Product Description

Why buy ordinary baby toys and clothes when you can handmake something personal and special at a fraction of the cost? Here are 16 toolproof step-by-step craft projects that range from baby room decorations, to decorative embroidery, to making your own birth announcement, and memory projects. Sidebars with valuable baby care information and baby facts are included with each project. Paper, stitchery, and knitting essentials provide the basic instructions you need to make a broad range of crafts for babies. Many of the projects are planned to start out with something plain--such as a plain cotton onesie or a plain wooden or metal book end - then have the crafter embellish the item with paint, stitching, decoupage, etc.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1294230 in Books
• Published on: 2001-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

About the Author
Lynne Farris is a fabric artist, professional designer, and frequent guest on HGTV and the Discovery Channel. She was trained as a visual artist, began her career as a college art instructor, and then worked for several years in product development in the toy and juvenile products industries. Her work is often published in leading craft magazines, and she works as a creative and marketing consultant to several leading manufacturers.

Owner of Lynne Farris Gallery, she is active in the local arts community in Atlanta, Georgia.

Customer Reviews

Easy, timeless craft projects
I bought this book to add to my collection of craft books after seeing the author on the Carol Duvall Show. I have found it to be a great resource for simple baby crafts that are absolutely timeless. My personal favorite - and one I have made for several new babes in our family- the Teddy Bear sock rattles. Variations on this one are pretty much endless and make a terrific keepsake Christmas tree ornament later. My granddaughter and I enjoyed making our version of the Musical Crib Mobile together and we used the Baby Handprint Pillow as the first project she did as her first sewing machine project.

I've been crafting for many years. Ironically, now that I am older, I have neither the patience nor the time to do intricate, time-consuming projects. But yet, I still enjoy creating hand-made gifts because I know the value of such gifts. The only things I saved from my children's babyhoods were those little treasures someone took the time to make by hand.

Besides being well done, this book is full of great, easy craft projects constructed with inexpensive materials-a boon for me. Sprinkled in among the clean, uncluttered exquisite photographs and instructions, there are plenty of hints, tips and ideas as well.

If you're looking for a collection of difficult to complex "artistic" craft projects, this book probably isn't for you. If you need inspiration and quick to accomplish crafts for gifting or teaching youngsters the love of crafting, I highly recommend this one.

not very cute
The crafts are not very cute. They look like a child made them. The cutest ones are on the cover. The rest of them are really dumb. You could use this book to come up with your own ideas, but other than that, I really was not happy with the ideas or examples in this book.