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The Crafter's Companion: Tips, tales, and patterns from a community of creative minds

List Price: $16.95
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Manufacturer: Snowbooks Ltd.

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 745
EAN: 9781905005178
ISBN: 1905005172
Label: Snowbooks Ltd.
Manufacturer: Snowbooks Ltd.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 180
Publication Date: 2007-04-01
Publisher: Snowbooks Ltd.
Studio: Snowbooks Ltd.

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Editorial Reviews:

In a world where every material desire can be filled by ready-made, machine-perfect goods, why do some people still insist on doing things by hand?

The Crafter's Companion is for everybody who loves the world of handcrafts and anybody who's ever wondered what exactly there is to love about it. An online community of skilled artists has come together to answer these questions: Why do you create? What inspires you? How do you work?

Additionally, each artist has contributed a pattern of her own design, making The Crafter's Companion the ideal resource for practical projects and encouraging words.

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Summary: The Crafter's Companion
Comment: When I purchased this book I thought it would be helpful in my crafting, but what it is, are stories about a bunch of different crafters and how they became crafters. At the end of each story is a pattern and not that great of patterns at all. This book is not what I thought Crafter's Companion would be.

Customer Rating:

Summary: Not so great
Comment: I thought that this book would be great by the cover and the reviews that I read. I was more than disappointed. There were really nothing worth making in it. It was mostly profiles of other crafters. They had great pictures of the things that they made, but the projects that they submitted were less than exciting. I keep looking through this book for something to make. As I flip through I'd get excited to see something cute only to find that it is not one of the projects, but and example of the highlighted artist's other work. I would save my money.

Customer Rating:

Summary: Crafter's Companion is a must have!
Comment: I felt like I had bought a book that my friends had written when I got this in the mail. As an avid reader of a lot of these crafter's blogs I thoroughly enjoyed getting a peak into their process. The instructions for most projects are very detailed and easy to follow and so appealing!

Customer Rating:

Summary: Not what I expected.
Comment: This was not a bad book by any means, just not what I wanted it to be (which is not its fault!). It is a bit inspirational, but the patterns/ideas that each author presented for me to do were not inspirational at all, and in fact most were things that I would NEVER make, and often strange and a bit ugly. Nothing like the pictures of the author's "real" stuff. They all seemed to be holding out. Like "Here are some pictures of beautiful things I make and sell, here is a pattern that is perfect for you because it is plain, uninspirational, and something I won't mind giving to you because I could never sell anything like it!" I felt quite insulted.

Buy this to be inspired, but not as a craft book with real ideas. You will be disappointed.

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Summary: Inspirational book
Comment: This book is for people who enjoy making things. Contributors are from the craft blogging community. The first section is about the crafters and contains an entry from each of them entitled "Why I create", "Inspiration", and "Workspace". The second section contains 17 projects (one from each of them) for you to try. Inspirational and highly recommended.

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