Storey Craft Books for Creative Living
Craft Books for Creative Living
Storey Publishing offers something for every crafter, whether you’re interested in hand sewing your own clothes, embroidering outdoors, or a knitting fun new accessory. Check out our new books below!
Featuring step-by-step, illustrated instructions, this hand-sewing course-in-a-book shows you how to create nine wardrobe staples, including a t-shirt, button-up, and jeans, using simple hand-sewing and hand-stitching techniques. Author Louisa Owen Sonstroem shares her sustainable, empowering, and portable craft with gentle encouragement and guidance. Sewists of all experience levels will learn how to:
·Draft a pattern to fit custom measurements.
·Select and cut fabric.
·Construct each garment without using a sewing machine.
Whether you’re looking for warmth on a winter day or an elegant and airy accent for a summer evening outfit, there’s a cowlette for that! In Knitting Cowlettes, designer Safiyyah Talley celebrates the accessory that combines the beauty and drape of a shawl with the easy wearability of a cowl (no knotting or pinning required). Talley introduces knitters to the cowlette’s unique construction—which begins with traditional shawl shaping before being joined in the round—as a gateway to her 23 unique patterns and showcases the cowlette’s endless versatility with a wide range of sizes and styles. If you’re a more adventurous knitter, Talley provides a foolproof template for creating your own gorgeous cowlettes, walking you through the entire decision-making process, from yarn choice and setup to sizing, shaping, and finishing.
Observe and embroider the natural world with this inspiring guide to nature journaling with a needle and thread.
Transform your appreciation of nature into unique works of art by stitching embroidered landscapes! Artist Anna Hultin’s step-by-step projects blend traditional embroidery skills with experimental techniques that draw inspiration from the lines, patterns, and textures of the natural world. Learn how to embroider flowers, plants, and trees using a few basic stitches, discover new techniques for a variety of non-traditional materials and methods like painting on fabric with watercolors, collaging with fabrics to create depth, and stitching with raw wool, and learn how to compose these elements into an original scene based on your own nature observations.
Awaken your inner artist and create beautiful home décor with the Coloready paint-by-number original bird design collection. Each design highlights a beautiful bird, and accompanying text provides profiles of their unique features.
Printed on premium cardstock, every template includes a swatch palette and instructions for mixing standard acrylic paints for a perfect color match. Or if you prefer, you can use colored pencils, markers, or pastels. The completed 8″ x 10″ sheet pulls out and fits handily in a ready-made frame.
Written for all levels of stitchers, The Art of Embroidery Design teaches the value of establishing a creative practice, with hands-on sketching and stitching exercises to help anyone build confidence in their design skills. Author Christi Johnson provides a workshop experience for readers looking to start from scratch. She breaks the design process down into approachable steps, including:
-developing a vision
-choosing a color palette
-using variations in line weight to create dimensionality
-achieving a range of textural effects.
Dozens of colorful photos of the author’s own work are accompanied by historical examples from artisans in Mexico, India, Peru, China, Nigeria, and more, as well as profiles of some of the most inventive contemporary embroidery artists–it’s a complete workshop in a book.
You don’t have to be an artist to draw tiny. Author Anna Tjalsma-Pogorzelec’s signature drawing technique utilizes simple shapes and repeating patterns to create artful doodles of mushrooms, leaves, flowers, ladybugs, cats, and much more, making it a meditative practice for everyone, regardless of drawing skills.
Create enchanting artwork in three simple steps:
- Learn how to draw each shape step-by-step, with space to practice provided.
- Repeat the shape across the template, then color it in!
- Pull out the perforated page and frame your finished project.
As an added bonus, coloring pages with black-and-white templates of each illustration are included at the end of the book.
Combining fiber art and paper craft techniques, paper weaving is accessible, sustainable, and fun. Each project in the book includes a prompt, a technique, step-by-step instructions with photographs, and examples that will inspire readers to repurpose, recycle, and reuse papers they may already have, like maps, postcards, holiday cards, or journals. And, because it does not require specialized equipment like a loom, paper weaving really is for everyone.
Prompts and thoughtful questions are designed to help readers find their own creative path. Inspiring profiles and stories run throughout the book, highlighting a range of contemporary paper weaving artists.