The best Folkcrafts books: Reddit reviews

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I do My hubby brought me https://www.amazon.co.uk/250-Japanese-Knitting-Stitches-Original/dp/4805314834/ref=sr_1_2?crid=18179WEO7QSHX&dchild=1&keywords=japanese+knitting+stitch+bible&qid=1628101554&sprefix=japanese+knitting%2Caps%2C180&sr=8-2 this one for my birthday, constantly referring to symbols but i prefer to write it out & try to do it.

In the past I've used 2 books the Carving Faces Workbook and Sculpting the Female Face and Figure in Wood (NSFW). The first book is in the American caricature carving tradition so less realistic and more expressive (a lot of the work on this sub is in that style). And the second is more focused on hyper realism. It also has photos of the same model's head from dozens of angles which I found to be very helpful. It also includes similar reference photos of a nude model, hence the NSFW tag.

Book: Whimsical Cross-Stitch Author: Cari Buziak Published: 2019

130+ Patterns range from smalls around 30x30 to the largest being about 75x75. There's a really wide variety of patterns. All have color simulated stitched pictures. Charts have black and white symbols. The patterns all appear to be full cross. Some have backstitching but many do not. Patterns are very easy to read with average to larger size symbols. A few monochromatic patterns but most are quite colorful. It can be found on Amazon.

250 Japanese Knitting Stitches and The Japanese Knitting Stitch Bible by Hitomi Shida are amazing books full of exquisite, unique patterns.

Just going to point out that things like Americans have a huge history of just scratch building your own firearms… a great place to start is the Firefox Bookswhere they interviewed hillbilly’s Teachs you the blacksmith a flintlock out of shit in the woods.

Modern times we use 3D printers and such, but just because you don’t understand or care about gun culture doesn’t mean our country isn’t 100% built on it.

Crazy how people want to disarm the USA, but are wicked fine with arming every single Ukrainian cause for some reason you think bad guys only extort overseas.

Pattern is from Cari Buziak’s Whimsical Cross-Stitch pattern book. I’ve made lots of cute patterns from this collection!

1. Learn to make soap, its a little tricky to learn the consistencies and requires practice. However you can make the lye from white wood ash stepped in a water barrel, and the rest is rendered animal fat. (Or plant oil if you want liquid soap.) See Foxfire vol1 pg 151ish

2. Salt is used for scrubbing things. Salt to scrub pans, your outhouse, your whatever. Salt kills germs, is mildly abrasive, and easily rinses away. You mix it with a bit of water until it becomes paste-like and scrub away.

3. If you really want to go for the gold, learn how to distill and you can make your own alcohol and spirts.

For anyone interested, the Foxfire book series is a great series of how to make stuff, survive and live from the old timers in Appalachia. A prof and his students went and gleaned all their old knowledge back in the day and recorded it as the Foxfire series.

Agreed! I prioritize having purses / totes bags that are knitting compatible (that is: large + no zippers / velcro to snag yarn on) and having simple cotton drawstring bags or ziploc that I can throw into them. I'm not into fancy project bags.

My favorite knitting book is the Japanese Knitting Stitch Bible, and I use it a lot!

The pattern comes from Cari Buziak’s book “Whimsical Cross-Stitch”, purchased from Amazon here: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/048682862X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_i_4R4W8CKZ9XPGMX5CGRS5?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

Get this cookbook and try one of the dough recipes with honey in it. A cookie rolling pan is essentially a cookie mold in rolling pin form.

https://www.amazon.com/Baking-Cookie-Molds-Handcrafted-Christmas/dp/1620355078

My local library and bookstore has this book:
https://www.amazon.ca/Carving-Faces-Workbook-Expressions-Legendary/dp/1565235851

Hello, fellow crocheter to knitter here! It sounds scary and intimidating, but lacework. I've done lacework samplers (turned into coasters) and I'm working on a shawl now.

I picked out my 'samplers' from the Japanese Knitting Stitch Bible. It's all charts but reading the intro section on how to read them made them very easy to follow and the back of the book has pictures/diagrams on how to do the more complicated stitches.

The shawl I'm currently working on is free from Lion Brand, Feather and Fan Shawl. and in the past, I've done a simple triangle shawl. (lots of free patterns out for those!)

You could also try searching through Ravelry, including setting the "difficulty" filter!

The second book is 250 Japanese Knitting Stitches: The Original Pattern Bible by Hitomi Shida Paperback – October 23, 2018; I bought my copy from amazon.

The Japanese Knitting Stitch Bible is one of my favorites. The Knitter's Bible helped me advance my knitting past basics, and the Japanese Stitch Bible is really like a continuation. There are so many beautiful stitches in that book!

Hey you're doing great. Try this book if you can, he has excellent advice.

Good tips from u/Sol_Invictus and I will add one more incredibly simple thing you can do to increase the odds in your favor:

• Adopt the David Ellsworth approach to tenons by adding a sort of second step to your tenon as shown here. David calls this the "base cut" and it accomplishes several things, one of which is allowing you to more easily visualize where the bottom of the bowl is. In his book, he says "When using a chuck, the base cut helps you visualize the foot so the walls are not cut."

Here's one I found on short notice. The concept of a "signature grind" is kind of silly but if you can get past that, this is pretty close to how I use mine. For the grind, it's sharpened with a steep bevel (just went and measured mine and it's 60 degrees), and straight across just like a spindle roughing gouge, with the one exception that you can round off the corners of the wings a bit so they don't catch.

In use, it can be used with the bevel rubbing on the right wing more or less in a "normal" bevel riding cut, and you can also use it with the tool held perpendicular to the rest, the flute straight up and the bevel rubbing the left wing in what I think is known as a "back cut." This is a somewhat grabby, advanced technique and David Ellsworth describes it in his book

I'll update if I can find a better video.

There's an awesome book called "Wildwood Wisdom" by Elsworth Jaeger that is amazing. You could live anywhere with just this book (although it's written for North America).

Odds are that, if they are over the age of 45 or so, they are transposing the title of the wildly popular Fox Fire series of books from the 1970s with the name Firefox.