Collins creative embroidery is designed for anyone, irrespective of their experience, who wants to explore the craft of embroidery in an original, imaginative way. How you use the book will depend on your goals as an embroider; but our hope is that through its use both your skill and your goals will develop enormously.
Among the watchers and the watched are: Eugene Clarck who, at the age of 61, rode on the back of a 50-foot whale shark; Roge Wilson, in close contact with the rare mountain gorillas of Rwanda; and Bill Oddie with inside information on the joys of bird watching. Also included are hints on how to go about your own nature-watching in all its many forms.
I wrote spin your own wool primarily to teach the technique of making a thread on a spinning wheel. To the many spinners who have mastered this technique.
Many people have been involved in the making of this book-owners of gardens large and small who have allowed photgraphs to be taken of their gardens, and those who have provided information of an historic nature. To all these good friemds, sincere thanks. Special mention must be made og julian who contributed most of the photographs.
New Zealand is beginning to earn a reputation for its gardens. For this we have to thank not only our temperate climate and the wide range of native and the wide range of native and foreign plants which thrive here, but also the determination and dedication of many New Zealanders who have created beautiful gardens, both large and small, the length and breadth of both islands.
When i began to write about eating house in wellington, to find out what they had to say about a town with many faces, as many memories and a complexity of moods, i found that they were part of the central core of the city.
Electic, eccentric and enchanting, bonnie kennedy-grant's embroidery and sewing transcend ordinary work to become art. He eye for colour is natural, her taste exquisite, her skill extraordinary.
Soft and romantic, tailored and elegant, rustic or sophisticated; the style and treatment of windows is somethingevery home decorator must think about.
The task of wroting a book on any subject is not something which can be under taken lightly and, although i have been associated with peat gardens for almost twenty-five years, i thought quite seriously about tackling such a priject.
The hillsides of qur'an, in contrastto the bustle of luxor on the opposite bank of the Nile, hide a silent. maze-like network of passages and caves known as the Tombs of the Nobles.