Reflecting Nature: Garden Designs for Wild Landscapes
The current horticultural trend of "naturalistic gardening" involves mimicking natural and wild areas and paying more attention to native plants. Two new books, offering two different approaches, explore this technique. In Reflecting Nature, the Malitzes (father and son) describe natural areas and discuss how these landscapes can be duplicated in the home garden.
Essential Knits for Kids: 20 Fresh, New Looks for Children Two to Five
The book presents 20 charming modern projects organized into three collections. The first features designs that keep kids comfy while they are hanging out at home, including a double-sided throw for cuddling in front of the TV and a knitted rag doll for both playtime and bedtime. Because every child loves a party, the second collection is devoted to dressy designs for girls such as a cashmere shrug that can be worn over a party dress and a cute beaded bag just right for carrying party essentials.
The Second Cashmere Merino Silk Dk Book (619) 10 designs for women, men, and girls using Cashmere Merino Silk DK. The beauty of these designs is all in the exquisite shaping and quietly stunning colours. We have emphasised the extraordinary softness of the yarn with beautiful stitch details, and created the most divine knits imaginable. Our designs are unmistakably romantic and pretty for women and girls and beautifully simple shapes and textures for men.
Sublime: The Third Luxuriously Exotic Soya Cotton Hand Knit Book
The Third Luxuriously Exotic Soya Cotton Hand Knit Book (632) features 16 exquisite designs for men, women, boys and girls with designs by Sarah Hatton using Sublime Soya Cotton DK. We wanted the designs in this book to look effortlessly chic and stylish with an emphasis on incredible ease. With stunningly cool and fashionable designs for men, women, girls and boys, we’ve created strikingly simple knits with quirky little details and impressively textured sweaters made with the easiest of knit and purl stitches.
Foolproof Curves: Quilts with Bias Strips and Continuous Paper Piecing
Foolproof Curves makes sewing curves fun and easy with two different approaches. From traditional Drunkard's Path and Compass to bright, contemporary designs, there is definitely something for every quilter. Two quilt projects illustrate how to use foundation piecing to make accurate full-circle and freeform curved designs.
