Crafts

Gone are the days of a crafter only having a single interest. Between Design*Sponge, Apartment Therapy, Pinterest, and thousands of gorgeous blogs, today’s makers are constantly inspired to make things by hand. All a crafter really needs are inspirational examples and excellent step-by-step instructions. Made by Hand provides plenty of both. The talented Lena Corwin shares a wide array of crafts—including advanced screen-printing, beginner’s embroidery, simple sewn dresses, beaded jewelry, candle making, and soap making—in her new book, which is packed with gorgeous photos. A great gift for any crafter.

Summer is the season of wearing less clothing - here's how to do it with some DIY flair. Generation T is your guide to cutting, stitching, pinning, and slicing your way through those old T-shirts at the back of your closet, and transforming them from lumpy to lovely.

I love love love craft books that give you a lot of variation on one theme, and this is one that does not disappoint. If you love to crochet and are thinking about making anything from a blanket to a potholder to a decoration for your living room, pick this book up! Clear instructions, beautiful examples and a great price. You'll want to curl up with this one again and again.

The name Bobbi Brown has become synonymous with clean natural makeup, and her newest book does not disappoint! Filled with tips and recommendations for all ages and skin tones, Bobbi will keep you looking beautiful day and night. Pretty Powerful also includes interviews with women famous and obscure on what inner and outward beauty means to them. Empowering stuff!

In our increasingly digital world, selling handmade wares is becoming a viable option for income (and fun!). You need this book if you have a product to sell, and you want easy to follow tips for every aspect of creating and maintaining an online store. Seriously, this guide is so thorough that even your most un-tech-savvy crafting grandmother could rock an online business.

Instantly transform any outfit into something sumptuously feminine with these lovely handcrafted accessories. Adornments gives easy to follow directions for creating hair pieces, necklaces, earrings, belts, and more. I dare you to flip through this book and not want every item in it.

If you’ve ever had a hard time deciding whether to knit or read, you’ll understand how 100% awesome this book is. How could you not love mittens based off civil war-era patterns and a copy of Little Women? Or a cabled fisherman’s sweater and Moby Dick? A lined hood with a color-worked ermine and The Golden Compass? A hand warmer muff and Anna Karenina? It’s time: knitters and bookworms, UNITE! 

For anyone who’s ever gotten a hole in their sweater, ripped their favorite jeans, wished for pockets where there were none, or wanted to change the length of a skirt, this is the book for you. Mend It Better is an incredibly charming, easy-to-use, and, dare I say, fun book about mending. Crafters, sewers, and anyone interesting in patching or repurposing clothes, bags, and more will adore it. The critics love it, too: “An excellent addition to any sewer’s collection. This is the rare sewing book that will be pulled off the shelf for reference again and again.” —Publishers Weekly.

I love the seasonal layout of this all-encompassing guide to style, beauty, home, food, and entertaining. This summer I've learned how to utilize local fruit, make a mint julep, find the perfect vintage sun dress, and give myself beachy tousled hair. To look forward to this fall? Wearing tights right, rocking bright lipstick, and decorating for Halloween on a budget.

Quilter Denyse Schmidt has countless devoted fans, and I am certainly one of them. Her gorgeous mix of modern and traditional styles is on full display in this beautiful new book. Schmidt pays homage to the quilters and quilts that came before her by reinterpreting 20 of her favorite traditional quilt patterns for the home crafter. Each pattern is accompanied by a lively overview of its history, lovely full-page photographs, and illustrated instructions.