talent for designs bursting with warmth, charm, and color, it's never been easier to keep kids from newborn to eight years old comfy and cozy, with winter accessories they'll want to put on!

Inside, you'll find:

• Basics for planning, sizing, and making adorable socks, hats, and mittens for children―arranged by theme in matching sets.
• A bountiful collection of pre-charted patterns that includes timeless classics like stripes, zigzags, and polka dots ... and fun-and-funky delights like dancing ponies, hooting owls, joyful giraffes, and more.
• Blank charts for multiple sizes and types of projects, to make it easy to keep up even when kids' interests change almost as fast as their shoe size.
• Tips and tricks to help make stranded knitting a snap―plus beautiful full-color photographs, and clear, step-by-step instructions.
  

Author: Jorid Linvik
Format: Hardcover
Total Page Count: 208
Illustrations: 76 color photos & 135 charts
ISBN: 978-1-57076-986-3