| KNITTING TITLES
 Inspired to Knit: Creating Exquisite Handknits (June 2008, $24.95, Paperbound with flaps, 9 x 9, 152 pages, ISBN 978-1-59668-041-8). Knitters will get inside the artistic mind of talented knitwear designer Michele Rose Orne and discover her secrets to creating beautiful handknits for any season of the year. Inspired to Knit features four mini workshops with twenty-four patterns and spectacular photography conceptualized to help knitters think creatively, find inspiration in their surroundings, and shape those elements into garment design. Stunning patterns are arranged by season, reflecting the colors and beauty of nature that inspires Michele’s feminine designs. Along the way knitters will pick up invaluable tips and tricks of the trade plus a wealth of inspiration.
About the author:
Michele Rose Orne has been designing for more than 20 years in the garment and handknitting industry. She has designed for Westminster Fibers, Classic Elite, Tahki, and was a design director for a large sweater importer. In addition, she has designed for many publications including Interweave Knits, Vogue Knitting, and Melanie Falick’s Holiday Handknits. She lives in Camden, Maine
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Knit So Fine: Designs with Skinny Yarn (June 2008, $24.95, Paperbound, 8½ x 9, 144 pages, ISBN 978-1-59668-052-4.) Thin is in! This information-packed book features more than twenty stylish and contemporary projects knit with lightweight yarns. Projects knit with thin yarns can range from quick, easy, and daring to bold, elaborate, refined, and sophisticated. Perfect for all skill levels, the projects in Knit So Fine show that garments knitted with thin yarns fit more precisely, are more flattering to the figure, feel better against the skin, are great for layering, and offer more versatility for fashion elements like ruching, ruffles, gauzy layers, and drape.
About the authors:
Lisa R. Myers is the author of The Joy of Knitting and The Joy of Knitting Companion. Her designs have been published by Interweave Knits and Classic Elite, and Lisa designed patterns for Getting Started Knitting (Interweave Press, 2006). She is also the owner of Rosie’s Yarn Cellar, a retail yarn shop in Philadelphia, and has over ten years experience in the knitting shop industry. Lisa regularly designs patterns for her shop, including for the very successful RosieKnits line (marketed to yarn shops across the country; see them at rosiesyarncellar.com/products/rkpatterns.htm).
Laura Grutzeck, who has knitted for more than twenty years, received a BFA from Tyler School of Art and an MS from Drexel University. Her patterns have appeared in Stitch ‘N Bitch Nation, Vogue Knitting's Ultimate Sock Book, in the magazine VenusZine, and are frequently featured as part of the RosieKnits line. Laura has taught many classes in knitting and knitting design.
Carol J. Sulcoski has had designs published by Knitty.com, KnitNet.com, MenKnit.net, MagKnits.com, and Big Girl Knits. She is a staff member of Rosie’s Yarn Cellar and regularly designs for the RosieKnits pattern line. She is also the author of the popular knitting blog GoKnitInYourHat and proprietress of Black Bunny Fibers, which offers handdyed yarns and spinning fiber.
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Shibori Knitted Felt: 20 Plus Designs to Knit, Bead, and Felt(March 2008, $24.95, Paperbound, 8½ x 9, 112 pages, ISBN 978-1-59668-085-2). Knitters who already love knitted felt for its softness and durability will take their skills to new heights with these wonderful projects for garments, accessories, and home fashions. By incorporating shibori, the Japanese art of manipulating fabric to create unusual textures and color effects, these 20 projects delight with their fanciful bobbles, pleats, ruffles, and embroidery stitches. This exciting pattern collection begins with felting basics, yarns and equipment needed for getting started—including charts of washing temperatures so you can obtain exact shrinkage results—plus techniques necessary for achieving success. Beautiful photographs, step-by-step instructions, full-color illustrations, and sidebars of tips and techniques make the projects easy to create.
About the author:
Alison Crowther-Smith has worked as one of Rowan’s design consultants and teaches highly successful workshops in knitting and felting. She lives in the West of England with her family.
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CROCHET TITLES
Double Stitch: Designs for the Crochet Fashionista (May 2008, $21.95, Paperbound, Paperbound, 8½ x 9, 128 pages, ISBN 978-1-59668-063-0). Whether you live in a big city or just want to look like you do, the young designers behind Double Stitch show how easy it is to make crochet fashionably modern, flirtatious, and fun. These twenty-five fashion-forward projects use simple crochet techniques mixed with innovative construction, form-fitting designs, playful color combinations, and unique detailing. Choose from daytime crochet wear like a webbed halter dress, hooded poncho, a salsa belt, the remix T-shirt using a finished shirt with added crocheted sleeves, a tube-style apron top, plus much more. Evening crochet wear features fun detailing, open weave crochet, and glamorous accessories and projects include a gothic shawl, feather choker with matching cocktail bag, peek-a-boo full-length dress, slinky tailored shrug, corset with satin ribbon tie, shrunken jacket, plus much more.
About the authors:
Erika and Monika Simmons have been crocheting since they were in fourth grade. The thirty-something twins and Chicago natives started their Double Stitch clothing and accessories line in 2002 after a number of post-college jobs, including modeling and dancing. They were recently awarded the Style Makers and Rule Breakers award by Fashion Group International, and their collection was recently selected by Macy’s on State Street in Chicago as part of their Chicago Designer Shop.
Their work has garnered a lot of press coverage including Women's Wear Daily, New York Times, Chicago Magazine, Chicago Tribune Magazine, Uptown Magazine, Fashionista.com, Time Out Chicago, Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun Times. They have also done numerous TV appearances on local affiliates in Chicago including WGN-TV, WMAQ-TV NBC 5 Chicago, and WLS-TV ABC 7 Chicago.
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The Harmony Guides have been longstanding references and sources of inspiration for handcrafters for more than thirty years, offering clear, concise instructions and photographs for stitches. British designer Erika Knight, author of the Simple Knits series, lends her expertise in the series redesign, updating the Harmony Guides with new stitches and know-how.
About the author:
Erika Knight is a design consultant and knitwear designer who brings her considerable expertise of the market to inform the choice of projects, fabrics, and textures in the Harmony Guides. She is the author of Simple Knits for Easy Living, Simple Knits for Cherished Babies, and Simple Knits for Little Cherubs. Erika lives in England.
Harmony Guide: Basic Crochet Stitches (April 2008, $22.95, Paperbound, 8½ x 8½, 272 pages, ISBN 978-1-59668-081-4). Whether you’re a designer seeking new ideas or simply a crochet enthusiast, Harmony Guide: Basic Crochet Stitches is an essential reference guide and source for creativity. If you're looking for stitch inspiration, this Harmony Guide brims with new and old stitches to delight crocheters of all skill levels. Use the single cluster crochet stitch as a great foundation pattern for a textured scarf or a trinity stitch to add warmth to an afghan design. All swatches are worked in contemporary yarns, beautifully photographed, and accompanied by easy-to-follow instructions. Basic crochet techniques are reviewed, plus tips and tricks are featured throughout.
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Harmony Guide: Crochet Stitch Motifs (April 2008, $22.95, Paperbound, 8½ x 8½, 272 pages, ISBN 978-1-59668-083-8). Harmony Guide: Crochet Stitch Motifs is a jam-packed collection brimming with 250 crochet motifs to inspire beginner and seasoned crocheters. Featuring motifs such as a simple lace triangle, a delicate popcorn trefoil, and an intricate French square, each motif features a full-color photograph in contemporary yarns and clear and concise instructions for creating each design. An Italian square makes a great base for a casual cushion while a diamond square works wonderfully as a foundation for an easy-going shoulder bag. Tap into your creativity and work a sampler of motifs to produce the ultimate afghan.
The book also features a section on free-form techniques, showcasing designs that can be created by simply thinking outside the square. No matter your skill level, Harmony Guide: Crochet Stitch Motifs is sure to inspire crochet designers and enthusiasts for years to come.
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FIBER ARTS TITLES
49 Sensational Skirts: Creative Embellishment Ideas for
One-of-a Kind Designs (February 2008, $24.95, Paperbound, 7½ x 9¾, 128 pages, ISBN 978-1-59668-061-6). Make head-turning, show-stopping skirts using simple sewing techniques and inexpensive, readily available materials with 49 Sensational Skirts. This fabulous sewing book shows how to make and decorate a skirt from scratch using the handy bound-in pattern template. Core techniques are illustrated with step-by-step photographs, from sewing fabric into seams, to pleating and ruching to screen printing and adding embellishments. 49 Sensational Skirts has all of the information a sewer needs to get started creating custom fashions.
About the author:
Alison Willoughby works almost exclusively with the skirt, its large flat surface is the ideal canvas for the application of layered and manipulated fabric. One of her first memories of garments and textiles was her mother’s dressing-up box—full of old petticoats, taffeta skirts, ostrich feathers, and clothes from the 1930s to 1960s passed down through the generations—and the fun she and her sister would have wearing them around the house. Alison has been running her own business in London since graduating from The Royal College of Art, graduating with an MA in Constructed Textiles Mixed Media. She has exhibited, sold, and lectured internationally.
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NEEDLEWORK TITLES
Stitch Graffiti: Unexpected Cross-Stitch (February 2008, $21.95, Paperbound, 8½ x 10¼, 112 pages, ISBN 978-1-59668-045-6). Gone are the days of the old-fashioned stitch samplers and cross stitch baby animals. Stitch Graffiti puts a new twist on this classic craft with a collection of twenty-six stylish, witty, and playful designs with the modern crafter in mind. Heather Holland-Daly, owner of cross-stitch design company Monsterbubbles, livens up the craft with her graphic designs, tattoo imagery, and quotations found in song lyrics, literature, and movies. Heather’s playful approach to cross stitch is showcased on everything from wall hangings and jean jackets to fly swatters and handbags. Stitch Graffiti has everything you need to stitch with success.
About the author:
Heather Holland-Daly is the owner of cross-stitch kit company Monsterbubbles (monsterbubbles.com), a quirky design company she started in 2003 to satisfy her need for something to stitch. Her designs have been featured in The Cross Stitcher and Just Cross Stitch and she has appeared on Needle Arts Studio with Shay Pendray. Heather strives to make stitching cool again and bring needle arts to the young and young at heart. She lives in Belleville, Illinois.
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BEADING AND JEWELRY MAKING TITLES
Bead Romantique: Elegant Beadweaving Designs (March 2008, $24.95, Paperbound, 8½ x 9, 144 pages, ISBN 978-1-59668-046-3). Bead artist Lisa Kan offers a truly unique jewelry collection with a romantic yet modern sensibility. Bead Romantique features seventeen step-by-step designs inspired by the Gothic, Renaissance, Victorian, Art Nouveau, and Art Deco eras reinterpreted in her distinctive contemporary style. Each project builds on simple elements to create sophisticated designs and incorporate off-loom seed beadweaving, stringing, and wirework. Projects include a scalloped chain necklace, pearl Ndebele earrings and bracelet set, mesh pearl bracelet, bohemian drop earrings, a Victorian diamond cuff, and more. Beaders will love seeing projects worked in a variety of colorways to provide ideas for endless customization.
About the author:
Lisa Kan is a lampwork bead artist and jewelry designer based in San Marino, California. She regularly sells her beads at all of the major bead shows and through her website lisakan.com. Her jewelry designs have been published in Beadwork, Stringing, Bead Unique, and Bead Style magazines, and her lampwork has been featured in 1000 Glass Beads, More Than You Ever Wanted to Know about Glass Beadmaking, and The Complete Book of Glass Beadmaking. She has also been a featured designer and written articles for softflexcompany.com.
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Designing Jewelry with Glass Beads (February 2008, $22.95, Paperbound, 8½ x 10¼, 128 pages, ISBN 978-1-59668-047-0). Stephanie Sersich, a lampwork artist and jewelry designer known for her adventurous use of color, shares her insights, inspirations, and special methods for success in Designing Jewelry with Glass Beads. Twenty dazzling step-by-step projects incorporate a variety of techniques from wirework, stringing, sewing, and knotting, and use a mixture of artisan and commercially available beads. Sidebars on the inspirations and creations of other glass jewelry artists, as well as insight into the author’s evolution as an artist, offer unique perspectives on creating artful glass jewelry.
About the author:
Raised by artist parents, Stephanie Sersich has been making jewelry since she was a child. In 1996, Stephanie learned lampworking from Sage Holland and her master-beadmaker husband, Tom. She then taught herself a variety of traditional stringing and knotting techniques. Her signature color sense is inspired by textiles, art history, and her mother's garden.
Stephanie’s beads and jewelry have appeared in several books, including Exquisite Beaded Jewelry, 1000 Glass Beads, and Beading for the Soul (Interweave Press). She has been profiled in several magazines including Bead & Button, Ornament, Jewelry Artist, and Beadwork. She teaches workshops internationally and exhibits at all of the major bead shows plus several galleries, and her work can be found at www.sssbeads.com. Stephanie lives in Portland, Maine.
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Jewelry Studio: Silver Wire Fusing (March 2008, $22.95, Paperbound, 8½ x 9, 112 pages, ISBN 978-1-59668-066-1). This no-muss, no-fuss version of silversmithing is the jewelry maker’s answer to creating beautiful, affordable silver jewelry. Jewelry Studio: Silver Wire Fusing covers all the basics of heating fine silver with a torch to fuse it without solder—perfect for the most basic beginner, and even experienced jewelry makers looking to experiment with new techniques. Projects include rings, earrings, bracelets, necklaces, and pins, and techniques include hammering, tumbling and professional finishing, fusing a ring, creating basic chain and more.
About the author:
Since 2001, Liz Jones has designed her own jewelry and worked in the bead industry. Her designs have been featured in Stringing magazine. Over the years, she has taught many jewelry-making classes in a variety of techniques, including wire wrapping, chain mail, basic beading, Viking knit, and now numerous silver fusing classes. Currently she is a buyer and workshop teacher for Fusion Beads in Seattle. Liz lives in Seattle.
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Jewelry Studio: Wire Wrapping (April 2008, $22.95, Paperbound, 8½ x 9, 128 pages, ISBN 978-1-59668-059-3). In Jewelry Studio: Wire Wrapping, Linda Chandler and Christine Ritchey—authors of the best-selling Woven Wire Jewelry and Getting Started Making Wire Jewelry and More—take the mystery out of wire wrapping and share their secrets for making gorgeous jewelry from bundles of joined wire. Using detailed process photography, readers learn all the basic techniques of wire wrapping step by step, then learn to create beautiful projects including bracelets, earrings, pins, wire wrapped pendants and the highly sought-after wire-wrapped cabochon.
About the authors:
Linda Chandler is a jewelry designer and teacher with more than twenty years’ experience. She is also a Precious Metal Clay certified teacher. Linda lives in Indianapolis, Indiana. Christine Ritchey is an independent writer/editor, potter, and jewelry maker. She lives in north Texas. They are the authors of Woven Wire Jewelry and Getting Started Making Wire Jewelry and More (both from Interweave Press).
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Simply Modern Jewelry: Designs from the Editor of Stringing Magazine (February 2008, $21.95, Paperbound, 8½ x 10 1/4, 120 pages, ISBN 978-1-59668-048-7). Create simple yet unforgettable accessories with this quick and easy guide to making fashionable necklaces, bracelets, and earrings that express personal style. Danielle Fox, editor of Stringing magazine, shows how to combine basic techniques like stringing, crimping, wireworking, or knotting with unique materials and jewelry-making concepts to produce stunning results. Boutique-quality designs include a whimsical bottle cap bracelet, stunning baroque-style chandelier earrings, a super-long mod stone and linked chain necklace, a bracelet bursting with lampworked beads, a carefree necklace using a medley of chains and pendants, and much more.
About the author:
Danielle Fox is the editor of Stringing magazine. Prior to working at Interweave Press, she was an editor at House Beautiful magazine in New York City and an editor at Colorado Homes & Lifestyles magazine in Englewood, Colorado. She has done freelance writing for The Denver Post, The Boulder Daily Camera, Natural Home magazine, Footwear News, and Boulder magazine. Danielle lives in Longmont, Colorado.
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Step-By-Step Jewelry Workshop: Simple Techniques for Soldering, Wirework, and Metal Jewelry (February 2008, $24.95, Paperbound, 8½ x 11, 128 pages, ISBN 978-1-59668-060-9). This multi-technique guide for the novice jewelry maker covers a range of all the basics needed to get started creating great designs. Even if you’ve never picked up a pair of pliers, Step-By-Step Jewelry Workshop will guide you every step of the way from setting up your workspace and transferring designs to basic filing, sawing, and soldering skills. Learn tools and materials for getting started, then move into techniques and projects, complete with advice, tips, and tricks. Techniques are interspersed with projects so that you can create beautiful jewelry as you learn—from simple silver rings to elegant stone-set pendants.
About the author:
Nicola Hurst earned a degree in jewelry making in 1990 and began her own jewelry-making business five years later. She teaches adult evening classes to complete beginners as well as to more advanced makers. She also teaches private classes from her own workshop. Nicola’s jewelry sells in galleries and shops throughout the United Kingdom.
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SPINNING TITLES
Start Spinning: Everything You Need to Know to Make Great Yarn (April 2008, $21.95, Paperbound, 8½ x 9, 120 pages, ISBN 978-1-59668-065-4). For all knitters, crocheters, and weavers, this handy guide takes you from fluff to yarn with all the details in between. Maggie Casey, co-owner of Shuttles, Spindles & Skeins in Boulder, Colorado, draws on twenty-two years of her time-tested Spinning 101 workshop to share all her tidbits for creating great yarn. Learn the various types of fibers, how to choose and prepare it for spinning, how to use a spindle or wheel to create fantastic yarn, and even how to take special care of your spinning wheel. Once spinners get comfortable creating new and wonderful yarns, anything is possible!
About the author:
Maggie Casey is a co-owner of Shuttles, Spindles, and Skeins, in Boulder, Colorado, where she teaches Beginning Spinning on a Wheel, Drop Spindle Spinning, and Spinning 2, among other subjects. Besides teaching at her shop, Maggie has taught at guilds and wool festivals in the western United States. She has been a skein judge at the Taos Wool Festival and Estes Park Wool Market and was the juror for Roving the Range at Convergence 2004. Her articles have appeared in Spin-Off and been reprinted in Knitters Review. She has been addicted to spinning for thirty years. She holds Part I of the Handweavers Guild of America's Certificate of Excellence in Handspinning and has taught at the Spin-Off Autumn Retreat (SOAR) for the past six years. There have been rare but confirmed sightings of T-shirts reading, “Maggie taught me to spin.” She lives and spins in Boulder, Colorado.
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