Professional advice on planning, planting, care and maintenance.

Shows you how to create borders that burst with colour and variety, with depth, structure, staying power and adaptability. Covers design, conditions and aspect, choosing your plants, preparing, growing and maintaining. Written in a clear, accessible style, with helpful checklists and tips, and beautiful illustration.

Five exquisite baby blankets from master crochet designer Patricia Kristoffersen. Made with worsted weight yarn.

A stunning border sampler, dozens of beautiful borders, backings and bindings and decorative practice projects provide inspiration and information in this comprehensive photographic how-to teaching guide. In clear step-by-step photographs the book presents the important finishing techniques a quilter needs to know.

A beautiful border adds the perfect finishing touch to your hand-stitched pieces. A knitted scarf, a crocheted baby blanket, even a store-bought tank top --- they're all elevated by the texture and color of crocheted edgings. Complete with detailed instructions for executing the 90-degree corner turns, Edie Eckman's 150 border designs add pop and whimsy to everything they embellish. "An irresistible book of cute crocheted borders...expands the options for adding a little flair to knit, crocheted, and even sewn projects."---Debbie Stoller author of the Stitch `n Bitch books

Like the frosting on the cupcake, or the tiara on the bride, a beautiful border is the finishing touch for a lovingly created afghan, whether knitted or crocheted. Borders can be elegant or whimsical, can match or contrast with the afghan, and can lift even the simplest afghan from "ordinary" into the "very special" category. If you usually depend upon fringe as an accent, you'll have fun experimenting with these 50 crochet borders by Jean Leinhauser. The borders can be worked with any weight of yarn that works well with the body of the afghan. For some designs, the number of colors used in a border also can be varied. General instructions are included for how to use the borders, work with stitch pattern multiples, and estimate yarn amounts.

The key elements to creating exciting scrapbooks are page borders, corner designs, and photo frames. Whether you are an experienced scrapbook enthusiast or just getting started, this book offers fantastic design ideas for enhancing your pages. With 40 complete page designs, step-by-step instructions, and free templates, Perfect Borders, Corners, and Frames for Scrapbooks offers beautiful and unique enhancements for your pages. You will be able to use these ideas and templates over and over for inspiration!

Every page in a scrapbook or picture on a card looks more beautiful when it's set off by a frame and embellished with a fabulous border-and these are among the most exquisite ever collected. The frames come in every shape, size, and style: circular and rectangular, with a few simple curlicues and with elaborate knotwork, with hearts and flowers and with cherubs and children. The borders, too, offer plenty of options to fit any project, from classic columns to panels filled with birds and flowering vines. There's a gallery of ideas, too!