Handmade for Christmas: Easy Crafts and Creative Ideas for Sewing, Stitching, Papercraft, Knitting and Crochet

by Future Publishing Limited, Helen Philipps (Contribution by), Angela Poole (Contribution by), Maria Diaz (Contribution by), Joanna Heptinstall (Contribution by)

Overview

This wonderful collection of Christmas projects will keep you crafting throughout the festive season and beyond. You'll discover hundreds of inspiring ideas for making beautiful decorations for the home, tasty treats for guests, and gifts for family and friends. Celebrity designers offer 18 imaginative projects for knitting, papercraft, stitching, baking, and sewing. Simple, quick and easy steps and clever tips show how to achieve festive looks for every room with bunting, baubles, decorations, table settings, cards, gift tags, wrappings, and much more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781574215083
Publisher:	Design Originals
Publication date:	09/01/2013
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 10.60(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Contributors:

Debbie Bliss, former designer for Baby Gap, is best known for designing knitwear patterns for children. She is a bestselling author of over 35 knitting books and 20 knitting pattern booklets. She has her own magazine, Debbie Bliss Knitting Magazine, and a line of her own yarns.

Helen Philipps has created many original designs for popular stitching magazines and has authored numerous books, including Simple Sewn Gifts, Home Sweet Home Cross Stitch, and Pretty Patchwork Gifts. She writes a popular craft blog, helenphilipps.blogspot.co.uk.

Angela Poole creates beautiful, stylized designs for both cross stitch and papercraft, and she's a whiz with charting software. She regularly designs for CrossStitcher Magazine and she's a full-time Creative Editor on Papercraft Inspriations.

Maria Diaz is the author of 7 cross stitch books and has created hundreds of cross stitch designs. She worked for DMC Creative, the world's largest supplier of needlework supplies, as DMC's first in-house designer. She later moved to London and landed a contract as specialist needlecraft consultant with Eaglemoss Publications.

Anette Ericksson is an accomplished and innovative designer who has enjoyed world wide success and recognition. In 2005 Annete won the British Interior Designer Award for outstanding design. Her success continued with her kit range for cross stitch and tapestry adorning the shelves of Liberty London.

Felicity Hall studied textiles and fine art painting in college. She started doing needlepoint design in 2009 and soon discovered a gap in the market for printed needlepoint kits that had a contemporary edge and that would be interesting to stitch. Her designs can be found regularly in CrossStitcher magazine and online.

Belinda Boaden works for various ready-to-wear clients for both women and men as well as producing designs for The Knitter magazine. She is the author of The Scrumptious Baby Collection and The Scrumptious Collection Volume 2.

Editorial Reviews

11/01/2013
Christmas-themed crafts are popular both as gifts and as decorations. This title has a broad focus, with a few projects from several crafts: sewing, cross-stitch, paper craft, knitting, and crochet. The layout and content are reminiscent of a crafting magazine, with short blurbs promoting products or describing techniques, feature articles highlighting well-known crafters, and brief descriptions of each project, along with some cursory directions. A few of the ideas in the needle-arts section include more extensive instructions. Most of the projects have an obvious Christmas tie-in, but some are merely filler material. VERDICT This book provides plenty of inspiration but little in the way of instructions for crafters interested in re-creating the projects.

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