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With a modular and fully customizable approach to knitting blankets, 60 Quick Knit Blanket Squares provides 60 patterns for endless possibilities. Don't just knit the same blanket everyone else is making. Create your own one-of­ a-kind designs with 60 Quick Knit Blanket Squares! With 60 beautiful patterns that span all skill levels and include knit and purl textures, cables, lace, and unique stitches,sample color combinations, a range of blanket sizes, a variety of edgings, and several inspirational blanket patterns, even the most hesitant knitter will find plenty to kick-start their creativity. Knitting a blanket by making individual 12 x 12" squares means knitters can work on the go year-round without overheating as they wrestle ever-growing blankets. This approach to knitting blankets is simple, easy, and adaptable up to the very last minute. With every design worked in Cascade Yarns’ 220 Superwash Merino, which includes approximately 100 colorways to choose from, these blankets will be soft, easy-care, and affordable.

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Using only the finest natural materials, Noro yarns are as striking to behold as they are easy to work with. Using only the finest natural materials and ecologically sound manufacturing processes, Japanese designer Eisaku Noro has been producing some of the most extraordinary and popular yarns in the world for over 30 years. Hand colored in vivid combinations of painterly hues, Noro yarns are as striking to behold as they are easy to work with. This follow-up to "Knit Noro" features 32 small projects knitters can complete in a weekend, including Leg Warmers, Cabled Mittens, a Lace Flap Hat, and even an iPad cover.

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The first official book of knitting patterns for the beloved TV show Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, this collection of 24 projects includes accessories, home goods, toys, and replicas of five of Mister Rogers' iconic sweaters. .Knitting the Neighborhood will have knitters stitching 24 projects in nostalgic delight. Now knitters can use the sweater knitting patterns in this book to make their own replicas of five of Mister Rogers' iconic zippered cardigans in nine unisex adult sizes. Supplementary information on how to substitute in a knitted button band is included for those who may not feel ready to tackle a zipper. Additional knitting patterns for kids make it so even children can have their own Mister Rogers cardigan and babies can sport an adorable faux-cardigan onesie. With patterns for knitting toys, puppets, the neighborhood trolley, cardigan Christmas ornaments, blankets with classic phrases stitched in, and a posable Mister Rogers doll with changeable penny loafers and sneakers, each project replicates or is heavily inspired by some aspect of one of the world's favorite television shows. Including fun facts about and photography from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and Fred Rogers himself, this book is also a heartwarming tribute to everyone's favorite neighbor. This Mr. Rogers Neighborhood knitting book is the perfect gift for fans of all ages. Those in search of knitting books and patterns will find plenty of cozy, nostalgic options in these pages, while less crafty readers can still appreciate the fun facts and photography from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood sprinkled throughout. .

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With a thorough how-to section that includes step-by-step photography and 60 patterns that range in project type and technique, 60 Quick Crochet Projects for Beginners will help new crocheters build skills and make many useful items at the same time. Whether you’re picking up a crochet hook for the first time or are familiar with the basic crochet stitches and need something to make, 60 Quick Crochet Projects for Beginners is the perfect book for you. A thorough learn-to-crochet section instills all the core knowledge you need to get started, and an expansive collection of 60 beginner-friendly patterns provides endless hours of happy crafting. Beginner doesn’t have to mean boring, so this pattern collection is accessible yet includes numerous techniques such as colorwork, bobbles, textures, and more to keep crocheters engaged and constantly developing their abilities as they stitch hats, scarves, shawls, mittens, blankets, and even garments. Sidebars are included throughout with tips, tricks, and insight to build crafting knowledge and encourage critical thinking and creativity. With every project made in Pacific from Cascade Yarns, this superwash wool and acrylic blend comes in dozens of colors and will ensure that each project is beautiful, soft, and durable.

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For more than 40 years, Noro has been a source of fabulously inventive yarns prized by knitters around the world for their incomparable colours, patterns and luxury. "Crochet Noro" presents 30 vibrant designs from such top designers as Lily Chin, Yoko Hatta and Doris Chan, ranging from an adorable swirly hat and trendy bias miniskirt to a mohair motif blanket. These beautiful items and the yarns they showcase - such as Kureyon Silk Garden and Taiyo - are sure to excite crocheters.

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Features easy tips and techniques designed to give you the cartooning skills you need to draw these furry friends.

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Nicky Epstein presents an enchanting collection of fantasy and fairy tale costumes for the popular 18-inch dolls. The beloved author has created 22 imaginative patterns featuring favourite characters, including Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and Peter Pan, as well as a dragon, unicorn, witch, fairy, mermaid, wizard and pirate. Plus, there are three matching accessory patterns for little girls, so they can dress up in whimsical knits too! Each doll is presented in a beautifully photographed and creatively designed setting to match its costume, sure to inspire everyone who loves make-believe and magic.

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This fun and engaging activity book full of scratch-off art pages, coloring pages, games, puzzles, and more provides hours of entertainment for kids—and educates them with facts about adorable baby animals. Readers use the wooden stylus that comes with the book to trace illustrations of adorable baby animals, scratching off the magic ink to reveal rainbow swirls or sparkly foil underneath. Cute Baby Animals contains 20 of these magic scratch-off pages along with 20 regular coloring pages to color in with crayon, colored pencil, or marker, as well as 20 pages of games and puzzles such as word searches, word scrambles, and more. In addition to the hours of entertainment provided by these art activities, there is a fun fact for each of the 20 animals featured, so kids and grown-ups alike can learn new information as they have fun. The book includes a wide variety of pets, farm animals, and wild animals, from puppies and kittens to sloths and pandas.

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Wonder Doodles artist and creator Joanne Shi draws on her experience as a licensed therapist to provide wisdom, encouragement, and smiles to anyone who needs a little help through life's ups and downs. Some days you just need an extra dose of self-kindness! Wonder Doodles provides all that and much more. With humour, charm, and a dose of solid advice, it provides the encouragement we all can use to get through those difficult days. After all, no one has it together all the time, and sometimes we just need a little bit of wisdom and humour to keep us going. Whether you need an affirmation to make you smile, practical tips on upping your self-care, or inspiration from some beloved role models, this book combines charming drawings with friendly words of support to help you through life's highs and lows.

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Learn important drawing skills with 30+ step-by-step demonstrations of favorite subjects. Learning how to draw is fun, so whether you've never drawn before or have been drawing for years, grab a pencil and some paper, and let's have fun drawing together! Each of the 30+ lessons focuses on a different topic, technique, or concept, promoting learning through clear step-by-step demonstrations for successful drawings. No experience necessary! Readers will get creative and have fun learning how to draw with this essential addition to any art-instruction library.

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Pairing classic works of sacred art with the ABCs of Catholicism, A Is for Angel impresses the beauty of the faith upon the hearts, minds, and souls of children. This stunning book teaches children the tenets of the Catholic faith while also introducing them to exquisite religious art created by such great masters as Bouguereau, Brueghel, and Vélazquez. The youngest readers can explore words ranging from “Angels” and “Baptism,” to “Creation” and “Saints.” Those a little older will learn religious basics through easily memorized lines, all accompanied by gorgeous paintings that illustrate the concept—including (for “P”) that “We open our hearts to God when we kneel down in prayer.” As a unique religious keepsake, this is the perfect gift for a baby shower, baptism, or first Holy Communion. It will stand the test of time and quickly become a classic in Catholic households.

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Have yourself a merry Chibi Christmas with this totally adorable coloring book from bestselling author Chris Hart! Just in time to go under the tree, The Cute Chibi Christmas Coloring Book gives manga maniacs and coloring fanatics an additional reason to celebrate! Chibis are the cutest characters in manga, and these 47 holiday-themed illustrations—created by manga artists AKANE and ERO PINKU—are ideal for Christmas coloring. Imagine a little chibi Santa or reindeer, an adorable chibi kitten peeking out of a stocking, or a rosy-cheeked chibi ice skater out in the falling snow. Intricate backgrounds accompany each character to make for a fun and challenging coloring experience, and all pages are printed single sided on quality stock to allow for the use of most coloring materials.

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Baby Beasts to Crochet turns 16 of the most fearsome creatures from myth and legend into adorable and cuddly babies. Make the body parts using only simple stitches, assemble, and then add smart detailing and faux fur to complete these unique amigurumi that everyone will love. Get ready to squeal-or maybe growl, howl, or roar-in delight with the 16 adorable creatures in Baby Beasts to Crochet. Start each project by crocheting the base using only simple stitches. Then stuff and seam everything together. Finally, add surface details such as faux fur, scales, embroidery, eyes, and even eyelashes. When done, you will have transformed the most fearsome creatures in mythology and legend into adorable babies that you can't help but snuggle. While detailed, each baby beast uses only the simplest of stitches and techniques. Pair that with a step-by-step how-to section, clear project instructions, and additional illustrations, and these impressive patterns are approachable for every crochete

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Appeals to both manga and colouring fans. Fun-to-colour illustrations. By bestselling how-to-draw author Christopher Hart. Bestselling how-to-draw author Christopher Hart celebrates 'grrrrllll' power with a wildly entertaining colouring book featuring manga's most popular female characters. This must-have collection for fans draws on Hart's numerous accomplishments in the genre and offers intricately patterned black-and-white illustrations drawn in his eye-catching style. Not only are the pictures fun to colour, but would-be artists can use the illustrations as a tool to practise colour design for their own character drawings.

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This fun introduction to design opens the world of style to budding fashionistas! Bestselling art instructor Chris Hart not only gives step-by-step instructions on drawing figures from many points of view and in varying poses, he explains the tricks of the trade: how to "dress" your figure; render colour, texture and print; and create accessories, hairstyles and makeup looks. An overview of tools, materials and essential skills will help you bring your creative vision to life!

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When the proportions are right, the drawing looks right! Most artists whose work features the human head and figure don't have the time or opportunity to draw directly from models, so it's essential that they acquire the skills and tools to draw them accurately without using direct reference. Now, thanks to Chris Hart's foolproof method, even beginners can quick-check the proportions of their head and figure drawings, identify errors and swiftly fix mistakes. Richly illustrated with drawings from various angles, this follow-up to Hart's bestselling Figure It Out! includes step-by-step demonstrations and lessons that lead readers through the process.

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An illustrated how-to guide from bestselling author Jane Maday that teaches readers how to keep a sketch journal, full of step-by-step instructions, tips and techniques, and creative prompts. There’s more than one way to keep a journal. How to Journal Like an Artist will teach you everything you need to know to draw your daily life. In this encouraging and inspirational guide, Jane Maday shares tips and techniques on keeping a sketch journal, also known as an illustrated journal or art journal. From information on art materials to creative prompts to step-by-step instructions, you’ll learn how to record your favorite memories with art instead of words. Plus you’ll get blank pages to practice on and pictures to cut out and use in your own collages. How to Journal Like an Artist is a colorful, illustrated how-to guide for artists, journalers, and creative souls of all styles and experience levels.

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With this coloring book and interactive guide to the human body, dance students and teachers will have fun learning anatomy while coloring dozens of detailed illustrations of the body in key dance positions. In the tradition of the best-selling Yoga Anatomy Coloring Book, The Dance Anatomy Coloring Book seeks to demystify anatomy for dancers, dance students, and teachers. Author Tricia Zweier, an associate professor of dance and dance science, provides an entertaining and informative journey through the human body, focusing on the bones, joints, and muscles that are employed in dance. After an overview of helpful terms and the systems of the body, Tricia covers the skeletal system, joints, and connective tissue, followed by the muscular system. Each anatomical feature is illustrated with a beautiful black-and-white drawing of a dance position to color. The book includes positions from a variety of dance styles, including ballet, modern dance, hip hop, and jazz. Coloring the bones and muscles of the body, as well as the names for them, helps to solidify learning and aids in remembering their location and function. Fun facts about anatomy and tips for dancers are sprinkled throughout the book. Thirty-two perforated flash cards enable readers to quiz themselves and study dance anatomy on the go.

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Step into a magical world of fanciful characters, animals, and landscapes that will delight adult coloring fans of fairy tales, landscapes, and whimsical drawings. Inspired by fairy tales and magical realism, artist Renata Krawczyk has created illustrations that will delight fans of coloring intricate scenes of fantasy and wonder. The beautiful drawings include such charming scenes as cottages adorned with fairy lights, delicate flowers, paper sailboats, tiny teacups, toadstools, hot-air balloons, unicorns, and more.

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Take a break and escape from the world with 120 color-by-pixel projects. At first, readers have no clue what each completed picture might be. But follow the number guide, apply color, and watch each image emerge! A palette shows which color goes with which number, telling readers what colored pencils or markers they need. Answer keys are included in the back of the book.

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Popular artist Leonardo Pereznieto—whose instructional YouTube videos have earned him millions of views and a devoted fan base—teaches beginners the fundamentals of traditional drawing. In his first book “You Can Draw!” Leonardo Pereznieto helped artists recreate the realistic surfaces and textures that make his own work so popular. Now he’s going back to the very beginning to teach them the basics of drawing, covering first exercises, fundamental techniques, light and shading, composition, and perspective, and more. Loaded with information on materials, a glossary of essential terminology, and hundreds of illustrations, this illuminating guide includes such projects as a fall still life of fruit in a basket, with instructions on shape, shadow, and detail, as well as a cityscape, a landscape with depth of field, animals, train tracks, jewelry, and drawing with a message. Once you’ve mastered these basics, you can unleash your imagination on whatever subject you like!

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Instagram star Jeannie Dickson has created a modern and inviting introductory watercolor painting book for adults, beginners, aspiring young artists, and journalers that will be a source of inspiration and art instruction for their creative journey.Hello, Watercolor! offers a fresh approach to painting watercolors with concise and accessible information. Aspiring artists and journalers will immediately be able to apply the techniques they learn on these pages—including brush lettering—to more than 15 exciting step-by-step projects, from painting origami animals, sparkling glass shards, and beautiful alphabets to still life painting of luscious florals, fruits, and fanciful unicorns. Among the features that make this handbook both a valuable learning tool and source of inspiration: Projects include a list of techniques with cross-references. Each project includes watercolors used with swatches so readers can make substitutions easily. Popular color palettes and color “recipes” for foolproof paint mixing. 12 monthly challenges with daily or weekly prompts to inspire painting all year long. Templates to trace and watercolor paint for some projects. Ideas to share work and connect with other expert or beginner watercolor artists!

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From bestselling author Jane Davenport comes the ultimate inspiration for mixed-media artists! Make more time for creativity! In the follow-up to her popular 'Whimsical Girls', internationally known artist Jane Davenport once again offers her signature fanciful female figures, now accompanied by a menagerie of animal friends: cuddly koalas, noble lions, exotic birds and more. Inspirational prompts and Jane's stunning illustrations accompany the journal pages, which are printed on a variety of fine-art papers, including colouring paper, marker paper and watercolour paper, all perforated for easy display. Colourful collage papers and bonus stickers with even more original art and quotations round out this gorgeous package.

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The most trusted on-the-go knitting reference of the past 20 years gets a thorough update, featuring the many advances made in knitting since its original publication. A companion to the completely updated and revised edition of Vogue Knitting: The Ultimate Knitting Book, this quick reference is the most straightforward and comprehensive on-the-go knitting guide around. With more than 50 additional pages, knitters can rely on this edition to lead them through more techniques than ever before. From cast-ons to Kitchener stitch, all the tried-and-true skills are covered as well as more recent mainstays such as entrelac and brioche. A durable flexibound cover and lay-flat binding make this volume convenient, usable, and practical in every possible way—whether at home, in the car, at the local yarn shop, or anywhere else. Sized to pop into your knitting bag, it’s got all the information you need to help you through any project.Bonus features include a Needle Inventory and a Measuring Tool with a ruler, a stitch gauge, and a needle gauge.

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Learning to draw is as easy as 1, 2, 3, in DRAWING CARTOONS FROM NUMBERS, the fourth book in the Christopher Hart Books for Kids how-to-draw series. Your child can learn their numbers as they learn to draw a cast of cute characters! Every drawing is based on a number, starting from 1 to 10, then on multiples of 10 and beyond! Perfect for kids ages 4 and up, it makes learning fun. Includes step-by-step instructions for how to draw 130 different cartoon characters and animals.

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Reclaim your creativity with this one-of-a-kind workbook of fabulous females to personalize! It’s perfect for coloring enthusiasts and mixed-media artists. This is not your typical coloring book. Created by celebrated artist Jane Davenport, and dedicated solely to images of women, Whimsical Girls is bursting with Jane’s signature-style figures, faces, and fanciful drawings to color and customize. The unusual combination of four types of high-quality paper—coloring, marker, watercolor, and kraft paper—encourages users to experiment with a variety of mediums and techniques. Inspirational examples and prompts help allay budding artists’ nervousness, while bonus stickers and brilliantly hued collage paper—to cut or tear and glue to the pages—provide added fuel for creativity!

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The second coloring book from celebrated tattoo artist Chris Garver—star of Miami Ink. Come along on a coloring safari! Featuring a wide array of animals and environments, Animal Odyssey offers the same graceful imagery and distinctive elements that have made Chris Garver a breakout star. Garver’s fans will love filling in his new collection of illustrations, which beautifully blend the familiar and fantastic.

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Bestselling author Kari Chapin (The Handmade Marketplace) and needle-felting artist Kerri Wessel concoct a delightful "cookbook" of 25 amazing felted foods. The menu features such fare as Good Morning breakfast dishes; Diner Delights; Farmer's Market fruits and vegetables; Sweet Tooth desserts and Holiday Treats - like heart-shaped lollipops for Valentine's Day. Also included are: detailed instructions for turning these tasty-looking projects into snack-size jewellery, magnets, ornaments, hairclips and paperweights.

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In Underwater Worlds, the sequel to her imaginative adult coloring book Dreamland, Renata Krawczyk explores the ocean depths to discover whimsical dwellings, mermaids, and sea life, all with exquisite hand-drawn detail. Dive deep into the imagination of Renata Krawczyk to discover marine beauty and aquatic friends across 46 hand-drawn scenes, each presented on single-sided and perforated pages. Here, dolphins wear party hats, turtles carry homes on their shells, seahorses tow paper boats, and mermaids play with giant octopuses or surprise humans who have ventured into their world via submarine. Each drawing is teaming with life, seashells, and underwater dwellings with rich detail that will delight adult coloring enthusiasts.

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This fun and engaging activity book full of scratch-off art pages, coloring pages, games, puzzles, and more provides hours of entertainment for kids—and tells the story of a unicorn who learns the power of teamwork and friendship. Pippa the unicorn loves pizza, but she needs all her friends’ help to learn how to make it! Readers use the wooden stylus that comes with the book to trace illustrations of Pippa’s story, scratching off the magic ink to reveal rainbow swirls or sparkly foil underneath. Unicorn Pizza Party contains 20 of these magic scratch-off pages along with 20 regular coloring pages to color in with crayon, colored pencil, or marker, as well as 20 pages of games and puzzles such as word searches, word scrambles, and more. In addition to the hours of entertainment provided by these art activities, kids will learn the power of teamwork and friendship alongside Pippa and her magical friends.

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Christopher Hart, the bestselling author and expert on all things manga, brings fans and aspiring artists a brand-new collection of the most popular manga character types.Manga 100 is bursting with the most popular and fun-to-draw characters found in manga and anime, including schoolgirls and boys, humorous kids, fantasy characters, exotic animals, and other fan favorites. The step-by-step projects range from very simple faces and figures to more complex characters and scenes. Many of the characters showcase big emotions, a hallmark of manga, and eye-catching action poses. While drawing these varied and appealing characters, artists will learn important basics of drawing manga faces and bodies, expressions, poses, and even simplified backgrounds. The characters in Manga 100 include: • Essential manga characters: handsome high-school boy, cute teen girl, funny 12-year-old, master villain • Popular school characters: baffled student, tattletale, reliable friend, girl with a grudge, aloof boy • Characters with cool jobs: wedding-dress maker, helicopter pilot, emcee at a manga convention, archeologist, coffee-shop owner • Cosplay outfits: steampunk, space invader, J-pop boy band, warlock • Adorable and huggable creatures • Animal friends: endangered and unusual species • Fantasy characters: samurai girl, boy with a dragon pet, mermaid, boy android • Modern princesses

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Paint sweet watercolor fantasy characters and scenes, including all skin tones and hair types. Journey to a magical fantasy land! Learn to paint fairies, mermaids, creatures, and their realms with step-by-step watercolor demonstrations. The book includes information and demos on: • Materials and basic techniques • Fairy heads, bodies, and wings • Flower fairies, snow fairies, fairy families, fairy houses, and woodland scenes • Mermaid heads, bodies, and tails • Mermaids, mermaid families, and under-the-sea scenes • Fantasy creatures, including magical owls, rabbits, seahorses, unicorns, bears, cats, and dragons

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Optimistic coloring pages from bestselling author Jane Maday. Nurture your soul with 35+ hopeful coloring pages, along with front-of-the-book instruction on basic materials for different effects. Set your worries free with this wonderful activity to focus your mind on all the blessings in your life with these positive affirmations!

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The addition to bestselling author Christopher Hart’s Figure It Out! series offers essential tips and tricks that simplify the basics of drawing people. This is the easy way to learn how to draw people! Chris Hart offers straightforward instruction designed to solve common figure-drawing problems that aspiring artists encounter. His accessible, practical techniques include focusing on the body’s natural curves, as opposed to drawing muscles, and breaking the torso down into three distinct, understandable areas. With this book, anyone can immediately grasp the basics—and create the art to prove it!

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Created by industry leader Vogue Knitting, this book offers 90+ pages of special colorwork paper that features stitch outlines rather than rectangles—so knitters can grasp what their finished project will actually look like. Knitters who enjoy creating their own colorwork patterns now have a fun, effective, and easier way to work! The innovative pages in Vogue Knitting: Knitter’s Colorwork Paper have outlines in the V shape of an actual knit stitch rather than the rectangles of ordinary knitting graph paper. This lets you create a better representation of what your finished item will actually look like. More than 90 pages of two common knitting gauges allow plenty of room for hundreds of patterns. Knitters can use the 5 stitches by 6 rows gauge for stranded colorwork and the 6 stitches by 8 rows gauge for intarsia motifs. They can also use this paper to test alternative color combinations of existing patterns. The book is as fun to use as it is practical, and will leave knitters wondering why this hasn’t been done before.

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'Vogue Knitting' presents Rosemary Drysdale's essential guide to one of the hottest trends in knitwear today - entrelac, a modular technique that results in striking basketwork designs of rows within rows and interlocking diamond patterns. Using only simple knit-and-purl stitches, knitters can create eye-catching pieces with incredible texture. Entrelac introduces both the history and how-to of this fun style, along with 20 patterns for a variety of garments, home decor items and baby accessories. Comprehensive instructions and a wide array of swatches provide endless possibilities in lace, colourwork and much more.

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If you can make a simple shape, you can draw an animal! In his fun follow-up to Drawing Shape by Shape, Christopher Hart - the world's bestselling author of how-to-draw books - has devised an irresistible menagerie of more than 90 colourful creatures to create. Begin with a basic circle, square, rectangle, or triangle, and turn it step-by-easy-step into a kitty, dog, elephant, baby gator, and many more. And what's really cool is, you can still see the starting shape even in the completed animal! Perfect for children - and artistically inclined adults, too!

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The Hugely popular Christopher Hart simplifies professional anime art so readers can develop their own original characters. It includes templates, step-by-step demonstrations and drawing exercises. Nothing brings anime artists more satisfaction than creating original characters to use in a comic strip or graphic novel. Bestselling How-to-Draw author Christopher Hart helps them reach this goal by providing insight into the six most popular anime types: schoolgirls, schoolboys, preteens, vengeful 'baddies', humorous personalities, and fantasy figures. He supplies templates for each- an extensive array of 'menus' of head and body types, outfits, and accessories, as well as detailed, accessible, step-by-step demonstrations and drawing exercises. Plus, Hart showcases some of the best anime artists in the world for this title, including Inma R., Tabby Kink, Ayame Shiroi, Euro Pinku and Tina Francisco. It's the guide every would-be anime artist has been looking for!

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Crocheters: go on the edge with Nicky Epstein-bestselling author, needleworker and designer extraordinaire! With approximately 200 different edgings and some gorgeous projects, all with detailed instructions, pattern charts and photographs, Nicky's guide will have crocheters grabbing for their hooks. Create a cropped red jacket featuring oversized buttons and pretty scaIIoping, an ecru crystal shoulder cape, a hatband and bracelet, a unique multi-coloured top and more. This comprehensive guide to crochet edging will take you to the next level and is sure to be an essential part of your needlework library.

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Chris Hart’s how-to-draw books have sold in the several millions of copies. Now, in his latest, he delivers detailed instructions, inspiring ideas, and invaluable tips for creating appealing and original manga-style characters. Character design is the key to success in comic books and animated films, and with this clear step-by-step guide, it’s a skill that can be quickly learned. Starting with the basics—body types, facial features, costumes, and expressions—Chris shows how to draw a hyper kid, bratty teen, lovable pooch, cool rapper, and many other distinctive types. Then, he takes the reader on a guided tour in search of original characters in places that range from suburban malls to the glitter and glamour of Hollywood and Beverly Hills.

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Beloved illustrator Jane Maday guides aspiring artists through dozens of exercises and fun activities to help them expand their creativity. Everyday Art Exercises is a joyful journal designed to help budding artists nurture their creativity through art. More than one hundred simple drawing and coloring prompts and step-by-step demonstrations spark creativity. Artist Jane Maday's adorable illustrations encourage readers to jump right in and explore these fun and inspiring exercises.

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Create beautiful projects step by step with your Cricut® ambassador, Kimberly Coffin, of Sweet Red Poppy® Learn to use your Cricut machine and make gorgeous projects with Cricut ambassador, Kimberly Coffin in this Cricut book for beginners and seasoned crafters! Kimberly will teach you how to use your machine with easy to follow step-by-step instructions. Kimberly has been trusted by Cricut to test each new machine before launch for the past several years. She knows how overwhelming Cricut can be for beginners with no idea where to start, so she made it her goal to learn all she could, then spent months on trial and error. Once she got the hang of it, she fell in love with Cricut! It's now her mission to help you love your machine, have fun using it and create stunning projects. This book is loaded with everything you need to know to make the best use of your Cricut. It includes: How to use tools, software, materials, etc. Information about different Cricut models Step-by-step projects Free downloadable files Tutorials Access to giveaways and much more!

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Cartooning can be as easy as 1, 2, 3 and A, B, C! Using material from Drawing Cartoons from Numbers and Drawing Cartoons Letter by Letter, this fifth book in the Christopher Hart Books for Kids how-to-draw series teaches kids a fun way to create 125+ characters. Start with the number 4—then turn it into a kooky bird! Or transform an L into a zooming, flying superhero. With his simple step-by-step directions, Christopher Hart gives kids ages 4 and up an easy process for learning to draw as they also build their reading, writing, and number recognition skills. Hart uses the numbers 1 to 9 as well as multidigit numerals, and upper- and lower-case letters from A to Z. It’s creative fun at its best!

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From the world's most-recognized knitting magazine, and a leader in the industry, comes the ultimate guide to learning how to knit for absolute beginners. Anyone can learn to knit--and who better to explain the essentials than the trusted authorities at Vogue Knitting? Here is the magazine's definitive guide to learning all about yarn, needles, patterns, and, of course, those two basic stitches: knitting and purling. Follow along with beautiful step-by-step photographs that teach how to cast on, bind off, and knit up a collection of stitches ranging from basic stockinette to basket weave, bobbles, cables, and more. Links to video instruction are included for a complete how-to experience. Aspiring knitters can apply their new skills to more than 20 accessible, stylish patterns taken from the pages of Vogue Knitting. Ranging from staples like scarves and hats to impressive sweaters, the easy first projects include a detailed breakdown construction.

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Learn how to draw your favorite furry friend! With Christopher Hart's simple templates, any pet owner can do it. Whatever your pet, you can capture it in a beautiful drawing! Chris Hart, the world's bestselling art instruction author, has created templates that work for pups and kitties of just about any shape and size--from poodles, dachshunds, and Bernese Mountain Dogs to tabbies, Persians, and Siamese cats. Every template is easy to follow so you'll get adorable results worthy of framing . . . no matter what your skill level.

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This engaging anatomy coloring book for medical students, yoga enthusiasts, and teachers, offers a delightful combination of a coloring book and an instructional guide to unravel the mysteries of anatomy, and includes 32 perforated flash cards enabling readers to quiz themselves and study yoga anatomy on the go. Join Kelly Solloway, a seasoned yoga instructor, licensed massage therapist, and anatomy teacher, on an enlightening and enjoyable exploration of the human body. With a primary focus on the bones, joints, and muscles involved in yoga, Kelly presents a wealth of information in an accessible manner. Begin your journey with an introduction to essential anatomical terms before delving into the intricacies of the skeletal system, joints, and connective tissue. The subsequent chapters cover the muscular system, providing comprehensive insights into its structure and function. Enhancing the learning experience, each anatomical feature is beautifully illustrated with a black-and-white drawing depicting a yoga posture, or asana, which you can color to your heart's content. By immersing yourself in the process of coloring the bones, muscles, and their corresponding names, you'll foster a deeper understanding and easier recall of their location and purpose. Immerse yourself in this captivating blend of education and creativity, as you unlock the secrets of anatomy for yoga practitioners and instructors alike. Let Kelly Solloway be your guide as you embark on an illuminating journey through the human body, demystifying yoga's connection to anatomy in an engaging and memorable way.

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From all-star sneakers to elephants, you can learn to draw anything . . . in just 15 minutes! If you want to draw but think you don't have the time to learn--or feel too intimidated to start-15-Minute Artist invites you to jump in. Bestselling author Catherine Holmes (How to Draw Cool Stuff) provides more than 60 step-by-step projects for depicting animals, food, plants, household items, and more--and you can complete each one in just 15 minutes. Her tutorials break the process down so you can achieve quick, satisfying results. In addition to pencil renderings, Catherine demonstrates techniques for working with charcoal, pen, and colored pencil, and provides tips and sidebars on blending, texture, perspective, and shading.

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