Sewing with Felt: Learn Basic Stitches to Create More Than Colorful Projects

Buff McAllister. Boyds Mills Press, $19.95 (88pp) ISBN 978-1-56397-999-6

A plethora of projects await in a host of titles. Sewing with Felt: Learn Basic Stitches to Create More Than 60 Colorful Projects by Buff McAllister, photos by Hank Schneider, provides useful instruction as well as inspiration. Beginning with safety tips, supplies needed and descriptions of basic stitches, it quickly proceeds to fun ideas such as ""Playful Place Mats,"" ""Bookworm Bookmarks"" and ""Puppet Pals."" The degree of difficulty of each project is clearly indicated, diagrams provide detailed instructions and the colorful photos of finished projects will make readers eager to get started.

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