Meg Evans Plastic Canvaswork: Projects for Your Home

All in color! A versatile needlecraft material that's fun to work with, plastic canvas is ideal for making three-dimensional and practical items for the home. This collection gives you eye-catching projects to enhance every room--a picture frame, tissue box, refrigerator magnets, table mats, doorstop, pencil box, and more. Flowers and animals are some of the motifs you'll depict using needle and yarn. Star ratings are included for the projects, which range from simple to more elaborate. Trim size: 8 1/2 x 11.

Differences between the often confusing design styles of art nouveau and art deco will quickly become apparent by Hammet's choices of inspiration. Pure sinuousness and elegance define this very short time period between the two styles, around the turn of the century; Hammet also selects from the top art nouveau practitioners, such as Louis Comfort Tiffany and Alphonse Mucha, to shape her 80 designs. All groups are prefaced by a brief biography of the artist; patterns, charts, and graphs are then crammed into a few pages. Yet the designs surpass the allotted space--a Klimt gold and spiral frame, for example, is in itself a picture worth admiring. Barbara Jacobs