{"id":88,"date":"2022-02-16T11:55:55","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T11:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.annawaites.co.uk\/blog\/?p=88"},"modified":"2022-02-16T11:55:55","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T11:55:55","slug":"review-craft-books-from-pen-sword","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.annawaites.co.uk\/blog\/2022\/02\/16\/review-craft-books-from-pen-sword\/","title":{"rendered":"Review – Craft Books from Pen & Sword"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I received these books in exchange for a review<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was fortunate enough to be sent some craft books from Pen & Sword<\/a> to review. I chose Modern Brush Lettering, Paint Make Create and Colourful Fun Embroidery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

All the books are colourful and cheerful, I love the design and styling. The photographs are really lovely and show clearly what to do with step-by-step instructions. I had trouble taking my own photos of the books as my teenager kept trying to make off with them; I think the embroidery one is her favourite but she was also trying out the brush lettering as soon as I put the book down!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Modern Brush Lettering<\/strong> is the book I was most interested to try. I have some brush pens I bought a few years ago but never got on very well with. I’m better at art now so I wanted to give them another go. The book gives you a good introduction to lettering and has some practice exercises as well as a couple of alphabets, then a selection of projects for the seasons of the year. Another alphabet or two might have been nice but I found the instructions clear and there was good information about supplies and lots of different ways you could use the lettering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Paint Make Create<\/strong> has a wide selection of projects using different kinds of paint, from watercolour to acrylic to fabric paint. There were a few ideas I wouldn’t have considered, such as the flower cake topper, and I’d love to give the abstract art collage a try. The teenager wants to try decorating a tote bag. This book is by the same author as the brush lettering one and a few of the projects are similar but there is enough variation and it has given me a lot of ideas for things to try!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Colourful Fun Embroidery <\/strong>is the third book. I don’t do a lot of embroidery but this book looked so bright and cheery! Now I just want to get a lot of hoops and fill them with colourful words and patterns and hang them all over the house. My favourites are the simpler ones with a phrase and some decoration and I like how all the templates are in the back of the book for easy tracing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The first place I started with these books was the brush lettering as I already have everything I need – I’d like to try it out with watercolour paint and brush as well as I think that would work nicely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
brush lettering practice!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I received these books in exchange for a review I was fortunate enough to be sent some craft books from Pen & Sword to review. I chose Modern Brush Lettering, Paint Make Create and Colourful Fun Embroidery. All the books are colourful and cheerful, I love the design and styling. The photographs are really lovely… Continue reading Review – Craft Books from Pen & Sword<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,15,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-craft","category-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.annawaites.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.annawaites.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.annawaites.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.annawaites.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.annawaites.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.annawaites.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95,"href":"http:\/\/www.annawaites.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.annawaites.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.annawaites.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.annawaites.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}