I love a book that teaches you how to make projects and teaches skills but this one also teaches you how to make the tools to create the materials that you then make the projects with!
And the projects in this book are diverse, classic and extreme! Something truly for everyone.
Small Loom and Freeform Weaving
Five Ways to Weave
By
Barbara Matthiessen
30 projects for home décor and fashion accents.
Yarn arts and felting are two of today’s most popular crafts, and popularity for weaving, a natural extension of those crafts, is growing. Small hand-held looms and tabletop looms are now available at yarn shops and hobby/craft stores, and readers of Small Loom and Freeform Weaving can even construct looms themselves using common household materials. Most looms can be constructed in a couple minutes and can be reused numerous times.
This book also shows readers how to use their looms to make 30 projects, some of which can easily be completed in an evening or weekend. Readers will enjoy step-by-step, diagrammed instructions for personal items, such as iPod and cell phone holders, scarves, purses, and jewelry, and home décor projects, such as pillows, table runners, wall hangings, and book covers.
Just to give you a little taste of the fabulousness that's inside Small Loom and Freeform Weaving
Five Ways to Weave I picked this lamp, yes a lamp!
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And the even bestest part about this lamp, other than it's woven of course, is that the frame is a floral easel! I think that is so innovative.
Barbara Matthiessen had a specialized degree from an interior design school and experience working for a design firm before she entered the industry as a full-time freelance designer. She has written 43 booklets and 3 books, contributed to 22 multi-artist books, and has done countless designs for magazines. While continuing to design for publication, she also works for manufacturers, developing kits, projects sheets, and sales models.
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This
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Crafty Princess Diaries
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a free metal clay project over at the BeadStyle blog. This downloadable
project shows how to make some super easy metal clay beads!
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Polymer Clay @ Craft Gossip
Learn the anatomy of a polymer clay bead this week.
The Impatient Blogger
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reviews a fabulous new metal clay book by jewelry making expert Tammy
Powley. If you've ever been metal clay curious, this is the book for
you!
Decisions, decisions! Why not try a little of everything!
I love that lamp... I think it would look fantastic in my family room! Some beads added to the design could be cool. Give it a little extra bling!
Posted by: Cindy Lietz, Polymer Clay Tutor | July 03, 2008 at 05:58 PM
This laptop bag look so nice and strong I want to purchase. it for my laptop I have no laptop bag which contain some other accessories with laptop this bag look capable for it.You give nice detail on laptop bags.
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