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This book is exactly what it says it is: techniques, patterns, and samplers for blackwork embroidery. Unfortunately, it doesn‘t have any information about doing blackwork on clothing (as it historically was), which is what I really want to do. But I suppose I can practice on Aida and figure out the rest myself.

Good read about how to bookbinding by hand!

Quick and informative book on embroidery, including a wide variety of historical styles. There didn‘t seem to be any rhyme or reason as to the different styles described (one of the contributors‘ bios has a lot about her being a sashiko expert but there‘s no sashiko?) and I think many of them could have used more description, but I really liked being introduced to some styles I‘d never heard of. With modifications, I may try some of the projects.

Getting back into crochet is more Year of Dishcloths than Crochet Magic at this point, but Crochet Taxidermy is the life goal I didn‘t see coming. 😂😂

This book is gorgeous and informative, but it‘s too dang heavy and the font is really small and cramped. For a book that has so much emphasis on design, they really didn‘t design that aspect well.

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I'm not sure if Littens still post their craft stuff but here is our. It was our Sunday. We made paper birds picked snowdrops and journaled. Leja is 6yo and she started her first diary.
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I liked very few of the projects in this book. I would definitely not call all of them upcycled, and many of them needed more detailed instructions. Also, the author seemed really arrogant. But there are some good ideas and useful tips (like what kind of glue to use), and I think one of the things about upcycling is it‘s hard to say “here‘s a project you can do” because it‘s so dependent on what materials you have at hand. Borrow, not buy.

When I was going through my storage bin today, my scrapbook was in there with a pack of 10 extra sheets I can put in the scrapbook as well as a pad full of cardstock paper. I was looking through my scrapbook just to see if I wanted to add more pages to it so I can continue scrapbooking. I have some stuff cut out that I could add in there if I wanted to continue scrapbooking but I don‘t feel like it needs anything else.

This book takes two hands and that‘s not permitted at the moment.

I have some Mardi Gras beads and I decided to do this with them. I didn‘t want to get rid of my beads. The colors are so pretty.

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