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Sister Bullwinkel: The Untold, Uncensored Story
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Sister Bullwinkel – The untold, uncensored story has finally exposed the truth. Vivian has put on a brave face to the world for the past 52 years, ever since she was released from a Japanese prison camp in Sumatra at the end of World War II. Her story is one she has recounted many times. Vivian was the sole survivor of a massacre of 21 nursing sisters and one civilian woman by Japanese troops on Radji Beach on Bangka Island.
Vivian revealed the truth of what happened to army investigators but they censored her testimony and chose to obliterate it from the record. Despite her best efforts, Vivian was gagged from the outset by her own government and by the Australian army, who ordered her to keep quiet – an order that, as a serving member of the military, she was bound to keep.
Vivian was desperate to speak out. She knew that the truth would set her free from the years of torment. Thwarted by higher authorities, by a succession of men who thought that they knew better, she was prevented from doing so.
Lynette Ramsay Silver has uncovered what really happened on Bangka Island.
“I refuse to stay silent, to be a party to any further cover-up. It is time to tell the real story of the life of this amazing Australian woman.
Vivian wanted a voice.
I am proud, finally, to be able give it to her.”
Silk ‘Paper’ Creations for the Fibre Artist
The book Silk ‘Paper’ Creations for the Fibre Artist explores silk “paper” as a versatile and expressive medium in fibre art. Silk is valued for its natural sheen, translucency, and ability to absorb vibrant colour, making it especially exciting for artists.
Building on ideas introduced in Take Silk, this book expands the range of materials to include tussah silk tops, bombyx silk, and silk throwster waste. It introduces new techniques and creative approaches that push the boundaries of silk “paper” work.
Aimed at both beginners and experienced fibre artists, the book provides step-by-step guidance on working with different silk fibres. It also includes projects such as wall hangings, decorative motifs, and sculptural forms like bowls, vases, and masks—encouraging exploration of rich colour and texture through pure silk.
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At War With My Father
At War With My Father – Fred Howe: Prisoner of War is a deeply personal memoir that intertwines wartime history with a daughter’s search for understanding her father.
The narrative opens in 2008 in Boorowa, where the author reflects at her father’s graveside after years of researching his experiences as a prisoner of war on the Burma–Thailand Railway. Through this journey, she seeks to better understand both her father and herself.
The book recounts the brutal suffering endured by Sergeant Fred Howe—torture, starvation, and psychological strain—while also exploring his internal conflict about enlisting despite having a family. Alongside these vivid wartime experiences, the narrative reveals the emotional distance between father and daughter, shaped by trauma that was never spoken about.
As a child, the author did not grasp the meaning of her father’s war stories. As an adult, she comes to understand how profoundly those experiences affected him and, in turn, their relationship. The memoir ultimately reflects on inherited trauma, reconciliation, and the lasting impact of war, captured in the poignant contrast: while Fred was a POW for over three years, his daughter feels she has lived in emotional captivity for decades.
Machine Embroidery
Author Kristen Dibbs introduces eleven of Australia’s foremost textile artists and teachers of machine embroidery as they discuss their work and reveal their sources of inspiration.
Share the secrets of their favourite techniques, including silk-paper making, ‘cram-jar’ dyeing, thread painting, contemporary machine-lace making and bobbin work. Each artist has designed an exciting new project especially for this book.
If you love your sewing machine, you’ll find this stimulating book essential reading.
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Natural Fertility 4th Edition
Updated with latest statistics and information.
Fertility is a challenge faced by women universally. Naish provides natural and holistic solutions and preventative advice to support a woman’s wellbeing, and help to overcome problems with contraception, infertility, reproductive and hormonal health.
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Gluten Free Cooking
Updated and revised from the original Wheat-Free Cooking.
Gluten Free Cooking is for all those diagnosed with Coeliac Disease requiring a life-time commitment to a gluten-free diet. These easy-to-follow recipes, tested many times in the author’s ‘Country Kitchen’, prove that those on a gluten-free diet do not need to give up their favourite foods. Adults and children can still eat delicious breads, pies, pizzas, biscuits and healthy muffins, as well as other favourites.
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Sandakan – A Conspiracy of Silence
Sandakan: A Conspiracy of Silence by Lynette Ramsay Silver* exposes the tragic and largely overlooked story of Australian prisoners of war held at the Sandakan POW Camp during World War II.
The book details the catastrophic failures within Allied leadership, including a flawed rescue attempt and critical decisions that contributed to the deaths of nearly all the prisoners—leaving only six survivors. Set against the harsh and unforgiving environment of North Borneo, it highlights the extreme suffering endured by the POWs.
Drawing on extensive research, survivor testimonies, and Japanese records, the author reconstructs a powerful and deeply confronting account. The narrative combines personal stories with historical analysis to reveal not only the brutality of the camp, but also the silence, mismanagement, and missed opportunities that turned Sandakan into one of the deadliest and darkest secrets of World War II.
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A Blessing not a Curse: A Mother-Daughter Guide Book for the Transition from Child to Woman
A Blessing not a Curse – A mother-daughter guide to the transition from child to woman is a sensitive book for parents. Jane Bennett dispels the notion of the curse, replacing it with a positive and enlightened view of menarche and menstruation. With practical advice on how to explain menstruation to your daughter, help her cope with mood swings and pain, as well as handle such issues as contraception, you can feel confident that your daughter will have an affirming experience of menstruation.
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Conscious Birthing: Yoga and Meditation for Pregnancy
Conscious Birthing: Yoga and Meditation for Pregnancy is a new revised and condensed edition of The Complete Book of Yoga and Meditation for Pregnancy. Theresa adapts the ancient practice of yoga to the needs of contemporary women in pregnancy, childbirth and early motherhood. In a beautiful volume, all postures are thoroughly explained in a simple format and accompanied with descriptive photographs.
Conscious Birthing guides the reader through a safe and natural way of maintaining health, increasing vitality and preparing for a conscious and enjoyable birthing experience. This easy to follow guide has been designed to use as part of your everyday life, whether you have previous experience of yoga or not.
Many postures are explained, plus the practice of yoga breathing, deep relaxation, meditation and creative visualisation which help women during pregnancy. These are also important for mental, physical and emotional health in preparation for birth.
These practices increase your sense of wellbeing and health during pregnancy and after the birth. The importance and benefits of each posture is outlined including invaluable notes and precautions based on Theresa’s many years of experience in teaching yoga to pregnant women.
The book includes birth stories written by women who have benefited from yoga during their pregnancies and in childbirth and there is discussion on the value of using specific essential oils and other natural remedies that can be used safely and effectively during labour and childbirth. There is also a postnatal yoga program which takes the reader through the first six months after birth detailing the correct and safest way to practice yoga from birth to six months after the birth.
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Diabetes: Good Food Choices
ENDORSED BY DIABETES AUSTRALIA
Diabetes: Good Food Choices is a practical and accessible cookbook offering over 100 recipes designed for people living with Diabetes, while still appealing to anyone seeking healthy eating options.
The book emphasises the importance of a balanced diet that includes a wide variety of foods—such as fruits and vegetables, grains, dairy, lean proteins, and healthy fats—to support overall wellbeing and effective diabetes management. Each recipe follows established nutritional guidelines and is accompanied by detailed analysis, including energy (kilojoules), fats, fibre, carbohydrates, sodium, and protein content.
Authored by Ruby M. Brown, a respected educator and specialist in dietary cooking, the book combines nutritional expertise with practical meal ideas, making it a valuable resource for maintaining a healthy lifestyle through informed food choices.Wheat-Free Cooking (More than 100 Gluten-Free Recipes), Good Food for Diabetes and Milk-Free Cooking.
In the Mouth of the Tiger
In the Mouth of the Tiger is a novel that is very personal to authors Derek Emerson-Elliott and military historian Lynette Silver. It is based on real people and events and the central character is based on Derek’s own father, Denis Emerson-Elliott, who worked for British intelligence before, during and after the Second World War. He is also the MI6 spy that Lynette Silver met on Central Railway station in Sydney, one wet winter’s day in 1996 and is referred to in her book Deadly Secrets.
In the Mouth of the Tiger is an amazing story of love, mystery and intrigue. At the time of the story, Britain ruled the whole of the Malayan Peninsula as part of her Empire. Security Intelligence Far East (SIFE) was a special British Intelligence organisation set up in Singapore to combat the spread of Communism. It comprised agents from both MI5 and MI6.
The book is also a love story between Derek’s father and his mother, Nona Orlov, a very beautiful young White Russian, the heroine of the story and her early life was as depicted in the book and their family home was Whitelawns, near Changi. In real life, Nona (Norma Emerson-Elliot) died tragically young. Derek and his brother and sister never knew their mother was Russian until after her death.
The final scenes in the story are pure fiction but the setting for these events are based on facts. The Emerson-Elliotts did live at Almer Manor, Dorset, in 1949, where they entertained senior intelligence personalities including Ian Fleming and Admiral Sir Reginald Drax, their neighbour (Fleming cheekily borrowed Drax’s name for the villain of the James Bond novel Moonraker).
Denis Emerson-Elliott was a most engaging figure. There has been much speculation over the years on the identity of the wartime naval intelligence officer, on whom Fleming is said to have based his famous character James Bond.
The Kavieng Massacre: A War Crime Revealed
An engaging book revealing the shocking truth of the Kavieng Massacre in March 1944. During the push southward in the Pacific by the Japanese during World War II, a large group of expatriate Australian men and German Catholic missionaries were trapped on New Ireland, many interned by the Japanese in September 1942 at Kavieng. They disappeared without trace in March 1944.
After the Pacific war ended in August 1945, the Australian Government commenced a largely secret enquiry into the fate of these missing civilians. In June 1947 it was discovered that all the Kavieng internees had been secretly murdered by their captors because the Japanese had assumed Kavieng was shortly to be invaded by US Marines. Unknown to them, the US invasion of Kavieng had been suddenly cancelled by the US high command at the last moment and replaced with a diversionary naval bombardment. After the defeat of Japan, the Japanese naval officers responsible for the Kavieng massacre elaborately concealed their embarrassing crime to mislead Australian investigations. This concealment was successful and delayed revelation of the truth until 1947.
The war, the people, the crime, the cover-up, and finally the truth.
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Deadly Secrets – The Singapore Raids 1942-45
Deadly Secrets: The Singapore Raids 1942–45 by Lynette Ramsay Silver recounts the dramatic and controversial story of covert Allied operations against Japanese forces in Singapore during World War II.
The narrative begins with Bill Reynolds and his escape from Singapore in a damaged Japanese fishing boat later renamed Krait. This vessel became central to Operation Jaywick, a daring mission in which a small team successfully sabotaged enemy shipping in Singapore Harbour. However, the raid had serious and tragic consequences for local civilians.
The book also covers Operation Rimau, a more ambitious follow-up mission that ultimately failed, resulting in the deaths of all involved. Through accounts including those of Denis Emerson-Elliott, Silver provides insight into the secretive world of wartime espionage and special operations.
Importantly, the book challenges long-standing myths and misconceptions about these missions—many of which were shaped by limited information, rumours, or later dramatizations. It presents a sobering reassessment, suggesting that despite their bravery and daring, operations like Jaywick and Rimau may have yielded little strategic value, instead leading primarily to loss, suffering, and unintended consequences.
Little Book of Tassels
The Little Book of Tassels presents uniquely beautiful projects introduce decorative techniques, which will help you gradually develop skills and create your own designs. Colour photographs, clear drawings and simple instructions will have you tasselled in no time!
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Making Wooden Toys
Making Wooden Toys is the book for you. Even if you have next-to-nil carpentry skills and no thumbs, you will find these toys easy to make! Requiring only basic equipment and materials, and including simple step-by-step instructions, this guide will inspire many unique and irreplaceable wooden toys for any child.
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Angels of Mercy: Far West & Far East
Angels of Mercy: Far West & Far East by Lynette Ramsay Silver tells the remarkable true stories of two Australian nurses whose lives unfolded in vastly different but equally challenging environments.
In the Australian outback, Marjorie Silver worked with the Far West Children’s Health Scheme as its first permanent “flying sister,” delivering vital medical care to remote communities in places like Bourke. Battling isolation and harsh conditions, she later established clinics in Queensland and continued her work in the Northern Territory. Her story also connects with Nancy Bird Walton, who served as her pilot early on.
In contrast, Pat Gunther served overseas with the Australian Imperial Force during World War II. After deployment to Malaya and Singapore, she was captured and became a prisoner of war on Bangka Island, enduring years of harsh captivity in Sumatra. Her story reveals lesser-known details, including a long-held secret among imprisoned nurses.
Drawing from memoirs, interviews, and historical research, the book interweaves personal experiences with broader context. It also provides a comprehensive record of Australian military nurses and women doctors who served during World War II, highlighting their roles and sacrifices.
Overall, the book stands as a tribute to the resilience, courage, and vital contributions of nurses both in remote Australia and in wartime captivity.
Billy: My Life as a Teenage POW
Billy: My Life as a Teenage POW has been compiled from a personal chronicle begun by Billy Young throughout the 1970s, supplemented by hundreds of conversations that Lynette and Billy have shared in the course of their close friendship spanning more than two decades. It is the only first-hand published account by an ordinary soldier imprisoned by the Japanese at the infamous Sandakan POW Camp, and one of only three books by a survivor at the Kempeitai’s equally notorious Outram Road Gaol.
Billy is now the only soldier left alive from Sandakan, and the only Australian prisoner still alive from Outram Road.
Billy’s close friend, historian and author Lynette Silver, provides historical details gleaned from thirty years of researching and writing about events that Billy experienced first hand. Throughout, Billy gives his unique narrative, immerse in vibrancy and life as he takes the reader on a very personal journey. Through the eyes of a tearaway teenaged soldier, Billy shares his thoughts and experiences, some of which have never before been revealed – secrets that he has kept even from his closest family.
Billy: My Life as a Teenage POW also includes short poems written by Billy, along with his drawings and paintings depicting events that occurred during his time as a POW. These are the only visual records in existence.
This book is his memorial to all those who died in Borneo and in Outram Road Gaol.
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Caro & Co: Helping Kids Find Wonder in the Everyday
Caro & Co – Helping kids find wonder in the everyday illustrates that Wonder can be found everywhere, in the simplest of places and in many of the activities we undertake every day – you just need to know how and where to look. And, of course, wonder is amplified tenfold when you head outdoors.
The outdoors is where imagination and discovery collide in the most spectacular fashion. Mother Nature’s secrets are just begging to be discovered and, what’s more, she is a brilliant, patient teacher and your child a willing student. Everything outdoors is full of wonder.
Encourage your child to find the extraordinary in the ordinary, the magic in the mundane and enchantment in the everyday. This book lists some ideas on how to go about this. All the activities, either indoor or outside, are simple and inexpensive, and rely mostly on the ready imagination of your child. If you are guided by your knowledge of your own child, together you can find a little wonder in everything you do. So go on. Open the door, step outside and find some magic.
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Creative Handpainted Bears 3
This guide to handpainted bears inspires a variety of vintage styles. Finished artworks introduce a nostalgic novelty to any space or design. These classic paintings are created with loving attention to detail and each bear has its own unique personality. Included at the rear of the book is a pattern sheet which makes these bear designs achievable for even the beginner. Easy step-by-step instructions are accompanied by colour photographs and illustrations supporting each progression of development.
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Deliciously Decorative Cookies: Easy-to-Make Cookie Creations
Deliciously Decorative Cookies: Easy-to-Make Cookie Creations is a visually appealing guide to the art of cookie decorating, suitable for bakers of all skill levels.
The book features around 50 creative projects that explore a variety of techniques, including royal icing piping, fondant decoration, coloured dough designs, and even 3D cookie sculptures. Projects are organised by icing type, with helpful icons indicating the time required for each creation.
In addition to step-by-step instructions and detailed photography, the book includes essential cookie recipes, decorating tips, and templates. Overall, it offers an accessible and inspiring introduction to creating beautifully decorated cookies that are both elegant and fun.
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How to Package your Handmade Products: Tips and Creative Inspiration for Crafters from Crafters
How to Package your Handmade Products – Tips and creative inspiration for crafters from crafters takes you on a journey from making boxes to die-cutting your logo, How to Package Your Handmade Products is aimed at crafters, providing a comprehensive guide to creative packaging ideas for handmade products, encouraging the turn of a passion into a lucrative business. Whether selling on sites such as Etsy or through craft fairs, trade shows, and local stores, this book shows you how to give your handmade jewelry, soft craft, or homeware products that professional edge to make the crucial difference between a one-time sale and customers who come back for more!
Existing packaging books are aimed at graphic designers or specialist packaging designers. This book is aimed solely at design-makers, crafters and creators making sense of specialist terms, standard envelope sizes, folding terminology, and measurements. Advice ranges from the simple; how to customize basic boxes and labels with printing, creative washi tape, or other designs and shapes; to the more complex; making your own packaging and recycling old material to make new packaging. Also included are printable templates and a resources section at the back of the book with handy sizing charts, standard envelope sizes across the world, ratios for scaling the accompanying templates, and measurement conversion charts, making this a truly indispensable resource for the creative and innovative crafter and seller.
So whether you’re making boxes and labels from scratch or buying precut templates from a local craft store, this book gives you all you need in order to design and customize your packaging with your unique style. With a unique mix of accessible information, gorgeous inspiration, and helpful advice, How to Package Your Handmade Products shows how easy it can be to create gorgeous packaging for lovingly handmade products and ensure your precious products look as stylish outside the box as they do inside.
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Little Book of Heirloom Christmas Tree Decorations
The Little Book of Heirloom Christmas Tree Decorations delivers this exquisite silk miniature elaborately embroidered with a profusion of decorations, many of them based on those which Jenny Stephenson hangs on her family Christmas tree each year. One of the joys of this project is that the complex effect is achieved with the simplest of stitches, worked with a luxuriant variety of silk and metallic threads, embellished with an abundance of tiny beads and sequins.
The book clearly lays out the sequence to be followed in the tree’s creation, with each decoration fully explained, step by step, and illustrated with diagrams and a colour photograph. The instructions are precise, but there is much scope for creating your own version through the use of a different colour scheme for the balls and bells, beads of different styles and the addition of special trinkets that you may have set aside for that special project.
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Silk Paper for Textile Artists
Silk Paper for Textile Artists is a creative step by step demonstration of basic methods for crafting this unique luminous fabric. In four chapters, Sarah Lawrence displays how silk paper can be embellished and adapted through the clever use of dyes, natural and manmade ingredients and simple techniques such as cutting and layering, embroidery and more. It includes examples of the myriad ways textile artists can create flat and 3-D designs in this medium, from framed articles to jewellery. Featuring photographs of the original pieces made especially for this book, along with photographs and descriptions of the authors exhibitions pieces. Includes a helpful glossary of silk making terms.
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75 Flowers for Cake Decorators: A Beautiful Collection of Easy-to-Make Floral Cake and Cupcake Toppers
75 Flowers for Cake Decorators: A Beautiful Collection of easy-to-make Floral Cake and Cupcake Toppers is a practical and inspiring guide to creating realistic floral decorations for cakes and cupcakes.
The book features a wide variety of lifelike flowers made using different techniques such as piping, molding, wiring, pulling, and cutters. It caters to both beginners and experienced decorators, offering options across multiple mediums including fondant, frosting, marzipan, and chocolate.
Each flower is presented with clear, step-by-step instructions and detailed photography, showing how individual components come together. The book also includes essential guidance on techniques, materials, and basic cake-making skills, making it a comprehensive resource for turning baked goods into visually stunning creations.
300 Cake Decorating Tips, Techniques & Trade Secrets
300 Cake Decorating Tips, Techniques and Trade Secrets is an indispensable compendium of essential knowledge and troubleshooting tips. Tapping into the hottest trend in the cookery as craft market right now, this book is crammed with information on the art and craft of cake decorating. Author Carol Deacon shows you how to use fondant, buttercream, chocolate and marzipan to create a stunning array of cake decorations, and edible delights. Decorated cupcakes are a favourite with adults and children, and this book is for you if you want to make delightful frosted cakes, or a cupcake tower adorned with cookie cutter daisies, or give as gifts or favours, adorable gum paste animals or delicate ribbon embellished porcelain like flowers. Crammed with over 300 professional fixes, insider tips, and money saving secrets, content is arranged by topic to enable any crafter to achieve a professional look to their cupcakes, cake pops, or celebration cakes.
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Popular Quilling
Popular Quilling provides a wonderful new assortment of Australian native florals and charming floral emblems from around the world. The book features a brand new section on distinctive Australian animals and outback symbols, as well as a superb Christmas component, making this book an essential collection of numerous quilling designs. With easy-to-follow instructions and colour photographs of each project, Helen’s book will inspire both the novice and skilled quiller.
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Put Your Stamp On It: Cards, Interiors, Scrapbooks & Stationery
Put Your Stamp On It – Cards, Interiors, Scrapbooks & Stationery shows you how to create beautiful, hand-printed gifts and items for you, your friends and your home? Drawing on a growing trend for rubber stamps and stamping as a printmaking craft – and a burgeoning stamping community of artisans and experts to go with it – this book illustrates just how easy it is to create your own rubber stamps and go on to print infinite personalized projects in the comfort of your own home.
It explores the basic principles required for a professional stamping finish, from choosing essentials tools to carving your first rubber reliefs, mounting stamps on blocks and printing on a variety of materials including fabric, paper and wood. Put Your Stamp On It also explores the brilliant duality of this printmaking medium: it can exist as a simple craft or has the potential to create more complex, intricate artworks.
Put Your Stamp On It includes 20 brilliant stamping projects from simple designs to intricate masterpieces, as well as fully-illustrated guides to the essential tools, skills and techniques with tips and tricks for troubleshooting. Be inspired to adapt projects to print on a range of materials including paper, fabric and wood, and with various inks.
A great introduction for the novice stamp maker, this book also offers more advanced tips and tricks for experienced stampers looking to expand their skills. Happy stamping!
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Handmade Books and Albums: Decorate and Embellish Notebooks, Diaries and Journals
Transform ready-made albums and create stunning journals of your own with the techniques and ideas described in Handmade Books and Albums. Using easily accessible materials and equipment, you can achieve spectacular results, whether enhancing the cover of a store-bought journal or creating a sumptuous album right from scratch. Beautifully illustrated step by step instructions take you through more than 20 projects. Additional projects show you how to make paper and embellish the pages in your book. It includes a selection of the different materials that can be used for creating covering binding, and fastening notebooks and journals.
The essential handbook for the creative soul.
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Jewellery-Making Basics
Jewellery Making Basics is your gateway to creating stunning, handcrafted jewellery from scratch! Packed with clear step-by-step photos, clever diagrams, and hands-on projects, it teaches you essential techniques like sawing, soldering, filing, and stone setting—even if you’ve never picked up a tool before. Craft beautiful rings, bracelets, earrings, and pendants as you learn, while gaining tips on designing your own dazzling, one-of-a-kind pieces. Fun, practical, and inspiring, this is the ultimate guide for beginners and creative makers ready to bring their jewellery dreams to life.
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Little Book of Beaded Crusts and Tassels
Little Book of Beaded Crusts and Tassels is your go-to guide for creating stunning beaded decorations with ease and flair. Forget tedious bead counting or messy glue—this book shows you simple, effective techniques to craft dazzling beaded surfaces and intricate, eye-catching tassels.
Packed with vibrant colour photographs, clear instructional illustrations, and easy-to-follow text, it takes you step by step through a variety of bead crusting methods. Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned crafter, you’ll be inspired to create beautiful, decorative pieces that are quick, fun, and guaranteed to impress.
Wild Jewellery: Materials, Techniques, Inspiration
Wild Jewellery: Materials, Techniques, Inspiration unlocks the secrets of creating breathtaking contemporary jewellery from materials found in the wild. From twigs and stones to unexpected natural treasures, this book shows you how to transform ordinary objects into wearable works of art.
Filled with expert guidance on sourcing and selecting materials, plus full-colour, step-by-step instructions, it covers techniques like crocheting found objects, working with silver wire, and setting pieces in polymer clay or epoxy resin. Each method is versatile, allowing you to craft hundreds of unique designs—rings, bracelets, brooches, necklaces, tiaras, and more.
Whether you’re creating resin-inlaid twig beads, wire-wrapped stone settings, or inventive ring shanks, Wild Jewellery inspires originality and striking results, offering endless possibilities for the adventurous jewellery designer.
A Guide to Endangered Flora in Quilling
Having already published over 86 quilled floral designs, Helen Walter now presents quilling endangered plant species. This should excite quillers and also raise an awareness of our disappearing flora, whether the disappearance be caused by climate change, human activity, loss of habitat or natural disaster. The projects are set into seven categories of endangerment: Prehistoric; Extinct; Extinct in the Wild; Critically Endangered; Endangered: Vulnerable; and Thriving. The 42 plants are all beautifully presented in full colour with clear step-by-step instructions.
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Beadopedia: The Only Beading Reference You’ll Ever Need
Beadopedia is a concise yet comprehensive guide to all things related to the craft of beading. Covering the basics, intermediate, and more advanced beading techniques, Beadopedia will give you the know-how you need to create jewelry and accessories you’ll love to make and wear. With step-by-step instructions and clear images it will help you easily pick up new techniques, or master any that you’re less confident at. Beadopedia is comprised of the latest and most popular beading techniques out there, including macrame, soutache, wire crochet, and many simpler techniques, like how to tie a double knot on elastic.
Making your own jewellery and accessories can seem a bit daunting when you first start out, with such a vast array of beads, findings, tools, and beading-related terminology. This compendium will simplify all of this, with clear instructions and useful descriptions, to use as an invaluable reference as you work through your beading designs.
There is something here for everyone, from projects to attempt when you are just starting out, to ones for those who have already done a bit of beadwork and want to give something new a try, while learning new techniques. The 25 inspiring and fresh design projects, from beginners to advanced, are presented with clear step-by-step instructions, accompanied by close-up photos. By working your way through the techniques and projects in Beadopedia, you will be well on your way to creating your own beautiful jewellery. It will provide you with the knowledge and confidence you’ll need to experiment with new ideas and will be useful to refer back to as you work on new designs.
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Decorative Beading: Lampshades, Tassels, Scarves, Brooches and More Delightful Projects to Make
Decorative Beading is your ultimate guide to dazzling, beaded creations! From sparkling lampshades and chic bags to elegant combs, bookmarks, and scarves, this book teaches both beginners and seasoned crafters how to turn beads into stunning, intricate designs. Packed with step-by-step projects and techniques like beaded fringing, it’s the perfect handbook to unleash your creativity and make everyday items shimmer with style.
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Exotic Beads: 45 Distinctive Beaded Jewellery Designs
Exotic Beads delivers 45 exciting beading projects from around the world. Create stunningly unique necklaces, chokers, earrings and bracelets to treat yourself and others. Projects range from simple ideas for beginners, to intricate and inspirational designs for more experienced bead workers. Clearly annotated colour photographs detail techniques and steps to bring your striking creations to life. Harness your imagination and craft timeless gifts and treasures that are uniquely yours. Get beading!
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75 Chinese, Celtic & Ornamental Knots for Jewellery
75 Chinese, Celtic & Ornamental Knots for Jewellery is the essential guide for novice and experienced jewellery makers. Learn to tie decorative knots from across the world with this stylish directory. Follow clear diagrams with step-by-step instructions to create 75 exciting and distinctive jewellery knots. A grading system allows beginners to get started straight away while experienced jewelists can delve into a variety of complex and intricate designs. 10 projects will inspire readers to create beautiful and original ornamental knots that can combine with beads for a modern look, or consist entirely of knots for a traditional style. With detailed material lists and photography of finished items, this book is the complete guide to jewellery knots. Also, containing a comprehensive techniques section, 75 Chinese, Celtic and Ornamental Knots for Jewellery shows how to use jump rings and seal cords correctly. This practical know how will be invaluable as readers progress to designing and creating their own knotted jewellery.
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350 Jewellery Making Tips, Techniques & Trade Secrets
350 Jewellery Making tips, Techniques & Trade Secrets packs in the combined wisdom of two writer-educators who are consummate problem solvers when it comes to jewellery making. Together they show the reader how to fix common problems, try out new creative techniques, get more skilled at familiar methods, improvise tools and discover ways to save money, such as recycling gold and other precious metal scraps. From beading to setting a stone, understanding annealing to soldering your own silver chain, you can riffle through the book, experimenting with new innovations to create your unique jewellery designs. Packed with over 200 expert fixes, insider tips, and tricks of the trade, content is arranged by topic to enable any jewellery maker to achieve a striking and professional look to their earrings, necklaces, rings, and more. A must have for anyone who makes their own jewellery, whether at beginner or intermediate level.
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Beading Basics: All You Need to Know to Create Beautiful Beaded Accessories
Beading Basics: All You Need to Know to Create Beautiful Beaded Accessories is your fast track to creating stunning, beaded jewellery and accessories! With clear step-by-step instructions, vibrant colour photos, and projects perfect for beginners or seasoned crafters, this book turns beads into dazzling treasures and unforgettable gifts—making every creation a showstopper.
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Beading: Learn it. Love it.
Bead it. Learn it. Love it. brings the beading class straight to your home! Perfect for beginners and improvers alike, this hands-on guide is packed with hundreds of detailed photos, insider tips from guest designers, quick-start projects, and clever “Beader’s Clinics” to solve all your tricky beading dilemmas. Learn the skills, master the techniques, and fall in love with creating beautiful, unique beadwork—all at your own pace.
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Pretty Birds: 18 Simple Projects to Sew and Love
Pretty Birds turns your stash of fabric scraps into whimsical, stylish creations! With elegant, easy-to-follow tutorials and charming illustrations, this book inspires sewers of all levels to transform leftover fabric into delightful birds, handy household items, and quirky décor. From chunky doorstoppers to cable tidy pouches, Pretty Birds offers patterns, practical tips, and endless creative ideas—making it the perfect way to bring your fabric stash to life.
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Sewing Basics: All You Need to Know to Begin Sewing Clothes and Home Furnishings
Sewing Basics will teach you every essential sewing technique and give you the confidence to dust off your sewing machine and create the garments you’ve always dreamed of making. Learn to sew like an expert and make 12 terrific projects along the way for yourself, your family and your home. Sewing Basics is a complete beginners guide to machine sewing that covers every stage from choosing fabric to completing the finishing stitches. Step-by-step colour photographs, detailed diagrams and easy to follow instructional text will ensure that you absorb each technique quickly. 12 original projects allow you to practise new techniques and skills while creating garments and furnishings right from the word go. Be inspired again and again by Wendy Gardner’s fabulous title.
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Stitch it Simple: 25 Hand Sewn Projects to Make and Share
Stitch it Simple: 25 Hand Sewn Projects to Make and Share, proves that beautiful sewing doesn’t have to be complicated! With 25 stylish, easy-to-follow projects—from tote bags and cushions to slippers, aprons, and even a beginner-friendly quilt—this book is perfect for both newcomers and experienced makers. Packed with inspiration and adaptable ideas, it shows how simple techniques and the right fabrics can create stunning, practical pieces you’ll love to use and share every day.
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Stress Free Sewing: Troubleshooting Tips and Advice for the Savvy Sewer
Stress Free Sewing is an essential reference book for home sewers, crafters, and sewing enthusiasts at all levels. You know that panicky feeling you get when your sewing machine jams? Or that awful frustration of seeing your careful stitches in a buttonhole come undone? What do you do when you look on the Internet and everyone has a different take on how you should be sewing on a ruffle? Sewing, for the beautiful and rewarding fun you get out of it, can sometimes be stressful and frustrating, even for the best of us. Organised by the stages in a project, from choosing tools, through reading patterns to fitting waistlines and adding buttons and zips, all the information is presented so you know exactly where to look when you get stuck with a problem. Illustrated entries cover every aspect and item in the sewing process, with each entry providing the characteristics, pros and cons, and basic considerations of working with that item. Icons alert the reader to whether tips relate to buying and choosing materials – using and working with them; techniques and best practice hints; or health and safety considerations. Cross references take you between chapters so you can see how different aspects relate to each other, offering troubleshooting tips that offer advice on how to deal with virtually any sewing situation. A detailed contents list combined with an index at the front of the book make it extremely easy to flick through and find information.
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Kids Learn to Stitch
The latest in the successful Kids Learn to… series. This book enlists the help of two animal characters, Pip and Peg, who will help children learn how to use a sewing needle and thread to make simple, practical and decorative projects. With clear colour photographs and comprehendible instructions, this title will inspire children to create their very own unique toys and designs. Enjoy hours of fun and creativity with this brilliant title.
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Heartfelt: 25 Projects for Stitched and Felted Accessories
Make a wide range of accessories for children and adults using felted knitting, embellished with applique and embroidery techniques. This creative title includes a range of techniques to suit all abilities and varied resources. Teresa Searle demonstrates her unique method of combining felted knitting with applique and embroidery to inspire a wide range of richly coloured accessories. Projects include unique hats, mittens, slippers and scarves, as well as beautiful jewellery such as brooches, hair clips and corsages. Discover the creative opportunities of felted knitting with Teresa’s terrific project guide!
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The Home Sewer’s Guide to Practical Stitches: The Ultimate Guide to Sewing Seams, Hems, Darts and More!
An ideal worktop companion for home sewers, The Home Sewer’s Guide to Practical Stitches is a complete and illustrated resource of hand and machine stitches. What’s the best stitch to hand set a zipper? When should you use a diagonal basting stitch? What are other uses of a blind hem stitch? Whether sewing clothes from published patterns, designing your own sewing projects, or executing simple repairs, The Home Sewer’s Guide to Practical Stitches is the most comprehensive and ready reference consolidating all the most useful and practical information sewers need to choose and use every kind of sewing stitch.
While sewing patterns come with instructions on what stitches to use, they don’t actually include the instructions on how to do those stitches. With machine stitching, using these recommended stitches is contingent on that stitch being available on your sewing machine. If it isn’t, would you know what would make an appropriate substitute? Now, with The Home Sewer’s Guide to Practical Stitches, not only do you have a complete resource of step-by-step techniques for every stitch, the directory style advice arms you with the information you need in order to make your own choices according to the fabric you’re using and what you wish to accomplish.
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Quilting on the Go: Paper Piecing Patchwork You Can Take Anywhere: Techniques, Patterns and Projects
Maybe you have the urge to sew but don’t want to be stuck behind your sewing machine all the time? This fantastic title is wonderfully portable. You can stitch on the train, bus, or airplane, in waiting rooms, in the car while your baby naps, or at the beach – all the stolen moments when your hands are idle! Learn to build a tool kit with everything you need to get stitching. When you’re done, just snap it shut and your project is safe and waiting for when you’re ready to sew again. Clear explanations and step-by-step photography will have you stitching in no time and, before you know it, beautiful patterns will materialise from your fingers, which you can use to create a colourful quilt, a cushion, a bag, and much more.
Includes detailed instructions for preparing templates, basting techniques, joining pieces and finishing techniques, and with a myriad patterns to try, you’ll find this book full of inspiration for you to find an idea and make it your own!
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Quiltopedia: The Only Quilting Reference You’ll Ever Need
Quiltopedia is a concise yet comprehensive guide to patchwork and quilting. A range of techniques are covered for both hand and machine stitching, which gently guide the novice quilter through to more intermediate and advanced skills. Advice is given for fabric and thread choices, and for choosing and using the right tools and equipment for this craft.
30 different projects are offered for the reader to try out their quilting together with fabric requirements and clear, step-by-step instructions and diagrams. Useful hints and tips are given to help the newcomer avoid the pitfalls often experienced when setting out to make a quilted project. Full-size templates are given which can be traced or photocopied for use in a variety of the projects. Unique instructions are given which will show readers how to draft some of the most popular patchwork blocks to their own preferred size, rather than work to the dictates of printed templates. This book is aimed at beginners, but with information and projects that will also be of interest to quilters with more experience. It will prove a valuable addition to any quilt maker’s bookshelf!
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Successful Scrap Quilts
Create dazzling scrap quilts with a whole new set of block designs based on one simple shape, the rectangle! Two stars of the quilting world share their expert tips for turning a so-so scrap quilt into a smashing success. Be inspired to create unique designs that add a heartfelt touch to any space. Follow simple instructions to complete a wide range of projects for both the novice and skilled quilter. Delve into this fantastic title and discover the special skill of quilting!
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200 Sewing Tips, Techniques & Trade Secrets
Just like having your own personal sewing guru on hand 24 hours a day, this book covers all the techniques you could ever need, along with hints, timesaving tips, and homespun secrets. Improve your skills, speed up your sewing time, and make garments, accessories, and home projects with a professional finish in no time. Easy to follow, step-by-step techniques are organised in the order you will need them, or you can dip in and out for help with a specific problem. ‘Try this’ and ‘fix it’ panels highlight useful inspirations and troubleshooting ideas throughout the book.
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