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Beginner's Guide to Crochet comprehensively teaches all the basic crochet techniques, skills and stitches to get someone started.

Liberty prints are the world's most desirable fabric range. This beautiful book shows Liberty lovers how to use these highly sought-after fabrics to create beautiful sewn items for little girls. Over 20 step-by-step projects range from full-size bed quilts and dresses to small-scale replicas for dolls using simple sewing techniques.

This is the story of a man, a team, and their life and times, as well as a complete record of all their achievements and failures. It logs the financial and personal cost of racing in the prewar and postwar periods. It tells of how the mighty car company Renault became involved with them in the late 1950s.

A collection of over 50 projects inspired by Tilda's studio. It lets you choose from a variety of designs for yourself and your home, including bags, accessories, clothing, decorating, gifts and soft toys. It uses the colour palette that includes shades of lavender, pink, teal, turquoise, green and blue.

Learn eleven basic stitches to create projects with motifs ranging from bunnies and buttons to cooking and Christmas. Mandy Shaw's unmistakable style provides a gorgeous collection of stitches and projects, all done in natural fabrics in a stylish cream and red color palette. This book is a perfect introduction to eleven simple stitches, with step-by-step instructions for both right and left handers. You'll learn how to create stunning gifts and home accessories while drawing on your own inspiration and creativity to give each project a personal and unique touch. Projects include: blankets, aprons, crib decorations, button bags, luggage tags, Christmas wreaths, and more! ';Takes the reader through a number of easy to follow stitches and also presents them with a host of small projects that can make wonderful gifts for friends and relatives... Learn skills that will last a lifetime.' Falcata Times

Celebrate in style with Lindy Smith's gorgeous designs, including cute characters, beautiful flowers and classic patterns.

Create adorable garments and toys for your little ones with these 25 hand-knitted projects

Contains what you need to become confident in must-have dressmaking skills, from reading patterns to sewing up and making alterations. This title features eight garment-led chapters that show you how to learn and perfect dressmaking as you build your wardrobe or make alterations.

In Lesley Teares Fantasy Cross Stitch, readers will enter a world filled with intoxicating sorceresses, fairytale dragons, mythical unicorns and beautiful butterfly fairies, all intricately recreated in cross stitch. Lesleys versatile designs can be transformed into a range of projects including framed pictures, cards, cushions, notebook covers and more. Her clear instructions and full-color charts along with striking photographs create vivid images guaranteed to transport cross stitch artists into a fabulous world of fantasy.

The most comprehensive book on the market for patchwork, quilting and applique techniques.

Fifty Railways that Changed the Course of History is a fascinating, beautifully presented guide to the train lines and rail companies that have had the greatest impact. Entries range from the Metropolitan Line, the world's first underground railway, to the Pacific Railroad, the first transcontinental railroad in North America.

Having this book in your pocket is just like having a real marque expert by your side. Benefit from the author's years of real ownership experience, learn how to spot a bad car quickly, and how to assess a promising one like a true professional. Get the right car at the right price!

Do you know how your car works? This book dissects and explains one of the finest inventions ever made. Written in a simple, jargon-free language and packed with illustrations and cutaways, it will suit everyone wishing to know more about what makes their car work.

Novel writing is a popular hobby. This book provides the would-be and starter novelist with various tools needed to get started. It provides a glossary of terms and listing of various publishing contacts needed by an author, from book publishers and agents to festivals and online links.

This book gives classic car owners the information necessary to make an appropriate and safe choice of lubricants from the vast and sometimes overwhelming range available today.

This is a practical guide to combining Japanese fabrics and traditional Oriental style with fast, super-easy techniques.

Discover the endless practical and decorative uses for the humble embroidery hoop: from pretty wall art and hanging mobiles to functional pin boards, key racks, mirrors and storage. Decorate your hoops with innovative treatments and use embroidery, applique, patchwork, crochet and other exciting techniques to create unique pieces.

Create stunning modern quilts and quilted projects from jelly rolls, layer cakes and other pre-cuts fabric bundles. Featuring 25 small and large projects, each made from pre-cut bundles of fabric, including full sized bed quilts, bags and table runners.

Karmann Ghia built the majority of the original VW Beetle Cabriolets between 1948 and 1980. Today, these convertible Beetles are much sought after as practical, durable and very attractive classics. Altogether, over 330,000 Volkswagen Beetle Cabriolets were built and the quality of their engineering has ensured a very high survival rate. This book is THE essential guide to Beetle Cabriolets, now in an updated and revised new edition.The book also includes a chapter on the New Beetle.

Having this book in your pocket is just like having a real marque expert by your side. Benefit from the author's years of Honda FireBlade experience, learn how to spot a bad bike quickly, and how to assess a promising one like a professional. Get the right bike at the right price!

The Essential Buyer's Guide carefully describes the 205 GTI models that enthusiasts love to drive and own, from the pioneering 1.6 GTI, through to the 1.9 GTI, and CTI cabriolet. When you consider a potential purchase armed with this book, it's just like have a Peugeot 205 expert by your side. Buy the right car at the right price.

The complete practical guide to modifying classic to modern VW Bus (Transporter) T1 to T5 suspension, brakes and chassis for maximum performance. Contains essential information on using aftermarket parts and interchangeable parts from other production vehicles to achieve great handling (and a lower stance if required). This edition includes many ne

Craft your dream wedding with over 40 romantic projects from top designers.

A collection of cross stitch samplers and gifts that can brighten up every corner of your home.

A guide to creative photography, exploring over 50 photographic techniques. Using over 300 images, it guides you through the various techniques, from architectural details to online calendars, panning to polarizing filters.

Offers over 30 designs for cakes, cupcakes, minicakes and cookies. This title presents step-by-step illustrated instructions that guide even the most novice decorator through the stages, from baking the cake to adding the finishing touches.

Allows you to look at the features in your trusty sewing machine and discover how practical functions and stitch settings can become creative goldmines.

Nine step-by-step technique-focused chapters to make up the quilt.