Teaches you how to raise a problem-free dog. From housetraining to playing games, it shows you how to teach your dog good manners and build his confidence with the world around him. It offers step-by-step training and socialization plans as well as a guide to understanding and preventing biting, chewing and other problems.

Deals with patchwork, quilting and applique techniques. Suitable for both the beginners as well as the committed quilters, this book features over 15 projects including cot quilts, bed quilts, lap quilts, bags, cushions, wall hangings, table mats and runners, and other projects for the home.

Sewing is the new shopping. In these cash-strapped times itâ?TMs more fun to get together with friends and stitch something handmade and special, whether for yourself or a friend, than to go out and spend that hard-earned money â?" plus to be given a gift that someone has created and spent time making is always heart-warming. Following the huge success of last yearâ?TMs MAKE!, Cath Kidston has now put together a treasure trove of fabulous simple projects for stitchers to get their needles into â?" bags, clothes, soft toys and many more â?" and all designed to be made with her popular printed fabrics. As an inspirational kick-start, Cath is giving away with the book a length of a unique fabric specially printed for the book, together with handles, a label and button to make up into a bag. The book itself is packed with 48 projects with full instructions to make a range of fun and useful things, divided into sections on Home, Babies, Bags, Clothes, Accessories and Gifts. All the sewing techniques are clearly explained in an introductory section so that even an absolute beginner can be sure of success, together with details of how to embroider, appliqué and adorn your items in other ways. Stunning photographs, colourful contemporary design and step-by-step pictures make everything absolutely clear and user-friendly. The book also contains trace paper with cut-out patterns.

Shows how to make cute and funny sugar animals for cake decorating using sugarpaste and a few simple tools and techniques. This title helps to learn about the simple shapes that are the basis for all the animals, and the few basic tools that are needed.

Offers a way to use up scraps of yarn or practice using novelty yarns to decorate clothing, hats, bags and belts, embellish home accessories, or make a beautiful bouquet as an unusual display piece. This work allows you to choose from simple spiral roses, pretty poppies, elaborate layered blooms, and fabulous felted flowers.

From the simplest tacking stitch through to making your own bias binding, this book is the essential companion to your sewing machine. The chapters build into a complete sewing course, and at the end of each chapter is a simple project to consolidate the skills you have just mastered. Also includes full-size pull-out paper pattern section.

Cesar Millan, international bestselling author of Cesar's Way, TV star of National Geographic's Dog Whisperer and household name in dog training, turns his attention to puppies. Everything you'll ever need to know about getting it right from the start and for life.

Choose from 200 beautiful block designs and learn different ways of joining them to make blankets and throws that are both functional and decorative. From Art Deco geometric patterns to traditional chequer-board stripes and elaborate motifs, discover new ways to combine colour, pattern and texture. Crochet is one of the oldest and most fascinating ways of creating a fabric out of yarn. Find out how to create wonderful and unique afghans, wall hangings and accessories in a kaleidoscope of colourful contemporary and traditional designs. All stitches and techniques are clearly explained with step-by-step illustrations, from working in rows and in the round to joining blocks and making figures. At-a-glance symbols denote the methods used and level of difficulty, so both new and experienced crafters can easily create a crochet masterpiece.

Fans of Food for Free will be delighted at this new format -- ideal for carrying in a rucksack. Over 100 edible plants are featured together with recipes and other interesting culinary information. With details on how to pick, when to pick and regulations on picking. This new format of a best-selling title provides a portable guide for all those who enjoy what the countryside has to offer. Over 100 plants are listed, fully illustrated and described, together with recipes and other fascinating information about their use throughout the ages. The recipes are listed so that you can plan your foray with a feast in mind. This is the ideal book for both nature-lovers and cooks. Particularly with today's emphasis on the freshest and most natural of foods. There is also practical advice on how to pick plus the countryside laws and regulations on picking wild plants.

Lets you learn to look properly and get the basic outlines correct; include the key features but simplify what you see; understand how shading (such as dot stipple or cross-hatching) can transform a sketch; and, get the eye level right and see how a grid helps with the composition.