'Gentle, beautiful, skilled and creative.' Robert Macfarlane
Banish winter blues and embrace the frosty months by cosying up with Emma Mitchell’s nature-inspired collection of crafts.
From delicate silver jewellery, paper-craft decorations and crocheted mittens, to foraged infusions, delicious recipes and nature diaries, Making Winter is filled with projects designed to fend off dreariness in the winter months.
Step-by-step instructions and beautiful photographs, shot at Emma’s cottage in the Fens, take you through each project, so that even beginners can enjoy the mood-boosting benefits of a craft-filled winter and snuggle down in their own cosy paradise.
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
ISBN: 9781910552650
Number of pages: 128
Dimensions: 200 x 200 x 17 mm
Gentle, beautiful, skilled and creative. - Robert Macfarlane
Charming... [Emma] has found a way to alleviate seasonal affective disorder with crafts and creativity. Definitely one for the den - Katrina Burroughs, The Sunday Times Home
[A] really pretty little book, full of recipes, designs and ideas for presents - Joanne Harris, Good Housekeeping
Emma has created the most beautiful, delicious, enriching book - capable of turning the bleakest, wintery afternoon into a warm, nurturing, life-enhancing treat - Emma Freud
Inspiring and comforting - Psychologies
This charming book is packed with ingenious and inexpensive things to do during winter - Daily Mail (Weekend)
[A] real winter warmer - Daily Express
Even if you're not crafty, you'll be inspired by the projects in Making Winter, which all include step-by-step instructions and gorgeous photographs. - Stylist
Brighten bleak winter days with Emma's recipes - Delicious. magazine
You're engaging not only with the natural world but with the year's cycle in a way that grounds you in time and place and makes something from the here and now ... I believe that's something that can have vast - and perhaps unexpected - value ... That a book should act as inspiration or catalyst to even one reader makes the writing of it worthwhile ... [This book] will reach thousands - Melissa Harrison, Caught by the River
an inspirational book - Country Homes & Interiors
Gorgeously cosy ... this is a book to snuggle up on the sofa with and hold back the dreary winter nights - Inside Crochet
An ideal present for anyone looking to try something different - Let's Knit
Banish the winter blues with this gorgeous collection - Crochet Now
Beautifully styled - Popular Patchwork
I was sent a copy of this book and have really enjoyed it! It's got some lovely recipe, crotchet and craft ideas to help get you through the cold winter nights. This book would make a gorgeous present for... More
This book is the 'hygge' book of crafting. It offers many warm and cozy crafts, illustrated with beautiful cozy photographs. This book will help you forget your winter blues by keeping the creative side of... More
This is a beautifully photographed craft guide, dedicated to helping you through the winter months, and combatting SAD through craft therapy.
This is a fabulous book for crocheters, and while there wasn't as...
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