Create the perfect interactive play toy for busy little hands - and with the added bonus that it’s a joy to make!  The six different book pages feature easy-to-follow instructions and are perfect for any needle arts enthusiast who wants to learn basic crochet stitches step-by-step. But the results are even more impressive. You’ll find a fun sensory experience for developing babies who are just starting to peak into their first book! It’s got adorable moving parts—tethered to pages for child safety—while using bright, high-contrast patterns to stimulate the mind. The vivid use of colors like black, white, and red is designed to stimulate the still-developing eyesight of your baby. It’s the perfect plaything for car trips to keep hands busy and minds engaged for hours at a time! (Trim size 5.5 X 8.5/ 48 pages)

• Pages: 48
• Publish Date: 06/03/2025
• Softcover

Ultimate Guide to Designing Patterns for Clothing Hardcover with Hidden Spiral is an essential reference guide for aspiring fashion designers, fashion design students, and sewing and fabric enthusiasts who want to develop their eye for fashion. Packaged with easy-to-follow diagrams and QR codes for exclusive video tutorials from the author, Ultimate Guide to Designing Patterns for Clothing covers 11 essential subjects, from creating basic slopers to building perfect-fitting garments on the first try. Whether you’re a seasoned sewist looking to level up your skills or a beginner in the world of fashion design, author Suzy Ferrer’s Ultimate Guide to Designing Patterns for Clothing is the definitive resource for professional pattern making instruction.

• Pages: 280
• Publish Date: 09/09/2025
• Hardcover with Hidden Spiral

The Little Sock Knitting Book is a fun, lightweight way for beginners to jump into knitting! Inside, author Christophorus Verlag uses the simple, everyday pair of socks as the footstools for understanding how knitting works, showing how it’s possible to work from cuff to toe or toe to cuff. Learn cast-on stitches, shaft patterns, and more - each packaged with careful step-by-step photos. Whether learning sock knitting for artistry or as a portable hobby, you’ll find this “Little” book to be a big influence on your newfound crafts!

• Pages: 48
• Publish Date: 08/12/2025
• Softcover

Discover the art of bringing your embroidery to life with '3D Botanical Embroidery and Stumpwork'. This book guides you through 17 different projects that range from beginner to advanced, teaching you how to create stunning three-dimensional botanical designs. As you explore the projects, you'll learn techniques to make your embroidery pop, perfect for adding unique touches to items like denim jackets or creating standalone pieces. The vibrant floral embroidery on a hoop, the detailed flowers adorning a jacket, and the variety of embroidered accessories showcase the potential of this craft. With high-quality photography throughout, you'll be inspired to craft intricate flowers, leaves, and more, transforming your embroidery into a textured, dynamic art form.

• Pages: 192
• Publish Date: 10/07/2025
• Softcover

The Ultimate Guide to Casting On and Binding Off is every knitter’s essential guide to two of the most important aspects of knitting! Within these pages, author Jen Lucas gives every project knitter what they need for a solid start (casting on) and finish (binding off), much like a pilot mastering the art of taking off and landing. But it won’t be overwhelming for beginners. The wide selection of step-by-step methods you’ll find inside will help you from getting “tied up” in the minutiae, giving you renewed confidence for tackling your favorite hobby with ease.

• Pages: 64
• Publish Date: 09/23/2025
• Softcover

In The 10-Inch Square Quilt Block Book, you’ll find the most cost-effective and inspiring strategies for getting into quilting! Author Carolina Moore, a lifelong quilting enthusiast, will show you why pre-cut quilt blocks are all the rage. This book will teach you the ABCs of pre-cut quilting, featuring more than 42 quilt designs and 12 finished quilts with step-by-step directions for achieving the same stunning beauty from the comfort of your home. You’ll even find endless ideas for mixing and matching 10” pre-cut squares for your own creative twists, all while minimizing waste with this fresh and increasingly popular approach to quilting!

• Pages: 128
• Publish Date: 10/07/2025
• Softcover

The Learn-to-Quilt Bilingual Guide by Lina Owen and Laura Raquel is a bilingual manual, featuring easy step-by-step instructions in both English and Spanish to merge two cultures into beautiful quilting patchwork that even a beginner can achieve! Inside, beginners who want a foolproof way to learn to quilt can do so with English text next to Spanish instructions, so even the first-time Hispanic/Latino quilter can learn everything they need to know to get started in this exciting, creative hobby.

• Pages: 176
• Publish Date: 10/21/2025
• Softcover

"Whether you’re a beginner exploring the art of knitting as a portal to serenity, or a seasoned knitter looking for relief from intricate patterns, Simple Designs for Meditative Kitting cuts a soothing path toward mindfulness and well-being. This stunning collection of super-easy designs allows you to unwind and embrace the calming rhythm of knitting. Timeless patterns with easy-to-memorize knit and purl repeats are the key to a true meditative knitting experience. Choose from a versatile mix of knitwear and home décor items. All are well suited for hours of mindful knitting.

• Pages: 96
• Publish Date: 07/01/2025
• Softcover

Ultimate Guide to Designing Patterns for Clothing Softcover is an essential reference guide for aspiring fashion designers, fashion design students, and sewing and fabric enthusiasts who want to develop their eye for fashion. Packaged with easy-to-follow diagrams and QR codes for exclusive video tutorials from the author, Ultimate Guide to Designing Patterns for Clothing covers 11 essential subjects, from creating basic slopers to building perfect-fitting garments on the first try. Whether you’re a seasoned sewist looking to level up your skills or a beginner in the world of fashion design, author Suzy Ferrer’s Ultimate Guide to Designing Patterns for Clothing is the definitive resource for professional pattern making instruction.

• Pages: 280
• Publish Date: 09/09/2025
• Softcover

Crocheting Original Hats for Dogs reveals the secrets behind the Internet sensations! If you recognize rescues Sookie and Ivy, it's probably thanks to their millions of online followers--where they show off the crochet dog hat creations of their owner, Jani Oja. Now, in Crocheting Original Hats for Dogs, Oja reveals the secret behind 16 popular amigurumi-inspired pattern requests like blueberry--not to mention the wonderfully creative touches like faux flowers and greenery that have captured the Internet's imagination.

• Pages: 136
• Publish Date: 09/23/2025
• Softcover

Inside Pieced Kaleidoscope Quilt Blocks, you’ll find enchanting and colorful patterns for your quilts, and you'll learn how to assemble intricate designs through the art of English Paper Piecing (EPP). Join author Lydia Cheney—known as the “Kaleidoscope Queen”—as she teaches the distinctive approach that’s earned her acclaim. Inside, you’ll find step-by-step guidance to refine fussy-cutting skills and confidently create kaleidoscope blocks. Add them to stand-alone pieces like pillows and accents around the home—or get more ambitious with visually striking quilts. It’s a fantastic way to broaden the “scope” of your quilting!

• Pages: 72
• Publish Date: 10/21/2025
• Softcover

500 Sewing Techniques, Tips, Tricks, and Hacks is a sewer’s dream - an encyclopedic guide to all the hacks and tips stitchers need to keep at their fingertips. Think of this all-encompassing reference book as a compilation of every helpful sewing tip and trick you saw online all in one place! Inside 500 Sewing Techniques, Ashley Hough has captured all the best little tidbits for sewing enthusiasts of all skill levels. Become a master of pockets, zippers, bindings, edges, buttons, and buttonholes. Learn about getting a straight seam from a slip of cardboard. You’ll find it all right here—and thanks to the easy-to-follow photo step-outs, it comes with a foolproof approach. It won’t be long until the tips add up and you feel like the wise sewing sage who’s got a trick for everything.

• Pages: 280
• Publish Date: 10/07/2025
• Softcover

Learn to Knit the Easy Way is your shortcut to mastering the art of chunky yarn needlework! Covering everything from needles used when working with chunky yarns to nine key techniques like knitting in the round, author and lifelong knitting enthusiast Val Pierce takes the art of chunky knitting and makes it accessible to students of all levels. Whether you're mastering basic stitches like garter and ribbing--or simply an enthusiast who wants to learn the oversized chunky knit sweater patterns that have been all the rage--these 15 knitting projects will invigorate your love for the needle and have you producing homemade crafts like you've been at it for decades.

• Pages: 128
• Publish Date: 10/07/2025
• Softcover

Nothing rings in the Christmas season like a hand-made quilt. A Quilted Christmas is more than a guide to learning quilting techniques--it's everything you need to express the Christmas spirit through your creativity and passion. Among the carefully crafted Christmas quilting projects within, you'll join owner of the Quilt Factory and author, Deb Grogan, as she explains the basics in thorough detail. You'll find detailed appliqué instructions, patchwork tips, and even full-sized templates for 16 of Deb's favorite holiday projects - both downloadable and on-page - so you can kick your Christmas quilting into high gear. Need additional help? Not to worry, check the on-page QR codes for how-to videos that guide you through every detail. Come explore why Deb Grogan's seasonal quilting patterns are customer favorites, with quilts, runners, wall hangings, tree skirts, and stockings that will remind you why Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year!

• Pages: 80
• Publish Date: 09/09/2025
• Softcover

6- copy Counter Display - Pretty Fixes: Carry-Along Guide to Visible Mending & Embroidery Stitches follows-up the wild success of its predecessor, offering readers 30 exciting stitches for embellishing and visible mending in a convenient, compact edition. Editor Karen Hemingway will take you through dozens of hand embroidery designs to elaborate on everything you have learned thus far - with beginner-friendly, step-by-step instructions for anyone just learning hand embroidery. Combining illustrations with needle and thread charts for convenient reference, it's an entirely new universe of hand embroidery patterns to keep your curiosity piqued and your needles sharp!

• Pages: 64
• Publish Date: 02/11/2025
• Softcover
• Size: 4in x 6in
• Includes: 6 copies and display box

Stitching Adorable Animals is a veritable zoo of fantastic and creative embroidery ideas! Join author Jessica Long as she introduces you to 25 charming projects for animal embroidery including Monarchs in love, a beetle, an Axolotl, a Garden Mouse, seahorses, bluebirds, and more. The full-color, step-by-step instructions inside will teach you everything from stitch direction to textured stitches and includes full-sized patterns. Beginners will love the guides to basic stitches and supplies, while experienced embroiderers will enjoy the modern techniques for lending depth and texture to every fresh project.

• Pages: 176
• Publish Date: 06/17/2025
• Softcover
• Size: 8in x 10in

Panel Quilting Workshop is author Stephanie Soebbing's comprehensive guide to panel quilt patterns for every season! Inside, Soebbing invites readers and avid quilt-makers of all levels to complete 12 different kinds of quilting projects. You'll find different types of printed panel styles - from multi-image to framed - and how to select the fabrics that enhance each panel. If you've ever struggled with creating complementary quilting designs, you'll find Panel Quilting Workshop has a project for you.

• Pages: 112
• Publish Date: 05/06/2025
• Softcover
• Size: 8in x 10in

Freestyle Color Collage Quilting is a direct download from one of the top minds in modern quilting: Carly Mul of Webfabrics. Inside, you'll find techniques for the most popular fabrics in the industry today, including step-by-step visuals for freestyle quilting that will upend everything you thought you knew about using fabric. It also features a thorough supply list to pair with its inspiration gallery, giving you everything you'll need to bring these gorgeous quilt patterns to life! Join Carly Mul as she invites you into the latest quilting trends--and teaches you how to start a few trends of your own.

• Pages: 80
• Publish Date: 02/25/2025
• Softcover
• Size: 8in x 10in

Creative Zigzag Rope Sewing will help you level-up your favorite zigzag rope projects with patterns for unique bowls, lidded vessels, and even fabulous bags! Inside, author Denise Haar shares the lessons that have filled her rope sewing classes with eager students, teaching you 18 distinct projects taking you from learning rope sewing basics to advanced shaping techniques. Whether you need home craft gift ideas or more cute sewing ideas for rainy Saturday afternoons, Creative Zigzag Rope Sewing is the ideal way to go beyond the basic stitch and explore everything this art form has to offer.

• Pages: 160
• Publish Date: 06/03/2025
• Softcover
• Size: 8-1/2in x 11in

Pretty Fixes: Carry-Along Guide to Visible Mending & Embroidery Stitches follows-up the wild success of its predecessor, offering readers 30 exciting stitches for embellishing and visible mending in a convenient, compact edition. Editor Karen Hemingway will take you through dozens of hand embroidery designs to elaborate on everything you have learned thus far - with beginner-friendly, step-by-step instructions for anyone just learning hand embroidery. Combining illustrations with needle and thread charts for convenient reference, it's an entirely new universe of hand embroidery patterns to keep your curiosity piqued and your needles sharp!

• Pages: 64
• Publish Date: 02/25/2025
• Softcover
• Size: 4in x 6in

Pocket Guide to Sergers is an invaluable guide for both new and experienced seamstresses and tailors. It's a perfectly small, handy, take-along primer that includes all the basics for getting the most out of the serger machine. Sergers can do so much more than creating basic finishing seams, like gathering, cording, cover stitching, and ruffles, to name a few. This perfect-sized compact guide will teach you what a serger is and help you decide which one is the best for you to purchase. It also provides information on parts and pieces of the serger, tensions, needles and loopers, types of stitches, feet and accessories, getting the most out of your serger, and maintenance and troubleshooting. With so much information, this guide will quickly become your favorite.

• Pages 56
• Size: 6 x 4
• Publish Date: 11/19/2024

Jen Lucas delights again with this gorgeous collection of her most popular knitted shawl patterns. Knit both sock yarn patterns and patterns for chunky, sport weight, worsted, and fingering weight yarns for knitters are included from the self-proclaimed "Sock Yarn Queen." Patterns can be worked from the top down or bottom up, side-by-side, asymmetrically, or flat. The Big Book of Knitted Shawls includes 35 designs and covers basic stitches for beginners but also intermediate and advanced stitches for experienced knitters. Knitters love shawls, and Jen's Big Book of Knitted Shawls is a must-have for every knitter's craft book collection.

• Pages: 160
• Size: 8in x 10in
• Publish Date 10/08/2024

ssential Crochet Dictionary is an incredible reference guide that covers 100 stitches you need to know to be a successful crocheter, including full dots, tile stitch, square stitch, palmette stitch, offset grid, point of Byzantium, coil stitch, and so much more! You will be able to tackle any crochet project after mastering the correct stitch for it with these easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions and over 250 photos for guidance. Great for beginner, intermediate, and advanced crocheters, the stitches are organized by style. The stitches have been photographed on a black background, making the details of the stitch easier to see -- and learn! It's a must-have for any yarn lover's library.

• Pages: 176
• Size: 7.5 X 5.5
• Publish Date: 10/15/24

Pocket Guide to Knitting is a must-have resource whether you are new to knitting or have been knitting for years. This handy, carry-along edition answers all your questions about the tools you need, including the needles and yarn, the most popular stitches and how to do cast-ons and bind-offs. Tips and tricks to successful knitting based on the author's own experiences are throughout the book. Start your traveling knitting journey now with this comprehensive and convenient guide.

• Pages: 64
• Size: 6 x 4
• Publish Date: 12/03/2024

Simple Starter Crochet Projects is the perfect book for those new to crocheting to learn the essential fundamentals including basic materials and tools, an easy-to-follow stitch guide, stitch-step instructions with photographs, and how to read abbreviated crochet instructions. Using the techniques and stitches, you'll be able to create three beginner projects: a hooded scarf, pillow cushion, and hat. Each project can be completed in a weekend.

• Pages: 48
• Size: 9 x 6
• Publish Date: 09/24/2024

Whether using new fabrics or upcycling or repurposing an existing quilt, orphan blocks or fabric scraps, Making Quilted Patchwork Jackets instructs you through each step of the process to handcraft a quilted jacket. You will learn to properly position blocks, add appliqué elements, layer, quilt, and construct piece-by-piece. For beginners to wearable quilting, the authors provide an overview of basic garment construction, fabric selection, piecing and placement, liners, hem length, and finishing details including collars, cuffs, and pockets. Two basic multi-size downloadable patterns are available--adult and child--with multiple length options. Intermediate and advanced quilters can modify the projects to suit their level of expertise, finding inspiration from the gallery of quilted jacket photographs.

• Pages: 128
• Size: 8.5 x 11
• Publish Date: 12/03/2024

Inside Stylish Quilter you wll find five different approaches to modish quilting: geometric, improv, minimalist, traditionalist, and pop. Projects include a Nouveau Quilt, a Scrappy Improv Skinny, a Palette Quilt, and more! Additionally, there are quilting tips, and practical advice that encapsulate the lifestyle of today's quilting enthusiasts such as choosing scrap fabrics, organizing scraps, lights vs dark material, ideas for displaying quilts, adding tabs to a mini quilt, scrappy binding, and quilt care.

• Pages: 192
• Size: 8.5 x 11
• Publish Date: 11/05/2024

For brand-new quilters — kids, teens, and adults — Quilting, Sewing & Appliqué: Essential Techniques for Beginners is the perfect starter guide! Author Heidi Pridemore has created a collection of different blocks that, when finished, can be fashioned into a patchwork quilt. She also includes fun-to-make projects in bright, bold styles and colors that are not only achievable for young makers, but also incorporate all the basic sewing skills young and even new makers of all ages need to become successful quilters! For all ages, with comprehensive information on sewing and quilting for novices 13 quilt blocks, 6 projects, and 1 big quilt to make while learning quilting and sewing techniques Vibrant designs with colorful motifs like butterflies, stars, hearts, daisies, and more Appliqué letters with easy-to-follow appliqué instructions Extra video content with QR codes throughout that link to instructional videos

• Pages: 128
• Publish Date: 07/29/2025
• Size: 8in x 10in
• Softcover

Piece and Quilt as You Go is a must-have beginner's quilting guide. Author, teacher, TV personality, and master quilter Debi Schmitz Noriega offers an introduction to quilting with a historical background of quilting, 8 quilting techniques, tips from her own quilting experiences, varied quilt designs, and mini patterns throughout her book to excite the quilter and make this book their new favorite guide. Quilting on the go is a simple way to quilt individual blocks of a larger project and then join them together without the need of a long- or mid-arm machine as well as a great way to use up fabrics and incorporate them into exciting designs. Piecing them on the go saves you time as you can quilt anywhere, anytime. Start now and see what beautiful quilts you can make in no time.

• Pages: 144
• Size: 8.5 x 11
• Publish Date: 10/22/2024

Vintage Vibe Quilts appeals to both beginner to advanced quilters who enjoy designing and making quilts. Author Louise Papas includes sections on how to get started, choosing your fabric, the tools you need including thread, needles, scissors, sandpaper boards, and more! Also included are sections on how to make a template, hand piecing, and appliqué, and features 14 projects including 8 quilts and 5 projects for cushions and bags. Blend the traditional art of hand-sewing a quilt with the modern twist of fabric and pattern choices.

• Pages: 144
• Size: 8.5 x 11
• Publish Date: 11/05/2024