Hobbies & Crafts
 
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Jewelry Making & Miscellany
Fiber Crafts
Technology Hobbies
Jewelry Making & Miscellany
The Crafty Chica creates! : Latinx-inspired DIY projects with spirit and sparkle
by Kathy Cano-Murillo

The Queen of Latina Style, Kathy Cano Murillo, is back with fantastic art and craft projects-including brand-new ideas and previous favorites-in The New Crafty Chica Collection.
Diy Resin Crafting Projects: A Beginner's Guide to Making Clear Resin Jewelry, Paperweights, Coasters, and Other Keepsakes
by Artresin

Keep and craft memories made by nature, whether it’s a four-leaf clover, a bird’s feather, beautiful blooms from a wedding bouquet, or something your child found for you!
The Unofficial Book of Handmade Cricut Crafts: Creating Personalized Gifts With Your Electronic Cutting Machine
by Crystal Allen

Whether you are a skilled crafter or new to DIY, you will find exciting ways to use your Cricut Maker, Explore, and/or Joy.
Creative Polymer Clay: Over 30 Techniques and Projects for Contemporary Wearable Art
by Heidi Helyard

In this comprehensive guide to modern polymer clay techniques, artist and designer Heidi Helyard reveals the simple techniques that can be used to create one-off, contemporary jewellery pieces with minimal tools and equipment.
The Complete Fishing Manual
by Henry Gilbey

Explains the basics of fishing, including equipment, types of lure to use in freshwater or saltwater, different varieties of fish, and places to fish around the world
A Year Full of Flowers: Gardening for all Seasons
by Sarah Raven

A Year Full of Flowers reveals the hundreds of hardworking varieties that make the garden sing each month, together with the practical tasks that ensure everything is planted, staked and pruned at just the right time. 
Creative Watercolor and Mixed Media : A Step-by-Step Guide to Achieving Stunning Effects: Play With Gouache, Metallic Paints, Masking Fluid, Alcohol, and More
by Ana Victoria Calderon

Whether you're new to the medium or are looking to add new techniques to your watercolor practice, go grab a brush, paints, and some easy-to-use materials and take a beautiful creative journey with watercolor!
 
Creative Journaling: a Guide to Over 100 Ideas and Techniques for Amazing Dot Grid, Junk, Mixed Media, and Travel Pages
by Renee Day

Creative Journaling includes easy-to-follow instructions with photos for any DIY fan to complete creative projects on their own.
Easy Homemade Pottery: Make Your Own Stylish Decor Using Polymer and Air-dry Clay
by Francesca Stone

You’ll be amazed by what you can create with polymer and air-dry clay. These affordable, easy-to-find clays present endless possibilities for artisan-quality home decor and gifts. Francesca Stone presents simple step-by-step techniques for shaping and decorating clay with just a few household tools. All final pieces can be air-dried or baked in a standard home oven.
Making Soap: 18 Luxurious Soaps to Make and Give Using Natural Ingredients
by Kathrin Landmann

Beautifully photographed, this beginner-friendly guide has everything you need to make 18 lovely soaps. Inspirational for seasoned soap-makers as well, the recipes use only natural ingredients that are kind to the skin and our environment. From olive oil to juniper and cucumber to honey, there are lots of gorgeous fragrances and colours to satisfy everyone. 
Garden Secrets for Attracting Birds: a Bird-by-Bird Guide to Favored Plants
by Rachael Lanicci

Describes popular North American plants for attracting birds and provides bird profiles of many common North American birds
Polymer Clay for Beginners: Inspiration, Techniques, and Simple Step-by-Step Projects for Making Art with Polymer Clay
by Emily Chen

An inspirational gallery provides even more ideas for those who want to continue learning how to work with this easy-to-use medium. A  modern approach to sculpture art , polymer clay is the perfect choice for beginners and crafting enthusiasts.
Fiber Crafts
Needle Felting Teddy Bears for Beginners
by Roz Dace

Needle-felting is an easy and fun technique, requiring little in the way of expensive materials or equipment and award-winning authors Judy Balchin and Roz Dace show how to make 20 wonderful little teddy bears using this tactile technique.
Mending with Love: Creative Repairs for Your Favorite Things
by Noriko Misumi

Extend the life of well-worn, beloved pieces using these creative techniques. Mending With Love shows you how to apply embroidery, patching, darning, felting, stamping and a little crochet to worn pieces of clothing or household items. 
Nordic Crochet Toys
by Ina Rye-holmboe

Meet, and crochet, Karl, the boy who wants to become a fisherman when he grows up. He always brings his stuffed fish toy wherever he goes. Meet his friends Brita and Knut, and all the cute animals they come across on their adventures, like the arctic fox, the mountain hare, the cuckoo, the sleepy bear and many more. The book will walk you through all the necessary steps to create crochet toys on your own. 
3D Granny Squares: 100 Crochet Patterns for Pop-up Granny Squares
by Caitie Moore

Featuring 10 colorful and creative projects, this collection of 100 3D granny square crochet patterns shows how to make beautiful gifts for friends and family. 
Machine Sewing: 25 Quick & Easy Projects to Build Your Skills
by Debbie von Grabler-Crozier

Discover, or rekindle, a new passion in this learn-as-you-stitch practical course by sewing extraordinaire, blogger and writer, Debbie von Grabler-Crozier. Following her friendly, clear instructions, master the essential machine sewing skills you've always wanted to conquer while making something cute and useful for you and your home in the process - and all in a short space of time. 25 projects in total, broken down into different sections - fabric, interfacing, quilting, etc. - designed especially by Debbie to take you from the beginner to the confident sewist.
Technology Hobbies
Soldering and Brazing Handbook for Home Machinists : Practical Information and Useful Exercises for the Small Shop
by Tubal Cain

Joining metal by soft or hard soldering, or brazing with alloys, is a common practice in welding and engineering workshops. But have you ever given thought to whether there could be quicker, more efficient, and less expensive methods?
Aircraft: the definitive visual history
by Inc. Dorling Kindersley

A visual history of airplanes and aviation featuring 800 of the greatest aircraft ever made, from the earliest hot air balloons to Germany’s Zeppelins and modern supersonic jets including legendary planes like the Gipsy Moth, the Spitfire and the Concorde.
Learn to Code by Solving Problems: a Python Programming Primer
by Daniel Zingaro

Teaches readers how to use Python to solve short, situational competitive programming problems. Each chapter requires the reader to learn a new feature or function of Python in order to solve a problem, while emphasizing basic programming concepts, problem-solving strategies, and critical thinking skills
Photoshop Elements 2021
by Barbara Obermeier

Shows how to use Photoshop Elements 2021 for everything from common image fixes to detailed retouching of photographs utilizing more creative techniques such as image layers, and includes tips on building and managing complex photograph projects
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