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Making Winter :A Creative Guide for Surviving the Winter Months
Making Winter :A Creative Guide for Surviving the Winter Months
hardback
Published:
5 October, 2017
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Description
'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.
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781910552650 |
| ISBN10 | 1910552658 |
| Number Of Pages | 128 |
| Item Weight | 1000 g |
| Product Dimensions | 200 x 200 x 17 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Michael O'Mara Books Ltd |
| Format | hardback |
Media Reviews
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 *
GoodReads Reviews
Author's Bio
Emma Mitchell is a designer-maker, naturalist, illustrator and the acclaimed author of The Wild Remedy (2019) and bestselling Making Winter (2017) – over 50,000 copies have been sold in the UK and the US. She is a Guardian Country Diarist, has written and contributed seasonal creative projects for BBC Countryfile Magazine, Country Living, Mollie Makes and Breathe. Emma has appeared on Radio 4’s Ramblings and Woman's Hour, on BBC Countryfile’s winter special
Emma records her daily nature finds with photographs and illustrations on her Instagram (@silverpebble2 – 105,000 followers) and X (@silverpebble –72,700 followers). She runs nature illustration courses: workshops.emmamitchell.net