Learn to look at cross stitch in a whole new way! Use the "waste canvas" method to create a beautiful relief lighthouse on a sea of delicate painted silk. Stitch a scene of your town to frame and hang, or add fabric flowers and leaves to a gazebo sampler for added punch. Cross-stitch a foreground on an oval mount to add another dimension to a country house, or go completely three-dimensional with a realistic thatched-roof cottage.

An exquisite collection of Victorian samplers, pillows, picture frames, and gifts. Nearly 30 projects.

Cross-stitch project patterns for children under 10.

EMBROIDERY. Keep your holiday dreams alive all year around with this fabulous collection of over 35 inspirational designs. Capture a wide assortment of seaside memories in cross stitch, from the bucket-and-spade family holiday to an exotic tropical island getaway. The projects include delightful framed pictures and colourful beach bags, as well as smaller quick-to-stitch coasters and cards. Each project features full making up instructions, clear colour charts and stunning photography.

Ebook on CD in PDF format, readable on PC or Mac using Adobe Reader. Over 50 designs by Jane Greenoff and Sue Hawkins from the Cross Stitch Guild Members' magazine. Cross stitch on linen and Aida, counting onto canvas, Christmas projects, samplers, cushions, etc. Charts in b/w, easy to print on your home printer.

"What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands." Billy Bragg from the bookjacket.

By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas | Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize Selected by Time as One of the Ten Best Books of the Year | A New York Times Notable Book | Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The Washington Post Book World, The Christian Science Monitor, Rocky Mountain News, and Kirkus Reviews | A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist | Winner of the ALA Alex Award | Finalist for the Costa Novel Award From award-winning writer David Mitchell comes a sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of adulthood and the old on the cusp of the new. Black Swan Green tracks a single year in what is, for thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in muddiest Worcestershire in a dying Cold War England, 1982. But the thirteen chapters, each a short story in its own right, create an exquisitely observed world that is anything but sleepy. A world of Kissingeresque realpolitik enacted in boys’ games on a frozen lake; of “nightcreeping” through the summer backyards of strangers; of the tabloid-fueled thrills of the Falklands War and its human toll; of the cruel, luscious Dawn Madden and her power-hungry boyfriend, Ross Wilcox; of a certain Madame Eva van Outryve de Crommelynck, an elderly bohemian emigré who is both more and less than she appears; of Jason’s search to replace his dead grandfather’s irreplaceable smashed watch before the crime is discovered; of first cigarettes, first kisses, first Duran Duran LPs, and first deaths; of Margaret Thatcher’s recession; of Gypsies camping in the woods and the hysteria they inspire; and, even closer to home, of a slow-motion divorce in four seasons. Pointed, funny, profound, left-field, elegiac, and painted with the stuff of life, Black Swan Green is David Mitchell’s subtlest and most effective achievement to date. Praise for Black Swan Green “[David Mitchell has created] one of the most endearing, smart, and funny young narrators ever to rise up from the pages of a novel. . . . The always fresh and brilliant writing will carry readers back to their own childhoods. . . . This enchanting novel makes us remember exactly what it was like.”—The Boston Globe “[David Mitchell is a] prodigiously daring and imaginative young writer. . . . As in the works of Thomas Pynchon and Herman Melville, one feels the roof of the narrative lifted off and oneself in thrall.”—Time