Craft Focus - Page number 85 - June/July 2021 (Issue 85)

85 BOOKS TRANSFER & STITCH By Carina Envoldsen-Harris & Sally McCollin £19.99 9781782218920 Search Press Discover your favourite embroidery designs from the best-selling Transfer & Stitch series in this gorgeous, yet handy, folder edition. In the folder, you’ll find an invaluable stitching guide with advice on tools and materials, essential stitches, transferring the designs and hooping up your fabric; and a separate transfer book with 140 stunning embroidery outlines of flowers, borders, insects, hearts and more ready for you to cut out and iron straight onto your fabric. Use a single motif, or mix and match several designs, to create embroidered wall art or to embellish clothes, gifts and items around the home. When you’re finished, store your transfer in the folder where it can be reused multiple times to craft beautiful, embroidered masterpieces again and again. We say: The stitching guide includes stitched examples of all the motifs to inspire your own embroideries, and inspiration for using the motifs to embellish clothes, cushions and other fabric items. Stitching PUNCH NEEDLE FRIENDS By Faustine Duwicquet & Cathy Duwicquet £12.99 9781782219545 Search Press It’s easy to master as you’re guided by clear step-by-step instructions, patterns and beautiful photography. Faustine and Cathy will teach you all you need to know about punch needling through the creation of 20 adorable, contemporary animal motifs including a folk-inspired leopard, a delightful rabbit, a llama and a cunning fox. Each project is accompanied by a list of all the tools and materials, including the wool colours and stitches, you’ll need to bring your adorable new friends to life. The re-useable, iron-on templates make taking up this popular craft even easier! We say: Grab some yarn and a punch needle, and relax with this fun, simple craft as you create a whole menagerie of punch needle friends. Punch needle BORN TO BE WILD By Hannah Dale £9.99 9781849946407 Pavilion Books The much-loved illustrations of Hannah Dale celebrate a new generation of wildlife around the world in Born to be Wild . With a special focus on endangered and vulnerable species, we meet animal babies and their parents from habitats around the globe. There is the ferociously protective mother tiger, the wolf spider, who carries her tiny babies on her back, the African bush elephant, who rears her children with other females in a matriarchal society, and the seahorse father who does all the work. Each of the 50 exquisitely drawn images are accompanied by fascinating details of the early life of these calves, cubs, chicks and babies. It’s a wonderful collection of creatures, celebrating new life, from one of the country’s most-loved artists. We say: A charmingly illustrated ode to increasingly threatened wildlife. Illustration