Crafts & Hobbies

Decorate your home throughout the snowy season with 10 folk-art quilts and accessories! Choose from lap quilts, wall quilts, pillows, and table runners, all featuring favorite wintertime motifs. With easy projects and step-by-step instructions--and a little fun with giant rickrack--you'll be finished before the first holiday party!
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From the days when proto-humans lashed animal jawbones to sticks and whacked wildebeest-poop slapshots in Olduvai Arena to today’s super-high-tech computer-assisted extravaganzas, one by-product of the hockey game has gone unnoticed and untapped. Until now . . . In 50 Things to Make with a Broken Hockey Stick, Peter Manchester transforms the agony …

Turn a piece of paper and a drinking straw into a butterfly that really flies! Or, make a tiny manger for the Advent Season. 52 Crafts for the Christian Year is full of simple craft ideas organized by seasons of the Church Year. Great for Sunday School, Vacation Bible School, or at home. crafts for all major celebrations, from Christmas & Epiphany …

"Are you looking for new, fun crafts to make with children? What about making a silent wind chime, or a rolling toy for toddlers, or a prayer that floats? This book offers 52 easy, economical, and environmentally-friendly crafts with step-by-step instructions and illustrations. Based on the seasons of the church year, these tried and true crafts ar …

Explains the history, tools, and materials for making beautiful rustic furniture as well as the plans and step-by-step instructions for 18 great projects.

In A Whale of a Tale . . . With Hooks, Lines and Singers, members of the Five Island Rug Hooking Group have combined their expertise in design, colour, texture and rug hooking techniques with the power of song. This potent combination of creativity has resulted in thirty-five pieces of textile art that have been inspired by the sounds of music, the …

Designer Susan Purney Mark makes brilliant use of strip sets and angled cuts in nine appealing projects, opening up exciting new design possibilities.
Insert bold accent strips to achieve a refreshingly different look
Experiment with raw-edge appliqu? and a new "stacked" appliqu? technique
Use blocks in a variety of ways-in borders, quilt centers, …