Product Description

Product Description

With its soothing, meditative effect, handspinning is a relaxing hobby, and the beautiful yarns you create are an even better reward. This visual guide shows you the basics, beginning with the tools and fibers, and takes you through spinning, plying, making novelty yarns, using exotic fibers, dyeing, and more. Whether you use an inexpensive hand spindle or splurge on a spinning wheel, stick with wool or try alpaca, cashmere, or cotton, you'll learn how to create fun, original, one-of-a-kind yarns that you can knit or weave into truly unique, handmade, and all-natural creations.

Concise two-page lessons show you all the steps to a skill and are ideal for quick review

• The skill demonstrated is defined and described

• Detailed color photos demonstrate each step

• Step-by-step instructions accompany each photo

• Helpful tips provide additional guidance

Customer Reviews (13)

Teach Yourrself Visually Handing Spinning
Lots of information some not so clear. You must have some understanding of spinning before one reads this.

Wish I could do more stars
this book is one I consider the 'bible' of spinning. It breaks it down into easily understood directions and has pictures so that you won't be left without 'visual' help.

excellent, excellent, excellent book.

Good Buy
I just wanted to chime and give my thumbs up for Teach Yourself Visually Handspinning.It has lots of useful information from fibers to yarn, this book takes you through everything you would want to know.

A colorful start
This book has been touted as a good hit the deck running book for spinners and potential spinners. That is true; however it is also very useful for people that have quite a bit of spinning under their belt.

It really is the visual that make a difference. The only thing better are the now available DVD's. The descriptions at first may seem a little superficial or curt. However you cannot explain what it takes a book's worth of knowledge in one paragraph.

One may look at page 15 and wonder want a bobbin driven wheel is but this is not a place to go into detail; it is just a preview of what will be explained later in the book.

I can see where it would be easy to learn to spin one way and become an expert, yet still miss some of the finer points and even useful equipment. This is why you may want to read the book from cover to cover before investing time and money. I was glad to see that most of the pictures were of Ashford equipment as that is what I am most used to using.

This is a must for your library. Also even when you know something is nice to have a different view on the subject. Be sure to supplement this book with articles from the author in "Spinoff" magazine.


The Intentional Spinner: A Holistic Approach to Making Yarn

THE Beginner Spinner's "Bible" - Or - it SHOULD BE!
Have to say - I only WISH this book had been available when I began my own Spinning Odyssey some four years ago! The simple TEXT & particularly stunning PHOTOGRAPHY are both easy for the Novice Spinner to grasp & MASTER without getting bogged down & drowned in the mechanics of Spinning.

THIS book should be kept within EVERY Spinner's grasp & considered a Beginner Spinner's Bible & terrific Spinner's mini-refresher course at ANY skill level! Simply put - a MUST NOT MISS addition to any Spinner's reference library! ... Read more

Product Description

Product Description
A guide for beginners and an encyclopaedia of information for the experienced quilter, using a full-colour format to allow greater visual flexibility and range. By taking a step-by-step approach, it includes projects to master the arts of quilting and applique. It progresses from very simple techniques, through to more advanced piecing methods and covers both hand and machine methods. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (3)

helpful
I got this book as a present for my mother who has taken up quilting as she has recently become a grandmother. She loves it and said it was an excellent resource. She had been using another book but switched to this one and said it was better than the one she had been using. She was having difficulty with certain stiches and found this book very helpful in that regard. Highly recommended.

Wonderful!
I think this book is wonderful for a beginner quilter.I just started quilting about 6 months ago and always refer back to this book for the basics!

A teacher in a book.
Janet Wickell knows how to put the needle and thread in your hand in a book form.What more could you want from the printed word than good directions and positive information?You are walked through the process step by step, with wonderful directions and illustrations.A FIND. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (1)

Good practise tool...
Only problem I have with this is my problem. I want to do carvings on round ojbects. With training, I will probably be able to transfer ideas from a square piece of wood to a tree trunk/limb.

You use features of the square block to help you carve the facial features that are on the study stick. It's working well.

This is a good tool for learning to carve a face. I have gone thru the stick that came with it and a couple more I got from Hobby Lobby. But I am having fun making would chips. ... Read more

Product Description
If you're ready to take your knitting beyond one color or simple stripes, try these easy-to-learn colorwork techniques and projects. The difference is in how you change colors-in Fair Isle, you carry yarn across the back of your work; for intarsia, you use bobbins or separate balls of yarn for each color.
INTARSIA PROJECTS: Navajo-Churro Wool Bag, Mitered Vest, Into the Woods Cardigan, Lively Ivy (turtleneck), Arf! Arf! Argyle (dog sweater), Creature Comfort (child's pullover with giraffe design), One Cool Kitty (kid's sweater), and Ranch Encounter (adult pullover). FAIR ISLE PROJECTS: Playful Stripes and Vs (child's cardigan and hat), Hugs and Kisses Pullover (for kids); Kid-Vested in Color, Li'l Trucks Throw, and Jacket Geometry (women's sizes). ... Read more

Customer Reviews (1)

Teach Yourself Intarsia & Fair Isle Knitting
I have started knitting again after many years and wanted to knit intarsia
(picture) sweaters for my grandboys. I liked the patterns in the book and felt the explanations were very good especially for someone beginning intarsia. ... Read more

Product Description
Do you learn faster by seeing and doing than by wading through tedious instructions? Then get yourself some yarn and needles and get knitting! Teach Yourself VISUALLYKnitting shows you the basics--photo by photo and stitch by stitch. You begin with the essential knit and purl stitches and advance to bobbles, cables, lace, and fancy color work. With fun, innovative patterns from top knitting designer Sharon Turner, you'll be creating masterpieces in no time!

Concise two-page lessons show you all the steps to a skill and are ideal for quick review
* Each skill or techniqueis defined and described
* Detailed color photos demonstrate each step
* Step-by-step instructions accompany each photo
* Helpful tips provide additional guidance ... Read more

Customer Reviews (95)

The best!
This is literally the best book to teach yourself to knit! I have several and I wish I had bought this one first. You can't beat it for the money.

Teach Yourself VISUALLY Knitting
This book is fantastic for learning how to do the simple and more difficult elements of knitting. the pictures are fantastic and captioned for easy interpretation. I myself am and intermediate knitter and was looking for some more difficult tequniques of knitting, which were displayed in this book in a way which made it very easy for me to follow whilst i was knitting along. I would highly recommend this book to any new or not so new knitter. I myself had it recommended to me through a knitting website. Very helpful book.

Perfect book for Beginners
I have just started teaching myself to knit and love this book.I am very much a visual person and this is a perfect visual aid.
Highly Recommend

Great Book for A Newbie
The last time I knit anything I think I was in the 7th grade, and we learned how to knit a scarf.That was more than 30 years ago, and when I decided to try again, I researched a lot of books.I picked this one up and knew immediately that this was the right place to start.I am literally working my way page by page, trying out each technique and creating samples (from low-cost yarn) while practicing each and every stitch.There have been only two occasions when I was having trouble understanding how to do a stitch, and I found a great resource on YouTube.If you can't quite "get" what is written, check out "The Knit Witch" videos on YouTube.There are a lot of videos on knitting, but Knit Witch has great lighting, a good contrasting background, big needles, and a person describing the stitch who is the perfect voice and knitter to do this.So combining those videos with this book (and they are not related)has helped me zip through some surprisingly difficult stitch patterns.I've been very proud of myself when I follow the instructions and then see an amazing pattern emerge from my knitting needles.I'm still a beginner, but I'm up to cable stitches, after having worked my way through all the basic knit and purl stitches, and some of the fancier ones.I can do some interesting cast-ons, and can bind off knitwise, purlwise, in pattern and with a crochet hook, and I didn't know how to do ANY of that before I picked up this book.I'd give it six stars if I could.

What a book!
As a beginning knitter I am so thrilled with Sharon's easy to follow knitting tutorial.I used to think that books wouldn't be able to guide me through my knitting but I don't believe that anymore.The first pattern I picked out to follow was beyond clear and before I knew it I was celebrating the results! I can see that Sharon's book will make the complicated- easy and help my knitting aspirations come true! ... Read more

Product Description
Snapshots, scissors, and this leaflet are all you need to create charming silhouettes of your loved ones. Silhouette paper included. ... Read more

Product Description

Product Description

Product Description

Customer Reviews (6)

Puppets Come Alive!
This is a very interesting book! I have started a puppet ministry at church and this book is very helpful teaching my puppeteers how to make the puppets move realistically. Thanks alot!

Making Puppets Come Alive
Zoe Lucky: and the Green Gables' Mystery

In my book, Zoe Lucky and the Green Gables' Mystery, Paki, the African Grey Parrot is Zoe's sidekick. He is quite a character and I wanted to be able to share him with my audiences when I gave a book reading or signing. I ordered an African Grey Parrot hand puppet and have been having a great time learning to manipulate him.

This book has been a great help in showing me how to bring him alive.

SoSo, nothing new here..
Nothing that can't be found in other books of this ilk...

MJL

Making Puppets Come Alive
This is an excellent book for the novice as well for the experienced puppetier.It is simple, visual and is an excellent tool for teaching.I whole heartily recommend it for the student and the teacher.

Making Puppets Come Alive
What lies beneath this simply drawn cover is a comprehensive hand puppetry textbook that is as interesting and accessible as it is theatrically sound.

I first discovered this gem in my local library and began to study and apply it's exercises.Plenty of photographs to serve as illustrations of movements that are performed by the puppeteer's fingers, wrists and arms.The results are an aquired vocabulary of movements and techniques that allow even a simple hand puppet to portray age, mood, intent, emotion and energy as well as perform a range of tasks that can deliver a real character to an audience.

Simple enough for kids to learn and great for group intruction.I am currently working on a TV and video project and have purchased an extra copy to bring to the studio as a reference allowing me to expand the range of expression with the puppets used in the production.

"Making Puppets Come Alive" delivers a superb explanation of one of the best (if not the best) hand puppet manipulation systems in puppet theatre. Plenty of photos to guide and clear text.
... Read more

Product Description

Product Description
Get creative with kids

Unplugging kids from their MP3 players and game systems for one-on-one family time is a great way to reconnect in today's hectic world. And what better way to spend time together than doing an activity that's not only fun but also promotes creativity and self-expression?

Teach Yourself VISUALLY Crafting with Kids is packed with step-by-step instructions for making crafts throughout the year, from outdoor projects to gifts and party favors to holiday decor to projects that promote learning through play.

• 75 fun, simple projects for adults to make with kids
• Concise, two-page lessons show you all the steps to a skill and are ideal for quick review
• Detailed color photos demonstrate each step and helpful tips provide additional guidance

Loaded with easy-to-follow instructions and fun, simple projects, Teach Yourself VISUALLY Crafting with Kids gives parents, caregivers, and teachers the tools they need to make the most of the time they spend with kids. ... Read more

Product Description
Table of Contents
Uh Oh 3
Grab a Box or Not 4
Fill’er Up 5
Crafty Ideas 7
• Tin Foil Shapes
• Potato Stamps
• Eraser Stamps
• Sock Puppets
• Bread and Glue Clay
• Toothpick shapes
... Read more

Product Description

More than 60 million Teach Yourself products sold worldwide
Simple directions to making beautiful floral arrangements for any occasion

The easy, step-by-step instructions and full illustrations in Get Started with Flower Arranging: Teach Yourself will enable you to create beautiful flower arrangements. Whether you want to create a simple bowl of flowers for the home, a gift for a friend or an arrangement for a special occasion, this book will help you create the effect they desire.
This book serves as a handy reference for selecting materials and buying top quality flowers to create modern arrangements. You will learn how to create seasonal gifts and decorations as well as how to make your arrangements last.

Includes:

• One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started
• Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author's many years of experience
• Information laid out clearly on the page
• Coverage of flower arranging, classical flower design, and contemporary flower design

Topics include:Choosing your plant material; Getting started-flowers in containers; Mechanics and sundries; Elements and principles of design; Classic design; Contemporary design; Inspiration.

Product Description
Part of the "Teach Yourself" range of books, this text looks at the art of origami. Illustrations, with amendments by the British Origami Society, demonstrate the techniques involved and a short section explains the history of origami. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (2)

Nice book, but somewhat difficult
Some of the drawings are hard to decipher, so is not easy to make some of the models.Some steps are so difficult need more drawings to elucidate the evolution of the fold.A good intro.

Beware! This is a book by Robert HarbinNO David Brill!!!
This book is the same as "Teach Yourself Origami" and "Origami, the Art of Paper-Folding", just with another cover to make you think it is new, also in the webside they describe it as a book of David Brill, it does not contain nothing of him, not even his name mention!?!?
If you have no origami book, it could be good for you, other wise beware!!! ... Read more

Product Description

Customer Reviews (6)

Book
the materials I order were received in very good conditional. I am happy with the service I received and the timeliness of the shippment. I would recommend this company to my friends for their future needs of educational materials.

Good book for any woodworker
Book seems to be very well written and organized. There are a lot of pictures, which are clear and helpful even though the pictures are quite old.Regardless on the old pictures, the methods presented and explained in this book (actually three books) are everlasting. Actually every modern day woodworker should take a look on this book. It's enlightening.

Excellent woodworking resource
Excellent set of books, and the DVD is invaluable.You get to see a master at work while he gives reasons about his methods.

Fantastic Frid
I first came in contact with this set while in college studying woodworking about 6 years ago.While in school I referenced it many times for a complete 'how to' to a 'how do I do that again.'Now, I am still in the woodworking business, and this is a great set of books to have around to consult for what ever reason, thus, I recently got my own.I especially like a chart he has for doing compound angled miters- I must have looked at that a hundred times.Though the pictures are obviously dated, the skills and basics techniques he writes about are timeless, and are a fantastic jumping off point for someone to figure out how to make anything.He teaches you everything you need to know, I highly recommend this set.

Tage Frid
These are great books full of good information.Not all of his furniture is
in a style that I would choose, but it's constrution is great.The DVD is good.
Although not packed full of woodworking skills, it's nice to watch this master work
in his shop.You'll wish you could spend a few days working with him. ... Read more