Best Crafts & Hobbies Reference Books
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1. Wreck This Journal: Now in Color (PENGUIN US)
Author: by Keri Smith
Penguin Books
English
224 pages
Not gonna lie, this is probably the coolest journal you’ll ever see…. Wreck This Journal is here to inspire you. BuzzfeedA spectacular coloring and painting edition of the incredible journal that started it all, in celebration of the tenth anniversary of the 10-million-copy international bestsellerPerhaps you’re a seasoned Wreck-er, having made your way through one or more copies of Wreck This Journal.
Or maybe you’re new to the phenomenon (little do you know, this experience might just change your life). Whatever the case, you’ve found the perfect book to destroy… Welcome to an all new-edition of Wreck This Journal, now in spectacular full color!
Inside, you’ll find prompts for painting, shredding, transforming, and unleashing your creativity. With a mix of new, altered, and favorite prompts, Wreck This Journal: Now in Color invites you to wreck with color: mixing colors to make mud, letting chance dictate your color choice, weaving with brightly colored strips of paper, and more.
2. Wreck This Journal (Black) Expanded Edition
Author: by Keri Smith
Penguin Books
English
224 pages
Not gonna lie, this is probably the coolest journal you’ll ever see…. Wreck This Journal is here to inspire you. BuzzfeedThe internationally bestselling phenomenon with more than 10 million copies soldand an excellent holiday gift! Paint, poke, create, destroy, and wreckto create a journal as unique as you are For anyone who’s ever had trouble starting, keeping, or finishing a journal or sketchbook comes this expanded edition of Wreck This Journal, a subversive illustrated book that challenges readers to muster up their best mistake- and mess-making abilities to fill the pages of the bookor destroy them.
Through a series of creative and quirky prompts, acclaimed guerilla artist Keri Smith encourages journalers to engage in destructive actspoking holes through pages, adding photos and defacing them, painting pages with coffee, coloring outside the lines, and morein order to experience the true creative process.
With Smith’s unique sensibility, readers are introduced to a new way of art- and journal-making, discovering novel ways to escape the fear of the blank page and fully engage in the creative process. To create is to destroy.Happy wrecking!
3. Floret Farm's Cut Flower Garden: Grow, Harvest, and Arrange Stunning Seasonal Blooms (Gardening Book for Beginners, Floral Design and Flower Arranging Book)
Author: by Erin Benzakein
1452145768
Chronicle Books
English
The Cut Flower Garden: Erin Benzakein is a florist farmer, leader in the locaflor farm to centerpiece movement, and owner of internationally renowned Floret Flower Farm in Washington’s lush Skagit Valley. A stunning flower book: This beautiful gardening book and guide to growing, harvesting, and arranging gorgeous blooms year round provides readers with vital tools to nurture a stunning flower garden and use their blossoms and cut flowers to create show stopping arrangements.
It makes a beautiful gift for any occasion, for friends, loved ones and gardening lovers alike! Floret Farm’s Cut Flower Garden:Cut Flower Garden is equal parts instruction and inspirationa flower gardening book overflowing with lush photography of magnificent flowers and breathtaking arrangements organized by season.
Find inspiration in this lush flower book: Irresistible photos of Erin’s flower farm that showcase exquisite blooms Tips for growing in a variety of spaces and climates Step by step instructions for lavish garlands, airy centerpieces, and romantic florist design and dcor for every seasonA perfect gift: Flower lovers, avid and novice gardeners, floral designers, wedding planners, florists, small farmers, stylists, designers, crafters, home decor aficionados, and those passionate about the local floral movement will love this book.
4. Embroidery: A Step-by-Step Guide to More than 200 Stitches
Author: by DK
DK
English
160 pages
The ultimate stitch dictionary, perfect for anyone who wants to learn and master the traditional craft of embroidery! A visual encyclopedia of stitches that will inspire and inform sewers of all levels. With this comprehensive guide in hand, you’ll be able to accomplish and perfect every stitch under the sun!
This handbook is packed with practical advice on which thread, needles or fabrics work best with different techniques. From looped and tied needlepoint stitches to open and solid filling stitches, you’ll learn how to complete over 200 incredible stitches in no time.
This practical embroidery book covers sewing tips for dressmaking, needle point and embroidery stitches. Learn the art quickly with concise text, close-up photography and step-by-step instructions and illustrations. Finding the perfect stitch for your next sewing project is easy thanks to this comprehensive embroidery guide.
Embroidery shows you that with just a few simple stitches, some basic materials and an idea or two, you can sew just about anything. High-quality photography, helpful captions and diagrams make the techniques achievable for beginners and provide an invaluable reference guide for experienced embroiderers.
5. Morpho: Simplified Forms: Anatomy for Artists (Morpho: Anatomy for Artists)
Author: by Michel Lauricella
English
96 pages
1681984482
This small, portable book presents a unique perspective on the human body for artists to study and implement in their drawing work. In this book, artist and teacher Michel Lauricella simplifies the human body into basic, synthetic shapes and forms, offering profound insight for artists of all kinds, sparking the imagination and improving one’s observational abilities.
Rather than going the traditional route of memorizing a repertoire of poses, Lauricella instead stresses learning this small collection of forms, which can then be combined and shaped into the more complex and varied forms and postures we see in the living body.
(Publisher’s Note: This book features an exposed binding style. This is intentional, as it is designed to help the book lay flat as you draw. Table of ContentsForewordIntroductionHead and NeckTorso and ShouldersUpper LimbsLower LimbsResources
6. 101 Fun Things to Do in Retirement
Author: by Stella Reingold
English
144 pages
1514117495
The Perfect Retirement Gift, or Simply a Great Read for Anyone That Loves Life and Laughter! REVISED, EXPANDED AND UPDATED *Welcome to retirement! No more morning commute, no more idiotic bosses, no more stressful deadlines! You are now officially off the clock and the world is your oyster!
There is no need to be bound by convention.Push the envelope. Do it weird, do it different, but most of all do it fun! Be that cigar chomping rocknroll granny if it takes your fancy. Seriously, if your kids arent worried about what you are up to, then you are probably not doing it right!
7. Sampler Spree: 100+ Fresh & Fun Quilt Blocks
Author: by Susan Ache
English
80 pages
1683561228
Indulge your passion for color and fabric with a smorgasbord of blocks to use in a quilt that’s a visual feast. The fun begins with more than 100 beautiful quilt blocks that all finish at 6″ square, making them perfect for using scraps and for easy mixing and matching.
Whether you prefer traditional or modern, you’ll find so much to love in the varied assortment of block designs. Susan Ache (you may know her as @yardgrl60 on Instagram) shares 50 expert tips throughout, plus step-by-step instructions for making half-square triangles, flying geese, stitch-and-flip corners, and more.
Once your tantalizing blocks are stitched, arranging them in the stunning sampler quilt is sheer pleasure!
8. The Recipe Book: A Beautiful & Modern Keepsake Recipe Notebook & Organizer to Write in Your Own Recipes – Blank Recipe Book & Cookbook – Removable 4 x 6 Recipe Cards to Share with Friends & Family
Author: by Casey Wiegand
English
182 pages
1952842298
The Keepsake Recipe Book | by Casey Wiegand and Paper Peony Press There are few things more fulfilling than sharing a delicious meal with the ones that we love. Whether the recipe is a simple pancake batter, or a mouth-watering prime-rib dinner, your family favorites are worth keeping.
We created this book with the hope that it would hold generations of family favorites so that it can be passed through many hands. The gold corner protectors and the hardcover will help this book to withstand lots of quality time in the kitchen, and the matte lamination will wipe clean when you have those inevitable spills.
Seven gorgeously illustrated tabs help you organize your recipes so that you can easily refer back to them time and time again. The 6″”x 9″” size allows for ample space for ingredients, directions and notes on each entry page so that no detail is missed.
Beautiful illustrations and quotes by Casey Leigh Weigand make this beautiful book worth displaying in your kitchen, and the handy conversion charts make it a book that you will want to have reference often. The Beautiful Keepsake Recipe Book includes: Hardcover, spiral bound with gold corner protectors 20 tear-out recipe cards for sharing with friends and family Gorgeous lettering with illustrations by Casey Leigh Weigand Practical guides and references related to cooking 175 recipe entry pages About Paper Peony Press Press We are a boutique publishing company, located in Texas, focused on creating beautiful books with purpose!
9. Vogue® Knitting The Ultimate Knitting Book: Completely Revised & Updated
Author: by Vogue Knitting Magazine
Sixth&Spring Books
English
352 pages
An essential addition to the knitter’s bookshelf. Library Journal (starred review)The ultimate knitting reference, from the world’s most recognized knitting magazine, gets a thorough updateincluding 1,600 color images and brand-new sections with techniques and designs! First published in 1989, Vogue Knitting The Ultimate Knitting Book instantly became a beloved resource for knitters.
The second edition, released in 2002, further cemented its place as the most trusted knitting resource. The past 15 years have seen many exciting advances in knitting, and this update encompasses them all. It features an expanded library of cast-ons, increases, decreases, and bind-offs; in-depth sections on newly favorite techniques such as brioche, entrelac, double knitting, and mosaic knitting; and design and construction chapters that go beyond just sweaters to encompass dozens of options for hats, mittens, socks, gloves, and more than 25 shawl shapes.
Comprehensive chapters cover lace and cabling, and provide even more Information than before on knitters’ tools, correcting errors, finishing, embellishing, and garment care to give you a masterly understanding of every stage of knitting. With updated, revised, and fresh material throughout, 65 additional pages, and more than 1,600 photos and hand-drawn step-by-step illustrations, Vogue Knitting The Ultimate Knitting Book is surprisingly easy to navigate with thorough indexing and footnote cross-referencing.
10. Wreck This Journal (Duct Tape) Expanded Ed.
Author: by Keri Smith
Penguin Books
English
224 pages
Not gonna lie, this is probably the coolest journal you’ll ever see…. Wreck This Journal is here to inspire you. BuzzfeedThe internationally bestselling phenomenon with more than 10 million copies soldand an excellent holiday gift! Paint, poke, create, destroy, and wreckto create a journal as unique as you are For anyone who’s ever had trouble starting, keeping, or finishing a journal or sketchbook comes this expanded edition of Wreck This Journal, a subversive illustrated book that challenges readers to muster up their best mistake- and mess-making abilities to fill the pages of the bookor destroy them.
Through a series of creative and quirky prompts, acclaimed guerilla artist Keri Smith encourages journalers to engage in destructive actspoking holes through pages, adding photos and defacing them, painting pages with coffee, coloring outside the lines, and morein order to experience the true creative process.
With Smith’s unique sensibility, readers are introduced to a new way of art- and journal-making, discovering novel ways to escape the fear of the blank page and fully engage in the creative process. To create is to destroy.Happy wrecking!
11. Address Book: Large Print Address Book with Tabs, More than 300 Entry Spaces! Pretty Floral design
Author: by Nova Address Books
B0915NQQQL
English
108 pages
FIND AN ADDRESS IN AN INSTANT – Amazing address book with A-Z tabs to go straight to the details you need. No more looking through bits of paper, store all your contacts in this address book. ALL DETAILS – Each contact entry contains space for a Name, home address, 3 Phone numbers, Email, Birthday and Notes.
MORE ENTRY SPACES THAN EVER! This address book has enough space to record more than 300 Addresses. With a maximum of 12 spaces per letter; So there’s space for all your contacts. FEATURES:A to Z Tabs. Premium Floral Cover. Size 8″ x 10″.With all your contacts in one place you will never have to go on mad searches for an address, phone number or even a birthday.
Gift this to yourself or to any one you love
12. Morpho: Hands and Feet: Anatomy for Artists (Morpho: Anatomy for Artists)
Author: by Michele Lauricella
English
96 pages
168198539X
In Morpho: Hands and feet, artist and teacher Michel Lauricella presents a unique approach to learning to draw the human body. In this book, Lauricella focuses exclusively on the hands and feetarguably the most popular and, for many, the most challenging parts of the body to draw successfully.
Breaking the subject matter down into the underlying skeletal shapes, followed by the musculature, then skin and fat, and finally, the veins, Lauricella offers multiple approachesfrom simple forms to complex renderingsand a plethora of positions and gestures are included to help you improve your drawing skills.
Geared toward artists of all levels, from beginners through professionals, this handy, pocket-sized book will help spark your imagination and creativity. (Publisher’s Note: This book features an exposed binding style. This is intentional as it is designed to help the book lay flat as you draw.
13. Morpho: Anatomy for Artists
Author: by Michel Lauricella
English
320 pages
1681983745
In this book, Michel Lauricella presents both his artistic and systematic methods for drawing the human bodywith drawing techniques from the corch (showing the musculature underneath the skin) to sketches of models in action. In more than 1000 illustrations, the human body is shown from a new perspectivefrom bone structure to musculature, from anatomical detail to the body in motion.
Morpho is a rich, fascinating, and helpful book that can go with you everywhere on your sketching journey.
14. Crochet Stitch Dictionary: 200 Essential Stitches with Step-by-Step Photos
Author: by Sarah Hazell
Interweave
English
192 pages
Great for new and experienced crocheters alike, Crochet Stitch Dictionary offers 200 stitches with detailed written, charted, and photographed instructions. This essential book presents 10 color-coded stitch sections: Basic stitches, Fans & Shells, Bobbles & Clusters, Spike stitches, Post stitches, Mesh & Filet, Cable stitches, Tunisian stitches, and more!
Learn each stitch with written, charted, and step-by-step photo instructions that clearly explain where the yarn goes each step of the way. In addition, each stitch pattern shows a large finished swatch in actual size. You’ll enjoy the colorful and eye-catching “candy-box” sampler pages that start every section.
Crochet Stitch Dictionary offers excellent useful instruction and inspiration for all crocheters.
15. Le Petit Baby Book (Baby Memory Book, Baby Journal, Baby Milestone Book)
Author: by Claire Laude
Chronicle Books
English
1452152004
Le Petit Baby Book – Ideal expectant mother gift or new mom giftBaby journal: This sweet-as-can-be baby pregnancy book offers dozens of creative ways to capture the milestones and special baby memories from pregnancy through baby’s first year. Capture and preserve the treasured memories: Packaged in a compact album with a fabric spine and foil-stamped cover, with whimsical color illustrations and thoughtful prompts throughout, this book is the ultimate keepsake gift for new parents.
Le Petit Baby Book includes:An envelope for ultrasound scansA spin-wheel to display baby’s astrological signA gatefold family treeSpace for photosMini envelopes to stash written notesIllustrated pop-upsA pull-out growth chart to display in baby’s roomAnd much moreIf you like As You Grow, you will love Le Petit Baby Book
16. Flower School: A Practical Guide to the Art of Flower Arranging
Author: by Calvert Crary
English
224 pages
0762471468
Create the flower arrangements of your dreams to keep at home, take to the office, or display on any special occasion using the simple tips and tricks and masterful techniques taught by Executive Director and professor Calvert Crary and the master florists at FlowerSchool New York.
FlowerSchool New York is one of the world’s premiere institutes for floral design and artistry, offering career development courses certified by the New York State Board of Education, and exclusive master class programs taught by celebrated master florists including Kiana Underwood, Remco Van Vliet, Lewis Miller, Emily Thompson, and Ingrid Carozzi.
Now, for the first time, FlowerSchool Executive Director Calvert Crary is publishing a book that will make it possible for even the greenest at-home arrangers to create gorgeous, Instagram worthy bouquets. This hands-on, comprehensive guide provides readers with step-by-step instructions that cover all the most crucial aspects of flower arranging, including:How to buy the best flowers and how to get the best pricesSelecting your flowers based on texture, color, and seasonalityConditioning your flowers to ensure they last as long as possiblePairing your flowers with the right vaseCreating arrangements in a wide variety of styles that will work for any occasionIncluding advice from the school’s well-respected master florists, and featuring beautiful color photographs of each unique arrangement, Flower School offers invaluable, insider tips and tricks that can only be gained through years of experience, providing readers with the fundamental tools and education they need to create homemade floral arrangements that are on par with any professional design.
