Kategoria BISAC: Crafts & Hobbies >> Toymaking - General

Professional designer and woodworker Jim Makowicki's 22-project collection reflects uncanny historical detail and technical accuracy. Each ingeniously designed toy is a potential family heirloom, as a plaything or for display.

Makowicki's sophisticated toy designs are extraordinary. Some Making Heirloom Toys projects have over 50 pieces; one, a handsome ferry boat complete with vintage vehicles has over 100. There are simpler toys, too, all suited to the average woodworker's skills.

Projects are meticulously researched and include scale drawings...

"Whoa, that shot a lot farther than I thought it would "

Shooting far, flying high, and delivering way more exciting results than expected are the goals of the gadgets in this book.

Discover unexpected ways to turn common materials into crafty contraptions that range from surprisingly simple to curiously complex. In vivid color photos, you'll be guided to create slingshot rockets, unique catapults, and even hydraulic-powered machines. Whether you build one or all 19 of these designs, you'll feel like an ingenious engineer when you're through.

Best of all, you...

With this easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide, even beginning needlecrafters will be able to make a charming doll with a wardrobe of nine different mid-nineteenth-century costumes.
Designer Claire Bryant provides all the patterns, information, and helpful hints you'll need to create an engaging group of young ladies from the Old South. There's pretty Bonnie Jean, about to become a bride in a full-skirted wedding dress trimmed in ruffles and lace. Myrna Ann, Bonnie's sister, is the bridesmaid in a lovely dress with tiers of ruffles and a scarf neckline. Sensible Louise Matilda, who wants...

This book is a collection of patterns for small dolls (71/2" or 19cm). The book includes full size patterns and detailed sewing instructions for the Florabunda cloth doll and her outfits. In addition to Florabunda, the outfits will fit Madam Alexander's(R) Wendy, Vogue Doll Company's(R) Modern and Vintage Ginny(R), Lillian Vernon's(R) doll, and other 71/2" (19cm) dolls. Measurements are given in both US and metric units.

Most of the patterns match those found in Sherralyn's book "Sewing for Large Dolls." The patterns in that book are for the 18" (46 cm) dolls such as American Girl(R)...