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For the embroiderer who appreciates the value of beautiful stitches but also likes to break a few rules along the way, Rebecca Ringquist's Embroidery Workshops is a refreshing new resource for both standard and out-of-the-box techniques

In Bunny Williams on Garden Style, Williams visits impeccably designed gardens around the world, shedding light on the key components that make a garden so appealing and idyllic.

A sketchbook is an essential tool for the growth of any aspiring artist, but its blank pages can be daunting to even the most motivated. Obsessed with perfection, many wind up treating their sketchbooks more like portfolios than playgrounds. In Drawing Is Magic, author John Hendrix seeks to teach anyone how to find his or her unique visual voice and become a creative daredevil. Through his freeing, offbeat exercises, aspiring and advanced artists will learn a sophisticated philosophy of creative thinking--in a way that is totally accessible and fun.

In The New Shade Garden, Ken Druse provides a new generation of gardeners with a comprehensive guide to creating a shade garden with an emphasis on the adjustments necessary for our changing climate.

Designing fabric, wallpaper and gift wrap used to be the stuff of dreams. Only a few select creatives got to do it and it required formal training and significant financial investment. But times have changed and today anyone with a computer, Internet connection, and idea can upload a file and order their own fabric or paper, printed affordably one yard or more at a time. At the forefront of this revolutionary DIY movement is Spoonflower, a North Carolina startup that produces designs for hundreds of thousands of users worldwide--24 hours a day/seven days a week to keep up with demand. With step-by-step tutorials and projects that span a wide spectrum of skills, The Spoonflower Handbook is written for new and experienced users of this print-on-demand technology. Covering everything from equipment to software to working with photos, scans, repeats, vector files and more, it is an essential guide to a booming new creative outlet.

Wine lovers appreciate not just the taste of wine and the pleasure it gives them, they also enjoy the lifestyle and culture associated with it and the values it conveys. Both a handbook and an illustrated history, this new guide offers all readers--from novice to professional--the keys to fully appreciating Bordeaux wines and their rich culture. Explore the wine chateaux, the Bordeaux wine trade, the art of wine blending, the rules of tasting, and the best food and wine pairings, as written by the world-renowned experts of the Bordeaux Wine School. This comprehensive guide to great wines, terroirs and grape varieties includes a wealth of illustrations--lush photographs as well as original drawings, maps, charts, tables and diagrams (plus links to 40 instructive videos)--that make this book essential reading for all wine lovers.

Food stylist and cook Yvette van Boven has offered delicious seasonal recipes in Home Made, Home Made Summer and Home Made Winter that highlight the fresh produce available throughout the year. In her much-anticipated follow-up, Home Baked, she celebrates the art of baking. Complete with her signature illustrations and scenic photographs of Amsterdam, Home Baked is a beautiful collection of Yvette's favorite baked goods--warm bread from the oven, sweet banana bread, a gooey cinnamon and caramel pull-apart loaf, rich chocolate cake, shortbread cookies, and more. And alongside these beautiful images of delicious treats, Yvette provides step-by-step instructions of how to make them in your own home. Her inviting voice, easy-to-follow recipes, and beautiful photographs make Home Baked a staple in anyone's kitchen and lovely enough to show off in other rooms as well.

Engin Akin shares her culinary mastery and describes the evolution of Turkey's complex culture of food in The Essential Turkish Cuisine. Complete with 200 recipes found across the country, including traditional dolmas, kebabs, halva and more, this definitive book offers rare insight into the diverse influences on modern Turkish cooking. Featuring a wide range of large and small plates--from Stuffed Peppers and Eggplant to Lamb with Quince, Fresh Sour Cherry Hosaf to Crepes with Tahini and Pekmez--Engin includes expert instruction for each dish. Through these recipes and the gorgeous photographs of Turkey--its bustling markets, its food, and its traditions-- Engin shares the country's rich heritage and brings the spirit of Turkey into your kitchen.

Thousands of natural materials can produce glorious colour--the cochineal insect produces pink, maroon and purple, and more than 500 species of plants produce indigo blue. Now, in The Modern Natural Dyer, expert Kristine Vejar shares the most user-friendly techniques for dyeing at home with foraged and garden-raised dyestuffs as well as with natural dye extracts. Demystifying the "magic," Vejar explains in straightforward, easy-to-follow detail how to produce consistent, long-lasting colour. With stunning photography of the dyes themselves, the dyeing process, and 20 projects for home and wardrobe, The Modern Natural Dyer is a complete resource for aspiring and experienced dye artisans.

Being able to sketch is an essential part of fashion design and sewing; a good sketch shows the designer/sewist how a garment's proportion, style lines, and colours will work on the body. Most designers sketch their designs on top of "croquis," or pre- rinted body outlines. However, until now, the standard croquis for women have shown elongated, stick-thin, unnaturally proportioned, and off-balance bodies. In Gertie's New Fashion Sketchbook, loved house author and fashion-sewing celebrity Gretchen Hirsch teams up with illustrator Sun Young Park to reinvent the traditional croquis for the 21st century, with hundreds of croquis depicting realistically sized and proportioned body shapes in balanced, life-like poses. Also included are an overview of the design and sketching process and a visual history of garment component styles to empower designers/sewists to create sketches for ashion that will be flattering for women of all shapes and sizes.

Colouring is calming! Adults are rediscovering the soothing effect of filling in colouring books, especially those with intricately beautiful designs. This Japanese themed colouring book offers 72 pages of eastern-inspired patterns, each printed on a single sheet of high-quality paper stock (suitable for multiple mediums). The stiff-backed square pad makes it easy to colour anywhere and the detachable pages encourage you to display and share your favourites--two qualities that make this book unique in the colouring book genre. This title is part of a new coloring book series, beginning with Liberty and Japan and continuing with two more titles in Spring 2016.

Doodle Zen: Finding Your Creativity and Calm in a Sketchbook will inspire new and nonstop doodlers alike to use doodling as a way to escape and de-stress. The book begins with a discussion of how to power down and tune out using doodling as a method for finding your "zone" and includes a list of suggested materials, tips/techniques and inspirations for doodles and words. Doodlers will let their minds wander and relax while filling pages adorned with soft, muted backgrounds, calming quotes and Mehndi-inspired doodles. With prompts and starter sugges--tions for getting your creativity flowing, Doodle Zen is the ultimate retreat for the busy mind.

The appeal of fresh, homemade food has preservers, canners and home cooks flocking to the kitchen. Liana Krissoffs Canning for a New Generation: Updated and Expanded Edition is a hip, modern handbook chock-full of gorgeous flavour pairings and smart recipes, plus instruction in the finer points of what to can when. This edition includes 25 percent new content, featuring recipes for canning, drying, preserving and freezing food, as well as ideas for how to use many of the preserves in everyday meals. Matched to the seasons, Krissoffs reci­pes illustrate how best to use fresh produce at the height of its availabilityplus great techniques for intensifying flavours. Special diet concerns are also taken into account with recipe options for using less sugar and skipping commercial pectin. Krissoff includes old-style fermenting recipes, new freezing techniques and tips on preparing small-batch refrigerator pickles and jams. From chowchow to blueberry-maple jam, from plum mostarda to sweet-and-spicy pickled ramps, this cookbook is an essential reference and a truly modern take on a great tradition.