The following booklist represents a portion of the books available in the Northglenn High School library. For additional books on this topic or related topics, please visit the library or use Destiny to search the collection.

Cute & Cuddly Crochet

743.43 BER

Crochet your own adorable, jumbo-size amigurumi animals with Cute & Cuddly Crochet, featuring 12 beginner-friendly, photo-illustrated step-by-step patterns.

Author and artist Lauren Bergstrom is your guide to creating great big, huggable crochet creatures--perfect for baby gifts, birthday gifts for kids, quirky home decor, and more. You'll be surprised by how quickly you can create these cuties using bulky yarn and a large crochet hook!

The Beginner's Guide to Decorating Pottery

738.1 REI

With an emphasis on learning new skills, having fun, and embracing imperfection, The Beginner's Guide to Decorating Pottery supports your creative process as you explore:

Basic information on working with clays as well as materials used for decorating. Tutorials on color theory, combining form and function, and the importance of keeping a sketchbook. Beginner-friendly projects that show how to apply surface-design techniques to simple pieces such as coasters, a cheeseboard, a wall hanging, plates, tumblers, vases, planters, and more.

Throughout the book, skill-building is front and center, with tips and tricks to help you crack the code and make pieces you're proud of. Gallery work from some of today's top ceramics artists is sure to inspire potters of all levels.

The Beginner's Guide to Wheel Throwing

738.1 WEB

In The Beginner's Guide to Wheel Throwing , you'll find all you need to develop the skills (and patience) you need to make your first forms. For beginners and those returning to ceramics, the Essential Ceramics Skills series from Quarry Books offers the fundamentals along with fresh, contemporary, and simple projects that build skills progressively.

Crafting Change: Handmade Activism, Past and Present

745.5 VIT

Profiles "craftivists" and their creations promoting social justice causes. Features works of embroidery, knitting, sculpting, quilting, baking, beading, and stenciling. Includes interviews, historical content, and over 100 color photographs.

Super Easy Knitting for Beginners

746.43 HAM

Offers guidelines, encouragement, and step-by-step projects for beginning knitters. Each project and technique comes with a full-color photograph, and include making a seed stitch table runner, a leaf edge shawl, and a garter stitch scarf.

Origami Fold-By-Fold: Building Skills One Step at a Time from Beginner to Advanced

736 MON

The projects start with simple one-star models (ladybug, angelfish, sailboat) and progress to very complex four-star models (grasshopper, wooly mammoth), with a crane, lion, peacock, and several geometric shapes in between.

Professor Pincushion's Beginner Guide to Sewing: Garment Making for Nervous Newbies

646 OPA

Provides beginners with information on sewing tools and supplies, color photographs, and step-by-step instructions for sewing five garment projects. Includes downloadable patterns and instructions for making pajama shorts and a t-shirt.

Wear, Repair, Repurpose: A Maker's Guide to Mending and Upcycling Clothes

646.4 FUL

Repair your favorite socks with style, add flair with personalized patches, and turn ripped jeans into an embroidered masterpiece. For beginner and experienced makers, Lily Fulop's guide to mending and upcycling is your colorful companion to ditching fast fashion and extending the lifecycle of all your favorite clothes.

Modern Calligraphy

745.6 RAM

Modern Calligraphy features step-by-step projects for using a brush pen and paper to form letters, words, and embellishments. Once you've learned the basics of brush lettering, use the helpful tips and gorgeous artwork to create your own elegant-but-fun lettered artwork. Then you can hand-letter anything you like, from address labels on envelopes to party invitations, letters to loved ones, cards, decorative artwork, maps, and so much more.

Complete Crochet Course: The Ultimate Reference Guide

746.43 MUL

The Complete Crochet Course explains all the tools, materials, and techniques you need. From choosing a hook and yarn to seaming, working in the round, handling specialty stitches, and adding details. Ten patterns are perfectly designed for novices eager to complete their first projects, while intermediates can enjoy mastering even more advanced skills.

A Kid's Guide to Awesome Duct Tape Projects

745.5 KID

Only in this all-in-one Instructables collection can you find some of the most unique duct tape projects that will make you the coolest person you know. Everybody will be talking about your duct tape art, with projects including: the classic duct tape wallet, a dapper duct tape bow tie, a fabulous duct tape clutch, duct tape lilies for your valentine, and so many more!

How Art is Made: The Craft Behind the Masterpieces

702.8 MAN

How Art Is Made looks at renowned works of art from across the centuries and around the globe and asks the intriguingly simple question - how were these works actually made?