Monthly Collection Spotlight
November 2025
Handmade Gifts
Festive felt decorations by Corinne Lapierre
Festive felt decorations
by Corinne Lapierre

Create decorations to hang on your tree or ornaments to decorate your table and mantelpiece, including stars, trees, birds, and animals. Create gorgeous family heirlooms that you will look forward to seeing year after year. All the projects are simple to make, and all the necessary templates are given at actual size.
Sewing cozy craft projects : make adorable animal dâecor, gifts, and keepsakes by Olesya Lebedenko
Sewing cozy craft projects : make adorable animal decor, gifts, and keepsakes
by Olesya Lebedenko

The author uses quilting, applique, knitting, sewing, painting, and other techniques to create animal characters and then makes different projects featuring these characters. Projects include fabric postcards, holiday ornaments, gift tags, a coin purse,a small purse, and more. Projects are fully illustrated and accompanied by step-by-step text instructions.
Animal friends to sew : simple handmade decor, toys, and gifts for kids by Sanae Ishida
Animal friends to sew : simple handmade decor, toys, and gifts for kids
by Sanae Ishida

Inspired by the beautiful simplicity of Japanese and Scandinavian designs, this adorable guide presents 15 beginner-friendly, animal-themed projects for kids' room décor, handmade toys and wearable accessories. 
Crochet creatures of myth & legend / :  19 Designs Easy Cute Critters to Legendary Beasts by Megan Lapp
Crochet creatures of myth & legend : 19 Designs Easy Cute Critters to Legendary Beasts
by Megan Lapp

These unique crochet creations are intricately detailed and colorful, and yet, with Megan Lapp's step-by-step instructions, anyone can achieve her results. Crochet Creatures of Myth and Legend includes 13 Cute Critter patterns and 6 Standard Size mythological beasts in all their glory.
Easy homemade pottery : make your own stylish decor using polymer and air-dry clay by Francesca Stone
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, creator of the decor blog Fall For DIY, 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. Featuring a gorgeous, modern palette of natural colors, these projects are deceptively easy and effortlessly chic.
Staff Picks
The way of the woodshop :  creating, designing & decorating with wood by Aleksandra Zee
The way of the woodshop : creating, designing & decorating with wood
by Aleksandra Zee

A celebrated woodworker presents a meditative guidebook that takes readers on an illustrated journey through the joys of working, decorating and crafting with wood. 
Homemade holiday :  Craft Your Way Through More Than 40 Festive Projects by Sophie Pester
Homemade holiday : Craft Your Way Through More Than 40 Festive Projects
by Sophie Pester

Presents step-by-step, illustrated instructions for festive craft projects for gifts, decorations, and homemade wrapping paper.
Knits to give : 30 knitted gifts made with love by Debbie Bliss
Knits to give : 30 knitted gifts made with love
by Debbie Bliss

Provides thirty patterns for both beginning and expert knitters to create hand-knitted gifts for a variety of occasions.
Baking for the holidays : 50+ treats for a festive season by Sarah Kieffer
Baking for the holidays : 50+ treats for a festive season
by Sarah Kieffer

The blogger behind The Vanilla Bean Blog and author of 100 Cookies offers 50 delectable recipes for seasonal brunches, cookie swaps and holiday parties including Red Velvet Crinkle Cookies, Panettone Scones and Triple Chocolate Peppermint Bark.
Baking with Dorie : sweet, salty & simple by Dorie Greenspan
Baking with Dorie : sweet, salty & simple
by Dorie Greenspan

A James Beard Award-winning and New York Times best-selling cookbook author offers more than 150 new recipes with ingenious twists including Meringue Little Marvels, Double-Decker Caramel Cake, Coconut Milk Chocolate Marble Cake and Curd and Cream Shortcake.
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