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Designer Campbell acts as selector for 30 unusual beaded bag patterns, one in a series sponsored by the magazine. More than a dozen artists draw upon a variety of techniques, including knitting and crocheting, to produce purses in different design styles. There's a bead-decoupage plastic box, with decorations applied on top of special tape. Existing fabric purses are embellished with abstract art deco-like motifs or enhanced by highlighting existing patterns with beads for a three-dimensional impact.
Love Stitches: For Someone You Love or Someone in Need
"Love Stitches" is a collection of patterns for charity crocheting that will become the charity stitcher's favorite resource. Every possible category is explored, with various chapters categorizing the different charities. Love Stitches for the Displaced has a variety of hat, scarf, and mitten patterns to help keep a homeless person warm in winter weather; also afghans to provide warmth and comfort in time of need, as well as patterns for the ever popular Warm Up America Squares.
The second book in the Miss Bea series features this playful little girl and her friends finding different coloured objects to play with, like a blue umbrella and a pink feather duster. This Miss Bea story, told with illustrations and photographs, will appeal to children aged 1 to 4 years, with knitting patterns for the garments at the back of the publication. All designs in "Miss Bea's Colours" use knit and purl stitches, written with beginners in mind they are all single coloured.
