Living Crafts Magazine - Fall 2008
"This season, we celebrate lush foliage and the garden harvest with joyful projects. All are made of wool or other natural materials bound to bring autumn inspiration to you and your family."
There are three projects for keeping your children’s heads warm this season: a knitted elf cap, a gnome hat, and crowns made of wool felt in three gorgeous styles: a royal crown, a flower crown, and a mushroom crown. The adorable, easy and inexpensive to make felt gnome hat can be sized for boys and girls of any age. In addition, you'll find patterns for mother-daughter Saturday Morning Sweaters or spend a day making tree branch buttons in the woodshop with a father and daughter. Or learn the simple and easy art of painting with wool. Craft a Story features a hedgehog family and their autumn harvest with craft projects to go with it.
Living Crafts Magazine - Summer 2008
This issue features a Little Red Riding Hood knitted cape along with 3 different baskets: one woven, one lined with fabric, and the other crocheted with red leather cord. For your favorite dad you'll find patterns for both a vest and slippers. Hand felt a fish, sew from felt a playful seal, create a nuno felted silk chiffon Fairy Summer Scarf. Make a drawstring backpack to carry suggested items for family trips, spend a summer day natural dyeing, even learn how to make your own stilts for less than $10 this summer, and more.
Living Crafts Magazine - Spring 2008
Enjoy a variety of projects from knitting, sewing, woodwork, beadwork, and wool doll making in this, the second issue of the best and only natural craft magazine around! Included are simple projects for beginners and children, like making wool butterflies and knitted bunnies. Something for everyone.
Living Crafts Magazine - Winter 2008
The Premier Issue includes a variety of projects from knitting, sewing, and doll making to soulful articles on bead necklaces and wool felting. It offers simple projects for beginners and children, like felt hearts and beeswax modeling for children. Also, an exciting feature and pattern for a magnificent sweater designed by Suss Cousins. This issue has instructions for a Felted Farm Playmat (a blanket with a scene) and the article It Takes a Village to Knit a Farm which includes instructions for a knitted playmat.
Making Flower Children
Here are detailed step-by-step instructions and illustrations for making a range of lively, creative flower figures sewn from felt, silk, fabric and wool. Projects are organized by season, making the book ideal for decorating a nature corner or seasonal table in the home or classroom. A Floris book, by Sybille Adolphi.
Sock Doll Workshop
Sock dolls aren't what they used to be! Although as simple as ever to make, this collection of 30 charmers features original design elements that bring a whole new level of interest to a popular craft. In no time at all (and at almost no expense) you can create a sock doll using a pair or two of socks, a needle and thread, and a little yarn and stuffing. If you can thread a needle, you can make a sock doll. The only hard part is deciding which to make first! Author Cindy Crandall-Frazier includes detailed, illustrated instructions, tips and lots of color photos.
Making Waldorf Dolls ~ formerly, Kinder Dolls
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Making Waldorf Dolls is the complete book on how to make soft, natural fiber Waldorf-style dolls. Thorough and well put together with illustrated instructions that are clear and easy to follow. Projects progress from simple baby dolls and knot dolls to the realistic dressing doll with jointed limbs. Lots of practical tips, pretty ways of making dolls' hair and many patterns for all kinds of dolls and lots of clothes patterns and ethnic variations.
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Toymaking with Children
Author Freya Jaffke teaches you how to make classic toys from natural materials. Projects include branch building logs, silk marionettes, play stands (yes! a design and instructions), wood and bark boats, knitted small animals, dress-ups, simple carved wooden figures, rag dolls, flannel knot dolls, Waldorf dolls, and even more. In addition, clean up tips, recommended toys for specific ages, and outdoor play. Inspired by the Waldorf approach to education. 160 pages
Felt Wee Folk: Enchanting Projects
Learn to sew your own tiny figures and accessories using wool felt, cotton pipe cleaners, simple embellishments, and Salley Mavor's new step-by-step guide. 18 complete Wee Folk projects feature dolls, pins, purses, checkbook and cell phone covers, pillows and scenic backdrops. Ideal for dollmakers, quilters, and embroiderers of every skill level. No sewing machine needed. A beautiful full color book! When you're ready to get started, our Plant-Dyed Felt page features all the beautiful felts Salley uses! You'll find wooden beads and pipecleaners on our Dollmaking Supplies page along with acorn caps.
Feltcraft - Making Dolls, Gifts and Toys
This book offers detailed instructions for a range of lively and creative ideas using felt. Sew small dolls, finger puppets, animals, mobiles, little gifts and even wall tapestries. In addition are patterns for dressing our various Doll Bases - Dollhouse Doll Bodies, Wooden Folk & Puppet Bases. Much to whet your creative appetite. 86 pages
More Magic Wool
Magic wool, fairy fleece, fantasy wool, wool roving... it's all the same! From this cloud-like fiber you'll make delicate mobiles; lightweight colorful balls; pom-poms; pipe cleaner doll-house dolls, animals and seasonal dolls; a wet-felted seasonal tree; landscapes and more. There's even a pattern for a small knitted sheep. Many projects simple enough for children. Also includes chapters on magic wool in the nursery, making magic wool, and natural dyeing.
Table Puppet Patterns
Create your own doll family or put on a puppet show. Patterns for 3 different size standing felt dolls ranging in size from 7" to 9.5", instructions and ideas for customizing your table puppets. (Materials not included.)
The Nature Corner
Seasonal nature tables are an invaluable way of making young children aware of the changing cycle of the year. Instructions, patterns and diagrams are provided for making soft figures and objects related to the seasons, festivals and holidays. Many, many types of projects and ideas with a table for each month of the year depicted in full color. The complete nature table book! From Floris, 88 pages
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