Learn all the essential stitches and skills you need to master the colorful art of plastic lacing. 17 simple but fun projects are provided for making zipper pulls, key chains, bracelets, decorations and more, using both 4-strand and 6-strand lacing techniques. Every braid is clearly illustrated, so instructions are a cinch to follow.
Learn all the essential stitches and skills you need to master the colorful art of plastic lacing! 14 simple, fun projects Make helicopter, spider, snake, decorations and more Learn to use both straight knot and roand knot techniques Clearly illustrated, so instructions are a cinch to follow Easy-to-follow weaving diagrams & colorful photos of the finished projects Whether you call it gimp, lanyard, scoubidou, or boondoggle, vinyl craft lace is the perfect activity for home, camp, school or party. And Plastic Lace Crafts for Beginners is the perfect way to get started in this easy-to-learn craft! This book shows you all of the essential stitches and skills you need to master the art of plastic lacing, with easy-to-follow weaving diagrams and colorful photos of finished projects. 14 simple but fun projects are provided for makinghelicopter, spider, snkae, decorations and more. Every braid is clearly illustrated, so instructions are a cinch to follow. The projects include tiger, fish, number, alfabet, hearts, and picture.
Scoubidou is plastic cord that is round, hollow and much more co-operative than yesterday's lanyard. This revamped edition comes with enough scoubidou to make every project in the book, from keychains to bracelets and more!
Whether you call it gimp, lanyard, scoubidou, or boondoggle, you can weave and knot vinyl craft lace to create seriously spooky Halloween projects! Halloween Plastic Lace Crafts takes the lid off a witch's cauldron full of creepy key chains, grisly zipper pulls and diabolical decorations. 10 weird but wonderful projects are provided for creating a host of nifty dangling creatures, from centipedes, black cats and glowing ghosts to spiders, ants, flies and snakes. These gruesome personalities come alive when you combine plastic lace with other cool materials like acrylic hair, plastic canvas, wiggle eyes, pom-poms, pony beads, chenille stems and more. Every weave is clearly illustrated, and the instructions are so easy to follow it's scary. As you move from project to project you'll learn all the basic stitches for 4-strand, 6-strand, and even 8-strand plastic lacing. Time to get knotting some fun and freaky Halloween creatures! Inside you'll find: " 10 cool Halloween projects for zipper pulls, key chains and decorations " Essential skills for stitching, braiding and knotting " 4-strand, 6-strand and 8-strand techniques " Creative accents with acrylic hair, wiggle eyes, beads, plastic canvas and more " Easy-to-follow weaving diagrams and colorful photos of finished projects
“How-to instructions on crafting with books . . . will inspire you to think about creative ways to make new treasures out of old things” (The Virginian-Pilot). We all love to read and learn from books, but The Repurposed Library takes our passion even further, presenting us with thirty-three projects to make—quite literally—out of books. For these projects, Lisa Occhipinti rescues and repurposes orphaned and outdated books from flea markets and library sales and turns them into new art objects and practical items for the home. Her creations range from artfully constructed mobiles, wreaths, and vases, to functional items like shelves, storage boxes, and even a Kindle “keeper” for those who want to replicate the sensation of holding a “real” book while reading from an e-reader. Projects utilize every imaginable part of a book—from hardback cover to individual pages—and are a DIY celebration of a new way to view a book’s potential. “Occhipinti’s ‘repurposed’ books are truly beautiful art objects, and whether or not you’re crafty enough to give them a try yourself, her book is thoroughly enjoyable.” —Fine Books and Collections “She shows readers how to transform books into mobiles, lamp shades, even clocks.” —National Post
A beautiful and detailed introduction to tatting! With the growing interest in lace, New Tatting is a fantastic book for getting started in the craft. Tatting is a means of creating lace by looping threads together using tiny shuttles and your fingers (with occasional help from a crochet hook). It creates dainty chains and edgings as well as single motifs and is used to edge and decorate textiles and clothing, as jewelry, or as large-scale lace projects in itself. Tatting is getting new respect in the crafting world as people discover its traditional beauty while giving it a more modern inflection. In New Tatting, you will explore modern color and a fresh approach to tatting with incredible step by-step photos and beautiful projects. This book appeals to people who have never tatted before as well as tatters looking for something new and inspirational. Anyone interested in making lace will find that New Tatting offers everything needed to get started.
Casual Sweet Clothes offers you gorgeous tops, dresses, jackets and skirts with a designer edge. Simple step-by-step instructions and diagrams guide you through the process of sewing each garment, and the full-size patterns included at the back of the book guarantee perfectly fitting results every time. The 18 simple but stylish casual pieces in this book make the foundation of a hand-made wardrobe that will last for years.
