Homemade: 101 Beautiful and Useful Craft Projects You Can Make at Home

by Ros Badger, Elspeth Thompson

Chock full of practical, thoughtful advice from seasoned crafters, Homemade contains over one hundred craft projects that require you to look no further than your very own home. As economic and environmental factors start to play a greater role in consumer decision-making, Ron Badger and Elspeth Thompson suggest an alternative to buying. Taking everyday objects from around their homes, they transform these objects into beautiful works of art, which reflect the love and care they put into their projects.

Divided into seasons, Homemade provides a year’s worth of activities to improve your home. It gives sound advice on how to restore a garden table, make a patchwork wall, cook delicious pumpkin soup, and more. It also includes a section on homemade basics, which details how to sew, knit, and crochet using a variety of patterns!

Homemade is the perfect gift for a friend interested in crafting, or a delightful treat for you and your family. With advice from Badger and Thompson, little additions to your home—like summer troughs full of flowers and natural cleaning products—will make all the difference. Your home and your family will thank you.

Genres: Nonfiction, Crafts

256 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2010

Reviews

[Jodi Geever · Rating 3 out of 5]

These crafts are all over the map in terms of difficulty but I’m excited to try some, and all have gift potential.

[Melanie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Homemade
101 Beautiful and Useful Craft Projects you can Make at Home
Ros Badger and Elspeth Thompson

Encompasses a full range of craft ideas for each season of the year. Crochet, knitting, paper crafts, sewing, cooking, gardening.. anything you can imagine is in this book Homemade.

Divided into the 4 seasons this book gives detailed instructions that go along with each season. Full color photographs give with full effect and finished products.

Homemade cards, recycled containers, Patchwork Walls, colorful cupcakes, tea cosy, and Christmas ornaments are just a few of the crafts available to make in this hardback book.
Patterns are included in the back of the book for a few of the projects.

The authors are knowledgeable in the craft area and both are seasoned authors.
Fantastic gift book idea for the holidays that will keep on giving year round.

I received a copy of this book from Skyhorse Publishing in exchange for an honest review.

[Amanda · Rating 3 out of 5]

There's a good mix of ideas as well as forms of crafts covered, however the scope which it attempts to meet is too vast to be summed quickly. There are projects that lend well to the short synopsis, such as the Button Light Pull or the Lavender Cats (both of which I will create this summer). I'll be generous and say I found a dozen projects to implement. That leaves 89 projects I have no use for right now. Although the projects are divided by seasons, most can be created and used any time of the year. Still, think of this one as more of an inspiration book or idea starter, then go and find instructions or a pattern that offers better directions and examples.