Best Ever Craft Project Book
Edited by Lucy Painter
In A Nutshell: Hundreds of craft ideas to suit all tastes and skill levels
I found this book in a charity shop for the absolute bargain price of £1.50, less than the price of a Sunday newspaper. It contains a mammoth 300 projects, organised into seven crafting groups including paper crafts, stencilling, embroidery, appliqué, modelling, woodwork and decorating glass.
With so many projects stuffed in, understandably some of the instructions are quite sketchy. However they will satisfy a range of skills, many easy enough for a child, others requiring the painting ability of a Picasso. There are some very innovative ideas. I remember doing paper mache on a balloon as a child. Here it is reinvented in a stylish modern way to create a jug resembling a modern Italian ceramic.
As a bonus, the book includes a great selection of templates that will have a multitude of uses, not necessarily the one applied in the project. A fish motif is used on a painted tile, but could equally become an embroidery pattern
This is a brilliant book to flick through for ideas. If anything, there is too much choice, as I’m finding it difficult to settle on one project
